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Polly1058 that would be extremely helpful, thank you so much for the information.

Cathaldus, thank you as well,  i will also concentrate on that area now.

All the best in your hunting!

Hi,

I am new to this board and wondered if anybody had any further information relating to the family name of Chew. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The information I have so far is taken from a fantastic article by Bob May and is as follows:

There was a "Charlie "Flimpy" Chew, a boatman, and his family who worked the canals in the Black Country a century ago.There was also a Black Country postcard showing the Chews at Tipton Turn - and with it was a memorial funeral card given to the mourners at Charles Chew's funeral on October 27th 1926 in Bilston. We know now that Jabez Chew (b 1849 in Audlem, Cheshire) married Mary Boulter (b 1853 in Whitchurch) in 1871. In 1871 census he was described as a 'horse driver and vessel collector' - therefore a boating man, and they had a large family starting with: Charles Boulter Chew (our 'Flimpy') (b March 1877) and was given his mother's maiden name as his middle name which was quite common at that time: then followed Cornelius and Eliza Ann (twins), Ernest, Jabez, Isaiah, William, Jane, Elizabeth and Ambrose (who died young) over the next decade.

We discovered from records that the Chews' younger daughter Violet married a George H Hollingshead in Wolverhampton in 1921.

Many thanks

All the best

Hi,
I am new to this board and wondered if anybody had any further information relating to the family name of Chew. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The information I have so far is taken from a fantastic article by Bob May and is as follows:
There was a "Charlie "Flimpy" Chew, a boatman, and his family who worked the canals in the Black Country a century ago.There was also a Black Country postcard showing the Chews at Tipton Turn - and with it was a memorial funeral card given to the mourners at Charles Chew's funeral on October 27th 1926 in Bilston. We know now that Jabez Chew (b 1849 in Audlem, Cheshire) married Mary Boulter (b 1853 in Whitchurch) in 1871. In 1871 census he was described as a 'horse driver and vessel collector' - therefore a boating man, and they had a large family starting with: Charles Boulter Chew (our 'Flimpy') (b March 1877) and was given his mother's maiden name as his middle name which was quite common at that time: then followed Cornelius and Eliza Ann (twins), Ernest, Jabez, Isaiah, William, Jane, Elizabeth and Ambrose (who died young) over the next decade.

We discovered from records that the Chews' younger daughter Violet married a George H Hollingshead in Wolverhampton in 1921.
All the best