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Occupation Interests / Re: Watermen and lightermen Apprenticeships Bindings and licences
« on: Monday 19 September 11 15:10 BST (UK)  »
I'm very sorry for the long delay in thanking people for their kind help with regards my watermen ancestors. I have had a lot of success after info left here and visited the Guildhall Library and looked through the Watermen records. I found my x3 great  grandfather Samuel Lowden Evans' binding records, and his father's  and also two sons my x2 great grandfather's George T Evans and yet another Samuel.  I also discovered that x3ggf  Samuel Lowden Evans's brother John Alexander Evans won the coveted Dogget's Coat and Badge race in 1807. Samuel L and George T both became water postmen employed by the post office. Samuel L died in 1845 and George T in 1909 at the grand age of 82.

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Occupation Interests / Watermen and lightermen Apprenticeships Bindings and licences
« on: Wednesday 25 November 09 21:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I hope this is the right place to post. I have several generations of watermen and lightermen listed in the census records of 1841 - 1861. The family name is Evans and the first one with the occupations (sometimes waterman sometimes lighterman)  named on a census and the baptism records of all his children was Samuel Lowden Evans born about 1796. It's possible his father's name was also Samuel. At least two of Samuel Lowden Evans' sons have lightermen listed as their occupation. They were Samuel Evans born 1817 and George Thomas Evans born 1834. They mostly lived in Salisbury Street and West Lane Bermondsey. I don't suppose anyone has the details  of bindings and licences from maybe the 1700s and 1800s and can provide me with a list of all the Evans? Many thanks, Holly :)

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Somerset / Re: Axbridge Address Interpretation
« on: Tuesday 17 March 09 13:39 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: GAJ on Friday 01 February 08 13:47 GMT (UK)
I live in Axbridge and have a lot of information about the town from my local history studies.  If I can help, please let me know.  (Axbridge is only village size but all inhabitants always refer to it as a town - a relic of its former importance as an administrative and trading centre for the area around it.)

Hello GAJ

I came across this thread whilst researching my family history and wondered if you could help me, please?  I am planning a trip to Axbridge later this year and I really want to look at the parish records to confirm the information with regards baptism and marriages that I have. Do you happen to know where the parish records are archived?

My ancestors are Salisburys of Axbridge. The line goes back quite a long way but the first Axbridge ones as far as I can tell are William and Hester (nee Puxton) Salisbury married 1783 (great grandparents x4), Joseph and Sarah (nee Day) Salisbury married 1808 GGGP x3),  George and Caroline (nee Heal) Salisbury married 1853 (GGP x2), George (Ernest added later) and 1.Hannah (neeGriffiths) married 1881, 2. Elizabeth (nee Walton) married 1886 (great grandparents).  They were all carpenters/ironmongers as far as I can tell and the various addresses I have are unknown number West Street, 36 High Street, 9 High Street, 82 West Street and an unknown number  High Street. George (I think) became a mariner and eventually resided in London and died there in 1929. His daughter, Ada, was my grandmother.

Many thanks






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Somerset / Re: Axbridge Address Interpretation
« on: Tuesday 17 March 09 13:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Neil

I think we are related albeit probably distantly. My ancestors are Salisburys of Axbridge also! The earliest ones I know were born in the town were William and Hester (nee Puxton) married in 1783.




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