1901 vessel lookup please

[runningbear]

could some kind soul find out who is resided on board the vessel "Queen" which was in hull, and belonged to robert glover

[asenath]

Hello there - here goes

James Anderson b 1850 Durham - Night Watchman - !!!!!!!!!!!!

Docked in Princes Dock Hull on the night of the 1901 census

RG13/4501

Joanne

[runningbear]

very interesting, very valueable information asenath, thank you for that, i never knew where robert docked his barge, does he still own it asenath? surprised that george yates is not on board!! he has been with him for 20 years, also when you say night watchman, was he the watchman for the docks or just the barge? lots of questions joanne i know but maybe someone somewhere could answer them, i also wonder what became of the barge? how do you trace its history?

[asenath]

There is a george yates in Hull ( born in Goole) at that time - a sailmaker - could this be the one you are looking for? Living with his family

JOanne

[runningbear]

thanks again Joanne, Robert's mate was George Yates born in doncaster, he would be 40 at the time of the 1901 census, but it is no great big deal about George, thank you so much for looking him up, i would assume that he would be married and took up a new profession to feed his family, it makes you wonder does it? that with so many barges on the rivers back then, how they managed to earn a living, how they competed for business??

[North Country Boy]

Hi jobhboy,

The following is taken from Hull docklands, An Illustrated History of the Port of Hull.

Princes Dock 1829-1968

"Powers were granted in 1802 for the construction of a junction dock, between the two older docks (Queens and Humber). But only after pressure from the forerunners of the present Chamber of Commerce and Shipping was work started on the second part of the project.
Mr John Parker, Chairman of the Hull Dock Company, laid the foundation stone on the 10th December, 1827. The Junction Dock was constructed at a cost of £187,262 6s 5d at the sole expense of the HDC. It was opened to traffic on the 1st June 1829 and completed a line of docks connecting the River Hull with the River Humber, along the site of th old wall, the military fortifications formerly protecting the ancient city.
The Junction Dock was renamed Princes Dock in homour of the Prince Consort's visit in 1854.
Princes Dock was used for vessels trading to the following ports: Bremen, Dundee, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Rouen, Bordeaux, London, Leith, Grangemouth, Aberdeen, Ipswich and Lyon.
The dock closed to shipping in 1968."

The dock has been given a new lease of live as the entrance to Humer Dock has been blocked and a shopping centre built on stilts over the dock which is now called Princes Quay.

There are a few pictures on Princes Dock (one of 1900) and the dock is filled with barges.

btw, is Princes Dock on any of the maps I sent you? If not I'll send you a copy.

Ian

[runningbear]

great stuff Ian, wonderful reading, all i have to do now is work out what Robert used the barge for? what did he transport? people or goods? yes i have the dock on the maps i received from you, it all paints a wonderful picture of history, remember 6a pease street? turns out it was a boarding house, Walter boarded there before he married, the kind staff at the hull library have send me an email containing some information relating to Walter

[runningbear]

hi ian would just like to say that the 1891 census says that his barge was a coal barge, the help and wisdom from rootschatters always amazes me on a daily basis, one must ask the question, if he had the barge from the 1881 census to the 1901 census(20 years) what sort of life span did the barges have?