Watermen and lighter-men Apprenticeships Bindings Look up Please?

[meles]

Oh...my...word....!

That'll keep me quiet for a bit 

Thank you very much, Sue!

OH's young nephew from SA is here in London. He is a Huntingford and they have been in SA for three generations, and have no clue about their English past. Nephew has got a job on the Thames. So I did the tree and found to my amazement that it must be in the genes!

Now there are dozens of 'em!

Thanks again

meles

[John99]

If Sue is still doing lookups in the Watermen
and Lightermen apprenticeship bindings CD
could she please lookup and advise entries
for the RAYMOND surname. Among mine known to
have been lightermen just from the late 1700s
were definitely:

John Raymond 1783-1850 - father was John?
Mead Raymond 1885-1843 - father was John?
Augustus Raymond 1821-1877 - father was Mead
Mead Terry Raymond 1817-1866 -father was Mead

A similiar request message was sent to Sue's personal mailox before this topic was discovered.

Thank you,

John Raymond
Brisabne, Australia

[NigelG]

Could you check for a Walter (James) Phillips c 1850/60's or any persons with the surnames Waldron or Parsons please.

Rumour has it that my Gt x2 Grandfather Walter worked on the Thames in his early years (he was born c1847 in Worcester).

The Waldrons & Parsons (usual christian names were Thomas, William, James or Joseph) were Rivermen based in the Worcester area but were also rumoured to travel extensively between Worcester, the Severn & the Thames.

Many thanks

[suzey68]

Hi John

Here are some of the names you ask for, will send the rest of the list later by PM.

Alfred Mead Raymond bound 09/07/1835 at St Saviours to John Raymond freedom 14/07/1842
Augustus Raymond bound 14/01/1836 at Camberwell to Mead Raymond freedom 09/03/1843
John Raymond bound 10/02/1831 at Christchurch to Mead Raymond did not complete 00/00/0000
Mead Terry Raymond bound 14/04/1831 at Christchurch to Mead Raymond freedom 13/08/1840

Regards Sue

[suzey68]

Hi Nigel

I can not find a Walter Phillips sorry.

Can you give me any date for the Parsons and Waldron to narrow the search down.

Sue

[NigelG]

Hi there - the Waldron & Parsosn were contemporaries - working the rivers between c1815 & 1870.

Hope that helps 

[suzey68]

Hi Nigel

I could not find any waldron but here some of the names of Parsons within the years you ask for.
There are a lot more Parsons so if any of the names in the areas you are looking for below ring a bell I could search again.

Thomas Parsons bound 03/08/1815 at Battersea to Richard Parsons did not finish 00/00/0000
Thomas Parsons bound 15/01/1818 at Westminster to John Atkins did not finish 00/00/0000
Thomas Daniel Parsons bound 06/04/1820 at Rotherhithe to Thomas Parsons completed 24/05/1827
James Parsons bound 08/10/1835 at Rotherhithe to Henry Luton completed 12/01/1843
Thomas Daniel Parsons bound 13/03/1845 at Bermondsey to Thomas Daniel Parsons DEAD
James Parsons bound 11/11/1873 at Greenwich to George Gill Parsons completed 10/12/1878
James Charles Parsons bound 11/02/1862 at Bermondsey to Thomas Daniel Parsons did not finish 00/00/0000
Thomas William Parsons bound 11/08/1868 at Limehouse to Mark Shelton did not finish 00/00/0000

Hope this helps.
Sue

[sustev]

Hi Sue

Could you please try a look up for William Rhodes who was described as a waterman but deceased on his son's marriage certificate in 1859. I can't say where William was working but the son (born around 1835) married and set up home in Lambeth.

Thanks

[NigelG]

Hi Sue - thanks for lisiting those Parsons.

The only definite Parsons I have working on the Thames was a Joseph Parsons between 1800 & 1850

Unfortunately none of the Parsons listed look as if they are related to my Parsons who were, apparently, all based out of Worcester. I can only suppose that even though they did work on the Thames, their indentures must have been Worcester based.

Thanks for checking anyway - much appreciated.

Nige