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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #216 on: Tuesday 09 February 10 11:18 GMT (UK) »
Just discovered 2 more names on in my family with big canal links:

James

Wenlock

Anyone got any info on these?


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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #217 on: Tuesday 09 February 10 12:34 GMT (UK) »
hi canalbabe

there ia a edward wenlock on the boat perseverance in 1881 he was captain aged 40 in linslade

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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #218 on: Tuesday 09 February 10 13:25 GMT (UK) »
hi kerry.

yes that is the same jesse moore.  jesse is my paternal grandfather  :)

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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #219 on: Tuesday 09 February 10 16:41 GMT (UK) »
shazza if you need help with finding your family let me know

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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #220 on: Tuesday 09 February 10 18:14 GMT (UK) »
I am having a bit of trouble tracing Jesse's children.  He had a son names James Thomas who in 1911 was working out of Spon Lane.  I've not had much success finding marriage/death record for him.

It also appears Jesse had an adopted names Christie Bevington who in 1911 as aged 4.  I have had no success finding further records for her.

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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #221 on: Wednesday 10 February 10 21:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi everyone this is a fantastic thread I have enjoyed reading it emmensly. My husband's grandmother was born on a working canal boat her father was Morris from a long line of Welsh miners - a landie - he had married the daughter of (so I have been told) of two well established "boat families" from Shepshed, Liecestershire the Drapers and the Jennings the Morrises then worked the canals in the Midlands, Liecestershire and Northamptonshire another name that pops up is Whale who worked on the Dudley railway and became a boatie x
Lounds/Loundes/Lowns/Lownds/Lowndes
Kendrick/Goodhead
Martin/Mocroft/Moorcroft
Finch/Boden/Brazenhall
Cadman/Vanes
Beddard/Goodman
Innocent/Lagoe
Taylor/Walker/Baker/Starkey/Buckley
Dudley, Willenhall, Mancetter, Atherstone, Measham, Church Broughton

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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #222 on: Friday 19 February 10 15:45 GMT (UK) »
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                    Lot of my wife's family and mine worked on the boats my wife's family name is priddy my mum side is gibbons his name was William born 1898 runcorn he then married my gran fanny James in 1918 who was the sister of  Jack James born oxford who  started the canal water way museum at stoke bruerne but its the gibbons side I'm stuck on i think William farther was thomas gibbons and his mum was Hannah
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« Reply #223 on: Friday 19 February 10 15:54 GMT (UK) »
hi john i have found william with mother and father thomas and hannah also with jessie aged 2 and lottie aged 2 months, there are also a family named the dickinson's elizabeth 14,william 12,lucy 10, and ethel all saying they are thomas's children ???? this is from the 1901 census all born runcorn cheshire. on a barge thomas is listed as canalboatman.

any other help needed let me know

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« Reply #224 on: Friday 19 February 10 16:07 GMT (UK) »
hi again john on the 1891 census thomas is with mother jane and father william gibbons also brother william 16, brother joseph h 13, jessie 9, albert 7,gertrude m 4 and  grandmother mary robinson 56 she was born marple derbyshire so she could be janes mother.

it says thomas and william are watermen, younger william is a drapers assistant and joseph is a grocers assistant

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thomas's father william was born leigh in lancashire
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