Canal Boatmen and Women

[jackie3]

Hi Janet,
Received photos ok, they are great.  Thanks very much, I really appreciate you sending them to me.
Regards, Jackie.

[janet smith]

Hi, Jackie are you on ancestry.com by any chance if you are let me know and i can send you an invite to join my tree... as I have photo's of Thomas's first and second wife, glad the photo's worked out.. they looked very big.
Regards Janet

[jackie3]

Hi Janet,

Sorry for delay in replying, but due to family illness I've only just got round to reading my e-mails.  In answer to your question, yes I am a member of Ancestry.com.
Regards, Jackie.

[janet smith]

Hi, Jackie
Nice to hear from you, hope the family illness was not to serious my e-mail address is (*) you can contact me that way if you want to.
Regards Janet

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[caporicardo]

Not boatmen, but lock keepers and toll collectors on the Staffs. & Worcs. Canal from around 1841 to 1906.  Bradley, Johnson, Piddock

[caporicardo]

Hi all hoping to find any people with canal boatmen or women in their trees, mine come from the harrison line, in tipton but being boatmen they travelled all over so have a lot elsewhere too, if anyone has any let me know

thanks kerry

For reasons and circumstances that have happened today i would like to add that the contents and photo's on my webite are from family members, the information is from numerous family members and years of searching with help also from family members and numerous geneaology sites including rootschat without them i would never have found the family members who have helped me, the cover of my website is my husbands grandmother emily harrison wife of jack/john harrison.
If your family do appear on the website and you are not happy with it being there please let me know and i will delete it

thank you all kerry

[jackie3]

Hi Janet,
Unfortunately I haven't received your e-mail address as you have to send it via the Personal Message system.

Jackie.

[Barbara348]

Hi Kerry, I originally placed a post (Reply 62  &th Feb 09)
just to say that one branch of my family (Williams) were boat people and they lived and worked on canal barges with their families from 1860 - 1900.

My earliest info is that of my Gt Grandfather  Enoch & his wife Ann from about 1865 onwards. My Grandad, William Williams was born in 1876 in Wembury, Nantwich.

I now know that my Gt Uncle George Williams (also a boatman) was working as a Flatman and  living in  Chester with his family.
Daughter Susan married Samuel Busby, daughter Emily married John Taylor.

Anyone recognise names at all? - ' Williams ' line.

Cheers

Barbara.

[humpy]

Hi All
I posted this message this morning on the strays page with no replys so I am trying again here.
I am trying my best to research my family and boatmen play a large part in it My Grandmother born in 1895 in Tipton was the daughter of John Godfrey ( boatman) and I have managed to trace back from there three generations of boatmen. This is where I get stuck. In the 1851 census I have the following:

Thomas Godfrey     37   boatman
Sarah                      37
Maria                       11
Jane                         5
Elizabeth                 7
John                         3
James Wm               9 Mo
Living in Ladywood Birmingham
I have been trying to move to the 1871 census to find further information regarding Thomas and Sarah but come to a sudden stop. I looked in the BMD and I found death notes for both of them in 1866. The question is was there an accident about that time or could there be another simple reason. Of course I might be barking up the wrong tree, so any advise would be useful.
I was born and raised in Tipton  and lived opposite Burnt Tree Primary school
in Whitehouse Street where I spent my formative years.

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