Canal Boatmen and Women

[meaney1955]

high again i am so sorry i got things mixed up about kerry brill web site apologies to both of you especially to kerry i was in a bit of a rush the football mach was not far from starting and you know what us blokes are like any way canalbabe thank you for the offer on info on claras side she was my great grand aunt i think thats how it works so any info would be great if kerry would like to use the children of my grand parents mary. ann. nee. james. and her husband john meaney she is most welcome to do so take care meaney55

[Catsclaws]

Hi Kerry I forgot to ask you if you are able to put my stuff on your site . I think what you are doing is very worth while When you are finished please may i have your website URL again.
Many Thanks  Jean xx

[kerry1212]

hi all,

thanks john will do

hi jean, we are redoing the website and thank you for your offer which i will take up  i will let you know as soon as its done, if anyone want us to put other boat families on let me know and i will put them in a seperate section

kerry

[canalbabe]

Hi John

I have Clara's parents as Phillip & Ellen nee Wenlock but as yet I have no parents or siblings for Phillip and no further generations. Don't know if you can fill in the gaps!

Phillip & Ellen had 12 children:

Louisa c1860
Clara c1862 (my Great Grandma)
Eliza c1865
Alice c1865
Emily c1867
Phillip c1870
John c1871
Thomas
Henry c1874
George c1876
Ellen c1879
Arthur J c1880

Mostly born around Tipton.

Clara married Edward Chater Snr Dec 1884 in West Bromwich and they had 3 children that I know of Edward Jnr, Louisa & Nellie but I think there are more that I'm yet to find.

Edward Jnr married Martha Lucy Brooks (boating family from Braunston) and had 9 children. John Edward was one sone who was my Grandad, he past away last month.

Edward Snr had a brother James who owned and ran canal boats one of which was called 'Hero of Kars'. Edward Snr also worked boats but was a master for George Hale and John Griffiths from Bedworth during the late 1800's early 1900's.  Edward Jnr also worked boats and my 3 surviving Grand Aunts remember life on the cut in the early 1920's.

Edward & Martha left the canal life in the mid 1920's. Most of the family then grew up around Foleshill, Coventry. John  Edward married Prudence Bramwell in Foleshill and they had one daughter, my Mum, called Monica.

Think this may mean we are distant cousins if we can get the connection right!

Mikala

[busybod]

Boatmen in my husband's tree:-

Beaumont - Aire & Calder


Busybod

[meaney1955]

high mikala thank you for the info found it realey helpfull it is so strange we also have a lucy brooke in our tree she married goerge henry james toms son they had 10 children if you look on kerrys site on the james family you will see it under tom and alices children what a coincidence ay also if you look on the same pages james you will see philips sibblings john, sarah, ellen,george, mary,philip,he must have died young then they had philip john who married ellen wenlock philip johns parrents are john and sarah nee mammett married 6/10/1823 at tewkesbury abbey it says john was a stocking maker this work is he you will allso see tom and alice jamess children the eldest one mary ann james married john meaney they are my grandparants this to meens if clara is toms sister have the same line this is all down to kerrys brill work on her brill site on a another note sorry about your loss take care john

[canalbabe]

Thanks John

Will check out Kerry's site, don't think the James stuff was on there when i last looked so thanks Kerry for all your hard work!

Mikala

[Bellou]

I too have canal boatmen in my family! . Anyone have any links??

Holloway Family

Grandfather James Holloway b 1899 Oldbury Worcs remembers going on his grandfather James Holloway’s (b1852 Oldbury)  boat taking coal from the midlands to London (Pre WW1)

Great Grandfather John Holloway b 1877 Oldbury is described as a Coal Boatmen Barge in 1901 and also on oldest Son James birth cert in 1899

Gr x 2 Grandfather James Holloway b 1852 had coal barges and a coal yard in Canal St,  Oldbury .  Described as a Boatman from 1871 census onwards .  Died 1941 .( m Eliza Beaton)

Gr x 3 Grandfather Thomas Holloway b 1818 OLdbury described as Boatman D 1894 (M Hannah Chater) D 1894

Gr x 4 Grandfather John Holloway b 1790 Oldbury described as Boatman from 1814 (M Sarah Owen)

Beaton Family

Gr x 2 Grandmother Eliza Beaton b 1851 was the daughter of a Canal Boatman, Lot Beaton  1861 living in a boat with parents and siblings

Gr x 3 Grandfather Lot Beaton/Beighton  b1826 Wolverhampton was a boatman 1841 and 1851 and master of a boat in  1861 , 1871 a labourer and 1881 and 1891 a Boatman . D 1896

Gr x 4 Grandfather John Beaton b 1791 boatman in 1841 in Wolverhampton ( not from county)

Bellou

[Gene Hunter]

I have a Thomas Jenkinson Holinshead christened 18 Aug 1782, St. Michael's Penkridge Staffordshire, parent Dorothy Holinshead, also his burial at St. Michael's Penkridge  22 Feb 1837 age 54.