Canal Boatmen and Women

[Calabash]

Hi Kerry, your website is great, beautiful photos. Are any of my Wrights (below) in your researcc?
On my Mum's side I have the Wright family, who lived in Tipton, in the Toll end road area.  If you have any info would really appreciate it.
Here are "my" Wrights:
James Wright (Born approx 1857)   Married 1882 to Mary Broughton (born 1862)               
James' father, William, listed in the 1861 census as a boatmen, canalboat 216. His mother was Maria.   
Some census' list Mary born in County Mayo Ireland, her mother Hannah.                   
Children:   Born   Place            
William   1883   Tipton            
Annie Agnes   1886   Tipton            
Edward James   1887   Tipton            
Helen   1894   Tipton            
James   1897   Tipton            
Mary   1899   Tipton            
Kathleen Maria   1890   Tipton   Married 2 Oct 1915 to William Haynes (born 1888)         
Kathleen was my maternal grandmother.  Thx. Jayne                

[jane harrison]

hello calabash
mary violet wright daughter to charles & mary (jackson) wright born 29 dec 1929 @ paddington basin london died 29 jan 2000 in stoke manderville married robert joseph harrison born 17 april 1926 tamworth they had 4 children to my knowledge all born on canal boats robert was son to robert harrison born  1885 & ann stokes (my granddads godparents) robert joseph was my grandads cousion. my grandad is allen harrison married emma hale pictured in kerry & trevors web site also robert harrison  1885 married twice his second wife being an alice selina wright.alice also married again around 1915 i belive her second husband was called dick lee  so it seems like you have at least two links to our harrison tree
best wishes
jeannette

[jane harrison]

william wright born abt 1823/1989 (boatman) married marria currey wagstaff( parents james wagstaff ( boatman)& mary curry in 1846 tipton. both william & mary are buried in tipton cemetery & app spent most of their later years @ toll end. williams fater was john wright 1845 who married elizabeth ralph daughter to john ralph(boatman) census show john living in toll end around 1881-1901
best wishes
jeannette

[jane harrison]

pphoto of robert joseph harrison

[jane harrison]

sorry photo wont attatch for some reason kerry im sure you also have this photo will it let you attatch it
jeannette

[Calabash]

Hi Jeanette,
Thanks very much for the information, family tree is starting to become alive. 
I am currently living/working in South Africa so I really appreciate any help I can get. 
My mother was told her father drowned in a canal when she was 4, approx 1931, would it have been the norm for this to appear in a newspaper?  I've ben unable to find a death certificate for him, my hunch is that he may have merely left not died.
Thanks again.  Jayne

[jane harrison]

hi calabash
i dont think that many  cant say that one or more of our relatives drowned in the canal . ocupational hazzard im afraid. i personally have lost over 6 relatives that way, last year i did extensive reserch for a lady more on kerrys line of the harrisons than mine. the things you need to take into account is that a lot of the folk could nither read or write,did not like authorities so tended to steer clear of them as much as poss,the person that drowned was prob not  from the area they drowned in just passing through so local papers tend to not have been very interested & if they where the people had norm moved on esp if they had a load to deliver. i personally would try to find out more about the drowning & search the area for postmortem or police reports
best wishes
jeannette

[busybod]

Anyone any knowledge of a Shires or Clapham on the Leeds/Liverpool Canal round about 1900? 


Busybod

[jane harrison]

jessicawebbit16
hello
did you go to braunston on the kimberly
jeannette