Canal Barge families in Tipton Staffs

[Mary Jane Tape]

Hi, does anyone have any information on the bargee community that lived in the Toll End area of Tipton in the mid-late 1800s.

My grandfather, grt grandfather and ggrt grandfather were boatmen, but their name was William Ralph - the generation prior to the last William was a John.  However, there appears to be TWO Ralph families of John and Elizabeth.  One had children: Emma, Rosanna, Elizabeth, John, William and Thomas, the other had NO Emma or Rosanna but did have Lucy and Jospeh plus William and Thomas.

Emma married Thomas Wright in 1859 I think.

If anyone can shed some light on these two families I'd be delighted.  Otherwise I'd like to know if anyone else is researching Boatmen on the Tipton canal way.

Mary Jane Tape

[keyboard86]

Hi I can see a possible marriage of an Emma Ralph to a Thomas Wright in Sept qtr 1857 Dudley 6c 181

In 1861 Tipton their is an Emma J Wright 22 b Shipton on Stour married to a Thomas Wright 26 b Tipton, Children Joseph 2 and Samuel 1 with an Ann Darby 52 Widow b Darlaston and family, Thomas Wright shown as son, is this your Emma?
Census ref RG09/2045/94/21

Keyboard86

[Daisypetal]

Hi,

Following my reply on your other thread...

I hope you don't mind but I am going to put a link here to your other post so people can see what has already been found.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=698424.0

Regards,
Daisy

[mme marple]

yes I am looking for Tipton canal barge families!

[jane harrison]

yes I am looking for Tipton canal barge families!

MY canal boating people where in TIpton/Dudley area Harrison,Stokes, Brookes, Bradshaw,Stevens  to name a few.several of my G Grandads siblings where born & baptised in the area & 3 of my GG grandads siblings married in Tipton & Dudley then there seems to have been a mass migration of canal working boatmen who moved to Wolverhampton my G Grandad returned later to the area & Married into the Stevens family

[mme marple]

Hello!
Do you know anything about a Mary Ann Bradshaw from 1823 she was married to a Thomas Sidney Bamford?

[ciderdrinker]

Hi
Mary Ann Bradshaw was born c 1823 in Brierley Hill according to the censuses.
She married Thomas Sidney Bamford in Dudley in 1869 .
He was her second husband and she had previously married at Wolverhampton St Peters 24 April 1842 to Thomas Kelly.
Thomas Kelly bach full puddler Wolverhampton s of T Kelley miner
Mary Ann Bradshaw spinster same d of T Bradshaw boatman
wit T Holding and J Biddolph jnr are the standard witnesses at that church.

To be honest the initials of their fathers could be anything T/J /F.

I think she was baptised at Brierley Hill but I can't be sure
Mary Anne Bradshaw  do Thomas and Anne Bradshaw 23 May 1824 Brockmoor puddler

Ciderdrinker

[May59]

Hi,

As far as I'm aware only my GGfather (Paternal) Mark Tolley b1873 d1938 was recorded as a boat steerer in the 1901 Census, he was based in the Horseley Heath area of Tipton at the time.

[Hayley789]

Hi my Great Grandfather was a boatman born in Tipton, Benjamin Cooksey Born 1857. His brother  Samuel  born  Tipton 1852, William born in West Bromwich 1862 were both boatmen. John born 1866 was a boat loader in the 1911 census. Their Mum Sarah-jane Blackham is listed as being a boatwomen (born 1831 Sedgley died Tipton 1884) Thomas their dad also a boatman, born 1824 in Oldbury, died in Tipton in 1911. They were listed as living at 8 Boat Row, Park Lane West in the 1881 census. They had 10 Children, but the rest picked different trades or had no occupations listed. Some of Thomas's siblings were also boatmen & women, I believe his brother John married Hannah Timmins from another boatmen family too but became a lock keeper elsewhere. Joseph a Coal Boatman in Warwickshire but  the family spread out over Birmingham & the black country, some going further North (Bradford from what I can remember) and others South e.g.Basingstoke. Benjamin went to Warwickshire and finished his career in Stockton Warwickshire where he and his Son in law took on a canal side shop & did a bit of trading in grain too.