canal boatmen and women

[kerry1212]

Hi all,

thought i would start a new thread about our ancestors on the water, has the last ones exceeded the posts allowed


my husbands family were harrisons on the canals, along with, holts/hoults, brooks, bradshaws, clegg, stokes, humphreys/humphries,  fradley, ward, wright, wilkins, duckett, wilson, kendall, slater, mander, wood, ralph the list goes on we have gone back quite far and there are quite a few has the branches go on and on, we have some great photo's and we have met some lovely people on the way of finding out about our ancestry


hope to hear from other canal boating families too


kerry 

[jacquelineve]

My lines.. canal boatmen- coal + timber dealers

Whitehouse - Hodgetts

Worcs-Staffs-Gloucestersh.-Herefordsh.

Jackie

[sdweatherman]

Via the Grand Union and its tributaries, my line of Rudge boatsmen migrated from the West Bromwich/Birmingham area (late 1700s-1841 census) to Ashby-de-la-Zouch (1851 census), to Tring, Herts (1861 census) to the Greater London area by the 1881 census. It has made tracing the family tree and interesting adventure.
Scott.

[chrimes13]

hello Kerry my relles was boatmen ,tranter ,Hutchinson . noah tranter  1801  1880 lived in Catherine cross  darlaston & was a steerer on barges ? .noah Hutchinson 1869 1957 used to own his barge & lived in heath lane james bridge darlaston  cheers  Michael,  chrimes13

[Trillian]

I'm trying to find a Matthew Ward (my 3x Great Grandfather) who I believe may have been on the canals - most likely in the Staffordshire and Lancashire areas. The only details I have for him is from his daughter's marriage certificate (Mary Matilda Lewis) which gives his occupation of "seaman" and that he was then deceased (July 1897). I initially took this to be that he was in the navy or something similar but being unable to find anything on that track, and with the traveller link to the family, I'm wondering if he was actually a boatman.

If anyone has any information that may help, I'd be so happy as I'm totally stuck on this line at the moment.

[deebel]

A long shot probably....

http://www.angelfire.com/de/BobSanders/Middlesbrough81.html


SHIPS IN PORT MIDDLESBOROUGH
& THORNABY-ON-TEES, YORKSHIRE 1881


Ships at Middlesborough, Yorks. 1881

Vessel:   "True Love"
   
Richard WARD                    M   31    M   Staithes                                Fisherman
Matthew WARD                     U   25    M   Staithes                                Fisherman
Isaac WARD                    O   16    M   Staithes                                Fisherman

[Trillian]

Thanks for the info. I got a little bit excited for a moment but as far as I can see that Matthew Ward was alive in 1901 ... back to the drawing board.

[kerry1212]

Baptism: 1 Sep 1875 St James, Burnley, Lancs.
Matilda Hudson - [Child] of William Mary Hudson
    Abode: 9 Brick St
    Occupation: Weaver
    Notes: [No surname entered for father]
    Baptised by: Hugh Stamer

is that her trillion?

[JGDavies]

The 1851 census for the township of Rhysnant (Llandysilio - Four Crosses between Oswestry and Welshpool) shows a Roberts family (Thomas being a G,G,Grandfather):

William, 63, Head, Boatman;
Elizabeth Roberts, 58, wife;
Thomas Roberts, 22, Boatman;
Richard Roberts, 14, Boatman;
Joseph Judar[?], 8, Grandson,

Though I don't know anything about their life.