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Travelling People / Re: Staffordshire Travellers
« on: Thursday 21 December 23 12:27 GMT (UK) »
Watermen where workers on the boats on the bigger rivers ie thames watermen or bargemen worked the docks loading & unloading from the smaller boats such as working canal boats on some of the canal system it was wide enough ie from Brentford to Birmingham to take the wider boats called barges these where ofter crewed by watermen . also some churches ofter listed the working canal boat men as watermen just to confuse matters i have several of my canal boatmen that where listed as watermen