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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

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Armed Forces / Re: Guards bearskin plumes
« on: Saturday 04 June 22 19:17 BST (UK)  »
Back a long time ago the Scots guards had plumes but when the Coldstream Guards won the battle they took the plumes & dipped it into the scots blood hence why the coldstream have red plumes

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Braunston lock
« on: Sunday 31 October 21 17:43 GMT (UK)  »
1910 was the year of the well documented boatmans strike at Braunston .their is still today a boat yard at Braunston

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: SEYMOUR/SEYMORE Canal Boat family
« on: Sunday 12 September 21 07:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Martin seymour on Saturday 11 September 21 22:23 BST (UK)
Right sorry didn't know was Middlesex my stepdads brother stayed there at Brentford so used to go in holidays x   was your stepdad from a boating family if so what was his surname ?as Brentford being the start of the canal was a v buzy canal area in its time i have my grandad g reat & 2x great grandads in Brentford in census working the boats many of my Harrisons & connections born & married & buried in the area

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: SEYMOUR/SEYMORE Canal Boat family
« on: Saturday 11 September 21 23:01 BST (UK)  »
Hello Spellweaver hope you are well. The only connection i have found to date is connected to my Humphries boatpeople = a John baptised in St Thomas parish Oxford feb 1936 son of John a Waterman & Sophia  surname on baptism is spelt Seymore this John Married a Fanny Humphries in Oxford 1858 &  looks to be the one that died in 1858 age 33

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: SEYMOUR/SEYMORE Canal Boat family
« on: Saturday 11 September 21 22:12 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jane harrison on Saturday 11 September 21 20:51 BST (UK)
Quote from: Martin seymour on Saturday 11 September 21 00:31 BST (UK)
I have Compton, wood, Harrison, Lunt, clegg, swift and Northwood within my DNA not sure where from though but I know my direct Seymour's were Yorkshire.
Martin i was born into the Harrison canal boating family have wood & clegg with my many family connections the seymour that i knew settled in West Drayton /Yewsley area but have no address but know some of todays generation moved to the south coast
West Drayton middlesex is a few miles from Heathrow airport in one direction & Uxbridge in the other

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: SEYMOUR/SEYMORE Canal Boat family
« on: Saturday 11 September 21 20:51 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Martin seymour on Saturday 11 September 21 00:31 BST (UK)
I have Compton, wood, Harrison, Lunt, clegg, swift and Northwood within my DNA not sure where from though but I know my direct Seymour's were Yorkshire.
Martin i was born into the Harrison canal boating family have wood & clegg with my many family connections the seymour that i knew settled in West Drayton /Yewsley area but have no address but know some of todays generation moved to the south coast

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London and Middlesex / Re: Burials of two brothers and two sisters
« on: Sunday 09 May 21 08:42 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Greaves on Wednesday 05 May 21 15:46 BST (UK)
Suitably amended.

I suspect that they are all buried in the same cemetery, as they tended to follow each other around. Sarah's death, by the way, was in the Uxbridge area, what is referred to today as Norwood Green, rather than South London's Norwood.

Does anyone have any idea where people who died in Maida Vale/Paddington in the late 19th century were buried?
Norwood Green is now split between london brough of Ealing & Hounslow  & is the southern part of Southall  middlesex  Norwood Green is about a 15 min drive from Uxbidge but a direct link on the Grand Union Canal prob no connection but a point of intrest the surnames you mention wright &Daniels  wherlknown working canal boat people in the said area's

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Warwickshire / Re: Searching for parents
« on: Friday 29 January 21 12:16 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Nicky on Friday 29 January 21 06:09 GMT (UK)
Yes I had seen that about the canal.
What link are you them?
i was born the last generation  7 generations in all into the Harrison line of working canal boatmen intresting to note that in the parish records  for the wedding of John Cotterill & Mary Harrison parents are named as Tomas Cotterill & William Harrison  William being my GGG Grandads brother also one of the sisters married George Duckett who is listed on this record as being a witness   ll this made me sure they where within my extended tree & also dispite there being no mention of the connections to working canal boatmen that we where talking the same family members

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