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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #45 on: Sunday 21 December 08 12:29 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Don't know if these are any connection but came accross then when researching my Mother in Laws family tree.

Buried at Middlewich Cemrtery

ID: 79
Entry No. 79
Name of Person: Edward Johnson
Description of Person Buried: Son of Joseph Johnson Boatman
Age: 3y
Place Death Occured: Newton
Date of Burial: 26/10/1868
Grave No. : 374

ID: 106
Entry No: 106
Name of Person: William Johnson
Descripton of person Buried: Boatman
Age: 48y
Place Death Occured: Newton
Date of Burial: 14/01/1869
Grave No. 560

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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #46 on: Sunday 21 December 08 16:54 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that information, Ann - much appreciated.  I think Joseph was one one of 'my' Johnson brothers, but he's a bit of a shadowy individual and I haven't found out much about him.  The William Johnson in my family got married in the 1880s, so can't be the one buried at Middlewich.  I'll put him on file, though.

Thanks again -
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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #47 on: Friday 26 December 08 09:44 GMT (UK) »
Looking for the Syner family of Kingswinford around 1700. There were Syner trowmen on the Severn and the Wye at this time so wonder if they were boatmen there then???
Syner alias Taylor from Broseley and Benthall

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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #48 on: Sunday 11 January 09 22:26 GMT (UK) »
Hi All

Surnames of Boatmen in Family Tree

Wood - Stafffordshire
Fradley - Stone, Staffordshire and Middlewich, Cheshire
Leese - Middlewich, Cheshire
Hollinshead - Cheshire
Dewis - Cheshire
Moore - Tipton,  West Midlands and Cheshire
Leeson - Cheshire
Hough - Cheshire
and other boatmen related by marriage

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hi, i am a direct descendent of thomas wood boatsman who married lois daniels in 1813 they come from tunstall  staffs.


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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #49 on: Monday 12 January 09 09:49 GMT (UK) »
hi, kerry got your PM but could not find your website to click on. from dumb sonia

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« Reply #50 on: Monday 12 January 09 10:23 GMT (UK) »
lol sent you a pm but if you look to at my name on the bottom it has 3 icons hover over them and the one that says www that is my website:))
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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #51 on: Monday 12 January 09 15:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi Sonia

Got your message, haven't much information on the Wood Family but my Mother in Law is connected to Woods family through marriage. Her father George Leese was a boatman


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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #52 on: Tuesday 13 January 09 07:54 GMT (UK) »
thanks ann...does anyone have any info on the siblings of thomas edward wood born 1901 his parents were david wood and ellen slater nixon from staffordshire. or eliza nixon who was ellens sister. thanx :-*

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Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« Reply #53 on: Sunday 01 February 09 01:14 GMT (UK) »
Hi guys

new to this,so you'll have to bear with me

i have 4 generations of boatmen in my family tree,by the name 'Wright', and all have links to Tipton, Toll End Road.

William Wright 1875-1918, Boatman, married Mary-Ann Bailey in 1892, Tipton
daur Bertha Wright (my great grandmother)
       
      -Son of-

John Wright 1845-abt 1918 Boatman, Married Elizabeth Ralph (father John Ralph, Boatman)
John was born in Stanton, Derbyshire. Censuses show him living in Toll End 1881-1901

     -son of-

William Wright 1823-1889 Boatman, Married Maria Currey Wagstaff in 1846, Tipton (Parents James Wagstaff and Mary Currey, Boatman)
William was born in Stourport in 1823, along with 5 other siblings,yet none are shown on familysearch.com- i have copies of baptisms.
Both are buried in Tipton Cemetery, Spent their later lives at Toll End again

   -son of-

Thomas Wright and Sarah.....

This is where i hit my dead end.All 6 children are baptised in Stourport
John Wright, 1821
William Wright, 1823
Benjamin Wright, 1825
Sarah Wright, 1827
Elizabeth Wright, 1829
Samuel Wright, 1834
All are extremely patchy on cesuses, but i cannot get the wright line in Stourport any further back.I know there are another 5 Wright families Baptised in Stourport, But none are Boatmen, and none seem related.Can you or anyone else help??

If not, i hope some of the info i have collected can help others.Other Boatman names i have linked to my Wrights are:
Ashley
Ralph
Diggory
Beresford
Nixon
Whitehouse
Broughton
Hope i can help someone, even if they cant help me

thanx

Stuart