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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: luckygirl57 on Tuesday 05 November 19 11:16 GMT (UK)
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Map specialists? I need some help understanding a couple lines in a letter from 1887.
" He did not send or come to me, which would only have been a few yards out of his way, as I am told he is living at Grays near to Tilbury Docks. That is a short distance from Gravesend"
Today these 2 places are across the Thames river from each other! That's not really a few yards. Was there a bridge? Why would he consider that distance a few yards?
Thank you
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Perhaps he would have passed close by on his way home via the Gravesend/Tilbury ferry ?
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thanks, that is about the only explanation. He was a dock labourer. Maybe worked on the south side of the river, and took the ferry back and forth to work.
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The ferry still runs between Tilbury and Gravesend.
There are still working docks in Tilbury but in Grays there were working Wharfs.
I would imagine there were multiple small boats crossing the cross the river.
My grandparents were both born in Tilbury so Im familiar with this are.
Nic