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Cheshire / Re: Canal Boatmen
« on: Sunday 15 August 10 08:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi.
Witton is a big Cemetry, but easy enough to walk round,, and I will enjoy the challenge!!!!
I go to  Witton Church, have been  for many years.   It is the Parish Church of Northwich.
Just bear with me and I will get back to you .........................everything is possible in family History , it just takes time!!!!

Sallie

Ps.. never feel guilty....we just help each other if we can!

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Cheshire / Re: Canal Boatmen
« on: Friday 13 August 10 10:56 BST (UK)  »
If the graves are in Witton Cemetry I would be able to go and photo them for you and then if you have email I could send them.
Just point me in the right direction

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Cheshire / Re: Canal Boatmen
« on: Tuesday 03 August 10 07:30 BST (UK)  »
Just how wonderful!
My family were Canal Boatmen from the beginning of the canals and they have proved a huge source of enjoyment and frustration whilst researching them.  I seem to have' lived ' the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Staffs and Worcester ,  not to mention the Midland canals for years and to be honest am no nearer solving all the family connections than when i started out over 25 years ago!!!
 So, just good hunting and if i can help you at all please ask.

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Cheshire / Re: Canal Boatmen
« on: Sunday 01 August 10 17:54 BST (UK)  »
I have a marriage in St Michael and All Angels  Church   Middlewich  Cheshire

Maybe they are yours??

September 1st 1862

William Bayley  21   Bachelor     a Salt Boiler   Newton        Father was     James Bailey   a Boatman
to
Eliza Harrison   18   Spinster                               Newton        Father was    Thomas Harrison  a Flatman

Witnesses were John Harrison  and Elizabeth Stockton
The marriage was by

Good hunting!!!

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Staffordshire / Re: strays on the canals
« on: Friday 18 June 10 08:58 BST (UK)  »
Glad to be of use. but you don't say if the people are connected??


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Staffordshire / Re: strays on the canals
« on: Thursday 17 June 10 17:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi  Christy.

 My Great Grandmother was Eliza Wood. she married John Turton in Wolverhampton in 1851.
 She was baptised in July 1832  and her parents were Henry WOOD and Esther SOUTHALL. He was a  Canal Boatman of Bugpool.
 They in turn were married in Oldbury near to Dudley.
 

 Sallie

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Staffordshire / Re: strays on the canals
« on: Wednesday 16 June 10 22:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi.
my great grandmother was Eliza Wood and she was born in Worsley about 1834/6
she had a brother called benjamin.  she had a lot of brothers and sisters.
 The reason i asked which Wood family it was is because there are Wood families on the canals here in the middlewich/stoke on trent area!

I think I need to look under the stairs tomorrow and get back to you if I find anything............................

My Wood married a Southall........................[the christian names escape me! ]

ps,  family history never makes sense  not until you make a connection and then you are so pleased you move on and start the process all over again

Sallie
 

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Staffordshire / Re: strays on the canals
« on: Wednesday 16 June 10 21:39 BST (UK)  »
Hi.

which Wood family and where from????


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Staffordshire / Re: strays on the canals
« on: Tuesday 08 June 10 20:29 BST (UK)  »
Hello.
Can't be of much help i am afraid.
 The name is not one that jumps out of the page.
But
Have you looked in the 1871/61/51/41census for the area?
Your GGG grand father might not have been a boatman in earlier census. 0r
he might not have been a Canal Boatman?
or he might have come to Stoke on a canalboat from the Midlands or London or Oxford. etc.
 What you must realise is that Canal Boatmen did move about quite a bit, and although they had certain places that they called 'home' they were forever on the move!!!
Try and find Thomas Hibbetts marriage certificate... that might help you.

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