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Trading routes
« on: Thursday 12 October 06 18:14 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know what cargo would be transported on boats/ships between Heybridge and Filey in Yorkshire or visa versa? I am interested in any link between the two places and coastal shipping.

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Margaret

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Re: Trading routes
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 October 06 18:37 BST (UK) »
I have 2 Victorian gazetteers - neither of them mention any industry or minerals associated with Filey but says that most folk earned their living from the fishing industry. Heybridge had a large iron foundry and made a great many agricultural implements.  8)
Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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Re: Trading routes
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 October 06 19:28 BST (UK) »
That's really strange because my 3 x great grandmother came from Heybridge and I am not sure but I think either just before or just after her husband died they were living in Filey. Now I know that her husband was a sailor/mariner so I presumed that he was either born in Filey and travelled to Essex where he met her or she travelled to Filey.

I can understand her moving as a single person but not as a married woman to such a small fishing village.

Thanks anyway. It was a long shot in the first place. I will have to rethink ways to identify his birthplace.

Margaret
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