Canal Boatmen and Women

[jane harrison]

hello linda
messed up a bit with prev dates so will go from another angle mark harrison born birmingham around 1911 1st wife ann second wife dolly ward they are both buried together @ braunston . mark was the youngest brother of my grandad allen harrison born 1901 @ brentford married to emma hale.
i live close to heathrow airport so not far from brentford
regards
jeannette

[linda ward]

hiya mark harrison is my uncle married one of my dads sisters dolly thier children are all married and got thier own famlies now annie and teddy  live in braunston but i dont know where the younger sister lives she was named after her mam  ted goes to coventry alot to drink with our lot im one of george wards family

[jane harrison]

hi linda i am in contact with the daughter from marks first marrige & the sons of two of the sisters ten children born in all only 5 survived beond 5years of age. they have all passed on now,did you know the father james (jimmy) re married am at present looking into half brothers & sisters will tell more details when i can p.m. you

jeannette

[jane harrison]

hello linda
acc made contact only last night with alfie & violet in coventry, spoke on the phone for over 2 hours she was going to get a message to teddy for me , i have a set of canal history post cards with 1 of them showing mark, dolly & 2 children the other shows mark.
jeannette

[Catsclaws]

Dear Harrissons
How lovely to you you all chatting as a family . Another success for this site . I am from the Smith/Payton family and we all found each other last summer and had a meet in September . It was wonderful , the most striking thing I think in boating families is the warm between them .
 Regards Jean x
Attached is a 1910 photo with my Gran Sarah Smith as a young woman with her mum and dad Thomas and Eliza Smith also girls Eliza and Elizabeth and young man Edward .

[jane harrison]

dear catsclaws
what a great photo .do you mind if i copy it to add to my own personal files of canal famlys & morton & clayton boats ? i dont suppose you have any guesses where it was taken.
regards
jeannette

[canalbabe]

Hi

Sounds like you've got some interesting stuff linda. Do you have thing to do with Brooks, Chater, Wenlock, Smith, Gardner families? My rellies were boatman in the Midlands/Northants/Bucks area.

 

[Catsclaws]

Hi Jeanette
Please be my guest . I havent a clue where the photo was taken . It is a well known photo in my family . Sonia Rolte's first husband George Smith  was My Grans nephew . These were his grandparents and Aunts and Uncle . She used this photo in her book 'A Canal People' .
There are a few of their descendants on here .
I have a 1911 census of them on these boats  too but the writing is unclear as to where they are .
regards Jean

[kerry1212]

hi linda i have just pm'd you, as i have said my husband is from the harrisons his grandfather was john "jack"harrison and his grandmother was emily who sadly drowned in 1943, you can see a pic of emily on the front of my website www.canalboatmenandwomen.co.uk jacks father was samuel harrison who was james's brother

great to hear more people coming forward from the family

kerry