Hi Arthur and others, Tuesday, August 01, 2000, 1:58:02 PM, you wrote: AT> Can SKS let me have the address or who to contact at the Huddersfield Canal AT> Society, AT> Arthur Turner, in Holbeach,Lincs; You may well have found them by now, but if not, the HCS have a website at http://www.hcanals.demon.co.uk/ Their e-mail address is [email protected] and their mailing address details are as follows: Huddersfield Canal Society Limited, 239 Mossley Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, OL6 6LN. Tel: 0161 339 1332 Fax: 0161 343 2262 Hope this helps. :-) -- Cheers, Anne ICQ# 32010967 (nickie) mailto:[email protected] Rootsweb ListOwner: Docwra, Dockery, Garton, Hampson and Schofield Webmistress: http://stop.at/canalcaholic

Hi Arthur and others, Tuesday, August 01, 2000, 1:58:02 PM, you wrote: AT> Can SKS let me have the address or who to contact at the Huddersfield Canal AT> Society, AT> Arthur Turner, in Holbeach,Lincs; You may well have found them by now, but if not, the HCS have a website at http://www.hcanals.demon.co.uk/ Their e-mail address is [email protected] and their mailing address details are as follows: Huddersfield Canal Society Limited, 239 Mossley Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, OL6 6LN. Tel: 0161 339 1332 Fax: 0161 343 2262 Hope this helps. :-) -- Cheers, Anne ICQ# 32010967 (nickie) mailto:[email protected] Rootsweb ListOwner: Docwra, Dockery, Garton, Hampson and Schofield Webmistress: http://stop.at/canalcaholic

Hi...I am new to this list and would like to post my surname interest: BILLINGSLEY If anyone else is researching or has information on this surname, please contact me. Aloha, Glennis Honolulu

If you're looking for a lost Bennett in the UK, there is a new Rootsweb list as from today. Debbie Dean, the listowner, has just changed her list from eGroups to Rootsweb. [email protected] (with the usual Subscribe in the message box). Debbie also keeps a Bennett research site with some Bennett census returns and Bennett trivia at: http://www.geocities.com/deborahjdean/bennett_index.html where you can also help by sending details of your Boat Bennetts for inclusion. Geoff in Helsinki

My HEEDS people were almost all connected with the waterways. They seem to have originated in Chesterfield in Derbys and migrated to the Manchester area. From the various marriages of the HEEDS family and from some "sightings" in the Northwich area (always near a canal) I suspect that they were involved in ferrying salt from there to Manchester. Has anyone got any more info on this trade please? Regards, Eric MILLWARD of Marple, Cheshire [email protected] Interests in Cheshire, BRUCKSHAW (Stockport),BUCKLEY (Northwich), CHARLESWORTH(Stockport), DALE (Congleton), HANSON (Stockport),HO(U)DSON (Audlem), JOHNSON(Audlem), LEA (Sandbach), LEIGH (Stockport), LEWIS (Warmingham), LITTLER (Stockport), MILLWARD (Stockport), MOORES (Northwich), MOSES (Crewe), NIELD (Macclesfield), PODMORE , SIMCOCK (Audlem), STREET (Nantwich), WASHINGTON (Stockport), WILLIAMSON Stockport) in Derbyshire, HEEDS (Chesterfield), MILLWARD and RADFORD (Ashbourne area), in Lancashire, GROOM and HEEDS and MORGAN and MURPHY and ROBERTS (all Manchester), MORGAN (Liverpool) in Staffordshire, DALE (Audley), HO(U)DSON (Audley), JOHNSON (Mucklestone) in Shropshire, JOHNSON (Mucklestone) in WR Yorkshire, WHITEHEAD (Saddleworth) and coming to Manchester, UK from America before 1820, HOLDEN.

Hello -- I'd like to exchange information with readers on the Subject canal. I have History, Engineering, and Genealogy interests. Perhaps this group is primarily interested in Canals of England? - ----------------------------------- Here's information about a related group... The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) http://istg.rootsweb.com/ recently entertained its one millionth visitor. The webpages are FULLY INDEXED! ISTG volunteers have transcribed and posted to its searchable database OVER 2,700 ships passenger lists from voyages spanning a period of 400 years and traveling to and from ports worldwide. If you have a transcribed passenger list you would like to contribute to the ISTG database, or if you would like to learn what is involved in being an ISTG volunteer transcriber, please see the FAQs posted at the ISTG home page. For links to resources on the Web about all things maritime, see ISTG's outstanding resource, THE COMPASS. Access all ISTG pages via the front door at its home page, http://istg.rootsweb.com/ Searching features are GREAT! For your own benefit, try the ITSG now! < [email protected] > Charles H. NAUNDORF USA, Western New York State.

With fingers crossed, I'm "helping" Julie for a while, I do hope you will all support me for the duration. I will try to be as professional as Julie - although I will tell you all now I am known for my unfortunate sense of humour. Shout if I'm needed. Kind regards. Bubbles from Robin Hood Country.

My grandfather Joseph Gill of Lodi, Indiana was to have worked for the canal here in Indiana. Where can I locate information about him. Can anyone help?

Hi there, I am still trying to find any references to the names GLOVER (Joseph & Thomas) & MURFIN (John), who worked on the Erewash Canal and also possibly the Cromford Canal and the canal which would have run down to Birmingham. (all 19th century) They came from Loughborough, Leics. I believe they carried coal. Regards Thelma

Hello listers, John Kohnen's Nautical Links List or The Mother of All Maritime Lists can be found at : http://www.boat-links.com/boatlink.html and contains a vast number of links including many to canal related sites. Regards, Chris Rendle Plymouth UK [email protected]

Dear Stan, I have nowt ter do with the French cuz of the way they treated our beef I dunner eat fauxpers are they owt like faggots and paze ? Ivor Tongincheek -----Original Message----- From: Stan Bailey <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 09 August 2000 00:42 Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Oops, sorry! >Hi Listers, > In my recent email singing the praises of the RUNCORN Boat Museum, I was >really referring to the ELLESMERE PORT Boat Museum........ (near Runcorn). > >Apologies to all concerned and thanks to Norman Holt for pointing out my >faux pas. > > Embarrassedly, Stan Bailey > > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. >

>Is archived information (including census returns, boat owners etc.) >available for the Sankey, Manchester/Bolton/Bury, and Bridgewater canals? The above Bolton reference has caught my eye. I have recently joined your list because of the following: At 1851 census, 33yo Job TURNER (36yo wife Mary) was a wharfinger ('wharf manager') b at Priors Marston in Warwickshire. His children were b Oxford OXON, Bolton MAN, and Stretton under Fosse WAR. The family in 1881 were then living at the Canal Shop at Monks Kirby by the Stretton Tollgate, and it is likely that Job worked the canalside where he accepted, warehoused and dispatched goods. At his granddaughter Julia's birth in Jan 1881, son William was described as a corn merchant, yet a few months later at the 1881 census on 04apr1881, William's young family was at High St in Kidlington Oxon and he was listed as a 33yo retired farmer ('lucky' or 'unemployed' man?). The Turner family was to be found in Bolton another generation later in 1908, where my grandparents married and sired my Dad. He remembers his father William TURNER as a coal merchant in Oxford about 1920. My question: What are the links between Bolton/Oxford/Stretton with corn/coal ? Canals seem to suggest a likely answer, but what might the full story be? _________________________________________________ Frank Whillans <[email protected]> "Coranderk" 47 The Righi, Eaglemont Melbourne Victoria 3084 Australia Telephone 03-9457-2893 (local), +613-9457-2893 (overseas)

Hello I am interested in sources about those working on the Erie Canal. My ancestor Oliver Perry Clark supposedly work as a towboy probably abt 1830-1835. He grew up in Barre, Orlean County. If you receive any information where I may search please let me know. The canal and it's history fascinate me . Any details would be appreciated. Did your ancestor mention any of the workers by name? Elaine Child ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 9:00 AM Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] (no subject) > For those of you researching Erie Canal families in NYS, USA., I just came > across a paper my mother had written about 15 yrs. ago. She just jotted notes > from her father, Ernest Eno Burke, Sr. who operated a boat on the canal. She > writes: > "My gggrandfather, Josiah Fox, worked on the original canal, "Clinton's > Folly", with a pick, shovel, and wheelbarrow. When he began boating, there > were 7,000 boats on the Erie, whereas, 3,000 had navigated in 1901. > Grandpa boated for fifty years. He was known from Buffalo to Troy. Many > recognized his voice before he entered the lock! " > She goes on to tell about the operation of the boats themselves and the trip > times. > Josiah Fox was from Fulton/Phoenix area of NYS and I would be most grateful > if anyone has further information on this family. Thanks, Carol > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > >

Hello Lynda, I saw your letter this morning about wanting the address or who to contact for the Huddersfield Canal. I know I have got a little booklet somewhere that I got in Slaithwaite a few years ago on the Huddersfield canal but can't put my hands on it at the moment. I have got the Ordnance Survey Guide to the Waterways though and see that it gives an address to contact for the North - East Area which covers Huddersfield and they should be able to give you the Huddersfield address if that is any use to you. BRITISH WATERWAYS, 1 DOCK ST, LEEDS LS1 1HH Hope that will help Eileen. [email protected]

Hi Listers, In my recent email singing the praises of the RUNCORN Boat Museum, I was really referring to the ELLESMERE PORT Boat Museum........ (near Runcorn). Apologies to all concerned and thanks to Norman Holt for pointing out my faux pas. Embarrassedly, Stan Bailey

Arthur, If you get this address would you mind sharing it with me please Regards Lynda. -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Turner <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 02 August 2000 07:49 Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] re Hudderfield Canal society >Can SKS let me have the address or who to contact at the Huddersfield Canal >Society, >Arthur Turner, in Holbeach,Lincs; > > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > >

Hi listers, I have two reasons to join this list. One is that my wife's maternal grandmother was born on the GU. The other is that we ourselves lived on a narrowboat for several years recently, and we number many boatpeople among our friends. My wife's grandmother was Jean DAVEY. We have her as born about 1912, and she died between January and April 1948 (buried in plot K17 at Brompton cemetary, London). Between 1929 and 1931 she married Wilfred GAMBLE at Greenford, Middlesex; and they had four daughters Pamela, Eileen, Phyllis and Janet. However, we are pretty sure that she had left the waterways some time before her marriage, and none of the GAMBLEs is believed to have any connections with the life. The only clues that we have about Jean DAVEY's parents is that they were both boatpeople on the GU, and that her mother's first name was Joyce. If anybody out there has any information which connects with any of this - particularly anything on a Mrs Joyce DAVEY with or without a daughter Jean - please let me know. Cheers, Mike Turner

Information, please, Is archived information (including census returns, boat owners etc.) available for the Sankey, Manchester/Bolton/Bury, and Bridgewater canals? If it is, will SKS please forward the addresses/telephone numbers/contacts etc. I've visited the Runcorn Boat Museum and had wonderful co-operation from the archives staff there as well as spending a few enjoyable and enlightening hours looking over the many exhibits but,unfortunately, I did not find much information on my boat-folk ancestors. Hopefully, Stan Bailey

I am forwarding this for the list owner of the MAITLAND & GRIEVE Lists, for the benefit of any listers who are researching those names. ----- Original Message ----- From: janet tennent <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 8:14 PM Subject: MAITLAND and GRIEVE lists > My name is Janet Tennent and I recently have taken over the orphaned > lists of MAITLAND-L and GRIEVE-L. I was wondering if you could please > let the people on your list that may be interested in the surnames of > MAITLAND or GRIEVE that these lists are available to post messages. To > subscribe: > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > > Thank you for your help as I am not currently a subscriber to your list. > Janet Tennent > Kensington, Maryland , USA

For those of you researching Erie Canal families in NYS, USA., I just came across a paper my mother had written about 15 yrs. ago. She just jotted notes from her father, Ernest Eno Burke, Sr. who operated a boat on the canal. She writes: "My gggrandfather, Josiah Fox, worked on the original canal, "Clinton's Folly", with a pick, shovel, and wheelbarrow. When he began boating, there were 7,000 boats on the Erie, whereas, 3,000 had navigated in 1901. Grandpa boated for fifty years. He was known from Buffalo to Troy. Many recognized his voice before he entered the lock! " She goes on to tell about the operation of the boats themselves and the trip times. Josiah Fox was from Fulton/Phoenix area of NYS and I would be most grateful if anyone has further information on this family. Thanks, Carol