Dear Simon and Linda The person to contact is Roy Jamieson, Archives of British Waterways, Llanthony Warehouse, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester GL1 2EJ. The archives have various databases with information on gauging books and some boats and masters. The British waterways web site is www.britishwaterways.co.uk There is also the Boat Museum, at South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port Cheshire CH65 4FW e-mail address is [email protected] where there are also records about Boat people. I hope this helps. Alice In Portadown N.Ireland Researching the Moss family who were Boatmen in Alrewas Staffs, Duddeston Birmingham & City road London -----Original Message----- From: Simon.Brick <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 21 July 2000 23:29 Subject: Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Leeds Liverpool and Calder navigation Canals. >Hello Lynda , >Did you get any replies to your request for help with records of boats on >the Leeds/Liverpool Canal? I would be interested too as I have rellies who >worked the boats and one of my great grandfathers was actually born on the >boat at the top lock, Aspull. > >Hope to hear from you, > >Barbara Brick >----- Original Message ----- >From: Lynda <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 6:40 PM >Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Leeds Liverpool and Calder navigation Canals. > > >> Hello to all >> Could SkS help me locate records etc for the above named canals, I am >trying to trace the names of the boats that my rellies BATES, VARLEY,KAY. >from Leeds either owned or were emplyed upon TIA Lynda. >> >> >> ============================== >> The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >> Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >> > > >============================== >Ancestry.com now has more than 200,000 subscribers! To celebrate, >access to ALL of Ancestry.com will be free from July 18 to July 31! >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/freepromo.asp?sourcecode=A11AM > >

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Hi I'm looking for any information on my dad's family. Charles Brier Carpenter b 25.7.1919 at Kirkstall Station, Mother Martha Kendal (Carpenter) Martha married Frederick Brier, aug 1919. Perhaps Carpenter died at the end of the War, no-one in the family seems to know for sure. My dad was one of three non-Jewish boys who attended a Jewish school in the area and he may have had an older brother called Frederick. Fred. Brier was bargeman on the Argus. Any info is welcome OR where to go next would be appreciated Janette

Hello listers, As a newcomer to this list, I would be more than pleased if any of you were able to supply info. about the following boatmen/women who were active on various canals in the North-West and other areas of England: JOHN BAILEY b. 1825 (active on the Sankey Cut in 1859) DAVID BAILEY b. 1859 at Winwick Quay (active on the Manchester, Bolton & Bury late 1800s) JOSEPH BAILEY b. 18?? RICHARD HIGGINS b. 18?? (married Elizabeth Bailey, eventually settled at Lymm, Cheshire) WILLIAM BRYAN b. 1827 at Yardley, B'ham (active on several Midlands & N-W canals) LOUISA MANDER b. 1837 (of canal folk) at Brierley Hill, Staffs. (married William Bryan) William & Louisa Bryan settled at Salford where they reputedly owned several boats that mainly plied the Manchester, Bolton & Bury canal. Any information at all about the above ancestors of mine would be gratefully received by Stan Bailey

Hello Lynda , Did you get any replies to your request for help with records of boats on the Leeds/Liverpool Canal? I would be interested too as I have rellies who worked the boats and one of my great grandfathers was actually born on the boat at the top lock, Aspull. Hope to hear from you, Barbara Brick ----- Original Message ----- From: Lynda <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 6:40 PM Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Leeds Liverpool and Calder navigation Canals. > Hello to all > Could SkS help me locate records etc for the above named canals, I am trying to trace the names of the boats that my rellies BATES, VARLEY,KAY. from Leeds either owned or were emplyed upon TIA Lynda. > > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >

Thank goodness there is now a website for canal people! I am searching for a Samuel Short b. 1858 ? Cheshire (as mentioned on the 1881 census), unfortunately I cannot find his birth anywhere - or his death. He apparently died between 1883, my grandfather was born in 1884 and 1891 when his wife remarried. She is down on the 2nd marriage cert as a widow. Samuel is down on his marriage cert as a flatman but on the 1881 census he lived near a canal and is down as a labourer. I just cannot find him anywhere. Surely if he had died between these times he would be down on the records?? Regards Sandra Hemsworth

Hello Adrian, I saw your letter this morning so thought I would write to see where your Cheethams were from. We have Cheethams on my husbands side but I haven't heard of a Ruddock. Our Hilda Caswell married Henry Ainley Cheetham they married in Pontefract in 1920 and Henry died in 1932, they had one daughter Margaret Cheetham,Henry was born in 1890. The reason I am asking is because my husbands father told him that someone in the family had a barge and used to go up and down the Aire and Calder canal,we think this would be in the late 1800's or early 1900's but he doesn't remember the name so we are just floundering, but when I saw the name Cheetham it made us wonder if it was one of Henry's family, he was a photographer and I think he had a shop in Airedale. We would be pleased to hear about your Cheetham's just in case there is a link somewhere. Best wishes Eileen & Doug Walmsley Melbourne,Australia. [email protected]

Hi Adrian, Sorry I can'thelp further with your names, but I remember that a Mr Cheetham was lengthman from Office Lock which was the end of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, to Horsforth about 40 years ago. He lived at the Office Lock-House He had a brother who was also employed on the canal, and used to make rope fenders for the boaters. Both were Inland Waterways Association members After he died we lost contact with his family. James Barlow ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian-Philip Pearson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 15 July 2000 15:13 Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Leeds-Liverpool Canal > Hi everyone on the Canal people list, > > I am REPOSTING my interests on the LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL. > > CHEETHAM > RUDDOCK > > The Cheethams have married into both sides of my mother's family so any > information about Cheetham boatman along the canal is of great interest. > > Thanks very much, > > Adrian Pearson in Barcelona. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >

Mo - or anyone else Have you ever come across the following family? John and Mary VIGARS, who were in Cobridge abt 1825/6 when they had a daughter, Emma, baptised at St John's, Burslem. John was described as a boatman on the baptism, and also on Emma's marriage cert (at Stoke, 1846). Diana Bouglas London, England

Hi everyone on the Canal people list, I am REPOSTING my interests on the LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL. CHEETHAM RUDDOCK The Cheethams have married into both sides of my mother's family so any information about Cheetham boatman along the canal is of great interest. Thanks very much, Adrian Pearson in Barcelona. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

> [Original Message] > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 6/26/00 8:08:46 AM > Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] I. ALLEN on the Erie Canal > > My ancestor owned a boat on the Erie Canal around Oswego and Oneida Counties. > It was called the I.ALLEN. Does anyone have any idea where I can get > information on this? Thanks [email protected] > Hi, Did you ever get any replies on your Erie Canal query ? I have an ancestor who worked as a towboy on the Erie in the area of Albion, NY. I would like to know where to find information if you get any answers. Thank you, Elaine > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > --- Allen Child --- [email protected] --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.

Hi Listers I put out a query on the Lansgen mail list about Watersmen and someone gave me this site address. My GtGrandfather and his father, became Watersmen/Boatsmen around 1880. They had moved to Salford by the 1881 Census and were living near the canal on Hope Street. This is all I know so far. I wondered if there were any records that I may be able to search to find out about their time on the canals, etc. Their names were Charles Jones and his father was Thomas Jones. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction or give me some useful info! Thanks Karol Lomas

I am interested in any of the following names connected with the canal system. WOOD - Tunstall - Penkridge - mainly but anywhere else would be of interest COLCLOUGH - Tunstall - Middlewich - above SLATER - Penkridge - Compton - mainly NIXON - Stone - Penkridge WILKES - Wordsley - Preston Brook SANT - Middlewich I try and record names connected with the canal boat people, I have a few details taken from the North Staffs & South Cheshire area's. Unfortunately I have not done any other area's. I am willing to look up for any names from these areas. I cannot guarantee anything tho'. Mo can be contacted on [email protected]

Hi Bill, Did you ever receive a reply on your request concerning workers on the Erie Canal? I too am interested in finding an ancestor, Oliver Perry Clark, who worked as a tow boy on the canal near his home in Barre, Orlean Co, New York, probably abt 1830-35. Any help would be appreciated. Elaine [email protected] > [Original Message] > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 7/9/00 10:29:53 AM > Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] ERIE CANAL > > Where might I find info about workers or employs on the Erie Canal? > > Bill Rafferty > [email protected] > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > --- Allen Child --- [email protected] --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.

Hello to all Could SkS help me locate records etc for the above named canals, I am trying to trace the names of the boats that my rellies BATES, VARLEY,KAY. from Leeds either owned or were emplyed upon TIA Lynda.

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Good question! I've checked these websites, but I think you have to physically check out their records regarding employees: http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/index.htm http://www.sara.nysed.gov/holding/aids/canal/content.htm http://www.canals.state.ny.us/history/index.html Let me know if you know differently! E. Buglewicz > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 11:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] ERIE CANAL > > > Where might I find info about workers or employs on the Erie Canal? > > Bill Rafferty > [email protected] > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >

Hi Folks, Is there anyone out there who visits the Record Office in Matlock ? I have the references for two or three boats which passed through the Cromforfd Canal at one stage or another. Matlock office have the Cromford Canal Books so I wonder if anyone happened to be going if they would look up the references for me, I don't think it would take long. Please get in touch by e-mail if anyone has half an hour to spare there, and I will provide the references. Thanks very much,, Thelma

Where might I find info about workers or employs on the Erie Canal? Bill Rafferty [email protected]

Posting my surname interests: WEBSTER, bargees on the canals of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. thanks Irene W Australia