Dear Wendy You mentioned Knottingley in your posting. I have just received the most amazing book called 'The sailing shops and mariners of Knottingley' by Ron Gosney and Rosemary Bowyer. It gives enormous detail about life on the waterways of Knottingley and costs just £6.95. You can see some detail on the web site www.summary.demon.co.uk/books/index/htm. It also gives in detail the jobs that people did together with lots of names of workers and ships. After sending me the book Ron offered to help further with my CUMPSTON master mariners and was able to give me names of ships they had sailed on and destinations. It is well worth buying (I have no financial interest in the book!) With best wishes Glenys in the Yorkshire Dales Seeking CUMPSTON in Hull and Knottingley WITTY in Hull PARKIN in Leeds and Upleatham MARSHALL in Malton, Norton and Crambe GRUMMITT and INGLEDEN in Bourne SHARP in Gainsborough WHITTLE and COBB in Peterborough MARRIOTT in Nottingham ----- Original Message ----- From: Wendy <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 06 February 2000 20:03 Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] DODGSON/VALLANS > I have two families of watermen in my family tree and would be > interested in hearing from any one interested in them. They are as > follows > > The DODGSON family were based in Knottingley, Yorkshire. Michael, > baptised on 18 November 1798 was a waterman as was his son Michael, > baptised 2 May 1830 and grandson Frank, born 1859, a seaman > > William VALLENCE or VALLANS (1745-1801)was a keelman in Ryton, > Northumberland as was his son William (1770-). His son William > (1802-1866) was based in the Winlaton area and was variously listed as a > keelman or waterman and had two sons also watermen. They were John > (1830-) who had a son John (1856-) and Thomas (1839-) > > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > 12.8 million individuals and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >