Hi all, Loopking for anyone with connections to the Butler family. Have my wife,s g,g,father Frederick Butler b.1871, 2 brothers Edward H and William.-----widowed mother Sophia...all living at 28 Macdonald Street Birmingham in 1881 census. Frederick was a boatman, possibly owner. Q. are there any canal archives I can access listing boats/owners/staff??? Many thanks Chris.

Chris In light of the address it is probable that if Fred owned a boat it would have been on the Birmingham canal Navigation (BCN) The national Waterways museum keep the gauging records including this era on a database. If you e mail them they will check their records to see if any boats were 'registered' to Butlers. It will be worth checking the family as some times the boats were gauged on behalf of wife and other family members the a mail address is info@nwm.demon.co.uk All the best John Carrington ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Weymouth" <chris.weymouth@ntlworld.com> To: <CANAL-PEOPLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 7:51 PM Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] butler-boatman > Hi all, > Loopking for anyone with connections to the Butler family. > Have my wife,s g,g,father Frederick Butler b.1871, 2 brothers Edward H and > William.-----widowed mother Sophia...all living at 28 Macdonald Street Birmingham > in 1881 census. > Frederick was a boatman, possibly owner. > Q. are there any canal archives I can access listing boats/owners/staff??? > Many thanks > Chris. > > > ==== CANAL-PEOPLE Mailing List ==== > C J Genealogical Collections > Web Page http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >