There being no equivalent list covering Welsh waterways, I thought I'd try my luck on this English canal list. My father's mother's family were all canalboatmen on the Glamorganshire canal. Our family home from 1916 up to very recently, in fact, backed onto the canal at Coedpenmaen, Pontypridd. Sadly, most of the canal now lies buried beneath the A470 Cardiff to Merthyr dual carriage way, though there is still a short stretch in water near Castell Coch, at Tongwynlais, just on the northern edge of Cardiff. Information from censuses informs me that my great great grandfather was a boatman: Thomas Llewelyn was b. Llanwonno circa 1796; d. between 1851 & 1861 (no sign of a burial or a GRO index entry, and no death entry traced at the local RO - Merthyr Tydfil). Thomas was working as a boatman as early as 1822 when his first child was born. At this time the family lived in Merthyr Tydfil. By 1841 they were living at Navigation, Abercynon. By 1851 they were at Furnace Row, Pontyrhun, Abercanaid - a row of canalboatmen'scottages which still exists today. Of Thomas's sons, at least 5 worked on the canal between about 1840 and at least 1880: David, Thomas, John, William (my great grandfather) and Rhys, though I know little about any of them other than my direct ancestor William, who later lived in Pontypridd, where he was an ostler on the canal for a while before finishing his working days as an ostler in the ill-fated Albion colliery at Cilfynydd, near Ponty. He died in 1917. Family tradition has it that the family owned its own canalboat(s). How can I go about verifying this or finding out anything else about their business? Many thanks David Pike