I am compiling a book on the canal families who worked the boats from Preston to Lancaster. My family the Ashcrofts were one of the main families but I also want to include details of others. I have been through some of the Preston censuses and taken details of the families on the individual boats at the time and am getting together an index of them. I also have details from the 1881 census of the families when they were moored along the canal on census night as far as Kendal. I haven't had access to the other censuses except Preston yet and if anyone has any information on any canal people in those areas I would be very grateful. Also if anyone thinks their family may have been on the boats, especially at Preston basin in the last century mostly, I may be able to help them, although my list is by no means complete. Regards Janet Rigby