Hi Folks. I promised to yesterday to give the places listed in the book, where Canal register records are, but as i said the book was published in 1984, and things may have changed. Here they are. Birmingham Reference Library. Cheshire County Record Office, Chester--Poor Law Settlement Papers. Register of Boats & Barges 1795-1812 (referred to as Boat Register 1795) Wills at Chester. Chester City Record Office.--Registers of Boats 1879-1914. Coventry City Record Office--Canal Boats 1879-1914. Derbyshire County Record Office, Matlock Cromford Canal Permit Books, 501 B/B1,B2,B4,B45. (Register of Boats & Barges 1795. (i.e. Boat Register 1795) Gloucestershire County Record Office, Gloucester.--Register pof Barges 7 Trows....1795 (i.e. Boat Register 1795), Q/RR1. Ilkeston Public Library-- Registers of Canal Boats 1879-1914. Leicestershire County Record Office,Leicester.--Register of Boats,Barges & Vessels pusuant to the Satute of 35 Geo.III,Cap.58,1795 (i.e.Boat Register 1795) Nottinghamshire County Record Office, Nottingham --- Poor Law Settlement Papers. P.R.85. Oxford Local History Library---Register of Canal Boats 1879-1914. Oxfordshire County Record Office,Oxford.--Petitions & Evidence to the Oxford Canal Bill,1829.OX vi/ii/i. Reading Public Library (Tilehurst)--- Register of Canal Boats, 1877-1914. Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford-- Register of Boats & Barges,1795-7 (i,e.Boat Register 1795) GR UB1. Stoke Bruerne (british Waterways Museum)--Diary of W.H.King--Canal Conractor 1895. Letter Book of Oxford Canal Company 1790/1, WD63/44 Wages Book of the Coventry Canal Company 1840/4 Warwickshire County Record Office,Warwick.--- Register of Boats & Barges 1795 (i.e. Boat Register 1795) QS 95/1-9. The Public Health Offices at Burnley,Daventry,Hinckley,Leigh,Manchester,Nantwich, Nottingham,Paddington,Tring,West Drayton, & Wigan. Documents relative to the enforcement of the Canal Boat Acts of 1877 & 1884,i.e.registers of canal boats, 1879-1914, journals of inspection,& correspondence, not all of which are necessarily to be found at all of the above offices. That's it Folks--hope it has been of some interest to you. Regards Thelma.

This message has been sent without an attachment. Hello Thelma, This is in the nature of a repeat request ....do'nt think you could have got the one I sent to you abt. a week ago. Trust everything is fine & hunky-dory with you.....here goes:- One of your Canal People 1881 Census postings to the List....Staffordshire.... @ 32, Clayhills, Tunstall (Wolstanton Dist.) James COLCLOUGH. Hd. M. 33. Barge B/man. Tunstall. ......with wife, sister, boarder....and........ Charles COLCLOUGH. Father. Wid. 73. B/man. Tunstall. Most obliged if you can supply the missing names. Regards, Lakhri in the Staffordshire Moorlands.