Hi listers, I have two reasons to join this list. One is that my wife's maternal grandmother was born on the GU. The other is that we ourselves lived on a narrowboat for several years recently, and we number many boatpeople among our friends. My wife's grandmother was Jean DAVEY. We have her as born about 1912, and she died between January and April 1948 (buried in plot K17 at Brompton cemetary, London). Between 1929 and 1931 she married Wilfred GAMBLE at Greenford, Middlesex; and they had four daughters Pamela, Eileen, Phyllis and Janet. However, we are pretty sure that she had left the waterways some time before her marriage, and none of the GAMBLEs is believed to have any connections with the life. The only clues that we have about Jean DAVEY's parents is that they were both boatpeople on the GU, and that her mother's first name was Joyce. If anybody out there has any information which connects with any of this - particularly anything on a Mrs Joyce DAVEY with or without a daughter Jean - please let me know. Cheers, Mike Turner