G'day Gil, Do you do lookups re Watermen around 1850? Trying to find my wife's distant rellies. Cheers Mel in Melbourne > ** Original Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] The Waterman and GRAINGER > ** Original Sender: "Gill Foster" <[email protected]> > ** Original Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 02:10:43 -0000 > ** Original Message follows... > > I am researching religious missions to canal boatmen in the 19th and 20th > centuries. A colleague and I have quite a lot of information but would > welcome more on the subject if fellow 'listers' find any reference in the > course of their family history research. > > Also if anyone could tell us the whereabouts of any copies of The Waterman > from 1948, we would be deeply grateful. We can access them from 1894 to 1947 > but want to know more about the last days of the magazine and the society. > The Waterman was published by the Seamen and Boatmen's Friend Society formed > in 1850 and now defunct. The magazine was distributed amongst boatmen so > maybe some copies have survived. > > In return, I will be happy to pass on any references to named boatmen. Here > is one. I hope it may be of use to someone. In February 1896 The Waterman > reported the death of John GRAINGER, aged 36. The caretakers at the Bridge > Street, Birmingham mission had taken him into their home and helped his wife > to nurse him until he died. > > Gill Foster > Cumbria > > > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > 12.8 million individuals and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >** --------- End Original Message ----------- ** > Melvyn D Grieveson Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.com