The following are names listed in a letter dated 20 April 1843 sent by an ancestor of mine to Earl Fitzwilliam (land and colliery owner from Wentworth, South Yorkshire). Captain John Smith Captain John Carmichele (Carmichael?) Captain George Carmichele (Carmichael?) Captain John Ridgeway They had been loading coal into their vessels from Earl Fitzwilliam's Elsecar Colliery (Barnsley, South Yorkshire), on the Elsecar branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal. Their loads where bound for ships in Hull. Helen