As a newbie to this list but not others I am hoping some kind soul can point me in the right direction I have been researching my paternal family for the last year or so and for 2/3 generations before me they were Marine Engineers so what am I doing on this list? well it seems that for a few generations before that they were busy cutting and hewing stone and always in areas where there were Canals. and so it seems reasonable to me that given that they were also building frantically all over the place they may have worked on canal maintenance, which leads me to first question what is the present name of canal near Bath is it Kennet and Avon? and was it so in 1850s? if I want to sail from here I buy relevant charts how do you manage on canals? thank you for reading so far Tony Rogers Pembrokeshire