Some of my SMEDLEY ancestors were boatmen on the Trent at Sawley in the 19th century. There is perhaps a very tentative link for them to Banbury in Oxfordshire and I would like to know if there was any possibility of regular river and canal traffic between these to parishes in the late 1700's and the first half of the 1800's. I'm hoping that someone with a knowledge of the canal and river trade in that broad time period will be able to help. Thank you Darryl Sydney Australia