H Ian > > Yes Gus, my comment above was written after, noticing that the > message thread was moving towards Claines village and Droitwich. I > attempted to move it back towards Worcester where the most work for > a Waterman was. Living in The Tything, Worcester sounds good to > me. > Claines never really had a 'village' - it was a collection of settlements called 'Tythings' without any sort of 'centre' - and the Tything of Whistones was administratively somewhat separate from the rest of the Parish. It'd be a goodish area for watermen to live - although the one's father looks to've been the 1841-equivalent of a mini-cab driver! Were you and your son at WorcHistCent last Monday afternoon? At a reader fairly close to the Parish Register and Wills films cabinets? (I was on the 'junction' where the passages between the readers cross...) Gus