General Chat

just wondering if anyone has canal boatmen or bargemen or women in their tree?

jet:)

YES BARGEES OXFORD BACK TO 1700

me too dizzi, names were harrison...

je

Yes the Doicks in and around Pulborough.

xx

i have a family member which we have been told died falling between his barge and canalside manchester docks can't find anything though:(

Poor man, how horrible.

Would it have been reported in a newspaper?

xx

hi kitty i think it should have it happened in 1905.. i phoned manchester records office but they said it may have been destroyed so no way of knowing.. verry frustrating:(

jetxx

Yes, Coley (or Cawley, Cowley etc.) from Oldbury in Worcestershire around 1850.

THIS IS COPIED FROM DR CHRIS BROOKINGS
RESEARCH

THE INN AT BABLOCK HYTHE c. 1885

Quoting William Senior in “The Royal River”
Bonney T G Cassell & Co. 1885



“Although Bablock Hythe by road is no more than five miles from Oxford, the circuitous voyage by the Thames is twelve miles. Bablock Hythe is a well-known station on the Upper Thames, although it does not boast the rank of hamlet or village, and has for the accommodation of man and beast only one of the small old-fashioned inns of the humblest sort, where the rooms are low, the beams big and solid, the floors flagged, and the apartments fitted up with all manner of three-corner cupboards and antique settles. The great ferry-boat, however, gives it a decided position of importance, and it is known to Thames tourists principally as the starting point for visiting either Cumnor or Stanton Harcourt …… The Thames takes a northerly course from Bablock Hythe, and winds and doubles in such contortions that in one part a strip of not more than twelve yards of meadow separates two reaches of considerable length. A high, wide wooden bridge, bearing the name Skinner’s Weir, ( also sometimes called Langley Weir and Brookins Weir - CHB ) now crosses our course, and soon we come to Pinkhill Lock, so called from a farm of that name in the neighbourhood.”

Hya Jet,

Was just reading the other week about the hisory of Canal boatmen.....if you're interested I will root out the book I read it in......may have been a downloadable google book.....will let you know.....

APPRENTICESHIP RECORDS - HANASTERS REGISTER, OXFORD CITY ARCHIVES
Transcriptions 22nd November 2000

L. 5. 3 Feb 7th 1662 Richard Brokins to Richard Shotterill
M(emoran)d(um) That Then Richard Brokins sonne of George
Brokins Late of woolvercott in the County of Oxon
daylabourer hath put him selfe app(re)ntice to Richard
Shotterwill of the Citie of Oxon Waterman to Learne
his Art & him after the man(n)er of app(re)ntice to
serve from the second day of February Last
past before the date hereof Unto the full end
and terme of seaven yeares from thence
next Following fully to be compleat and ended
and in thend of the said Terme the said Master
is to give to his said app(re)ntice double app(ar)ell fiteing for
such an app

hi grandmother also fell in the river on a very foggy night was found next morning, in 1941 in uxbridge emily harrison:(

jetxx

We have the Foley and Hale families. They worked up to Birmingham from the River Severn during the early and middle part of the 1800's.

Some of the Hale children were christened at Stoke Prior, which is halfway up the Worcester & Birmingham canal.

thanks lil:)

jetxx

quite a lot of ours were from braunstone and leighton buzzard but went all over really :)

jetxx

hi all does anyone have a anne stokes she was quite a lady i hear among the canal women:)

jetxx

Jet are you signed up to canal people?
My watermen were on the Thames at Brentford (which I know is not quite the same thing lol but some of the web sites 'crossover'.)
Got a good book from the library a few weeks ago which WAS canals ,will look next time i am in and let you know the title.

Rosex

Hiya Jet, my husband has canal men, and I do too. xx

MINE ALSO FREEMAN OF THE RIVER OXFORD,AND LOCK KEEPERS
SOME LIVED IN FISHER ROW OXFORD

nudge