BOAT FAMILIES

of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and connected waterways

Matches 5,001 to 5,050 of 9,258

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5001	In Didsbury, Manchester, age 25, birthplace indicated as not Lancashire.	Evans, Isaac (I27797)
5002	In Eastwood, Notts in 1871 census, age given as 11, birthplace Willoughby Bridge (nr Rugby); age14 in 1881, b Yelvertoft (nr Rugby) with brother George in Derby; with father in 1891 on the Regents Canal, London, and in Birmingham in 1901.	Gill, John (I25653)
5003	In Gillingham, Kent, in 1911 census, working at Chatham Dockyard. Not found in 1921 census; in Porsmouth in 1939.	Dawson, Allan (I63640)
5004	In GRO index as born Q1 1893 Ormskirk, mother's maiden name Forshaw, and possibly in 1901 and 1911 censuses as Joseph, for whom no birth or baptism record is found. Father named as Richard (deceased) in marriage record.	Ashcroft, Richard (I08564)
5005	In Halifax Workhouse in 1911, with indication of having had three children, one deceased.	Disley, Ellen (I03929)
5006	In Haskayne, age 67, In 1861 census, with Smith grandchildren. "Head of family" column states Mother-in-law, and Profession "Depending on son-in-law, a Boater".	Tarbuck, Mary (I28602)
5007	In her book 'Life on the Lancaster Canal' Janet Rigby quotes Arthur Harry Griffin, writing in the Lancashire Daily Post in 1934 of Elizabeth Ann Robinson as "strong, weather-beaten and buxom and well equipped to do the rough work of the boats" describing her as "the skipper of the boat in which she lives with her family, and is the only woman navigator on the Canal, and whose daughter May was born on the Canal and christened after the name of the boat." Janet adds: "Elizabeth was the grandmother of John Parkinson (q.v. b1934) and he says that in 1934 she still had three sons and one daughter with her, having been left a widow in 1928 with nine children." There are at least seven Robinson births in Preston between 1912 and 1926 in the GRO Online Register with mother's maiden name Slater, who could belong either to Elizabeth and Joshua, or to her sister Janet Slater and Joshua's brother Thomas Robinson.	Slater, Elizabeth Ann (I18661)
5008	In her book 'The Lancaster Canal in Focus' Janet Rigby writes: "It was Joe who carried the last load to Storey's Mill in Lancaster in 1947. Storey's were the last firm to run on coal but after the bad winter that year, when the canal was fozen and deliveries by boat were impossible for several weeks, they switched to oil, thus ending a long tradition heralding the end of commercial carrying on the canal.'	Ashcroft, Joseph (I00562)
5009	In her book 'The Lancaster Canal in Focus' Janet Rigby writes: 'May used to regularly take the horses to the blacksmith for shoeing, which cost about 12 shillings in the 1930s. She left the canal in 1939 for factory work.'	Ashcroft, May (I18391)
5010	In her books on the Lancaster Canal Janet Rigby writes: "Dan was born aboard the 'Prince of Wales' at Crooklands" . . . and that "Dan and Mary Jane started their married life on 'May' and worked both the Lancaster and the Leeds & Liverpool Canals."	Ashcroft, Daniel (I00563)
5011	In HM Prison, Hull, in 1881 census (felony not indicated) - but a B Walker, age 32, is recorded with his wife and children in Lenham Buildings, Hull.	Walker, William (I62438)
5012	In Hull Orphan House in 1871 census.	Coward, Charles (I52200)
5013	In Hull Orphan's Home in 1891 census.	Ward, William (I41532)
5014	In Hull Sanatorium, Drypool, in 1911 census, schoolboy, age 12.	Colbridge, Harry (I41889)
5015	In Kirkdale Prison, Liverpool, in 1871 census.	Barrow, Thomas (I01162)
5016	In Knutsford workhouse, age 80, in 1841 census.	Pimblott, George (I30326)
5017	In Leicester in 1861 census, Eastwood, Notts, in 1871 (age given as 46), Leicester in 1881, and (with son John) on the Regents Canal, London in 1891 and in Birmngham in 1901.	Gill, John (I25650)
5018	In Leigh workhouse, age 19, widow, in 1901 census.	Carrington, Ellen (I04584)
5019	In Liverpool Asylum for the Blind, Hardman Street, in 1901 census.	Capper, Isaac (I20444)
5020	In Liverpool Workhouse in 1881 census, age 39, flatman (overwritten waterman), birthplace given as Liverpool.	Hussey, Thomas (I19035)
5021	In Liverpool Workhouse, Brownlow Hill, in 1881 census.	Gerrard, James (I29172)
5022	In marriage record, Rank/Profession given as Private No 32,142, 17th Bn, Northumberland Fusiliers (raised by North Eastern Railway in 1914).	Alsop, Thomas Henry (I41848)
5023	In Moss Lane, Burscough, as Mary Wilson in 1841 census, 12-y-o servant to Thomas Seddon, but marries as Mary Parr. Age 'full' in marriage record, 22 in 1851 census, 33 in 1861, 45 in 1871, 54 in 1881, 60 in 1888 burial record.	Parr, Mary Wilson (I61312)
5024	In parish record for St Thomas (Wigan Baptisms, Ancestry).	Barlow, William (I60363)
5025	In Rawmarsh in 1881 census with daughter Annie; husband Joseph in South Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.	Dean, Charlotte (I53989)
5026	In Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, Kent, in 1911 census.	Oakes, Levi (I25068)
5027	In Runcorn Union Workhouse in 1871 census.	Lydiate, Samuel (I34996)
5028	In several records as Alexandra.	Parr, Alexander (I06062)
5029	In Shadwell, London, in 1861 census (married) aboard sloop Victoria. )Possible marriage 1844 Pontefract to Jane Horsfield.)	Tindall, George (I56122)
5030	In Shoreham Harbour, Brighton Canal Basin, in 1861 census as mate on the Three Brothers, a 31-ton 'Billy Boy' coaster from Goole. Waterways historian Steve Gardham of the Yorkshire Waterways Heritage Society writes on their website about Billy Boys, saying: 'A typical round voyage would have been to load coal for Plymouth, return with china clay to the Thames and then sail for the Humber with cement.'	Barley, Abraham (I63001)
5031	In Sloop Yard, Warrington, age 15, with grandmother Elizabeth Hatton in 1881 census.	Makin, Elizabeth (I28468)
5032	In the 1871 census, living with Job and Alice is a lodger, James Clarkson, a brewer's assistent from Preston, and in 1881 she is living with him in Halliwell, Bolton as "wife". They marry bigamously in 1883, with Alice claiming to be a widow. According to the report below he died, and in 1887 she was married a third time to James Dickinson. A newspaper report from 1887 headed "Charge of bigamy against a woman" states: "At Leigh Police Court on Monday, Alice Clarkson of Atherton was charged, on remand under a warrant, with having committed bigamy at Atherton by contracting marriage with a man named James Dickinson, an operative spinner, her first husband, Job Hulse of Winsford, being alive. "From the evidence adduced it appeared that Clarkson was married in May 1857 to Hulse at Runcorn parish church. About two years ago she was married at Bolton to a man named Clarkson, who had since died. "James Dickinson said Clarkson had represented herself as a widow. She said she had been married twice before, but both husbands were dead. "The Bench committed Clarkson to the Liverpool Assizes for trial." Court records for Liverpool Assizes, dated Feb 17 1888, state: "Alice Clarkson - Committed for Bigamy - Died before trial, being out on bail." (Criminal Registers, Ancestry)	Green, Alice (I34081)
5033	In the 1881 census William, Ada and Eliza, of boat Charles, are listed with seven other vessel Masters, with wives and children, under 'Customs Returns' at the end of the section for Doncaster Union Workhouse.	Jackson, William (I63433)
5034	In the 1891 census Samuel and Maria are in Hartford Road, Leftwich, with children Sarah, 16, Fred, 14, and Emma, 7. There is a second Samuel Cross at 24 Queens Road, Leftwich, also aged 47, b Northwich, waterman, with wife Sarah, 43, and children Fred, 16, Thomas, 15, Ada, 10 and Samuel, 2, all b Northwich, but for whom no birth, baptism, marriage or other census record has been found.	Cross, Samuel (I21362)
5035	In the 1891 census William and two sons are living with a Mary J, 31, b Liverpool, listed as his wife, but believed to be Mary Jane Spruce, temporarily separated from her husband Samuel Spruce who is elsewhere in this census listed as unmarried, though he and Mary Jane were married in 1878 and are together in 1881 and 1901.	Latham, William (I53671)
5036	In the 1901 census Harold is an RN engine room artificer at Gillingham, Kent In 1911 he is an artificer engineer on HMS Black Prince in Gibraltar, but was not on board in 1916 when she sank losng all hands in the Battle of Jutland.	Dearman, Harold (I58431)
5037	In the 1901 census, John's wife is Mary, 29, b Bedford, Leigh, and their son's baptism on Lancs OPC identifies his mother as Mary Ann. But in 1911 John's wife is Elizabeth, 39, b Bootle - married for 19 years.	Hesketh, John (I08933)
5038	In the 1911 census Alfred's entry appears among other seamen at Barrow in Furness but, unlike the others, on a Census of Ireland form. He is an "A.B." aboard the SS Thelma, recorded in Dublin Harbour, North Dock (Master Joseph Ashton of Widnes), with a note in the margin stating: "This vessel was anchored off Walney Island on the night of April 2nd, and arrived at South End, Walney, on Monday April 3rd, paper collected by Coastguard at Walney Island."	Molyneux, Alfred (I19441)
5039	In the 1911 census George and family are living in the Lock House, Standish Lower Ground.	Forshaw, George (I57411)
5040	In the 1921 census Ralph and his wife are living at Top Lock, Aspull, and in 1939 in the Lock House at Higher Ince,	Forshaw, Ralph (I57414)
5041	In the Women's Hospital, Shaw Street, Everton, in 1911 census.	Plumb, Elizabeth (I29141)
5042	In Thomas's will he bequeaths 'unto my son George one fourth share of the flat called Mersey', to his wife Nancy all household goods, furniture and money, and at her death the remainder to be divided ' between my daughter Martha Hodgson and my wife's son Thomas Leather'.	Starkey, Thomas (I25562)
5043	In Thorne Workhouse in 1871 census.	Savage, Arthur (I41672)
5044	In Toxteth Workouse in 1901 census.	Wilkinson, James Redman (I25170)
5045	In Tranmere Workouse in 1911.	Plumpton, Henry James (I27281)
5046	In Walton Prison, Liverpool, in 1851 census.	Holbrook, Thomas (I48834)
5047	In Warrington Union Workhouse from 1891 census.	French, Robert (I27307)
5048	In Wigan Road Workhouse in 1871.	Harrison, Ellen (I12173)
5049	In Wigan Workhouse in 1891 census (unmarried).	Parkinson, Joseph (I32747)
5050	In1841 census as Jane Rimmer with mother and Barrow grandparents; marries as Rimmer but probably born Jane Barrow in Thornton, nr Crosby, bapt (Lancs OPC) 13.10.1839, St Luke, Crosby, with parents named as John Barrow (labourer) and Elizabeth (grandparents?).	Rimmer, Jane (I44897)

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