BOAT FAMILIES

of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and connected waterways

Matches 2,901 to 2,950 of 10,141

#	Notes	Linked to
2901	Born before parents married: Thomas Snape named as father in marriage record.	Mawdsley, Roger (I08627)
2902	Born before parents married: two baptism records on Lancs OPC for the same date, one saying "illegitimate of Dorothy Whittingham" at Skelmersdale Chapel, the other saying: "illegitimate son of William Martland and Dorothy Whittingham" at St Paul, Skelmersdale.	Whittingham, Henry (I12072)
2903	Born before parents married; appears in 1881 census with her unmarried mother as daughter of Thomas and Frances Molyneux (actually her grandparents). In 1891 census as Mary Jane Johnson, daughter of William and Sarah Ann.	Molyneux, Mary Jane (I19379)
2904	Born before parents married; birth registered as Baines but in censuses as Dinsdale.	Dinsdale, Florence Annie (Baines) (I55474)
2905	Born before parents married; birth registered as Shearer.	Crank, Philip Shearer (I43426)
2906	Born before parents married; Fanny Spencer in 1891 census.	Manwaring, Fanny (I39712)
2907	Born before parents married; father named as Benjamin Middleton in marriage record, though only mother named in baptism.	Haigh, Emma Middleton (I51335)
2908	Born before parents married; father named as Edward Summerfield in 1893 marriage record. In 1871 census as William Summerfield. In 1891 census as Spencer, with sister Mary E Summerfield.	Spencer, William (I44536)
2909	Born before parents married; father named as John Spencer in marriage record.	Moorcroft, Ellen (I65755)
2910	Born before parents married; in 1939 census on canal boat Charlie with first cousin James Fenton, b1910 (qv).	Taylor, Thomas (I38612)
2911	Born before parents married; Richard Gore named as father in marriage record.	Ormandy, Ann (I03060)
2912	Born before parents married; surname Noble in censuses and marriage record.	Illingworth, Stephen Noble (I14180)
2913	Born before patents married: in 1881 census and later records as Timothy Patchett.	Wilkinson, Timothy Patchett (I50131)
2914	Born four years before her mother married William Sykes and baptised privately. In 1851 census as Emma Sykes.	Dodson, Emma (I57681)
2915	Born four years before mother married; father named as Peter Lydiate, labourer, in marriage record. 'Ex-service man' noted in 1939 census.	Lydiate, Peter (I53350)
2916	Born four years before parents married but no baptism found under either surname. In 1911 census as wife of Thomas Wright with children Ann and Arthur Gibson, both aged 19, also Charlotte Thompson, 16, baptised 19.9.1894 d of Ninevah and Isabella Thompson, but no corresponding marriage record found.	Lake, Isabella (I16217)
2917	Born four years before parents married, but baptised with Nicholson as middle name. Only mother Alice Newsham named in baptism record. In 1861 census with mother at No 90 Bulk Street, while father is with his mother and siblings at No 81. In 1871 census as John Nicholson.	Newsham, John Nicholson (I39809)
2918	Born four years before parents married.	Swift, Peter (I27944)
2919	Born Frances Formby and in 1841 census as such with her mother Ellen two years before she married William Rimmer. Married as Rimmer, naming James as father. Died of cholera aboard flat Mary in Clarence Dock, Liverpool.	Rimmer, Frances (Formby) (I04094)
2920	Born illegitimately as David 'Goulborn', Q2 1851 Northwich (GRO Online Index), but all other records have his surname Goben or Goban. In 1861 census as David Davies, born Wharton (Davenham). Possible 1871 entry gives birthplace as Birkenhead, though this has him married; b Winsford in 1881, Middlewich in 1891. No father named in marriage record. Age given as 40 in death record.	Goben, David (I52204)
2921	Born illegitimately to Jane, eight years before she married Robert Latham, who is named in Thomas's marriage record as his father.	Wignall, Thomas (I53719)
2922	Born in a canal boat as Charlotte Sheldon (BC). Charlottie in 1911 census with brother Daniel and unmarried mother lodging with Daniel Clews in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. In 1921 as married with William Fradley and son Charles aboard canal narrow boat Chili at Ellesmere Port, but no marriage record found. Maiden name given as Clewes or Sheldon in children's birth records.	Sheldon, Charlotte (I49938)
2923	Born in Thorne Workhouse (BC). In 1861 census with grandparents William and Ellen in Thorne while mother Emma is a servant (cook) to farmer William Winter in Belton, nr Epworth, Lincolnshire. Father named in marriage record as William Stones, waterman (?grandfather).	Stones, Frederick (I63157)
2924	Born in Tranmere Workhouse (family records). In West Derby Children's Hospital (Bootle) age 10 in 1911 census.	Harrison, Philip (I59635)
2925	Born James Hulse before parents married: James Devereux in 1891 census and marriage record.	Devereux, James (Hulse) (I59119)
2926	Born less than nine months after brother John according to parish records (IGI).	Gandy, Susannah (I26878)
2927	Born long before parents married, but poor law records confirm parentage.	Culshaw, Hugh (I12297)
2928	Born Louisa Catterall six years before marriage of parents, who are named in her baptism record as Thomas King and Emma Catherall. In 1881-1901 censuses as Louisa King, but marries as Catherall with father not named.	Cattrall, Louisa (I37423)
2929	Born months before his parents married; baptised (PB) as son of Ellen Carrington, spinster. In 1871 census as William Gill but marries as Carrington. No father listed in 1883 marriage record, but at his second marriage the father's name, John Gill, was entered then struck through, initialled by the vicar.	Carrington, William (I00261)
2930	Born more than a year before her mother married, but in 1861 and 1871 censuses as Betsy Birchall, so may be daughter of Charles, though no father named in marriage record.	Marsh, Betsy (I17227)
2931	Born more than two years before mother married James Hampson, and in 1841 census as Sarah Hampson.	Smith, Sarah (I48657)
2932	Born nearly two years before parents married and baptised as Haddock. In 1871 and 1881 censuses as Riley, but marries and in later records as Haddock. Marriage record has space for father's name struck through, but 'Peter Riley' faintly inserted on top.	Haddock, Richard (I46500)
2933	Born on board boat 'Mars' (BC).	Jones, Martha Ann (I65304)
2934	Born on canal boat "Ellen" at Coffee House Bridge, Bootle.	Jackson, Henry (I10229)
2935	Born on canal boat at Wharf Street, Stoke-on-Trent (BC).	Wooding, George (I67398)
2936	Born on canal boat Paris (BC). Lizzie in 1911 census.	Littler, Elizabeth (I52205)
2937	Born on canal boat Polly. Father named as mother's husband Henry Clark in marriage record.	Varley, Mary Ann (I14336)
2938	Born on vessel in barge dock, Goole.	Varley, Willliam (I13978)
2939	Born outside Lancashire according to 1841 census, probably Nottingham where his son Thomas Wood Whitehall was baptised 9.6.1822 (mother Charlotte).	Whitehall, James Officer (I60342)
2940	Born Percy Charles Poole, three years after mother was widowed but before she married Arthur Fox (assumed father). In 1891 census with Arthur and Elizabeth as Percy C Fox; in 1901 census twice, as Charles Fox with widowed mother, and as Percy C Fox, grandson of Joseph M Fox.	Fox, Percy Charles Poole (I38012)
2941	Born Richard Houghton - mother Alice Houghton (BC).	Aspinall, Richard Houghton (I55757)
2942	Born three years after death of mother's husband. On canal In 1901 census with husband-to-be. Not found in 1911 but in 1917 as Martha Ellen Foster is witness at sister Mary's marriage to Robert Stainer.	Mountain, Martha Ellen (I16102)
2943	Born three years before his mother married Thomas Fereday. No father named in baptism record, but 'Boatman' written under father's occupation. In 1881 census as William Fereday, son of Thomas and Emma, and in 1891 as William Spencer, son of James and Emma.	Faulks, William James (I54588)
2944	Born three years before mother married Richard Ollerton. In 1841 census as Jane Ollerton. Marries as Jane Langton, naming father as Richard - presumably her mother's husband.	Langton, Jane (I14723)
2945	Born to Hannah and John while they were both widowed but before they married. Frances Webster Baxter in birth record, Baxter in 1891 census, Webster in 1901, married as Frances Baxter Webster. (Son John Joseph's birth record on Lancs BMDs gives mother's maiden name as Webster.)	Baxter, Frances Webster (I06236)
2946	Born to Mary Dean, spinster, more than two years before she married (father named as William Astin in marriage record). In 1841 census as Thomas Astin, 6, with parents, Astin siblings and grandmother Fanny Dean. Possible (unlikely) 1851 record as Thomas Aston, 16, (Married??) in Ralph's Place, Manchester, as a journeyman baker, birthplace 'Abergameaves'; (not found in 1861 census). A report in the Burnley Express, 4.4.1888, headed 'Theft from a canal boat' stated, in part: 'Henry Chadwick, 14 . . . was charged with stealing an overcoat, a pair of leggings and a lantern, value ?35, property of Thomas Dean, boatman, of 3 White Bull St' (where Thomas and family were recorded in the 1891 census) 'from boat of which he was in charge on the Canal . . . the cabin had been broken open. PC Birkbeck said he saw the prisoner wearing the coat and leggings and carrying the lantern . . . he took off the coat, dropped it and the lantern, and ran away. Witness caught him and charged him. Prisoner said he had found the articles, and his mother said to put them on to see how he looked as a boatman. Bench said young fellows could not lark with other people's property. (Sentence not indicated.) A Leeds and Liverpool Canal Co note dated Nov 30 1888 to Mr Eaves at Blackburn Locks says: 'Dear Sir, We have this day received a telegram from Shipley as follows: "Order Captain Dean load stones at Skipton." Please give this your attention. Yours truly, M Haworth.'	Dean, Thomas (I61975)
2947	Born to Mary Sumner four years before she married Abel Baldwin, who is named as father in John's marriage record.	Sumner, John (I03792)
2948	Born Townsley but married, and is in 1939 Census, as Mountain. No father named in marriage record.	Mountain, Edward Townsley (I16110)
2949	Born two months before parents married. Baptised as Samuel Bowater, mother Hannah, but in 1841 census as Samuel Wall, on the same double-page of the census, living with his wife-to-be, Hannah Timmins, and her widowed mother Sarah. Married as Samuel Wall Bowater, space for father's name blank.	Wall, Samuel Bowater (I49051)
2950	Born Wells but appears as Elizabeth Wright in 1891 census. Her mother married Thomas Wright in 1879 and in 1881 Elizabeth appears with his parents as Wells, the name she uses at her marriage.	Wells, Elizabeth (I06878)

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