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- Baptism date also given as May 9 on Lancs OPC.
Likely entry in 1901 census on the canal at Dubb Bridge, Bingley, though age given as 63, and married rather than widowed. He is mate on boat Olive with Thomas Ascroft, 36, and son Adam Ashcroft, 14, of Burscough Bridge (qv).
A report in the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 3.5.1906, read: 'John Waring (sic) of Burscough, captain of a boat on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, has died in the East Lancashire Infirmary from injuries sustained through a bale of cotton falling on him at Rishton.'
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