BOAT FAMILIES

of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and connected waterways

1855 - 1917 (61 years)

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Name	John Wareing
Born	14 Nov 1855	Hurlstone Green, Scarisbrick [1]
Gender	Male
Occupation	Beer house keeper, barge captain (New York)
Died	2 Jan 1917	St Luke's Hospital, Manhattan [2]
Buried	5 Jan 1917	Mount Olivet Cemetery, New York [2]
Person ID	I07317	Canal Family 1
Last Modified	28 Nov 2025

Father	John Wareing, b. 1825, Leeds , d. 10 Feb 1871, Melling (Age 46 years)
Mother	Ann Blundell, b. 1828, Scarisbrick , d. 11 Sep 1889, Bickerstaffe (Age 61 years)
Married	8 Apr 1849	St Martin in the Fields, Liverpool [3]
Family ID	F02571	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Margaret Forshaw, b. 1858, Burscough , d. 29 Jul 1885, Bickerstaffe (Age 27 years)

Married 1 Jun 1874 St Thomas, Melling [3]

Children

	1. John Wareing, b. 23 Dec 1874, Aintree/Melling , d. 3 Jan 1943, Orrell Lane, Burscough (Age 68 years)
	2. Jeffrey Wareing, b. 1880, Melling , d. 1957, Canal Bank, Burscough (Age 77 years)

Last Modified 28 Nov 2025

Family ID F02410 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2 Mollie Adler, b. Jul 1868, New York , d. 27 Jul 1924, St Catherine's Hospital, Brooklyn (Age 56 years)

Married 5 Mar 1898 New York [4]

Children

	1. Harry J Wareing, b. 1 Apr 1895, Manhattan , d. 29 Apr 1990, Brooksville, Florida (Age 95 years)
	2. Bertha Wareing, b. 3 Aug 1903, Manhattan , d. 2 Nov 1932 (Age 29 years)

Last Modified 28 Nov 2025

Family ID F07671 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Emigrated to the United Stares in 1884 aboard the City of Chester from Liverpool, arriving in New York on Jan 9 (Ancestry passenger lists).
No baptism record found, but - oddly - Lancs OPC has a Mary Wareing baptised 2.12.1855 at St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk, daughter of John Wareing, boatman, and Ann, abode Scarisbrick. No oher record has been found of this child.