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Elizabeth Ann Slater

Female 1881 -


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  • Name Elizabeth Ann Slater 
    Born 1 Nov 1881  Preston Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Baptism 21 Dec 1881  St Mark, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Occupation Boatwoman Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I18661  Canal Family 1
    Last Modified 20 Jan 2026 

    Father George Slater,   b. 1858, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1926, Broughton Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Mother Mary Ellen Highfield,   b. 18 Apr 1863, Croston Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1880  Preston Register Office Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Family ID F15255  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Joshua Robinson,   b. 1882, Preston, on the canal Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt Aug 1928, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years) 
    Married Abt Nov 1902  Emmanuel, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Children 
     1. James Robinson,   b. 12 Jan 1903, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Elizabeth Robinson,   b. Abt May 1904, Aqueduct Street, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Edith Robinson,   b. 2 Feb 1906, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Joshua Robinson,   b. 6 Apr 1910, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Ada Robinson,   b. 18 Aug 1914, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Thomas Robinson,   b. 7 Feb 1916, Savoy Street, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. May Robinson,   b. Abt Feb 1918, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 107 years)
     8. Joseph Robinson,   b. 1920, Preston Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 106 years)
    Last Modified 20 Jan 2026 
    Family ID F05673  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S218255] Lancashire Births and Baptisms (Ancestry).

    2. [S010071] Lancashire BMDs.

    3. [S010075] Lancashire BMD & Free BMD.



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