BOAT FAMILIES

of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and connected waterways

1881 -

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Father	George Slater, b. 1858, Preston , d. 1926, Broughton (Age 68 years)
Mother	Mary Ellen Highfield, b. 18 Apr 1863, Croston
Married	1880	Preston Register Office [2]
Family ID	F15189	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Joshua Robinson, b. 1882, Preston, on the canal , d. Abt Aug 1928, Preston (Age 46 years)

Married Abt Nov 1902 Emmanuel, Preston [3]

Children

	1. James Robinson, b. 12 Jan 1903, Preston
	2. Elizabeth Robinson, b. Abt May 1904, Aqueduct Street, Preston
	3. Edith Robinson, b. 2 Feb 1906, Preston
	4. Joshua Robinson, b. 6 Apr 1910, Preston
	5. Ada Robinson, b. 18 Aug 1914, Preston
	6. Thomas Robinson, b. 7 Feb 1916, Savoy Street, Preston (Age 108 years)
	7. May Robinson, b. Abt Feb 1918, Preston (Age 106 years)
	8. Joseph Robinson, b. 1920, Preston (Age 104 years)

Last Modified 21 Apr 2024

Family ID F05661 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.