BOAT FAMILIES

of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and connected waterways

Matches 101 to 150 of 9,258

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101	A coal merchant in Sheffield in the 1871 census, with five children born there, Henry joined the London City Mission and in 1881 is in Wandsworth with his family, then in 1891 is in Lymington, Hants, with wife and youngest daughter born in Pentonville, and in 1901 is in Winsham, Somerset, as a Congregational Minister.	Hammond, Henry (I63381)
102	A daughter Ann, 4, is listed in the 1861 census, but no other record found.	Bisby, Jesse (I41908)
103	A daughter, Sarah age 9, was inserted in the 1871 census record for this family.	Lane, Thomas (I49517)
104	A death is recorded Q4 1863 Wolverhampton (GRO Online Index) but age given as 0.	Jarvis, Thomas (I59055)
105	A foster son, John Budden Walker, b Q4 1889 Penketh, is with this family in the 1891 &1911 censuses, parents unclear (recorded as John Plumpton, son, in 1901).	Plumpton, Peter (I27257)
106	A George Foster married Betty Slingsby, 26.6.1808 Bradford Cathedral, but he was a clothier so unlikely to be the correct marriage..	Foster, George (I50048)
107	A George Rhodes, age 44, was buried on April 5 1883 at St Stephen, Lindley, Huddersfield (National Burial Index, Findmypast).	Rhodes, George (I56348)
108	A Henry Glew died in Islington, Q1 1870 (GRO Online Index) having been admitted to the Fever Hospital, Lambeth, 5.1.1870 (Ancestry workhouse records).	Glew, Henry Blenkin (I54325)
109	A item in the Liverpool Echo, Oct 23rd 1918, headed 'Mother's Tragic Plight' stated: 'A drowning accident is reported from Burscough. At about 5 last evening Mrs Gibbon (sic) wife of a canal boatman of Burscough, was going along the Leeds and Liverpool towpath with three of her children when Elizabeth, aged 5 years, fell into the water. The distracted mother at once went into the canal, gripping the grass on the bank, and tried to reach the child, but failed. James Barrow, a boatman, recovered the body in about 10 minutes. Artificial respiration was tried without avail.'	Gibbons, Elizabeth (I15565)
110	A James Sutton married a Sarah Garrett in Eccles, nr Manchester, in 1803 (BTs).	Sarah (I39262)
111	A John Sharples, age 13, is recorded with this family in the 1851 census, as son of James and Frances, but no other record has been found.	Sharples, James (I60919)
112	A Lene in 1911 census	Glover, Aline (I17073)
113	A marriage is also recorded on April 28 1783 at St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk (Lancs OPC).	Family (F01439)
114	A note added to the 1911 census record for Sarah Ann and Thomas Hartley and gour children states: "Thomas Hartley is father of all the children, all of whom were born before marriage of parents". Thhis probably applies only to Lizzie and Emma is Sarah Ann was living with Thomas Waterworth in the 1901 census and the four earlier baptisms have Thomas Waterworth as father.	Turner, Sarah Ann (I29784)
115	A note by the Curate, R F R Anderton, in Henry's baptism record states of his mother: 'I believe this woman's name to be Longton, though she calls herself Prescott', indicating that her marriage to William Prescott may have been bigamous.	Prescott, Henry (I00808)
116	A note in the baptism record indicates that she was 2 years old.	Scott, Mary Jane (I16756)
117	A note in the burial record reads: 'Inquest: drowned'.	Rhodes, Thomas (I56346)
118	A note in the burial record says: Died in Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary.	Parr, James (I02022)
119	A note on the marriage record states: 'The parish church of Dane Bridge being closed'.	Family (F16151)
120	A possible entry in the 1911 census has James Gandy, 50, coal bargeman, b Birkenhead, in Geraint St, Liverpool with wife Catherine, 40, b Liverpool, married 10 years - but no marriage found, and no death for James's wife Maggie, who was with him in 1901.	Gandy, James (I42956)
121	A possibly second baptism was recorded on May 15th 1853 at All Saints, Runcorn alongside one for James Done, both sons of waterman James and Mary Done (Cheshire Parish Baptisms, Findmypast).	Done, John (I32296)
122	A prison record for 1878-1881 HMP Wakefield lists Isaac Bright, 34, b Luddington, boatman, but no other details.	Bright, Isaac (I45101)
123	A private baptism is also recorded on 11.7.1860.	Duddle, Ann (I04207)
124	A Randle Poole married Kitty Jones at Witton in 1799, with daughters Mary b1800 and Catherine b1803, so assumed not to be the same Randle. Possibly in 1851 census at Davenham, labourer, age 72 b Leftwich, mistranscribed as Bandle Pool, lodging with Joseph Dutton.	Poole, Randle (I57532)
125	A report headed 'Inquest at Burscough' in the Preston Chronicle, 14.5.1853, read: 'On Tuesday last an inquest was held at the house of Mr Richard Spencer, The Farmers Arms Inn, Burscough, before C E Driffield Esq, Coroner, and a respectable jury, touching the death of Thomas Smith, aged 18 months, son of William Smith of Burscough, boatman. It appeared from the evidence that on the preceding Friday night the child was playing about his father's door, and had not been more than 10 minutes out of his mother's sight when she found him drowned in a brook a few yards off. The brook skirts the common highway and, as there is no fence, the child it is supposed had fallen in.' Verdict: Accidental Death.	Smith, Thomas (I14309)
126	A report in the Cheshire Observer, 18.7.1857 (a Saturday) reads:- "FATAL FIGHT. On Saturday afternoon, Henry Ashton, a youth 19 years of age, employed as a boatman on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, was killed by Henry Webster, another boatman, at Shevington, near Chorley. For some time past a grievance had existed between the men, who were cousins, and on Saturday afternoon they met at Shevington and agreed to settle the difference by a stand-up fight. In the third round, Webster struck Ashton a blow in the region of the heart. Ashton fell from the effect of the blow, but rose again, and died immediately. Webster has given himself up to the police authorities." The fight is assumed to have been on the preceding Saturday, July 11. Henry Webster was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for manslaughter on August 5,1857, a t Lancaster Assizes.	Webster, Henry (I05694)
127	A report in the Lancashire Evening Post on June 25 1890, headed "Savage attack on a child by a dog" reads:- "Yesterday afternoon, Mrs Howard, wife of Joseph Howard, boatman, Burscough, went with her little boy, aged two years, to visit her father, Mr Job Gore, who resides on the canal bank, near Burscough. Mr Gore has a retriever dog chained to its kennel in the yard. The child was passing near the kennel when the dog flew at him, got him down, and made a ferocious attack on his face, chiefly about the head. The poor boy was completely covered with blood. Dr Laing was sent for, and he cauterised the wounds. The dog will be destroyed, but before that is done it will be examined by a veterinary surgeon."	Howard, Job Gore (I09700)
128	A report in the Yorkshire Post, 11.09.1917, states that Mary was sent by her mother to buy bread in Burscough but did not return. Three loaves were seen floating in the canal and it was assumed that she was blown into the canal in a gale and her heavy coat carried her down. Parents' address Bog Houses, Martin Lane, in burial record.	Jackson, Mary Ellen (I04045)
129	A Richard Draper, 64 b Lathom, is in the 1881 census at Ashurst's Beacon, a colliery labourer with a wife Sarah, 65, b Liverpool. This would accord with a marriage at St Nicholas, Liverpool, 14.11.1875 to Sarah Davies, spinster of full age, residence Tithebarn St, father Thomas Davies, foreman, witnesses Robert and Alice Howard - except that Richard is listed as a bachelor, flatman, father James Draper, flatmen. The death certificate for this Sarah indicates that she died in Dalton, 26.1.1887, age 70, as wife of Richard Draper, colliery labourer, the informant being Mary Gaskell, daughter, present at the death.	Draper, Richard (I02342)
130	A sad entry in the 1911 census states: Age 50, single "Unable to do anything", cripple six years.	Robinson, William Henry (I43376)
131	A school record on IGI indicates that John Barker, b 1825, son of John, attended Witton Grammar School, Northwich, on 19.1.1833.	Barker, John (I19565)
132	A second baoptism is recorded on March 24, with parents' abode on the canal.	Darlington, Edward (I39749)
133	A second baptism is recorded (same church and birth date) on Oct 2 1881. Robert Baker in birth and marriage records also 1881 and 1911 censuses, but in 1891 and 1901 as Robert Blundell after mother marries Henry Blundell. Birthplace given as Whittle le Woods in 1891.	Baker, Robert (I09864)
134	A second baptism is recorded 20.5.1827 at St Mary the Virgin, Rufford (Lancs OPC).	Forshaw, Thomas (I06118)
135	A second baptism is recorded 4.1.1801 Witton.	Tarbuck, Thomas (I44432)
136	A second baptism is recorded at Lathom Park Chapel on July 8, 1855 (parish record) - no abode given.	Draper, Richard (I05336)
137	A second baptism is recorded in Davenham on March 18 1838 (IGI).	Rogerson, Mary Jane (I20035)
138	A second baptism is recorded on 16.3.1845.	Cawthorn, Thomas (I55216)
139	A second baptism is recorded on 18.9.1829, also to Ann Iddon, spinster, at St Mary, Tarleton.	Iddon, Margaret (I34020)
140	A second baptism is recorded on 23 6 1844	Dandy, Ann (I34026)
141	A second baptism is recorded on 29.5.1859 at All Saints, Wigan.	Forshaw, Henry (I33079)
142	A second baptism is recorded on April 8th, other details identical. Birthplace given as Liverpool in 1881 census.	Baldwin, William (I02386)
143	A second baptism is recorded on August 10 (IGI).	Capper, Joseph (I20425)
144	A second baptism is recorded on Feb 3 1833 in Davenham (IGI).	Rogerson, Joseph (I19286)
145	A second baptism is recorded on Jan 5 1840.	Booth, Mary Ann (I57249)
146	A second baptism is recorded on July 25th 1858, other details identical.	Dutton, Thomas (I02924)
147	A second baptism is recorded on June 13.	Blower, James (I50844)
148	A second baptism is recorded on June 15, same date as brother George.	Vickers, Jane (I08214)
149	A second baptism is recorded on March 21 1864 at All Saints, Wigan, giving 1862 birth date.	Morris, John (I06932)
150	A second baptism is recorded on Oct 18th. No GRO birth registration found.	Bostock, Fanny (I61117)

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