Frank Parker
https://frankparker.website
Having discovered that up until 1940 there had been an history of boaties in my family (since the 1700's at least!) I was wondering if anyone else had a similar history?
My great grandfather Thomas Nash (b.1861) was a canal boatman - and appears not to have registered the birth of his children, including my grandfather.
Does anyone know if this was a common practice among boatmen who were always on the move - or is there a special place where boatmen's children were registered at birth?
I know the exact date of my grandfather's birth and have searched the BMD indexes for him and his brothers with no success.
I discovered only 6 months ago that my Moms side of the family were on the Boats. I haven't gone into it much yet as I've been to busy with Dads side Gwen.
Hi Dympna. Cool info, thanks.
No I don't know the museum you mentioned but it sounds good.
Boat Names:
Richard Goddard [/B](and Mary Lindop) was aboard
In 1871 it was "Emily" a
Having discovered that up until 1940 there had been an history of boaties in my family (since the 1700's at least!) I was wondering if anyone else had a similar history?
Hello everybody, My mother lived in Wharf St. Hockley when she was a little girl, and her father, my grandfather who I never knew, was a Canal boatman. She told me a few things, I think he carried coal for the Co-Op, in the winter when the canals were frozen, he had to go out in an ice breaker barge and use iron bars to break up the ice. He carried a small piece of chain in his pocket, and when his horse played up, he would shake the chain and the horse would calm down. I am about to start re-searching my mother's family, her name was Ivy Arnold.