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Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Boatmen
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:02:20 EST

Hi there,

This information was sent to me some time ago, but I recall someone asking
about Bossoms and thought it may be useful.

>Just a few boatman names from the 1841 Oxford census:
>Richard Edwards
>Joseph Lewis
>Richard Baker
>Edward Fisher
>John Giddons
>Joseph Glover
>Charles Kirtland
>Stephen Judd

>1851
>John Copson (boatbuilder)
>Benjamin Bossom (boatbuilder and major boat family)

>Further info:
>Stephen Davis (Boatbuilder 1802)
>William Gardner (Boatbuilder 1742)
>John Gardner (Boatman 1756)
>Samuel Beesley (Bargeman 1832; major boat family)
>Other families associated with the canals and the Thames in the 18th
>century included Ashely, Lewis, Farmer, Fishers, Bakers, Judd, Skinner.
>With best wishes.
>Graham Thomas
>www.grahamthomas.com/fshx.html
>(Web-site includes family tree of the Bossoms.)

Sylvia

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