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From: Hugh Potter <>
Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Cutts on the Cut
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 11:39:21 +0000


Hi everyone

New Year, new subscriber. Actually I'm a bit of a fraud as I'm not
researching my family but the Cromford Canal, so am interested in any
references anyone comes across relating to people working on this waterway.

Searching the last two years digests, I noticed Mavis Johnson's enquiry
about the Cutts family. There was certainly a "Mr Cutts" (no Christian name
given) prominent in the day to day activities of the Cromford Canal in the
first few years of the 1800s, as evidenced by the minute books, and it seems
likely that it is the same person who placed the following advert:

Derby Mercury Thursday June 6th 1811.

No 4125 Column 13

Wanted immediately upon the Cromford Canal
A Carpenter; one that is well skilled in making and hanging Lock Gates.
Such one being a good workman, may meet with constant employment and good
wages by applying to Henry Cutts, Cromford Warf, Derbyshire
A single man may have preference.
Cromford Warf 4th june 1811


Permit books show that there was a Joseph Cutts steering for Wheatcrofts in
1816/17 and a Chas Cutts steering for the same company in 1835, both on the
Cromford Canal.

Hope that doesn't duplicate info already offered.


--
Hugh Potter



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