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From: "Thelma" <>
Subject: Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] GERMAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ON THE PASSENGER FLY BOATS?
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:22:20 +0100
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Hi Bill,

as you may have noticed I have been doing lists of canal boatmen & allied
trades from the 1881 Census.

I realise that this is much too late for the purpose of finding Ann, but as
Gledhill is an uncommon name I looked on my database, and found only one
GLEDHILL. He may be a a grandson of your Ann , as his name was THOMAS. He
was with his wife. He was aged 24 in 1881 census. was born and lived in
Dukinfield,Cheshire at 13 St.John's Street Dukinfield.

It is not much to go on, but might possible give you a lead.

Regards Thelma
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From: "W.D. Jones" <>
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Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] GERMAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ON THE PASSENGER FLY BOATS?


> I would appreciate any comments or observations or reactions whatever to
the
> following situation.
>
> Of my greatgrandmother Ann Schrein/Scrine/Screen/Skrine I know the
> following. "She worked on the boats, was from Schleswig-Holstein, and was
> Danish. Her mother was a milliner (maker of hats.)" So my mother in about
> 1937-38 told me.
>
> Since then I have established Ann married my great grandfather, Thomas
Moore
> in 1831 at St James's, Clerkenwell, London, and died in Islington in 1854
> having borne 7 children. She was born in 1810.
>
> My assumption has been that the boats referred to were in her native
> Schleswig-Holstein. However, I have discovered in the 1851 census, that
she
> gave Bradforce, Wilts. as her origin. Most probably the enumerator could
not
> spell Schleswig Holstein, and she could not help him because she was
> illiterate. She doubtless mispronounced Bradford, and the enumerator wrote
> down what he thought he heard her say. Thus, it is possible Ann, around
> 1825-30, with or without her parents, found her way from S-H to Bradford,
> and that the boats referred to were in fact those plying between
> Bradford,Wilts.and London, which I now understand were called fly boats.
She
> could have met Thomas on or near the Regents Canal in London.
>
> I have drawn blanks looking for her in the Danish censuses.
> I can find no English archive telling where her birthplace was in S-H so I
> face a brick wall for the time being. Immigration records no longer exist.
I
> would welcome any ideas as to which archives or records might contain
Ann's
> name, or any other thoughts.
>
> Gratefully,
>
> Bill Jones
> Rye, NH, USA.
>
>
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  • Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] GERMAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ON THE PASSENGER FLY BOATS? by "Thelma" <>

  • Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] GERMAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ON THE PASSENGER FLY BOATS? by "Mrs Julie Goucher" <>
  • Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] GERMAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ON THE PASSENGER FLY BOATS? by "Mavis Johnson" <>
  • Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] GERMAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ON THE PASSENGER FLY BOATS? by "Mavis Johnson" <>
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