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From: "Geoff Heath" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Re: Flatmen
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 09:58:49 +0100
References: <3ACD983A.4CAB2459@netscapeonline.co.uk>


Elizabeth wrote:
> There were families in Northwich & Wharton working these boats -
ATHERTON, BRACEGIRDLE,
> BOWDEN [& BODEN}, CURZON, FITTON, GANDY, GRIFFITHS, HOUGH, HULSE,
NEWALL, ROBINSON &
> TAYLOR in Wharton & CAPPER, CROSS, DAVENPORT, HITCHEN, MILLS, MUSKER,
ROGERSON &
> VERNON, in Northwich & Barnton. The families intermarried a good deal -
I have many of
> these names in my own family - & boat crews were often related. Wages
were good & the
> families were prosperous.

My g-g-grandmother was a Boden. Her father was a pansmith, making or
repairing the evaporation pans used in the salt industry. See Chapter 2 of
my family history (URL below) at the para headed "The Bodens".

Geoff Heath
Mellor, Stockport, Cheshire
For my illustrated family history, see
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgheath/index.htm


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