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From: "Rodney Hall" <>
Subject: RE: [LAN] THEME: STRINGER moves from Staffs to Lancs c. 1868
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:42:53 -0000
In-Reply-To: <034a01c4f191$3708ebe0$606068d5@theowner>


Rosalind,

You might like to peruse http://rmhh.co.uk/flatmen.html - you may pick up
some knowledge there.

--
Rodney HALL
Heywood, Lancashire

Suaviter sed fortiter
Agreeably but powerfully
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://rmhh.co.uk/
http://rmhh.org.uk/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rosalind Paterson [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:39 PM
> To:
> Subject: [LAN] THEME: STRINGER moves from Staffs to Lancs c. 1868
>
> Hi List,
>
> Is there anyone out there who is knowledgeable about
> canals, and whether they were significant in bringing people
> to Lancashire ? Reason I ask is because of my
> g-g-grandfather George STRINGER. For ages he was my brick
> wall: he appeared to pop up from nowhere, marry
> g-g-grandmother Sarah Ellen HOLDEN in St Helens in 1868, then
> disappear again without trace a few years later, leaving
> Sarah Ellen with two little girls to bring up. Just
> recently, however, we have found George and Sarah Ellen on
> the 1871 census; Sarah Ellen was in Blackburn, and George was
> in Worcestershire.
>
> George was born in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, and
> the rest of the STRINGERs in George's family had been born in
> various locations in Staffs & Worcs (around Birmingham,
> Wolverhampton, etc). A member of the Staffordshire list
> suggested that the STRINGER family may have wandered about so
> much following the canals, of which there are a lot in that
> part of the world (though the Stringers weren't actually
> boatmen). Could the canals have brought George to St Helens
> ? Might they have taken him & Sarah Ellen further on to
> Blackburn ? I'm almost completely ignorant about the history
> and geography of the canal network, and hoping someone else
> out there has a clue.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rosalind Paterson.
>
>
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