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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] sites
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:44:36 +0000
In-Reply-To: <001e01c06b7b$e6512180$42106ecb@pamr>



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>Do any of you good people know anything about the canal and Thames barges or
>lighter men and if there would be any records of them and the lives they lived
>in the 1800's.

These are different groups of people. The Thames Lightermen, doing
rather nicely, thank you, formed an elite, had a Livery Company, and are
all listed (indexes published on microfiche, thanks to indefatigable Rob
Cottrell; contact address somebody?)
Bargemen bringing goods down the Thames from provincial places (in
Oxford, Bucks, Berks etc) will be found most readily in their own area.
Often, speaking for the Bucks ones, in court records thumping some rival
bargeman, muscling their way in first to locks, being slung out of pubs
etc.
The canal bargemen didn't operate on the Thames, but over a large
network of canals coming into london at places like the Paddington
Basin. A collection of names of Canal boatmen, wharfingers, lock
keepers etc, the Waterways Index, was made by Ethel Bingham and is now
held in Birmingham by her successor, John Roberts, 52 St Andrews Rd,
Sutton Coldfield B75 6UH (donations)
>Also have any of you heard anything about the ship moored in the Thames where
>they sent naught children, mostly boys? My gran once told me her brother was
>sent to one and being a good swimmer unlike most children then swam to shore
>and
>she hid him for a while.
>I don't know if it's a story she made up or true and can't seem to find out
>much
>about it.
>Any leads on this gratefully received.
>I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas holiday
>
>Best Wishes Pam in NZ
>"Friendship is the thread that ties the heart of all the world." - John Evelyn
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Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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