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A's Grandmother was a boatie, she was born on a boat lived and worked most her life on a boat and when she married became a landie! I know very little of their lives except they lived and worked the canals of the Midlands and that they hailed from Wales and Leicestershire ~ has anyone else got boaties in their tree?

I have bargemen................is that what you mean by boaties?

There is a lot of information online about the canals and bargemen in the past...............well worth Googling.

Thanx Kitty I will be looking into them a lot ~ I read a book about a baby bein born on a boat and the family were carrying a cargo of coal up north the mother comment she could never keep the baby clean cos the coal dust ~ all pics of A's grandmother as a child her skin was tough n dark she never looked clean

MINE BARGEES OXFORD AREA

~~ waves to all

Mel

Here's a link to a page where you can choose which link you need, hope it helps.

http://www.google.com/search?q=History%2Bbargees&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGIC_enGB280GB302

xxx Shimms xxx

I thought you was refering to the Vietnamese boat people of the 1970s
for a mo MEL
you mean river people lol

Ray xxx

mel use to hear stories how things were on the boats

The family of Ronnie Wood ( Rolling Sones) were boat people.

GENUKI: Boatpeople of the Wolverhampton Canal System10 Feb 1999 ... Boatpeople of the Wolverhampton Canal System. Baptism and Marriages of people known to have been on the canal system in Wolverhampton with ...
www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Names/WolvCanal.

I luv this site, am learning so much here, also luv the way we all help each other. :))

I have been going through my bargemen and they didn't live on the boats, just used to transport goods via the canal system.

Their families were in houses but the barges seemed to pass down from father to son.

Oh Mac................that sounds wonderful, I don't like the sea (too wavy ) but would love to go on the old canals or rivers.......as long as the water is flat:))

insert boatmen/bargemen/watermen in Google booksearch....lots of history there

I HAVEA PICTURE OF BRENTFORD CANAL & LOCK ,,,ANYONE

thanx to all for this wonderful info I will have loads to keep me going x

Mildred perhaps you should view my tree

No thanks Mel, I doubt if we are related as although my BIL and SIL live in the midlands, both are london born before they lived on the canals of the midlands..

Best keep your tree to yourself