Genealogy Chat

Hi, has anyone got this or has any other info on watermen / lightermen on the river Thames please.

They have a webiste where you can look up individual baptism records. It costs £2-£3 per go so if you have a lot of watermen/lightermen it would not be practical but for the odd one it's useful.

I think the CDs cost about £5-£6 each but again they're arranged by church/area so can work out expensive if you need a larger coverage.

Jill

I have the CD but am about to logout until much later tonight

Glitter Baby, I wonder if you would be so kind as to look and see if there is any info on Richard Burn b 1863 or 1865, mile end old town London. He was a lighterman.I would be very grateful. Thankyou.

Records from 1861-1884 and 1881-1908

Richard Burn
Date of binding: 12/9/1882
Location: Horselydown
Master:Thomas Still
Date of freedom:8/11/1887

Only one listed between 1861 and 1908.

No other details, such as age or parents etc, are on the CD

Glitter Baby
Could you look if any lighterman surnamed Sholl.

Thanks

Lewis Lewis Sholl (Lewis Louis, James) was born in 1819. He was christened on 4 Aug 1826 in St Dunstan, Stepney. He died on 28 Oct 1882 in 134 Broadwall, Christchurch, Surrey.

1843 Lighterman
1846 Lighterman 12 Church Court Wapping
1856 Lighterman 5 William Street Christchurch Surrey
1861 census age 40 living at 1 Thomas Place Christchurch Southwark Lighterman
1867 Lighterman
1881 Lighterman Living at 134 Broadwall, Southwark, Christchurch, Surrey. Also lived with them

Robert Sholl Grandson aged 1
1882 Lighterman Foreman Informant at death Sarah Sholl Daughter in law.

Not a good idea to add your request to another members thread.


1823-1861

Lewis Louis Sholl
11/6/1835
St George -East
James Richard Finnis
14/7/1842


Before anyone else adds to this thread I am not offering lookups

Watermen/lightermen were in the same families for centuries, intermarrying, training each others kids and so on. If you have one waterman/lighterman, chances are you have dozens or possibly hundreds (as in my case!) of them.

In which case, it is well worth you going to dockland ancestors and buying the bindings cds and the others on there. James Legon has also written a book on tracing watermen/lightermen which you can buy on the site.

If you have people baptised in dock area churches, there is a list of churches and dates covered and I usually enter just a surname to bring up everyone baptised in a particular search. Well worth it as you often get details down to the actual addresses.

Thankyou for looking that up for me Glitterbaby. I am very grateful. I am sorry I seem to have started a run of people asking . That wasn't my intention.

Belair,

Are you interested in the information?

Maureen