This might be interesting
While sorting out room room this week helper came across some old b & d certs
I hadn't known I'd got. I've done very little on my late mother's side & from
these I discovered that that her paternal line had a long history of working the
canals/rivers around Shopshire & Cheshire. I've done a bit of preliminary work
but don't have any subscriptions at the moment so wondered if anyone could
help fill in the gaps. Also, I just had a look a Rootschat to see if anyone else
was researching the family & a post from earlier this year is about John Potter
'a coloured man' whose daughter Charlotte m a Richard Randles. John Potter
is described as a mariner, working the flatboats around Chester & the name Richard crops up time & again in my mother's line.
Her father was John Randles,b abt 1887, son of Richard Randles, waterman, b Dudleston Shropsire.I've got various Richards, Johns & a couple of Samuels
going back to 1720, but without the means to do any really in depth research.
The 'coloured' I find particularly intriguing. Would anyone be kind enough
to have a go at helping me with this?
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