Thames watermen and lightermen records - findmypast

[ElizabethHerts]

Added today:

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/news/thames-watermen.html

[kiterunner]

Ooh, that's exciting. I have a few of them in my tree *off to look*

[kiterunner]

Found my 4xg-grandfather on there. His binding date was 1772 and his freedom 1784 so it seems to support the story that he ran away to join the Navy while he was an apprentice and had to go back to his master when he came back to England. It's a shame you can't search on master's name, isn't it?