Tracing your canal ancestors : a guide for family historians
Wilkes, Sue2011
Book
Total copies: 1
Britain's Industrial Revolution depended on canals for the cheap movement of materials and good - until the coming of the railways. Sue Wilkes's book concentrates on the people who lived and worked on the waterways - the canal boatmen, their families and their way of life - and those who depended on the canal trade for a living.
Author:
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword, 2011.
Collation:
x, 202 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1848842384 (pbk)9781848842380
Dewey class:
929.1'072'041929.1072
Language:
English
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BRN:
142650