Gloucester Docks &
the Sharpness Canal

People Index

This page provides links to pages highlighting some of the groups of people and businesses associated with Gloucester Docks and the Sharpness Canal. More will be added.
 

The Canal/Dock Company

• Management of the Company
• Bridge Keepers
• Lock Keepers at Gloucester
• Divers
• Other employees included maintenance craftsmen, labourers, watchmen and office workers

Businesses

• Corn Trade - introduction and list of principal firms
• Foster Brothers - oil seed crushers
• Timber Trade - introduction and list of principal firms
• Severn & Canal Carrying Co - carrying cargoes between the Bristol Channel ports and the Midlands
• Other traders dealt with sugar, chemicals, iron, stone, salt, foodstuffs, coal and petroleum
  

Pilotage

• Canal Pilotage - the role of the pilots
• Canal Pilots - information about individual pilots
• Bristol Channel Pilotage - the pilotage service
• Bristol Channel Pilots - a list of individual pilots

Vessel Owners and Crews

• Owners and Crews - of ships, barges and canal boats
• James Herbert - a notable owner of coasting vessels
• Boatmen Going 'Up Country' - narrow canal boats to the Midlands

Families and Individuals

• Baker Family - at Sharpness in the 1940s
• Dowell Family - and the Gold Rush
• Russell Family - working on the tar boats 
• Tonks Family - working on the boats to Birmingham
• Workman Family - salmon fishing, barge traffic and discharging cargoes

Family History Research Resources

• Research Resources - relating to local vessels and the docks community