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Ancestry/Genealogy

csziggy

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2. Thanks - but I am just not sure he was anything to do with the water

Reply to radical noodle (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 9, 2017, 04:59 PM

Aug 2017

Unless he had a mill - the "waterside" could be a right to use water flowing past his property for a grinding mill. It seems that most of his sons were farmers from the ones I can find. At least one son in law was a miller and owned a mill in New York before it burned.

I could see a wealthy landowner having his own mill and needing water rights to operate it.

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"Waterside" listed as occupation in England during the 1820s [View all] csziggy Aug 2017 OP

This might be a clue radical noodle Aug 2017 #1

Thanks - but I am just not sure he was anything to do with the water csziggy Aug 2017 #2