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COLYER
Thomas Alfred Colyer was made a freeman of The Company of
Watermen and Lightermen in 1863. His father before him, one
William Henry Colyer, b.1807, was also a lighterman. When he
died in 1928 he was in receipt of the Dodd's Pension.
For many years Thomas was attached to Travers and Co at Cliffe(?)
This was taken over by APCM(?) He then sailed from Grays for a
firm called Brooks(?) He sailed the Eddystone Barge for Gill
of Rochester(?)
Thomas's son, Henry Charles Colyer (b.1870) was apprenticed to
his father and made free 8 May 1894.In the 1901 Census,
Herbert Colyer, who was a mate on an
unnamed boat in Gravesend. He worked for a firm called W and J
Goldsmith at one time. He has also worked with a Mr
Battershall after the 1st WW, and also with a Mr C Dines,
voyaging between Weymouth and Guernsey. He was also almost
lost on the Goodwin Sands one Christmas morning (?) where the
crew were rescued and towed to Ramsgate by the Lifeboat.
Herbert (b.1883) who, in April 1936 was mate on the Rochester
barge, Lady Daphne, captained by Jack Josh of Gravesend, when
it went to the aid of the stricken four masted Herzogin
Cecille off Salcombe, south Devon.
BT Record
Spritsail Barge ‘LIONESS’
Registered in London 1869 Official Number 60930 38.55 tons
Bargeowners - George Frederick Fuller, Augustus Edmund Fuller,
Albert John Fuller of Millwall - Master - London, 24/11/71,
Thomas Colyer
Vessel sold to French owners 24/10/05
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