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Tracing your docker ancestors

Ombler, Alex2019

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Summary

This is a practical guide for family historians who wish to find out about family members who worked in British docks. In a series of concise, informative chapters Alex Ombler takes readers through the history of British ports and identifies research methods and materials - both local and national - through which they can discover the lives and experiences of the people who worked in them. Many of us have ancestors who were dock labourers - in 1921 there were around 125,000 dockers across a large number of British ports - and the organisational history of the dock labour force is extremely complex. As a result, the social and family lives of dockers and their communities can be difficult to research, and that is why this book is so useful.