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    I would be very grateful if someone has information concerning lightermen on the River Lea/Lee in London in the late 18th and 19th century. I'm interested in a family named Iszard (occasionally spelt Izzard). I have hit a brick wall with finding a baptism for my ggg grandfather, John Iszard. I know from the 1841 and 1851 censuses that he was born c1789 and married Elizabeth Wicks in 1811 at St Dunstan Stepney. However he gives conflicting information in the census entries about his birthplace, In the 1841 he claims Middlesex, but in 1851 he claims Strood, Hertfordshire. As far as I can tell there's no such place as Strood in Hertfordshire, and I'm wondering whether his father was also a lighterman and John was born on a barge or at a pier somewhere on the River Lea/Lee. Modern maps of the river are no help, because the route of the river has been altered and is now partly a canal I think.

    I believe at one point someone may have suggested there was a Strood Pier on the river, but I can't locate it.

    To the best of my knowledge the family were involved in plying their trade by unloading timber from ships on the Thames, taking the timber up the Lea on barges/lighters and storing it/selling it on from wharves in the Hackney/Clapton/Tottenham Hale area. John's descendants show up as wharfingers in some later censuses and the business was around until the 1930s.

    I also have this:

    From London Gazette page 2481 issue 21249 30 Sep 1851
    COURT FOR RELIEF OF INSOLVENT
    DEBTORS.
    See Notice at the encl.
    The following PERSONS, who, on their several
    Petitions filed in the Court, have obtained
    Interim Orders for protection from process,
    are required to appear in Court as hereinafter
    mentioned, at the Court-House, in Portugalstreet,
    Lincoln's-Inn, as follows, to be examined
    and dealt with according to the Statute:
    On Tuesday the llth November 1851, at Eleven
    o Clock precisely, before the ' Chief Commissioner.
    John Iszard, of the Anchor and Hope, at High-hill Ferry,
    Upper Clapton, in the parish of Saint John at Hackney,
    in the county of Middlesex, beer and Chandler's Shop
    Keeper, and also employed as a Bargeman on the River
    Lea, and formerly of ihe Rising Sun, at Lea Bridge-road,
    Upper Clapton, in the said county of Middlesex, Beershop
    Keeper and Bargeman.

    Any help greatly appreciated. I have hit a brick wall with John c1789.

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    Perhaps this might help?
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    Strood, Hertfordshire
    Herts could be a misreading of Kent. Just a possibility to add to the pot.

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    Have you tried to tie him in with Meshach IZARD, born around 1782 and living in Stoke Newington High Street in 1851? Meshach was said to be born in Ware, Herts.
    HO107/1503 folio 51 page 1 (TNA, Crown copyright)

    FamilySearch has a baptism for Meshach in Ware, parents William and Elizabeth. Just a possible connection.

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    Meshach IZARD died in 1856, and his will was proved in 1857 -- click here. If you haven't already ruled him out, the will might be worth a look in case it mentions other family members.

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    Strood is definitely in Kent, so could it have meant Stort?

    Lots of info on Wikipedia if you have not already seen it.
    https://
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Lea

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    Thanks for getting back to me on this. I have had another look at the census page, and it definitely says Hertford, Strood. This shows on the record page as Hertfordshire, but thanks to your input and a suggestion from Pennydog, will now explore the possibility that Strood is/was a small area of Hertford town.

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    Thanks for that very worthy suggestion. I had no idea that guide existed.

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    I have found Meshach popping up a number of times in various records, but have been unable to link him into the tree. There were a lot of Iszards with various spellings in the Ware/Hertford area, so will concentrate the search there for the time being.

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    Don't think it's Stort. Definitely looks like Strood on the page. Thanks for the Wiki link. I'll have a good look at that.

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