Tracing Your Docker Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

Alex Ombler’s handbook is the first 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 he 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 laborers – in 1921 there were around 125,000 d...