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Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] River Watcher
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:26:30 +1300
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Cathy <> wrote:

> I have an ancestor who in 1870 was a river watcher, can anyone tell
> me what that might have been.

A river watcher was, and is, a water bailiff, a person who acts as a
kind of gamekeeper on a stretch of river.

In Ireland there is a statute (the Foyle Fisheries Act 1952)
regulating the appointment and powers of river watchers on the Foyle
river system.

Regards,

Don

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