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The Chaney family arrived at
the Basin from the North East Coast aboard the 'Robert Addison',
which they owned and operated as skipper for many years. George
Chaney was a Trinity House pilot. The family featured in much
of the coming's and going's of shipping in the Basin. Fred Chaney
claimed he was one of the first youngsters to work outside the
village while still residing there. he said he had to run the
gauntlet of cannibal cat calls while walking through Heybridge.
That would have been at the very end of the 19th or beginning
of the 20th Century. Fred, Maurice and Jack Chaney were the last
to live in the village. |
