Cornwall Smugglers
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Smugglers in Cornwall and their Craft
Smugglers Chart
Cornish Smugglers Names with Sources
Smuggling Craft Names with Sources
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Men of the King & Queen and their Craft
Customs Men in Cornwall 1705 & 1779 Names with Sources
Men of the Customs, Excise, Revenue and Preventative Service Names with Sources
Known Coast Guards in Cornwall 1822 - 1901 Names with Sources
King or Queens Men, Born in Cornwall Served Elsewhere Names with Sources
Salt Officers Names with Sources
Customs & Preventative Craft Names with Sources
Wills available on the web for officers of the Customs, Excise & Coast Guard.
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Archives
PRO 68/1 Outpost Records 1722
Trewman's Exeter Flying Post
The West Briton
The Royal Cornwall Gazette
The Times of London
On-line Smuggling books to read
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Articles
The Law and Smuggling
The Roll of the Cornish Jury
Roscoff: A Famous Smuggling Port
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Old Cornwall Journal
Smuggling Memories Volume 1 Issue 2
Cornwall and the Smuggling Trade by A.A. Clinnick Volume 1 No.2
All Silent in the Night by Bessie Wallace Volume 3 No. 10 (Gwithian)
Smuggling Days by J. Keast, Volume 5
A Glimpse of Smuggling Volume 9 No.5
Norway House the Home of a Smuggler Volume 9 No.5
Coastguards Daughter by Alberta Hobbs Volume 5 No.9
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The on line newsletter of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall Click on Troaze and follow the links to the following articles.
"Petates and fish: Cornish Fishermen Smugglers in the late Eighteenth Century"
By Tony Pawlyn Volume 2 Issue 1
Maritime Business in Eighteenth-Century Cornwall Zephaniah Job of Polperro
By Martin Wilcox Volume 2 Issue 2
Merchants and smugglers in eighteenth -century Penzance: the brothers John and James Dunkin
By Charlotte MacKenzie
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Old Bailey Trial Transcripts
Many of the cases below involved a Lawyer called William Garrow. A TV series called Garrow's Law was released on DVD and to get a feeling of the trials at the OLD Bailey in the 18th Century are well worth watching. In order to find and read the trial transcripts of the cases listed below click on a name and when the Old Bailey page opens click your computers control key and f this should open your FIND box. Type the word either a full name or the word ROYAL and then clicking on the > go through until you find the case you want.
John Martin, Walter Cross, James Bell, John Williams, William Bell, William Stone, Benjamin Savory, 19th July 1786. (Mullion)
Joseph Knight, 27th February 1788 (Roche)
John Snell, Richard Rowe, Oliver Ruthey, 10th September 1788. (Kingston Parish Cornwall)
John Old, 10th December 1788. (Falmouth)
James Williams, 3rd June 1789 (Penzance)
Antony Balless & Stephen Edwards, 8th June 1791 (Cawsand)
John Hawkey, 15th January 1794 (Wainbridge believed to be a misspelling og Wadebridge.)
John Longmead, 28th October 1795 (Tallance)
John Heals, Peter Avery & John Chapman, 9th January 1799 (Broad Oak)
Edward Samuel Barnard, 20th February 1799. (Helston and Wendron)
William Barrett, Robert Mark, William Foster, William Searle & Thomas Ventin 30th October 1799 (At Sea between Lizard and Lands End)
William Strick, 28th May 1800. (St Kevern)
Edward Bawden, 15th April 1801 (Gwithian)
John George, 24th April 1805 (Sennen)
Christopher Pollard 10th July 1805 (Sennen)
William Row, George Row, 24th April 1805 (Bodmin-Cause, near Luxillion,) Luxulyan
Jacob Denny, 17th February 1813 (Landed cargo at Sennen)
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Smugglers Yarns
The Smugglers of Penrose
A Famous Smuggling Craft
The Smugglers of Sennen
The Smugglers of Zennor
The Old Cawsands Smugglers Tale
The Smugglers of Mount's Bay
The Cruel Coppinger
The Happy-Go-Lucky Affair
A Gwithian Smuggler?
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Family Research
Henry George the Mullion Spotsman and Lieut. Drew
The Sad Tale of William Toll
The "Corlyons", Both Sides of the Fence.
Some Fluellen Customs Men
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Songs and Ditties
A Cornish Lullaby poems and other songs
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Off Site Links
Falmouth Coastguard
National Maritime Museum, Falmouth
Public Records Office Coastguard page
Mounts Bay Lugger Association
Coastguards of Yesterday
The Pendeen Coastguards
Cornwall Records Office
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