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Known
Coast Guards In Cornwall
1822
- 1901
In
1809 the Board of Customs formed the Preventive Water Guard to fight
smuggling. This water borne force used small boats to patrol every bay
and cove. In 1822 the Water Guard became the Coast Guard and were
placed under the Treasury and strengthened with 151 stations organised
in 31 districts. At each station the chief officer, chief boatman and
boatman were experienced naval seamen or fishermen. Supplied with
ammunition and stores, they were at sea whenever possible in their four
or six oared galley, and in bad weather formed a shore patrol.
On
this page I list some of those men and women who served in the Coast
Guard in Cornwall between its inception as a separate service in 1816
and 1901. Although the two words were not linked until the twentieth
century I have used this form in the tables for easier working.
If
you have any details you would like to add then please send me an e-mail
listing them.
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Name
|
Age
|
Position
|
Serving
|
Born
|
Reference
|
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Eades
John
|
50
|
Coastguard
|
Budock
|
NotCounty
|
1841
Census
|
|
Eckels
Richard
|
30
|
Coastguard
|
Cadgwith
|
Ireland
|
1841
Census Ruan Minor
|
|
Edwards
Joseph T P
|
46
|
Petty
Officer Coastguard
|
St
Just in Penwith
|
St
Heliers Jersey,
|
1891
Census
|
| Engleken
Robert |
37 |
boatman
/ coastguard |
Par
Green |
London,
Middlesex |
1881
Census |
|
Elliott
Henry
|
52
|
Coastguard
Officer
|
St
Blazey
|
Swanage
Dorset,
|
1891
Census
|
|
Enright
John
|
40
|
Coastguard
|
Uny
Lelant
|
Dunny
Cove Ireland,
|
1891
Census
|
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Name
|
Age
|
Position
|
Serving
|
Born
|
Reference
|
| |
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Falkner
Mathew
|
?
|
Coastguard
|
Falmouth
1825
|
Balbriggan
Ireland |
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|
Farr
William
|
60
|
Coastguard
|
Gwithian
|
Not
in County
|
1841
Census
|
|
Ferns
Harold
|
35
|
Coastguard
|
Constantine
|
Gosport
Hampshire
|
1891
Census
|
|
Fisk
Samuel
|
46
|
Coastguard
|
East
Looe
|
St
Osyth, Essex
|
1851
Census
|
|
Fisher
William P
|
37
|
Chief
Boatman
|
St
Kevern
|
Weymouth
Dorset
|
1891
Census
|
|
Fitzgerald
David G
|
28
|
Coastguard
|
Penzance
|
Not
Given Ireland,
|
1891
Census
|
| Fletcher
Thomas |
? |
Coastguard |
Looe |
Ireland |
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Here |
|
Foot
John
|
59
|
Chief
officer
|
Cawsand
|
Not
in county
|
1841
Census Rame
|
|
Ford
Henry
|
21
|
Coastguard
|
St
Kevern
|
Denberry
Devon,
|
1891
Census
|
|
Foster
Joseph
|
36
|
Coastguard
|
Talland
|
Windsor
Berkshire,
|
1891
Census
|
|
Fox
John
|
70
|
Coastguard
|
Madron
|
Cornwall
|
1841
Census
|
|
Forward
Richard
|
35
|
Coastguard
|
Sennen
|
Cornwall
|
1841
Census
|
|
French
Daniel
|
35
|
Coastguard
|
St
Ives
|
Not
County
|
1841
Census
|
|
Fuge
James
|
50
|
Boatman
|
Sennen
|
Plymouth.
|
1851
Census
|
|
Fuzzard
Robert
|
45
|
Coastguard
|
Boscastle
Bridge
|
Not
in County
|
1841
Census Forrabury
|
|
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Name
|
Age
|
Position
|
Serving
|
Born
|
Reference
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Gabriel
William
|
40
|
Coastguard
|
Landewednack
|
Torpint
Cornwall
|
1861
Census
|
|
Galbraith
Joseph P.P.
|
39
|
Chief
Instructor
|
Falmouth
|
Belfast,
Co. Down
|
1891
Census
|
|
Gale
William
|
36
|
Coastguard
|
Illogan
|
Stowford
Devon,
|
1891
Census
|
| Gardner
James Thomas |
28 |
Coastguard |
Portreath |
Hampshire |
Alan
Siddon, great grandson. |
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Gauld
William
|
30
|
Coastguard
|
Sennen
|
Kingsbridge
Devon
|
1871
Census
|
|
Gedye
Nicholas
|
68
|
Superannuated
|
Polperro
|
Lansallos,
Cornwall.
|
1861
Census
|
|
Gibbs
Francis
|
40
|
Coastguard
|
Paul
|
Landulph,
Cornwall
|
1851
Census
|
|
Greenwood
William
|
51
|
Coastguard
|
Polhawn
Cove
|
Not
in county
|
1841
Census Rame
|
|
Green
Edward
|
35
|
Coastguard
|
Madron
|
St
Mawes Cornwall,
|
1891
Census
|
| Green
James |
30 |
Coastguard |
St
Column Minor |
Co.
Antrim, Ireland |
1841
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