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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.
A
- D E - H I
- L M - P
Q - S T
- V W - Z
W -X
- Y - Z
| Name |
Age |
Position |
Were
Serving |
Where
Born |
Reference |
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Ward
James
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58
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Officer
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Constantine
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Hore
Kent,
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1891
Census
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Ward
Thomas
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35
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Coastguard
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Illogan
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Devonport
Devon,
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1891
Census
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Ward
Catherine
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48
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Coastguard
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Talland
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Queenstown
Ireland,
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1891
Census
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Weymouth
John
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33
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Boatman
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Prussia
Cove
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Stonehouse,
Devon
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1851
Census Breage
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Weymouth
John
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43
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Chief
Boatman
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Sennen
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Stonehouse,
Devon.
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1861
Census
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White
John
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40
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Coastguard
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Gwithian
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Not
County
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1841
Census
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White
John
|
61
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Coastguard
Ret’d
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Perranuthnoe
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Portland
Dorset
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1891
Census
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Whitter
William A.
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47
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Chief
Officer C. G.
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Sennen
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Born
Worthing Sussex
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1901
Census
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White
Charles
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39
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Seaman
Coastguard
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Penzance
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Exeter
Devon,
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1891
Census
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Wickman
George
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35
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Coastguard
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Gwithian
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Not
County
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1841
Census
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Willey
Richard
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59
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Ret’d
Coastguard
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St
Kevern
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Prawle
Devon,
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1891
Census
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Williams
John
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35
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Chief
Officer
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Portreath
1836 - 1853
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Wooton
Bridge, IoW.
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Click
Here
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| Williams
Charles |
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Coastguard |
East
& West Looe |
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Click
Here |
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Williams
William
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60
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Coastguard
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Helford
|
Cornwall
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1841
Census Manaccan
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Willingham
Thomas W
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72
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Coastguard
Retired
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Falmouth
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Holmpton
East Riding YKS,
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1891
Census
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Winsor
Daniel
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34
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Coastguard
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Prussia
Cove
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Plymouth,
Devon
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1851
Census Breage
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Woolcock
Peter
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50
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Coastguard
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St
Ives
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Cornwall
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1841
Census
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Wright
Richard
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35
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Coastguard
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Coverack
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Cornwall
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1841
Census St Kevern
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| Name |
Age |
Position |
Were
Serving |
Where
Born |
Reference |
| X |
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| Name |
Age |
Position |
Were
Serving |
Where
Born |
Reference |
| Y |
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Young
Thomas
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40
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Boatman
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Sennen
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Plymouth
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1851
Census
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| Name |
Age |
Position |
Were
Serving |
Where
Born |
Reference
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Z
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The
following Submitted by John
& Pat James
Thomas
Witheridge, Coast Guard, b Oct 2 1808, Ilfracombe,
Dev.
Thomas
Witheridge's service began March 1831 and he was
stationed at Walsington; Wachet, Som; Minehead, Som;
Ilfracombe, Dev. during service. He died at
Porthleven, Cornwall in 1871.
He
married Jane Thomas of Gunwalloe, Cornwall in 1831. Her
Father and brother were also in Coast Guard.
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The
following submitted by Peter
Rutherford
Charles
WILLIAMS, Coast Guard
East Looe - 1871 - 1877
West Looe - 1878 - 1880
On 1881 census he was described as 'Naval Pensioner'.
There is a photo of him (posed, 'disguised' as a fisherman)
on the cover of one of John Betjeman's books on the West
Country. (Sorry, I can't remember which one!)
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The
following submitted by Alan
Williams
In
your 'Known Coastguards' you include my GG Grandfather
John Williams, who was Chief Officer at Portreath from
1836 to 1853. He was born on the Isle of Wight
between 1801 to 1803 at Wooton Bridge. I believe he joined
the Coastguard as a boy, probably 12 or 14 years old. He
served at several Irish stations, including Seven Heads,
Isle of Kane, Wexford and Kilmore. He was moved from
Ireland to Newquay in October 1831 and from Newquay to
Portreath in July 1836. He remained at Portreath until
March 1853 (somewhat unusual length of time to stay at one
station for a Coastguard) when he was moved to Orfordness
in Suffolk. He retired from that station on 31 December
1857. The 1861 census shows him and some members of his
family still at Orford. He died at Orford, Suffolk on the
23 September 1865 and the 1871 census shows his wife as a
widow living back in Cornwall.
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