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 Coast Guards  A - Z

 Cornish Coast Guards  W - Z
Name Age Position Were Serving Where Born Reference
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Ward James 58 Officer Constantine Hore Kent, 1891 Census
Ward Thomas 35 Coastguard Illogan

Devonport Devon,

1891 Census
Ward Catherine 48 Coastguard Talland

Queenstown Ireland,  

1891 Census
Weymouth John 33  Boatman Prussia Cove

Stonehouse, Devon

1851 Census Breage
Weymouth John 43 Chief Boatman Sennen

Stonehouse, Devon.

1861 Census
White John 40 Coastguard Gwithian Not  County 1841 Census
White John 61 Coastguard Ret�d Perranuthnoe Portland Dorset 1891 Census

Whitter William A.

47

Chief Officer C. G.

Sennen

 Born Worthing Sussex

1901 Census
White Charles 39 Seaman Coastguard Penzance Exeter Devon, 1891 Census
Wickman George 35 Coastguard Gwithian Not County 1841 Census
Willey Richard 59 Ret�d Coastguard St Kevern

Prawle Devon,  

1891 Census
Williams John 35 Chief Officer Portreath  1836 - 1853 Wooton Bridge, IoW. Click here
Williams Charles   Coastguard East & West Looe    Click here
Williams William 60 Coastguard Helford Cornwall 1841 Census Manaccan
Willingham Thomas W 72 Coastguard Retired Falmouth Holmpton East Riding YKS, 1891 Census
Winsor Daniel 34 Coastguard

Prussia Cove

Plymouth, Devon  1851 Census Breage
Woolcock Peter 50 Coastguard St Ives Cornwall 1841 Census
Wright Richard 35 Coastguard Coverack Cornwall 1841 Census St Kevern
X
Name Age Position Were Serving Where Born Reference
X          
Y
Name Age Position Were Serving Where Born Reference
Y          
Young Thomas 40 Boatman Sennen Plymouth 1851 Census
Z
Name Age Position Were Serving Where Born

Reference

Z          

 

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.

 

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!)

 

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. 

Alan Williams

 

 

 

 

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