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 William Thomas
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| carolt |
Posted on 30/10/2007 21:08
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I am trying to find out a little more about a coastguard ancestor of my husband. His name was William Thomas born c1796 in Cornwall. He appears to have served on the HMS Goldfinch from 1827 to 1830, and in 1834 to 1857 he was in the coastguard service according to a brief service record (probably for his pension application) obtained from the National Archives. He married Emily Bond in 1817 and they had a number of children who were baptised in Mylor, Cornwall between 1818 and 1835. On the 1841 UK census he was a coastguard living in St Ives with five of his children, but there was no sign of his wife. The 1851 census shows him to be a coastguard in Porthleven, Cornwall. By 1861 he was a Greenwich pensioner living in Sussex with two grown up unmarried children. The son (Frederick Augustus) was said to have been born in Cork, Ireland in c1836, and the daughter in Mylor in 1833. I don't think this was quite true as I have found the son's baptism in 1835 in Mylor, but there was no sign of the daughter's. I wondered how I could find out whether William was stationed in Cork in the 1830s, and if his wife died in Ireland. So far I have failed to find a burial for her in Cornish records, and although I have tried to obtain William's detailed records from the National Archives, the search would take longer than they are prepared to undertake, and I would need to go there to hunt them out myself. I don't mind doing so eventually, but can't at the present time. I would be very grateful if anyone has any ideas about how I can solve this mystery without going to Kew. |
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| jpwilliams |
Posted on 06/11/2007 23:50
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Hi there, Firstly I would look in the articles section of this site and look at the indexes and info for the ADM records. http://www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org/readarticle.php?article_id=93 http://www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org/readarticle.php?article_id=94 The National Archives web site is very confusing until you get the hang of it, and even then.... I would fill in a quote form for ADM 175/16 and ADM 175/18 for cork stations, the problem being that there are over 30 stations, however, if you give the archives the page numbers you are looking for from the indexes on this site, it may help. It may also be a good idea to ring Kew and ask to speak to someone re the ADM records. Anyone I have spoken to there has been very helpful. There is also ADM 175/17 which can give slightly different information and is worth requesting the cork pages from too. Because the archives limit their search to 20 mins per query you could submit a search for ADM 175/16 pages 37-79 which covers all of cork county and do the same for 17 etc when the first quote was complete. Hope this helps. Regards, Pauline |
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