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catherinelawrence
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Royal Marines Tarbert
« on: Friday 25 July 08 14:32 UTC (UK) »
Does anyone know anything about a Royal Marine station in Tarbert about 1882 ? My great  grandfather Giles Cook from Somerset seems to have been there in 1882 .He married Hanoria Scanlan in the Catholic Church in Ballylongford .His address is shown on the marriage cert as Tarbert and he was a Royal Marine .They had a son in 1864 before returning to Plymouth England .where later my grandfather was born 
but I am unable to trace any details of the birth of this son in Ireland .Would there be records in any Marine papers?Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 07 May 09 09:00 UTC (UK) »
Hi Catherine,

There was a coastal battery at Tarbert at the beginning of the 1800s which was still there in the 1840s http://tinyurl.com/cs9uxg

I don't know if it was there in the 1880s. If someone has access to an Ordnance Survey map of the period they should be able to answer the query. 

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Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 07 May 09 09:16 UTC (UK) »
Slater's of 1881 mentions a Fort, on Tarbert Island

'..a tower and battery, to which is attached an establishment of the Royal Artillery, also a light-house..'

the 1894 edition mentions that '..the battery has been dismantled since 1891.'


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Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 09 May 09 10:06 UTC (UK) »
Thanks for your help I visited Tarbert last year but was unable to get much info rmation
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Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
« Reply #4 on: Friday 18 September 09 09:47 UTC (UK) »
Snap.
My ancestor, William Henry HOOPER, from Plymouth, was also a Royal Marine.
He married a Annie Susan CASSIDY at Tarbert Church in 1878. He was based on HMS Valiant, which seems to have been used as a Coast Guard vessel on the River Shannon between the years of 1868 and 1883. Other sources say that the Valiant was the Guard ship based at Tarbert, which was an appointed Coast Guard station.

Here is the wikipedia entry for the ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Valiant_(1863)
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Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
« Reply #5 on: Friday 18 September 09 11:39 UTC (UK) »
Thanks Sartana  It is always interesting to hear about anything connected to one`s relatives .It gives more of an idea of how they lived .           Catherine
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