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Title: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: catherinelawrence on Friday 25 July 08 15:32 BST (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.
                           Catherine
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: Christopher on Thursday 07 May 09 10:00 BST (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. 

Christopher
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: shanew147 on Thursday 07 May 09 10:16 BST (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.'


hth..



Shane
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: catherinelawrence on Saturday 09 May 09 11:06 BST (UK)
Thanks for your help I visited Tarbert last year but was unable to get much info rmation
 Catherine
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: sartana on Friday 18 September 09 10:47 BST (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)
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: catherinelawrence on Friday 18 September 09 12:39 BST (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
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: jamesL on Friday 12 March 10 22:00 GMT (UK)
Interested to hear about HMS Valiant. My Great Grandfather John King served on this ship from Sept 1868 till April 1878. I have been trying to access the ships muster for this period without any luck so far.
Jls
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: jeanffrench on Sunday 27 March 16 14:06 BST (UK)
There was a Coast Guard Station at Ballyheigue, near Tarbert, Co Kerry. My GG Uncle, a Coast Guard, was living at Ballyheigue from at least 1873 to 1876. According to his Coast Guard file at the National Archives, Kew, the name of his station was "Valiant", Ballyheigue.
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: crimea1854 on Sunday 27 March 16 16:46 BST (UK)
I appreciate that JamesL posted six years ago, but John King, born 11 May 1840, Kilrush, Co. Clare, can be found on ADM 175/53 pdf 319 and 175/54 pdf 211. According to these CG records his continuous service numbers were 27353 & 78483.

Martin
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: sarah on Tuesday 10 May 16 10:57 BST (UK)
Just making sure that you have not missed out on these new replies for you Catherine :)

Regards

Sarah
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: rathmore on Sunday 15 May 16 12:34 BST (UK)
National archives

Giles Griffiths Cook, Register No. 2943 Division Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division
(RMLI) 1951-2552 Cook Giles Griffiths, Register no. 2043, enlisted/date of Enlistment 9.4.1880, date of birth. 9.4.1861

Held by the National Archives-admiralty, navy, royal marines and coastguard

date: 1880-1882

reference: ADM 159/64/2043

Subjects: Armed forces (general administration) army navy
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: rathmore on Sunday 15 May 16 12:37 BST (UK)
sorry register no. is 2043. (I have PUT 2943)
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: dathai on Sunday 15 May 16 13:12 BST (UK)
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7776336
Title: Re: Royal Marines Tarbert
Post by: catherinelawrence on Sunday 15 May 16 21:13 BST (UK)
Thank you so much