Royal Marines Tarbert

[catherinelawrence]

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

[Christopher]

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

[shanew147]

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

[catherinelawrence]

Thanks for your help I visited Tarbert last year but was unable to get much info rmation
 Catherine

[sartana]

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)

[catherinelawrence]

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

[jamesL]

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

[jeanffrench]

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.

[crimea1854]

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