« Reply #12 on: Thursday 18 January 18 10:46 GMT (UK) »
Ok. The Rame peninsula was part of Devon in the early 1800s. Things didn’t change until the River Tamar was made the boundary between the two counties.
Look at the 1814 marriage in Stoke Damerel.
Richard Stephens cooper marries Catherine McIntire.
Now switch to Maker baptisms.
1816 Susannah Richards baptised to Richard Richards cooper and Susannah
1818 John Stephens baptised to Richard Stephens and Catherine
I think this is your Susannah Richard and Catherine with the wrong surname. Maker was a very busy parish at that time and it’s taking me ages to transcribe the records to put in the OPC database. I have only got to 1800.
Many people from the Rame peninsula married at Stoke Damerel so the marriage is very feasible.
It looks as though Catherine’s father was Royal Navy living on the Rame peninsula. That might have influenced Richards choice to join the coastguard.
That's interesting. I will have a look and see what I can find. I have finally gone through all his ADM 175 records and all the children I have seem to match. Emma is a little iffy though I still think she is likely. Census has her as born in Plymouth and baptism shows her baptised in Talland and resident in Polperro in November 1821. Richard joined the Coastguard in July 1821 in Polperro and it does show he was in Plymouth prior to that but not sure how long and where.
Phillips: Gloucestershire, Kent, Isle of Wight, Co Durham
Marsh (me): Dorset, Middlesex
Marsh (husband): Lancashire
Stephens: Devon, Cornwall
Gravill: Lincolnshire, East Riding (Hull), Dundee, NZ
Leighton: Forfarshire (mainly Dundee), Crete, NZ
Ferrier: Dundee