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 length of service in each station?
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| annieoburns |
Posted on 18/01/2008 11:53
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Just reposting a query from last year that did not get any response. My forebear started his career in Five Mile Point, Co Wicklow but is later to be found at various locations along south English coast (birth and census records). I was wondering if there was a definite time that officers spent at each station before being moved on. I wonder also about the pattern of service between the two countries. I think I read that it was common for Irish to be posted to England and vice versa. I can find no trace of the family in 1851 census though they are back again in later years. Would it have been likely that he might have returned to work in Ireland when he was in his 50's? I have checked the logbook records for Ireland and cannot find him. Anne |
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| annieoburns |
Posted on 20/01/2008 00:33
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Just a 'ps' in that I am aware that removal to new station might be a punishment meted out for misdemeanors and also for English to be assigned to Ireland as it was seen as a tougher and more hostile working environment. Just wondered though if there was a general pattern of 2 or so years?  Anne |
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| crimea1854 |
Posted on 20/01/2008 09:45
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Anne It is my understanding that CG men were moved quite frequently to prevent them 'going native', and becoming too friendly with the locals. Clearly it is more difficult to arrest someone, for say smuggling, who is also a neighbour. My son, who's in the Police, will not work locally for this very reason. Martin |
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| annieoburns |
Posted on 24/01/2008 16:33
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Yes I know why they were moved so often but with wives and children, I just wondered was there a definite pattern. Another bit of interest is that sons of CG officers were expected to leave home by age of 14 or so and generally went to sea. Some day perhaps I will try and find a service record in Kew which might list locations? Thanks for response! |
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| bodad |
Posted on 12/10/2010 17:26
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Following up on Anne's question and suggestion that the children of CGs would be expected to leave home at 14, this could explain my GGF William Henry Jenkins (b.1839 in Cork/Kinsale/Queenstown) appearing in the 1861 census in St Mawes Cornwall as "Trinity Pilot, not yet confirmed". I understand that to become a Trinity Pilot, you had to already have a master's ticket (?). So could William have joined the navy at 14, in say 1853, and then leave to become a Trinity Pilot at age 20? If so, where might he have joined up if his father was a CG at Upper Cove from 1844 to 1857? Tim |
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