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 Jeremiah Coghlan
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| Carol Johnstone |
Posted on 17/01/2014 22:58
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Hello everyone-have recently joined this site and wondered if anyone can help me in any way? I'm looking for any information on a Jeremiah Coghlan c1816 in Ireland i think. He was my great great grandfather, but i have little or no information on him. He married a Mary Jane Mullen and i think i've found him in the 1841 census living/working at Shingle End, Worth, Kent- he's described as a coastguard in the census. However, on the night of the census, he was registered as being on the watch vessel. There are no traces of them there in the 1851 census. The next concrete info i have is when one of his daughters, Mary Jane, married a Patrick Hartnett (ex RN quartermaster and then also in the coastguard, serving at Leven and North Berwick before discharge); on 7/2/1874 at Kinsale. Jeremiah was listed as being a coastguard at Sandy Cove on their marriage certificate. (He also had at least another two daughters, Helena and Suzanna- the former married another coastguard Denis Buckley in 1879 at Kinsale.) I've no birth, marriage nor death certificate for either Jeremiah nor Mary Jane, his wife, so not sure where they ended up. I've tried to check the coastguard records at the National Archives online records, but the only Jeremiah Coghlan that comes up has a dob 1/5/1842 and joined the service on 1/5/1860. Place of birth was Queenstown, Co Cork (right area i think), and his Continuous Service No is 264A. The dates obviously don't tally though! Can anyone offer help or advice with this. Many thanks, Carol.  |
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| crimea1854 |
Posted on 18/01/2014 08:14
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Carol welcome to the Forum. I'm afraid I cannot provide any family information, but I can detail Jeremiah's CG career using the CG Establishment Books. He was nominated to the CG Service from HMS Vanguard, with a first posting to Shingle End on 2 Aug 1840 (ADM 175/6 pdf 108), from where he made the following moves: 30 Oct 1846 to Jack's Hole CG Station, the reason for his move was 'ill health of wife' (175/7 - 106) 28 Jan 1848 to Enniskea following promotion to Commissioned Boatman (175/19 - 34) 30 Sept 1852 to Dunny Cove (175/19 - 262) 4 Nov 1857 reduced back to Boatman (179/19 - 118 & 119) 15 Jan 1859 promoted back to Comm Btn. and transferred to Old Head (175/19 - 110) 15 Oct 1869 Pensioned (175/53 - 88) Looking at this last record it shows he was a Trained Man and had 3 Good Conduct Badges, born Crookhaven, Cork. You might also be interested to know that he was one of those CG drafted into the Navy during the Crimean War, being awarded the Baltic Medal for service on HMS Prince Regent, the Crimea Medal with Sebastopol clasp and Turkish Crimea Medal for his service on HMS Royal Albert. I did find a Merchant Seamen's Ticket issued when at Shingle End (149,152). On this his date of birth is given as Aug 1813, that he was 5' 10'' tall, ruddy complexion, brown hair and blue eyes, man & woman and crucifixion tattoo on left arm, first went to sea as a boy in 1831, served ? years in Royal Navy and that he could write. As to further research, if you could get to the National Archives at Kew it could be worth consulting HMS Vanguard's Muster and Allotment Books to see if you could find any information on both his previous service and his family. Hope this is of interest. Martin Edited by crimea1854 on 18/01/2014 08:27 |
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| Carol Johnstone |
Posted on 18/01/2014 17:08
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Hi Martin. This is brilliant and i can't thank you enough for all this info. Short of going to Kew, i felt i'd got as much as i could online until i found this site; so thought i'd nothing to lose in posting a query.Grateful thanks too for the speed of your reply. I'm going to pass all this info straight onto my uncle (aged 80yrs), who has been trying to trace Jeremiah for many years, then will follow up the links you gave as much as possible. So pleased the posting to Shingle End tied up with my finding him there in the 1841 census- confirmation was greatly appreciated.  Thanks again and keep up your great work, Carol |
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