Coastguard - North Antrim

[Bhoy]

Does anyone know if there are records of coastguards in North Antrim, specifically the Cushendun & Cushendall area, for 1840-1890 or so?

Thanks.

[corisande]

National Archives seem to hold a lot of the Coast Guard records

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/digital-microfilm.asp

Scroll down that page and you will see that they have some for Ireland. As with everything on NA details are difficult to find, so you will need to spend some time searching their web site to ascertain exactly what they do have

[shanew147]

The records for the Coastguards are in series ADM175 and they can be downloaded free from website corisande mentioned. Most of them are very large pdf files.

I have already downloaded all the Irish files, I can have a look though the details for Cushendun & Cushendall if you want ....

edit : I've had a quick look through ADM 175/18 and found some entries for William Chard between 1840 and 1848 in Ballycastle, Torr Head, Knockallow &  Rutland Coast Guard stations.



Shane

[Bhoy]

Thanks guys, that's very helpful.  Much appreciated.

[shanew147]

here are the details on  William Chard from ADM 175/18

page 341/454

19-Oct-1848, transfered to Cushendun from Ballycastle
rank Com. Boatm , no removal place or date given

page 336/454

11 March 1846, transferred from Torr Head to Ballycastle Station
rank is Boatman, reason for removal to Cushendun (19-Oct-1848) is promotion

page 340/454

27 June 1843, transferred to Torr Head from Knockallow
rank is boatman,  transferred to Ballycastle 11 March-1846,
reason for transfer 'Request'

page 300/454

19 April 1841, William Chard, transferred to Knockallow from CGS Rutland, rank boatman, no reason given for transfer

page 296/454

7 July[?] 1840, transferred from CGS C. Bre.s.ter[?] transferred to Knockallow, 19-Apr-1841, rank boatman, no reason given for transfer

I've attached a screenshot of the location on the Knockallow record for William (and the one below his).. maybe someone can figure out what it reads..I believe the squiggle indicates a ditto from the CGS (Coast Guard Station) at the top of the column.

William may show up somewhere in the the next volume after his Cushendun posting.. I'll will have a further look.


Shane

[shanew147]

some more info on William

ADM 175/19 360/472

21 May 1857, transferred to Cushendall from Cushendun,
 rank Chief boatman , no transferred-to station or date entered.
He appears to have replaced a previous chief boatman named Thomas Bray who who was discharged on a pension of £45 10s per annum a couple of weeks before (16/apr/1857).

and tracing his earlier career - in ADM175/100 - Alphabetical Seamen Book/Ireland 1830-1849    page 14/99

  1840 William Chard to Rutland C.G.S. from Brancaster

There is a coast guard station at Brancaster in Norfolk... I wonder if that is where he transferred from ?


Shane

[Bhoy]

Once again, thanks a lot.

[shanew147]

one more entry for you ...from  ADM 175/6, Establishment Book, England 1833-1844

page - 594/779,  C.G. Station Brancaster (Norfolk)

16 Oct 1839 transferred from Greyhound R..   Chard......  transferred 7 May-1840 to Rutland

(a page repair obscures part of this entry)

Greyhound seems to be a ship used by the coastguard.

This seems to fit with the other records - except that the entry in ADM 175/18 states that he was posted to Knockallow as his first Northern Ireland posting, whereas both this record and ADM175/100 list that he was transferred to Rutland first.




Shane

[Bhoy]

Yet again, thanks.

I notice that the NA records available stop about 1860 and don't start again till about 1900. 

Does anyone know any of the context here: were records for the intervening years lost, are they scheduled for a later phase of the on-line project or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks.