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The Organisation for those who love Cornwall.

Smugglers, Coast Guard , Revenue Men of Cornwall  

 

 

 

Five and twenty ponies,

Trotting through the dark

Brandy for the Parson,

Backy for the Clerk

Lace for a Lady, Letters for a spy

And watch the wall my darling

Whilst the Gentlemen go by.

Introduction 

Map.

Names with Sources

Smugglers in Cornwall and their Craft

Cornish Smugglers

Smuggling Craft  

Men of the King & Queen and their Craft 

Customs Men in Cornwall 1705 & 1779

Men of the Customs, Excise, Revenue and Preventative Service 

Known Coast Guards in Cornwall 1822 - 1901

King or Queens Men, Born in Cornwall Served Elsewhere  

King or Queens Men Of Cornish Extraction But Born Elsewhere

Salt Officers

Customs & Preventative Craft

Wills available on the web for officers of the Customs, Excise & Coast Guard.

Archives

PRO 68/1 Outpost Records 1722 

Trewman's Exeter Flying Post (Exeter.)

The West Briton Archive 

The Royal Cornwall Gazette Archive

The Times of London

 

Articles

The Law and Smuggling  

The Roll of  the Cornish Jury

Roscoff: A Famous Smuggling Port  

 

Old Cornwall Journal

Smuggling Memories   Volume 1 Issue 2

Smuggling Days by J. Keast, Volume 5

A Glimpse of Smuggling Autumn 1981

Norway House the Home of a Smuggler  Autumn 1981

 

Troaze, 

The on line newsletter of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall

"Petates and fish: Cornish Fishermen Smugglers in the late Eighteenth Century" By Tony Pawlyn  Volume 2 Issue 1

Maritime Business in Eighteenth-Century Cornwall Zephaniah Job of Polperro By Martin Wilcox  Volume 2 Issue 2

 

Old Bailey Trial Transcripts

William Inch, 23rd February 1785

John Martin, Walter Cross, James Bell, John Williams, William Bell, William Stone, Benjamin Savory, 19th July 1786.

Joseph Knight, 27th February 1788

John Snell, Richard Rowe, Oliver Ruthey, 10th September 1788.

John Old, 10th December 1788.

James Williams, 3rd June 1789

Antony Balless & Stephen Edwards, 8th June 1791

John Hawkey, 15th January 1794

John Longmead, 28th October 1795

John Heals, Peter Avery & John Chapman, 9th January 1799

Edward  Samuel Barnard,  20th February 1799.

William Barrett, Robert Mark, William Foster, William Searle & Thomas Ventin 30th October 1799

William Strick, 28th May 1800.

Edward  Bawden, 15th April 1801

John George, 24th April 1805

Christopher Pollard  10th July 1805

William Row, George Row, 24th April 1805

Jacob Denny, 17th February 1813

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Smugglers Yarns 

The Smugglers of Penrose  

A Famous Smuggling Craft

The Smugglers of Sennen

The Smugglers of Zennor

The Old Cawsands Smugglers Tale

The Smugglers of Mount's Bay

The Cruel Coppinger

The Happy-Go-Lucky Affair

Henry George the Mullion Spotsman and Lieut. Drew 

A Gwithian Smuggler?

 

Family Research

The Sad Tale of William Toll 

The "Corlyons", Both Sides of the Fence.  

Some Fluellen Customs Men  

 

Songs and Ditties

A Cornish Lullaby  

 

2, A Smugglers Song

 

3, Mistress of the Trade

 

Off Site Links

Falmouth Coastguard

National Maritime Museum, Falmouth

The Falmouth Packet Archives

Mariners Records

Public Records Office Coastguard page

Mounts Bay Lugger Association

Coastguards of Yesterday

The Pendeen Coastguards

Cornwall Records Office

 
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(Gather up the fragments that are left that nothing be lost.)

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