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Name: George Arnold
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 7 Dec 1845
Baptism Place: Bottisham,Cambridge,England
Mother: Jane Arnold
FHL Film Number: 1040372

ADM Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
Division within ADM Records of Royal Marines
ADM 157 Admiralty: Royal Marines: Attestation Forms
Chatham Division - Attestations 1790-1883
ADM 157/115 Chatham division - attestations. Described at item level
Folios 93-95. George Pollendine, born Cambridgeshire.
Attestation papers to serve in the Royal Marines at Chatham 1864 (when aged 18).
Discharged 1874 as an Invalid.
Joined from Cambridgeshire Militia.
Covering dates 1864-1874
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language English

HMS Trafalgar

Type: 1st rate, Two-decker
Launched (Sail: 21 June 1841
Converted to screw: 21 March 1859
Hull: Wooden
Length: 216 feet
Men: 830
Builders measure (as screw): 2694 tons
Displacement (as screw): 4579 tons
Guns (as screw): 89
Fate: 1906
Last in commission: 1869
Class (as screw): Caledonia
Ships book: ADM 135/57

15 November 1867 - 20 November 1869
Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Edward King Barnard, Coast Guard, Lough Swilly

17 August 1870 - 8 June 1872
Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Thomas Bridgeman Lethbridge, seagoing naval cadet training ship

HMS Barracouta

Type: Sloop
Launched: 31 March 1851
Hull: Wooden
Propulsion: Paddle
Builders measure: 1053 tons
Displacement: 1676 tons
Guns: 6
Fate: 1881

March 1873 - May 1874
Commanded by Captain Edmund Robert Fremantle, west coast of Africa (in command of a squadron of seven small vessels at Cape Coast Castle)

HMS Duncan

Name: Duncan
Type: 2nd rate, Two-decker
Launched: 13 December 1859
Hull: Wooden
Length: 252 feet
Propulsion: Screw
Men: 930
Builders measure: 3727 tons
Displacement: 5724 tons
Guns: 101
Fate: 1910

1 April 1873 - 1 January 1875
Commanded by Captain George Willes Watson, Sheerness, replacing Pembroke

This is the transcription of the register of marriages of the Chatham Division Royal Marines which is in ADM 183/114 at the National Archives, London and completed by Ted Beard. The information extracted is Marine's name, company and rank, date of marriage & Bride's name. The dates covered by this book is approx 1865 to 1877, although there are earlier marriages noted. For the remainder of the information (place, witnesses, Chaplain etc.) please contact Ted.

Pollendine George 13 Pte 28 Oct 1869 McCarron Mary Ann

Church Saint Columbs Church of Ireland

George Pollindine
BIRTH 1846
DEATH 11 Feb 1933 (aged 86–87)
BURIAL
Sheppey Cemetery
Sheerness, Swale Borough, Kent, England
PLOT TT, 148
MEMORIAL ID 223660992
Gravesite Details
Age: 87, Death date listed may be the interment date