Miss Susan Gay's Falmouth chronology
A chronology of the town of Falmouth was described by Miss Susan E. Gay in Old Falmouth (1903), pages 230–238.
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Falmouth Church of St. Charles, view from Events Square
Before the eighteenth century
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Eighteenth century
![]() Custom House Quay, Falmouth. The new Custom-house is on the left of the picture.
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![]() The home of Lucy and George Croker Fox in Wood Lane: Grove Hill House
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Nineteenth century
1801–1810
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1811–1820
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1821–1830
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1831–1840
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![]() Seafront chapel built for William Coope
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1841–1850
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1851–1860
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1861–1870
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![]() Bible Christian Chapel, now URC and Baptist church.
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1871–1880
![]() Drill Hall
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![]() Killigrew Obelisk, opposite Arwenack Manor House, Falmouth.
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1881–1890
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1891–1900
Public Library and Art Gallery, on the Moor
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![]() Wellington Terrace school.
![]() Packet Service memorial
, and loss of 106 lives.
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Twentieth century
![]() Art School
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Sources
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References
- Miss Gay probably means James Hamilton (1606–1649), 1st Duke of Hamilton
- This would have been the 18th Baron Clinton.
- The Diving Heritage site has an account of the wreck and the finding of its remains.
- E.I.C.= East India Company
- Falmouth Packet and Cornish Herald = a newspaper
- The Poor Law Unions were bodies representing a group of Parishes, set up to run a "Union Workhouse" to deal with the poor of those parishes. Budock Hospital (recently closed: 2007) was formerly the Union Workhouse.
- HMS Astraea was a 36-gun fifth rater launched in 1810, on harbour service from 1823 and broken up in 1851.
- The mine, opened in 1852, was a lead mine. Subsequently, the works was used for processing arsenic. Archived 30 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- The Falmouth Packet newspaper, started 1855, is still in publication (2008).
- The National Maritime Museum Cornwall opened a permanent display on the effects of the telegraph on Falmouth: "Falmouth for orders" in 2008.
- So named in memory of action of the Portuguese ship Maria Camilla, which rescued 17 British seamen from a foundering ship. see The Times 13 March 1862; pg. 5; col B
- Falmouth Hotel website.
- Saint Mary Immaculate.
- Royal Cornwall Yacht Club website.
- 1873 Quaker Meeting House in Gyllyng lane, now sold and divided into apartments.
- After a period of inoccupancy, the Drill Hall was sold in November 2007, for conversion to a cinema, according to The West Briton, 22 November 2007.
- Land Forces on Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth website. Archived 16 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Genuki article in All Saints' Parish, Falmouth
- "Manacles"=Dangerous rocks off the Lizard, south of Falmouth.
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