Karen
Thank you very much for this - I knew most of that about Samuel, but it's good to have more info. I also know that he died in 1902 of an 'Aortic Aneuryema (cardiac failure)'. Such a shame, so young with a young family. It's little snippets of information about 'my' people that I love finding out and is why I keep going!
Thanks too for the link to the Coastguards webpage. I hadn't seen that before and is really interesting. I have quite a few Coastguards on my tree so I will have a good look through.
I've never looked at the genuk website, does it have more / different stuff from Ancestry or familysearch?
Thanks again for all your advice.
Andrea