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CHARLOTTE WHITING AND HENRY HEATHER
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| Our great
grandmother Charlotte Fullick nee Whiting must have been
one feisty, strong minded lady who really lived what was most probably a
hard life and whom my father looked back on
with affection. Charlotte was the only 'Fullick' that he ever spoke
to me about and for the first years of his life he thought that she was
his mother and that his actual mother,Edith, was his sister. The notebooks left by Reverend WH Laverty have been a great source of information about Charlotte's life, without them much of her story would never have come to light. Charlotte’s parents were George Whiting and Sarah Stilwell. George was buried with his grandchild (Edwin) George age 10months, recorded by the Reverend WH Laverty as being 'My first funeral 25/7/1872' Charlotte married my great grandfather John Fullick on the 22nd January 1881. Reverend Laverty wrote in his notebook Fullick John & Charlotte Whiting living together 1880 with his father George. Banned Christmas 1880 (at Lindford page 32). Banns asked on intervention of Mrs Petar. They pretended they were married elsewhere. John and Charlotte had an eventful marriage which lasted nine years. Their first child was my grandmother Edith Elizabeth, whose birth was registered as Edith Elizabeth Whiting on the 28th October 1880 and who was christened as Edith Elizabeth Fullick by Reverend Laverty on 1st January 1882. A note in the Baptismal Register says 'Really Whiting'. There seems to be little doubt that John Fullick was the father although not named on the birth certificate. A son, George, was christened at the same time as Edith followed by the birth of a second daughter Rose in December 1884. Press Clippings
The baby referred to above was Rose who sadly died before she was five months old and was buried in Headley Churchyard. Whether the death of their baby daughter had any bearing on the split up of their marriage is conjecture but by November 1887 the Reverend Laverty was recording that he had been informed by John that Charlotte was living at the bank (the Bank of England Public House) with a son of Mrs C (Caroline) Heather - this was Henry Heather with whom Charlotte lived until her death in December 1918 Once again Reverend Laverty gives us a great insight into the reasons for Charlotte leaving John - he records: 'She questioned whether any chance of going back to her husband. “Well” said she “Heather doesn’t drink and he sees we have food and Fullick’s not like that. I said to Fullick would he have me back and he says no. Then I asked him to get a ‘reverse’(sic) and he won’t.' Henry Heather was the son of Charles Heather and Caroline (nee Blackman). His grandparents were William Heather and Maria (nee Tuckey}. William was transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Layton in 1827 and Charles Heather was born to Caroline during William's transportation .There are several clippings relating to Henry's poaching activities and Reverend Laverty made a note against his name saying 'does little or nothing' He was described at various times as a Fish Hawker and a Potato Seller. Charlotte and Henry had the following children although Caroline is recorded as looking like a Fullick and could therefore have been John Fullick's daughter. All of the children were registered and christened as Fullicks with the addition of Heather as their middle name - a common practice at that time.
On the Parish Register of births the
minister has
written:
Henry, Charlotte and their 19 year old son Charlie are all buried in Headley churchyard in a double grave with a low headstone with an IHS intertwined monogram and inscribed Charlotte HEATHER / died 2nd Dec 1918 aged 58 / Harry HEATHER 11 Dec 1956 aged 92 / Charlie HEATHER 3 Oct 1911 aged 19 / At rest IHS is Iota Heta Sigm, the first three letters of the Greek language word for Jesus. On the Parish records of deaths Rev. Laverty wrote against Charlotte's burial record 'Found dead in bed - Ill a long time' We have always understood that my father, Frank Thomas (Tom) Fullick, found her - he would have been 14 years old at the time. |
