| HENRY FULLICK THE ELDER |
| Henry was born the son of John
Fullick and Ann Legg and from the subsequent events in his life,
was obviously a hardy soul surviving transportation to Australia and the
voyage there and back, a medical operation (a risky and painful
experience at that time) and many years in a workhouse before finally
dying in 1890 aged 89yrs. Date of birth: 1801 Date of death:1890 Wife: Elizabeth Stapley He was named in the convict reports as Henry Fullick the Elder, and was sentenced on the 8th April 1834 to seven years transportation. Prior to this in December 1824, at the age of 24yrs he had been acquitted of a charge that he and Charles Swan aged 45yrs entered 'a certain wood called Sleights Inclosure, the property of King George IV and also certain property of Henry Wheeler both situate in the Parish of Binstead, in the night of 17th December about the hour of one of the said night, armed with a bludgeon and a gun with intent illegally destroy game.' He was transported on the ship the August Jessie with ticket of freedom and convict indents describing him as: Convict Number 679
Linstead Farm Photos: Doreen Fereday I found him in the 1881 census, resident in the Union
Workhouse, Kingston on Thames described as Inmate, General Labourer. I
am currently trying to discover why he should be living in
Kingston on Thames rather than Headley or with one of his
children. The recording in the IGI of the deaths of four infants,
Jem, Albert, Ernest and George Fullick between the years of 1884 and
1886, points to the presence in the area of at least one other
Fullick family and also makes one aware of the tragic rate of infant
mortality in the 19th Century.
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