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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
Height: 5' 4 1/2"
Complexion: Fresh
Head: Oval
Hair and Whiskers: Dark Brown
Eyes: Blue
Forehead: ?MH
Eyebrows: Brown
Nose: Long Sharp
Mouth: Small
Chin: ?? M.S
Remarks: Bro Mole on Rt arm above elbow
Gaol report: Bad character and connexions
Hulk report: Good
Surgeons report: Good
Assigned to C.J. Parsons, Hamilton
Certificate of Freedom: 450/1841
Henry returned to England at some stage though, so far, I have been unable to trace any record of his passage. Eddie and Doreen Fereday found Henry living with his son William and family at Lindstead Farm in the 1861 Census, at which time he was described as 'Lodger' .

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.
The Reverend Laverty recorded that Henry's son Richard (Dick) had told him during one of his parochial visits that his "father is still alive in Kingston Workhouse" and that "once he had a stoppage inside and gave himself up to the Doctor to clear him. They opened him and saved his life." Subsequently, he recorded Henry's death at the workhouse in 1890.