Amelia Frances Green- Child 7
Amelia was born on 7th September 1814 in Sydney and baptised on 2nd October at St Philips Sydney. She married William Henry Carrick in 1834. William Henry was a convict whose occupation was a tailor and stourer. He was convicted of robbing a room in Oxford assizes on 6th March 1827 and sentenced to 7 years and was assigned to Frances Hancock [ difficult to read so Hancock is a guess]. A family site states he was convicted of:
stealing a gold mourning ring, a red morocco purse containing 20 pounds from Henry Hugh Way and a silk purse containing three or four pounds from Henry Bentinck.
Oxford Journal – 24th February 1827
He had arrived on the Phoenix in 1828. He is listed as Henry Carrick with a brother in the colony at the time of his arrival ?J.B Carrick a carpenter. 7 years for such significant property theft seems a little light.
Henry Carrick had obtained his Ticket of Leave on 1st October 1833 #33/751 and Certificate of Freedom on 8th March 1834 #34/205 having served his 7 years. He is described as 6 foot 1 inch of fair complexion with dark hazel eyes and brown hair.
William Henry’s NSW bank book [ directly below] confirms he arrived on the Phoenix and in 1828 and it looks like he had one pound principal. The 1828 census has him employed as a tailor by F. Flanagan of 2 Pitt St Sydney. William was 20yrs old so was born either in 1808 or 1809.
1828 Census below
Amelia and William Henry had 8 children:
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William Henry CARRICK- born 7th June 1835 and died 1900. He married Susan Whitty 8 children. He then married Letitia Craig.
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Thomas Jane CARRICK-born 10th May 1837 . He married Selina Henrietta Hurst on 4th April 1861 at Woolloomooloo Sydney and they went on to have 10 children.
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Elizabeth Ann CARRICK-born 1839 and baptised 20th oct 1839 at St Philips in Sydney. She married William Henry Harris on 31st October 1885 and they don’t have children we know of. She died on 25th August 1919 in Penshurst Sydney.
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Amelia Frances CARRICK-born 7th August and baptised 28th August 1842 a few weeks later at St Philips. She died on 6th April 1861 and is buried in Newtown probably the Camperdown cemetery with Frances.
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John CARRICK was born and died in 1844
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Jessie Ann CARRICK- was born 3rd March 1847 and baptised on 4th April the same year in Sydney. She married Augustus Hook on Swiss Terrace Brisbane St Sydney on 26th Dec 1864. At the age of 18 Jessie was in gaol. The photo to the right is with their son Eugene. See photo on next page of family Carrick and Hook. This is the first photo of a Green descendant of the era we have. Did our Frances look like her niece? In 1882 Augustus Hook and Jessie Carrick were apparently separated because he put out a notice denying any responsibility to people who lent her money. Maybe they hadn't separated but Jessie was gambling or spending too much money. Within a few years they were seemingly re-united because Jessie gave birth in 1885 to Walter (the previous child was Florence Edith who was born in 1881). They obviously reconciled as Jessie’s gravestone reads ‘Peace Perfect Peace’ and engraved at the bottom is ‘Erected by her loving husband, A J Hook’. In an 'In Memoriam' notice for Jessie in 1920, Augustus refers to himself as 'her loving husband'.
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George Frederick CARRICK - was born in Woolloomooloo St Woolloomooloo on 27th June 1852 in Sydney. The pen and ink drawing below of Woolloomooloo Bay dates to 16th Dec 1852 by the artist George French Angus. It gives some idea of how the family were living. He married Mary Ann Bridget Leahy on 27th May 1877 in Bourke. She looks a bit fierce in the photo to the left! They had 12 children which is why she might look a little fierce and tired! Familiar names were among the children such as Amelia, Frances, Matilda, Harriet [ possibly after the ship Uncle George lost his life on ] ,Jessie, Selina and of course William. George died in Nyngan in 1917 and his wife in 1940 in Brewarrina.
Our Frances died in Camperdown whilst visiting Amelia’s children a year after Amelia’s own death. Amelia died on 26th May 1853 two years before her sister at Woolloomooloo. William died in 1860.
Not everything appears to be harmonious between the Carrick siblings: Brother vs. Sister. Evening News, Wednesday 20 July 1887 p6.
Interestingly this notice appears in The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 12 March 1935 p14. This far outdates any of the deaths of William and Amelia and their children. The Public Trustee however suggests it is something in someone’s will related to the children. William and Thomas had died prior to 1900.
