George Fullick

Dates

Birth: 1832 Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: Henry Fullick (Fullock) c1796-1877
Mother: Sarah Groves 1805-1878

Marriage: 18 February 1854,Headley, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Jane Daws 1836

Death: 28 March 1857, Perth, Western Australia
Buried: 29 March 1857 Perth, Western Australia

Children

None

Notes

There is an entry in the IGI for the christening of George Fullick on 6 May 1832 in Headley, Hampshire, parents Henry Fullick and Sarah.

There is an entry in the Headley 1841/51 census for George Fullick aged 9/18, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with his parents (mother only in 1851), two brothers (Henry and James), six sisters (Maria, Eliza in 1841 only, Sarah, Charlotte in 1841 only, Fanny in 1851 and Jane in 1851) and niece (Harriett Fullick in 1851) at Barford.

There are two submitted entries in the IGI for the christening of William Fullick on 30 October 1853 in East Worldham, Hampshire, parents George Fullick and Mary Smith, one of which gives the birth of George as about 1821 in East Worldham, but there is also one for the marriage of Wm Fullick and Mary Smith on 30 October 1853. There are no entries in the Registry of Births for a William Fullick between April and December 1853, but there are entries for the marriages of William Fullick and Mary Smith both in Alton in October-December 1853 on the same page (2c 327) which implies they married each other. Hence I do not think William was the son of this George, and is the William Fullick in the IGI christened on 18 January 1835 in East Worldham, parents George Fullick and Mary.

I believe he was the George Fullick who married Jane Daws in the IGI on 18 February 1854 in Headley, Hampshire.

Jenny Crawford has a large amount of information on him from which the following is copied:

George Fullick was christened 6 May 1832 in Headley, Hampshire, England. He died on 28 March 1857 in Perth, Western Australia. He married Mary Smith in about 1852 in East Worldham, Hampshire. They had William Fullick who was born 30 Oct 1853 in East Worldham, Hampshire.

George was transported to Australia after receiving a 20 year sentance for the manslaughter of John Barron at Headley on 27 May 1854, He was sent out aboard the ship William Hammond which arrived in Perth, Western Australia on 29 March 1856. He had previously been convicted of poaching. George subsequently died in hospital on the 28 March 1857, exactly one year after his arrival in the colony.

Convict description sheets give the following information:

Age: 24 years
Height: 5'2"
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Grey
Visage: Round
Complexion: Fresh
Appearance: Stout
Marks: None
Trade: Labourer
Marital Status: Married
Children: None recorded

From the 10th December 1856 to 10th February 1857, George appears in the Hospital Occurrence Book on 15 occasions, mainly for a cough, carnified lungs, pains in the chest and indigestion. On the 14th January, 1857 he had a tooth extracted. In the first 4 entries, his occupation is shown as Quarry and the later entries as Wash House.

Extract from the Medical Journal 29 November 1856 - Hospital Occurrence Book 1156 for Convict number 3947 George Fullick


Date	Berth	Occupation	Ship	Surgeons Remarks
30/11/1856	Lower	Quarry	WH	No entry
10/12/1856	Upper	Quarry	WH	Cough (Ieurine) Mixture 3 times daily
12/12/1856	Upper	Quarry	WH	Cough at night, Dovers Powder Bedtime
14/12/1856	Upper	Quarry	WH	Cough at night, Dovers Powder Bedtime
17/12/1856	Upper	Quarry	WH	Indigestion, Emetic
04/01/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	Cough at night, Dovers Powder Bedtime
10/01/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	Soreness in chest, Anodyne
11/01/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	To report relief from medicine
14/01/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	Toothache - extraction
19/01/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	Carnified Lungs, Pil Alvelic 1, 3 times daily
25/01/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	Wishes repetition of pills
28/01/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	Sore throat, gargle
29/01/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	Mitation in throat, Mist Pect
7/02/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	Pain in chest, Plaster over part
10/02/1857	Upper	Wash House	WH	Indigestion, Infirmary


On Friday 13th February 1857 he was allocated extra food - Bread 4, Milk pints 1/2, Sago ozs 2, Sugar (FORS) 1 1/2, Porter pints 1, Oatmeal oz 2, Wine Gills 1 1/2, Lime Juice oz 1 1/2, and more Sugar (FORS) 1/2. The words in brackets could not be clearly read and could actually be something else.

The Dictionary of WA Volume 2 records: George Fullick, 1832 - 28-3-1857, d in Hospital, M, Lab, Semi Lit, Prot, Conv Winchester 1854, manslaughter, 20 years, William Hammond arrived 29-3-1856

The following is a report of the trial of George Fullick, at Winchester Crown Court Friday July 14 1854, as it appeared in the London Times 15 July 1854:


Western Circuit Winchester Friday July 14 Crown Court before Mr Justice Wightman

George Fullick was indicted for the wilful murder of John Barron at Headley on May 27 1854. Mr Poulden was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr Coleridge, at the request of the learned judge, defended the prisoner.

On the evening of the 27 May the deceased, the prisoner, and several other persons, who were members of the benefit club assembled at the White Horse public house at Headley [note - this is now Fresham Pond Hotel - my third great grandfather, Stephen Hall, had run it until 1834]. They continued drinking till a late hour. There was a quarrel between the prisoner and a man in the name of Winter as they were going home; they struggled and fell down, and the prisoner, who had risen, was beating Winter when he was on the ground.

The deceased interfered and knocked the prisoner down. The prisoner got up again and stabbed the deceased with a knife in the belly and the intestines protruded.

The deceased cried out that the prisoner had killed him, He was carried home, a surgeon was sent for and everything was done for him but he died in about three days.

When the prisoner was told that he had killed the man, he said he did not care if he hung for it.

Mr Coleridge for the prisoner, urged that the prisoner had committed the act when his blood was heated, and that the offence, therefore, amounted only to manslaughter.

Mr Justice Wightman having summed up, the jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to 20 years transportation.

The following is from Convicts in Australia

Fullick, George number 3947 term 20y aged 23 convicted in Winchester on 11 07 1854 of Manslaughter

The William Hammond arrived in WA in 1856. This 683 ton ship was built in Sunderland in 1853. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Plymouth, England on January 5, 1856 bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the sixteenth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 84 days and the William Hammond arrived in Fremantle on March 29, 1856 with 89 passengers and 250 convicts. Horatio Edwards and George D. MacLaren were the captain and surgeon respectively. There were no deaths recorded on the convict shipping and description lists and 250 convict numbers were assigned for the voyage ranging from (3722 to 3971). Of the 89 passengers mentioned above, all 89 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 29 pensioner guards, 20 wives, 25 sons and 15 daughters. George D. MacLaren's surgeon's journal for the voyage is preserved in the Public Record Office (PRO) in London.

Additional information gives his occupation as a labourer, married, but no children, height 5' 2'', brown hair, grey eyes, round face, fresh complexion, stout build and no distinguishing marks.

Jenny Crawford added the following in a personal communication:
I went to Western Australia I visited Freemantle prison and saw the building that was the hospital where he died. The prison was in use until the 1990s and it must have been dreadful. When George was there the convicts had to break stone for the surrounding buildings. The temperature in WA reaches over the 100F frequently in the summer and the prisoners (even in the 1990s) were shut out of the building in the exercise yard from 10am until late afternoon. There is and never was any shade to speak of so the conditions must have been unbearable.
Died 6.30am 28/3/1857. To be interred 7.30am 29th March 1857 (page 3328 Reel R19).

Relationship

I am his great grandnephew.

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