William BALDOCK was a bricklayer
sandieC
WIlliam BALDOCK was born in England, probably about 1790. Two sons Joseph and Thomas came to Sydney New South Wales about 1839. Both married and had iron mongering businesses, Joseph in Sydney, Thomas in Geelong, Victoria. I have death certificates for both brothers, with both stating that William BALDOCK, bricklayer, was their father, and mother was Ann Wilson.
No record seems to exist of a marriage between these two people, and birth records for the two sons and others born to the couple give the father's occupation as bricklayer and mother's name as Hannah which was often shortened to Ann.
The family lived in Sweet Apple Crt, White Hind Crt and Gun or Gunn St in Tower Hamlets, London with children baptized at St Botolphs Bishopsgate, London.
Unfortunately, William BALDOCK was not an unusual name and more than one was a bricklayer. It appears that Ann/Hannah must have died about 1826 and I am hoping that a William BALDOCK who married a Susan in 1837 is the one that I am looking for. That William died in 1851 in Spitafields, Middlesex.
Help with this wall would be great.
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sandieC on 2011-02-05 19:40:41I have looked at the Familysearch site, including their updated site but nothing seems to fit the information that I have. I'll keep looking.
sandieC on 2011-07-25 01:25:44William and Hannah have been found! Hannah with a lot more information than William as although both were charged and sentenced to 7 years in 1833, only Hannah was actually transported. NSW records for her are very thorough, even to a scar. She died in 1854 in Sydney.
William however never made it to Australia so I still have questions about him. I have been told that an employer could get a sentence commuted. Is that true?
There is a William who married Susan Phillips in 1839 and in 1841 had an adult son living with them. This son, another William, appears to have been our original William's.
That William, the son, emigrated to Victoria after 1841 and died in Geelong in 1891.
Too many Williams!!!
Is there any way to find out if the original William was released, stayed and remarried or perhaps died before he could be transported?
Is there any