Hello,
I am trying to establish a "Family Tree" for this Parkhurst Prison "Exile" who arrived aboard the
Thomas Arbuthnot at Williamstown on 04/05/1847.
There are numerous references to him in TROVE about his business etc. and I am pretty certain that they are for the correct Robert CREEK(E) as in a court case reported in
The Age, page 5, dated 12/09/1866 in which he appears as the plaintiff, the defendant calls him "a liar, a low whelp, a
Pentonvillian, and a convict":
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160214044I have also found his cemetery record at the following website entitled "Billion Graves":
http://billiongraves.com/pages/record/person/11994062#given_names=Robert&family_names=CreekeHe died 11/07/1914 (aged 86), his wife Fanny 26/05/1927 (aged 89) according to the tombstone, although who the Martha CREEK (note spelling) is, died 16/08/1899 (aged 89), I have no idea.......there seems no-one born in England in 1810 of that name. Probate, incidentally, shows he left an Estate in excess of £4,000, a not inconsiderable amount in 1914.
If anyone can provide family details who his wife was, date of marriage, children etc. I would be extremely grateful. He does, however, change his occupation frequently. He was initially a Tailor, taught by his father, then a Carpenter taught at Parkhurst Prison, then a Bootmaker in Williamstown.
For the moment
BAC3
NB: I have since discovered that Martha CREEK is probably his mother-in-law and her daughter was Fanny CREEK and both arrived in Victoria from Cambridgeshire aboard the "Calliance" in 1855.
