Hicks

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NameHicksHenry Hicks Snr

Henry Hicks was born in 1828 in Bath, Somerset, England, the son of Henry and Mary Hicks. Henry’s baptism record in the Parish of Walcott, Somerset, 6 April 1828, lists his address as Dover Street, and his father’s occupation as sawyer.

Henry married Mary Ann Cogswell 21 September 1848 at St Mary’s Church, Bryanstone Square, Parish of Marylebone, Middlesex. They were both 21 years old. Mary Ann’s father was listed as John.

The couple arrived in Australia aboard ‘Australia’ in June 1853, with their two children Henry and James. They had six children together;

Henry b.1849 (married three times)
James b.1852 (died 1857, Shoalhaven)
John Gordon (b.1854, died 1939 Lismore)
Jane (b.1858 Kiama, married 1881 Francis Falson, died 1933 Sydney)
Mary b.1856 (died 1861, aged 4 years)
Amelia b.1860 (died 1881, aged 20 years)

Mary Ann Hicks died in died 1873 at Mudgee, aged 49 years.

Henry then married Lucinda ‘Lucy’ Graham at Wollongong in 1875, daughter of Archibald Graham.

Lucinda died aged 56, in 1893. Henry died 1902 aged 74 at Hurstville.

Henry Hicks Jnr

In 1875, Henry ‘Harry’ Hicks Jnr b.1849, married Caroline Elizabeth Polley (daughter Ira and Elizabeth (nee Moon). They had nine children before Caroline died in 1897, aged just 39 years old.

Children;
Henry b.1877 (died 1877, three hours old)
William b.1878 (died 1950, Chatswood)
Arthur b.1881 (died 1901, aged 27 years, Katoomba)
Percy b.1883 (died 1883, one day old)
Edith b.1885 (married James Jockel, died 1973)
Winifred b.1887 (died 1918 aged 30 years, Katoomba)
Stella b.1890 (died 1900, aged 4 years)
John b.1894 (died 1923, Katoomba, aged 23 years, late 20th Batt AIF)
Grace b.1895 (died 1886, 8 months old)

Of the nine children Henry and Caroline had together, only two lived past 30 years old.

One year after Caroline’s death, in1898, Henry married Sarah Ann Wilkinson Harbron (daughter of Edwin and Arabella (nee Andrew). They had three children together before Sarah’s death from childbirth in 1900, aged just 36 years old.

Children;
Nellie b.1899
Annie and Henry (twins) b.1900 (Harry died 1900)

One year after Sarah’s death, in 1901, Henry married Dorothy Ann James (daughter of William James and Maria Kernick of ‘Bravella’ farm, Dunmore)

Henry died at Manly in 1929 aged 80 years, and Dorothy in 1943 aged 93 years.

Henry and brother John Gordon Hicks were generous benefactors in the Shellharbour Village community, having donated the land for the Temperance Hall Allowrie Division Order of Sons and Daughters.

Henry was one of the movers for the Albion Park Butter Factory in 1884, and foundation president of the Shellharbour Progress Association, and John was the secretary. Both were Aldermen on the Shellharbour Municipal Council.

When the Shellharbour Rifle Club was formed in 1898, Henry Hicks was its first president. It was noted that Henry and John were well known rifle shots, winning medals, and Henry represented the Australian Team at Bisley.

The Hicks Brothers, established their bacon curing industry in 1878 on their property between Mary and Sophia Streets, south of Addison Street in Shellharbour. There they excavated and built a cement reservoir for a water supply for their increasing trade, determined not to be short of water during future droughts. At this time there was no permanent water supply in the Village.

The first cold air plant refrigerator used in the colony for the bacon curing industry was built with the Hicks Brothers. Their ‘H’ brand of bacon became famous and their business grew to large proportions at Shellharbour in the late 1800s.

Hicks Bros later sold their interests in the Shellharbour area and moved to Lismore. They had started interests in the Lismore area when the supply of pigs decreased from the Shellharbour dairies, and by the early 1900s had set up the first bacon factory at South Lismore as Hick’s ‘OK’ bacon.External LinkA Sacrifice to Maternal Duty - Mrs Hicks 1873Obituary Mrs Henry Hicks Snr 1893Deaths Lucinda Hicks 1893Obituary Mrs Henry Hicks Jnr - Sarah Hicks 1900Perpetuating His Memory 1900Wedding Bells Hicks - James 1901Death Henry Hicks Snr 1902The Pig Market 1903Hicks Ltd 1908Messrs Hicks & Co 1908Death Arthur Gordon Hicks 1909Funeral of Veteran Rifleman 1929Obituary John Gordon Hicks 1939Mr Hicks Dead Veteran Rifle Shoit 1929Death of Mr H Hicks 1929

Document

Shellharbour Steam Navigation Company Report and Balance Sheet

Appointment of Trustees for Land General Cemetery Shellharbour, Wesleyan Burial Ground

Object

Shellharbour Steam Navigation Company Report and Balance Sheet

Appointment of Trustees for Land General Cemetery Shellharbour, Wesleyan Burial Ground

Photograph

Headstones Shellharbour General Cemetery

Map or Plan

Charlotte Allen Estate Shellharbour

Place

Shellharbour Temperance Hall

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