Thursday, March 24, 2005

Henry Hacking: "Family folklore is that my HACKING ancestors were related to Henry Hacking of the First Fleet - my family legends, passed down through Great-grandfather George Hacking and his daughter Elizabeth, are usually surprisingly reliable; the same folklore also came down through the family of George�s elder brother James Hacking.
My maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Hacking (later Burke), was the daughter of George Hacking (1846-1920), master confectioner of Melbourne. George, aged nearly 5, with his father (Liverpool cabinetmaker James Hacking, 1811-1868), his mother (Elizabeth Bayes, 1816-1903, born in London), her father William Bayes (a trunk and portmanteau maker), and George�s four surviving siblings, sailed on 1st August 1850 from Liverpool as intermediate passengers on the Courier, a ship of about 1000t, to Port Phillip (now Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) - the Courier also carried passengers for Adelaide where it proceeded after leaving Port Phillip. "

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