Lophams - Individual Story

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FLACK, Henry
Family Historian Individual Narrative Henry FLACK, son of Nathaniel FLACK (c. 1773-c. 1853) and Elizabeth CARMAN (c. 1779-c. 1815), was born on 12 June 1799 in South Lopham, Norfolk - Date fron his parish baptism record. He was baptised on 12 June 1799 in South Lopham - privately baptised on same day as birth; parents Nathaniel and Elizabeth (nee CARMAN). In August 1821 Henry was indicted for burglary (house-breaking) in Lakenheath in April of that year and in the company of Ann FLACK and probably Nathaniel FLACK, for stealing ..... View full FH text (See notes below)
Birth:	12.06.1799 : South Lopham, Norfolk
Baptism:	12.06.1799 : South Lopham, Norfolk : Privately baptised on same day as birth; parents Nathaniel and Elizabeth (nee CARMAN)
Death:	03.11.1850 : Great Swanport, Tasmania : Stoned to death possibly by another shepherd.
Newspaper:	Launceston Examiner, Tasmania, 13th November, 1850 A shepherd named Henry Flack, in the employ of Mr. W. Hepburn, of Swansea, was found murdered on the 3rd instant. Around the spot where he was found a number, of large stones, having skin and blood on them, were lying, and it is supposed that they were. the instruments used, to accomplish the deed, his bead being horribly mutilated, and the back part of it driven some .inches into the ground. A. vague suspicion attaches to a fellow-shepherd, who is in custody.
Newspaper:	The Cornwall Chronicle, Launceston, Tasmania, 19th November, 1850 LOCAL. Barbarous murder. - Lately, the body of a man named Henry Flack, in the employ of Mr. William Hepburn, of the district of Great Swanport, was found in a mutilated state. As strong suspicion exists, that the deceased had been inhumanly murdered, a reward of ??50 to any free person, (and a recommendation to a conditional pardon, to a prisoner of the crown) on apprehension and conviction of the perpetrator or perpetrators, has been offered by the Colonial Government.
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