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“Burgled, Transported, Murdered”
Henry FLACK
(1799 - 1850)

Nick Woods

Henry FLACK was born in South Lopham in June 1799, the first child of South Lopham born Nathaniel FLACK 1773-1853 and Elizabeth CARMAN 1779-1815 from Garboldisham. They had married at Lakenheath St Mary, Suffolk in July 1798.

It appears Henry had at least 7 siblings all subsequently born in Lakenheath between 1801-1814, so the family must have moved there around 1800 when Henry was less than 2 years old. Henry was noted as a farm labourer and ploughman.

The FLACK family had family roots in South Lopham and Garboldisham back to at least the late 17C. .....

Nick’s complete story can be read HERE.

If anyone has any further information about Henry and is willing to share it, please make contact, and we will add it, with accreditation, into this resource.

Further information

• Launceston Examiner, Tasmania, 13th November, 1850
• Cornwall Chronicle, Tasmania, 13th November, 1850
• Postmortem Report for Henry Flack, murdered 1850

Background

• Wikipedia: Convicts in Australia

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Family Historian - Narative

Last updated: Mon, 15 Sep 2025
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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