Person:Thomas Crump (10)

Thomas CRUMP was born on 22nd November 1813 and baptised a month later on 2nd January 1814 Church of England, Goudhurst, Kent. He was the illegitimate son of Elizabeth Crump late a servant of Mr W. Mynn, the father was listed as William Mynn Jnr, farmer, both were from the parish.

At the age of 3 his mother, Elizabeth marries Thomas' stepfather William Startup on 10 February 1816

Twenty one years later Thomas marries his first wife Rebecca Underhill in the local Maidstone Church on 15 Nov 1834. At the end of 1840 the couple move to Australia and arrive on 04 February 1841 in Botany Bay, New South Wales as bounty passengers.

years after arriving  Rebecca dies on 28 Aug 1848 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.  There were no English or Australian born children to the couple; according to Rebecca's migration papers  her state of bodily health was "rather delicate".  Both were Wesleyan Methodists, and most likely members of  The Wesleyan Chapel, Collins Street; a brick church, 47 ft x 57 ft,  which was built in 1841 on the corner of Collins St & Queen St.
and Thomas were married by the Rev. John Harcourt at the Wesleyan Church , corner Russell  and Collins Street, Melbourne. Thomas, aged 37, then married Selina Wheeler who was at the time 16 years old.  Together they had 6 children with only their eldest child William dying in infancy.

Thomas worked as a brick maker and the family appears to have moved around a lot perhaps following work. . After their marriage, records show in 1854, Thomas Crump purchased 4 allotments in Richmond Terrace, Richmond. They resided at various other addresses including the following:- 1851 - Flemington, 1853/55 - Richmond, 1862/66 - Hawthorn, 1872 - Barkers R d., Hawthorn, 1874 - Church St., Hawthorn. According to some historical accounts there were 3 Brick making areas from 1850s and 1860s. Thomas Crump and Henry Fry were said to have a Small pocket near the Beehive Hotel on Barkers Road and both sides of Church Street. However soon after the birth of their last child Thomas appears to have run into financial trouble and was listed as an insolvent in 1867. Six years later his health began to deteriorate and he died. Times must have been tough for Selina as well as the space of 3 years her mother, father and her first husband all died. Selina's second marriage to Abel Jones was at the age of 41, her youngest child being only 13 there were no more children after her first marriage. Abel had 5 living children at the time of their marriage and Selina 5 living children enough to keep anyone busy. However a year following the marriage Abel became insolvent. Abel died at the age of 69 in the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, how long he was resident there is unknown however at the time of death he was suffering from paralysis, probably due to a stroke. Selina was living with her daughter when she was found drowned in Yarra river, two years after the death of her second husband.

(Research):"Market gardeners and brickmakers may have sold their wares direct to the public. Many people know that some of the small pieces of park land were once old clay fields, which sometimes became rubbish dumps or filled with water and drowned the occasional passerby. The first pockets of the industry were in Lower Hawthorn near the creek in the early 1850s, but even by 1871 there were references to disused clay pits, not only in the Mason Street/Simpson's area, but also on Victoria Road, and the Council did not really want to take responsibility for them. There seem to be few records about the early industry and the products like tiles and drainpipes, but the beautiful Hawthorn bricks of all colours-cream, brown, orange, pink, red and black, particularly the black with the purplish flecks, which are so popular now, were used extensively through Melbourne during and after the 1880s and 1890s. Probably most were mass-produced with better techniques by the bigger concerns in Upper Hawthorn and later South Auburn - which really date from after the run of the century. At first there were small independent workings, perhaps even in their back yards, but most brickmakers occupied small cottages owned by a few men, who also owned a few more little timber cottages of one or two rooms occupied by their other employees. They dug and baked the clay bricks near one clay pit for a couple of years, then moved somewhere else and dug and baked some more for somebody else. One of the first byelaws of the Hawthorn Council was intended to prevent the nuisance of the burning of bricks in kilns close to the footpath, but it added except for those which had previously existed. Again, in 1871, there was a further byelaw to control the burning of clay within 150 yards of the footpath as pedestrian compelled to go into the middle of the Road to prevent being roasted or knocked down by men while firing, which should have meant the end of any small business. One sale plan in the 1880s actually had a kiln marked on Church Street near Brook Street.

3 Brick making areas from 1850s and 1860s. John and Henry Mould. Bottom of Simpson Place. Connell Street south side near Barton Street and north side near Elgin Street (where there are 3 little cottages occupied by stone breakers once in 1873) Small pocket near the Beehive Hotel on Barkers Road and both sides of Church Street-Thomas Crump and Henry Fry. Another near Belgrave Street-William Ellis Brickmakers lived in Hill Street and 'off' Simpson's Lane but may not have been working in their own blocks." Source:- McWilliam, Gwen, Hawthorn Peppercorns, Brian Atkins, Melbourne, 1978

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia. Death Certificate Thomas Crump. (Year 1874, Reference #4922 Original a certified copy. Photocopy in possession of Sandra Williamson).
2. ↑ Registgry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Victoria. Birth Certificate Christina Crump. (Year: 1864, Reg Number: 2785).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Church of England (Goudhurst, Kent, England). Parish registers Goudhurst, Kent, England..
4. ↑ Booroonda Cemetery Kew.

   Uniting/Methodist Row A A0050
   Interred in the same grave:-
   Thomas Crump, Christina Barton, Selina Jones, Christina Musgrove

5.   Booroonda Cemetery Kew.
6. ↑ Elaine Brampton. Research Summary Thomas Crump. (unpublished, 1990).
7. ↑ La Trobe Ward Rates Book. (Public Records Office Victoria (PROV), VPRS 5708/P2/Unit 2, La Trobe Rates Book on Microfishe)
   Unit 2 La Trobe Ward Rate Book page 38.

   451 Thomas Crump, Russell St., 30, House ?? 4 Rooms, Kitchen, Stable Yard owned by Thos Crump, Value £6.11.0 paid rates in 1845 - 1846

   Thomas Crump does not appear in the 1847-1848 rates book at this address as either the owner of occupier - presumably he must of moved out by then.

8. ↑ Birth Certificate Theophilus Crump. (Reference details Year 1853 #11501).
9. ↑ Vendors Books, Victoria. (Land Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment))
   Book 27 Memorial 544.

   Mortagage in fee £150 from George Turner to Thomas Crump.
   
   In the Colony of Victoria, County of Bourke and the parish of Jika Jika being lots numbered one, two, three and four on the plan of subdivision of suburban portions or erections numbers twenty one and twenty two of the said Parish prepared by one Joseph Docker.
   Bounded south by Richmond Terrace Reference number: LRC001

10. ↑ Vendors Books, Victoria. (Land Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment))
    Book 50 Memorial 298.

    13 Jun 1857
    In the Colony of Victoria, County of Bourke and the parish of Jika Jika being lots numbered one, two, three and four on the plan of subdivision of suburban portions or erections numbers twenty one and twenty two of the said Parish prepared by one Joseph Docker.
    Bounded south by Richmond Terrace.
    In consideration of said George Turner releasing the said Thomas Crump from the payment of principal and interest monies secured by mortgage dated 5th April 1833(?) from said Thomas Crump to said George Turner also in consideration of ten shillings paid by George Turner to said Thomas Crump. Reference number: LRC002

11. ↑ Vendors Books, Victoria. (Land Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment))
    Book 146? Memorial 389.

    Lot A on plan of subdivision of portion seventy five ?? Mulgrave in the Colony of Victoria. Bounded on the North side by Government Rd Reference number: LRC003

12. ↑ The Argus
    page 5.
13. ↑ The Argus
    4 Oct 1867 page 5.
14. ↑ The Argus
    5 Oct 1867, page 6.
15. ↑ The Argus
    11 Oct 1837, Page 6.
16. ↑ Death Certificate Rueben Wheeler, 19 July 1873, Reference 6484, Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, Victor. (Original a certified copy. Photocopy in possession of Sandra Williamson).
17. ↑ ^{17.0 17.1 17.2} Inquest for Thomas Crump. (Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), VPRS 24 Unit 306 File 325/184, Proceedings of Inquest for Thomas Crump).
18.   McWilliam, Gwen. Hawthorn Peppercorns. (Brian Atkins, Melbourne, 1978)
    page 95.
19. ↑ Name: Thomas Crump
    Estimated birth year: 1814
    Age: 27
    Residence: Goudhurst, Kent, England
    Father's name: William Starluss
    Mother's name: Elizabeth
    Spouse's name: Rebecca Crump
    Spouse's residence: Goudhurst, Kent, England
    Spouse's father's name: James Underhill
    Spouse's mother's name:
    Ship name: Marquis Of Hastings
    Event date: 04 Feb 1841
    Volume: 51
    Film number: 416871
    Digital GS number: 4117080
    Image number: 04040
    Collection: Index to bounty immigrants arriving in N.S.W., Australia, 1828-1842
20. ↑ IN / Memory of / Thomas Crump / Died 13 th April 1874 / Aged 59 years / Also his wife / Selina / Died 25th July 1899 / Aged 65 years
    and her daughter / Christina Barton / Died 2nd Octr 1915 / Aged 51 years / and her children / Albert and Myrtle / Died in infancy
    
    Intered in this grave:-
    
    Date
    15-Apr-1874 CRUMP, THOMAS
    27-Jul-1899JONES, SELINA (Wife of Thomas)
    04-Oct-1915BARTON, CHRISTINA (daughter of Thomas)
    15-May-1917MUSGROVE, CHRISTINA
21. ↑ arriving at Botany Bay, Sydney, N.S.W.Australia, about 4 months later. This ship carried mainly Bounty Passengers; if the passengers arrived in good health and spirits the Captain would get paid.They were under the authority of C. F. Warne; the bounty was 19 Pounds forThomas & Rebecca, 19 Pounds 38 Pence.
    On the ships log they are listed as follows:
    Thomas, age 27, Farm Labourer, Wesleyan, Reads & Writes. Rebecca, age 31,Dairywoman, Wesleyan, Reads & Writes. Both Natives of Kent, England.
22. ↑ according to his death certificate.
23. ↑ This is the first positive record of Thomas in the Port Phillip District and was found in the 1845/46, in the LaTrobe Ward of the Melbourne Rate Books. He was the owner of a 4 roomed house with a Kitchen, Stable and Yard.
24. ↑ at the time of his second son Theophilus's birth.
25. ↑ The plan of subdivision of suburban portions or erections numbers twenty one and twenty two of the said Parish prepared by one Joseph Docker. Bounded south by Richmond Terrace.
26. ↑ Thomas Crump paid out his mortgage in Richmond Terrace to George Turner by releasing the land back to him and George Turner paid him 10 shillings in consideration.
27. ↑ Thomas sells his land in Mulgrave for £35 to John Renwick
28. ↑ on the death certificate of his brother in law George Wheeler
29. ↑ NEW INSOLVENTS.
    Thomas Crump, of Hawthorn, brickmaker. Causes of insolvency - Losses in business and want of employment. Liabilities, £08 11s. ; assets, £5 ; deficiency, £63 11s. Mr. Moore, official assignee.
30. ↑ INSOLVENT COURT.
    (Before the Chief Commissioner.)
    First and Only Meetings_William Hartley, George Butler, Robert Carr, John Hayes, Michael McMahon, John Power, John Hart, Robert Russell, William Watson, John Dobson, Alexander Dunbar, Nathan Dearman, Thomas Crump, John Blake, George Nanslip, Patrick O'Dwyor, and William Savell, all at eleven.
    
    First Meetings.-Robert Campbell and Thomas W. Sampson, both at eleven.
    
    Adjourned Certficate Meeting,-John Langdon, half-past eleven.
31. ↑ Wednesday, July 3. ,
    
    (Before W. B. Noel, Esq., Chief Commissioner
    
    of Insolvent Estates.)
    
    First and Only Meetings.
    
    Meetings were held and closed in the estates of the following insolvents:-William Han- ley, of Brunswick, brickmaker (insolvent in ' attendance, and one debt proved) ; George Butler, of Ballan, fanner (ono debt proved) ; Robert Carr, of Sandhurst, miner ; John Hajcs. of Gipps Land, bricklayer; Michael M'Mahon, of Melbourne, lodginghouse-keeper (insolvent in attendance) ; John Power, of Lancefield, labourer ; John Hart, of South Yarra, brickmaker (insolvent in attendance) ; Robert Russell, of Malmsbury, carpenter ; William Watson, of Sandhurst, minor ; John Dobson, of Malmsbury,- contractor ; Alex- ander Dunbar, of Collingwood, carpenter (insolvent in attendance) ; Nathan Dearman, of Cailton, 8torcman (insolvent in attend- ance) ; Thomas Crump, of Hawthorn, brick- maker (insolvent present, and one debt proved) ; John Blake, of Mclbourno Gool, warder (insolvent in attendance) ; Gcorgo Hanslip, of Fitzroy, now out of business (in- solvent in attendance) ; Patrick O'Dwycr, of Sandhurst, contractor ; and William b'avill, of Carisbrook, miner.
32. ↑ NOTICE to CREDITORS-ACCOUNTS of receipts and disbursements in tho following insolvent estates, in which are no funds availablo for dividends, have been FILED by mo in tho office of tho Chief Commissioner ol Insolvent Estates for tho colony of Victoria, whero they lie for inspection for fourteen days, and unless objected to within that timo will bo duly confirmed, according to Act of Council in that case made and provided :
    Henry Spencer, Rosedalo, carrier
    John Johnston, Emerald-hill, publican Robert Balmer, Sandhurst, teacher John Mathows, Hotham, engineer John Bryan, Daylesford, miner
    Foos and Oat, Melbourne, publicans
    William Bayley, Prahran, ¡eather cutter Richard Gumb, Sandrldge, labouror
    Gcorge Vinge, Pentrldgo, late publican Alexander Powe, Maldon, slaughter man Thomas Crump, Hawthorn, brlckmakor David Fmall, Prahran, saddler
    Hugh Morton Thompson, Redcastlo, storokeeper John Lloyd. Melbourne, clerk
    Antoni Shuitz, Richmond, carpenter David Shiels, Melbourne, clerk
    Frederick Wm. Grundzdorfi, Jim Crow road, late publican
    John Pritchard Jones, Sandridge, shipping clerk.
    JAMES MOORE, Official Assigneo.
    September 24,1807.
33. ↑ LAW NOTICES.- (This Day.)
    .........
    ........
    INSOLVENT COURT.
    (Before the Chief Commissioner)
    Certificate Meetings.-David Johnston Moorhead, Jeremiah Cullum, William Brown, and Thomas Crump, at eleven.
    
    Adjourned Certificate Meetings.-William M'Alpine, Thomas Botton, Henry Florance, John Hayes, William Kellett Thirlaway, Patrick Lalor, Henry Monee Smith, and William Henry Holland, all at eleven.
    
    COUNTY COURT. BOURKE General- Sessions (Before. R W. Pohlman, Esq., Chairman, and a Bench of Magistrates.)
34. ↑ INSOLVENT COURT.
    FRIDAY, OCT. 4.
    (Before W. B. Noel, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates.)
    CERTIFICATE MEETINGS.
    The CHIEF COMMISSIONER granted certificates of discharge to the following insolvents, there being no opposition :-David Johnston Moorhead, of Melbourne, sharebroker ; John Hayes, late of Sale, now of Bairnsdale', Gipps Land, bricklayer ; Thomas Lotton, of Stratford, Gipps Land, carrier; Jeremiah Cullum, of Dunolly, late a publican and contractor, now out of business ; William Brown, of Malmsbury, publican ; and Thomas Crump, of Hawthorn, brickmaker.
35. ↑ INSOLVENT CERTIFICATES.
    
    On the motion of tho CHIEF COMMISSIONER, the Court allowed certificates, which have been granted, to William Brown, George Clyde, Jeremiah Cullum, David Bourke, and Thomas Crump ; and confirmed the election and appointment of Wm. Martin, as assignee of George Kingsland,
36. ↑ WANTED, a BRICKMAKER ; singlo man pre-ferred ; must keep sober. Apply Mr. Crump, Hawthorn.
37. ↑ This was at the time of his father-in laws death on whose death certificate he was listed the informant.
38. ↑ Thomas was living with his son Theophilus at the time of his death.
39. ↑ According to the police report Thomas, aged 59 was found dead in his bed by one of his own sons. It appeared he had been ailing for about the last twelve months from pains in his chest. He had gradually been getting worse and for the last few days felt very bad but was not confined to his bed. The police had no suspision that Thomas had met his death by unfair means.