Henry Pocock (c.1812/16- )
Personal details
Gender:
Male
Notes:
Later name (after 1871) —
On 15 March 1871 Pocock married another woman in Warrnambool. Sometime after January 1872 he changed his surname. Elizabeth’s 1870 marriage to Henry Pocock was most likely bigamous, on her part (because John Morgan was probably still alive, and William Stains was certainly still alive, although Elizabeth and William apparently never formally married). Henry Pocock, a butcher (presumably the same one) is referenced in passing in an article on the Taradale police court in the Mount Alexander Mail in February 1862, which may explain where Elizabeth and Henry met for the first time, when the Morgan family were based in Elphinstone, or they may have met even earlier in the late 1850s in Collingwood. In the 1854 Fitzroy rate book Pocock is listed in partnership with Coleman as a butcher on Gertrude street.
- Henry Henry
On 15 March 1871 Pocock married another woman in Warrnambool. Sometime after January 1872 he changed his surname. Elizabeth’s 1870 marriage to Henry Pocock was most likely bigamous, on her part (because John Morgan was probably still alive, and William Stains was certainly still alive, although Elizabeth and William apparently never formally married). Henry Pocock, a butcher (presumably the same one) is referenced in passing in an article on the Taradale police court in the Mount Alexander Mail in February 1862, which may explain where Elizabeth and Henry met for the first time, when the Morgan family were based in Elphinstone, or they may have met even earlier in the late 1850s in Collingwood. In the 1854 Fitzroy rate book Pocock is listed in partnership with Coleman as a butcher on Gertrude street.
Relationships
Marriage date:
24 February 1870
Notes:
Henry Pocock was fifteen years older than Elizabeth and a very recent widower, with a married daughter and fifteen-year-old son; no doubt he wanted another domestic to look after his house and son. Elizabeth still had her children Gabriel, 8½, and Fanny, 2½, to look after. Elizabeth’s use of the surname Morgan at her father’s inquest three months after marrying suggests that the marriage may already have fallen apart in that short space of time.
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