Amelia (Cole) Cook
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Amelia (Cole) Cook (abt. 1791 - 1841)

Amelia Cook formerly Cole aka Hatfield, Day, Smith
Born about in Suffolk, Englandmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 24 Apr 1809 in St Mary le Strand, Middlesex, England, United Kingdommap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , and
Died at about age 50 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australiamap
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Biography

Amelia (Cole) Cook was a convict after the Third Fleet.

Amelia was born about 1791 in Suffolk, England.

Marriage: Amelia Cole, spinster married "John Robey", widower on 24 April 1809 at St Mary Le Strand, Westminster.[1] John Robey was also known as John Hatfield.

Their son "John Robey" was born on 11 March 1810, and baptised on 30 September 1810.[2]

Amelia and John also had children: Harriet (born about 1811) and Thomas (born about 1814).

Amelia Hatfield was convicted at the Old Bailey on 25 May 1814 for possession of a forged £1 bank note, and was sentenced to transportation for 14 years.[3] The Old Bailey trials can be seen here and here.

The Bank of England encouraged offenders to plead guilty and receive a 14 year sentence rather than the death sentence. The bank also provided charitable donations to the prisoners. Amelia wrote to them from Newgate prison on 3 December 1814, that she had been told that they will do something for her and she sent thanks in anticipation.[4]

There was an allegation that Amelia Hatfield and Ann Bailey were in possession of forged bank notes within Newgate Prison,[5] and that her husband John Hatfield and his brother Thomas were involved.[6]

Amelia was transported with her three children on the Northampton which left England in December, 1814, and arrived Sydney NSW on 18th June 1815. Amelia was described in the convict indent of the ship as age 23, servant, native place Suffolk.[7] Her children were John age 6, Harriett 4, Thomas 9 months.[8]

They disembarked on 18 June and were sent to the Female Factory in Parramatta.[9]

Her husband John Hatfield and his brother Thomas were also convicted for the possession of forged bank notes and were transported on the Baring, which left England in April 1815 and arrived Sydney NSW on 7 September 1815.

Her husband John Hatfield died on 15 March 1817 and was buried at Liverpool.

Amelia, now a widow, gave birth to a son, George in about July 1817, and he died on 17 September 1818, aged 14 months, and was buried at Liverpool.[10]

In 1818 Amelia Hatfield and William Hill (convict Admiral Gambier) applied for permission to marry at Liverpool.[11]

On 1 January 1819 her son John was admitted to the Male Orphan School.

In 1819 Amelia Hatfield and John Parker (Atlas) applied for permission to marry at Liverpool (approved by Governor Macquarie).[12]

On 3 April 1820 Amelia Hatfield and John Cook (free) applied for permission to marry at Sydney (approved by Governor Macquarie). [13]

Marriage: On 24 April 1820 Amelia Hatfield, aged: 28 years, widow married John Cook, aged 32 years, bachelor, farmer, both residents of Sydney, at St Philips Church of England, Sydney by Banns by William Cowper. Amelia signed the register with a confident signature, and John marked with a cross. Witnesses were H L Printz, and Margret Adcock.[14]

On 8 January 1823 Amelia Hatfield was working as a servant in Parramatta when she petitioned for her eight year old son Thomas Hatfield to be admitted to Male Orphan Institution. He was there until August 1831 when he ran away to his mother in Sydney.[15]

By 1825 she was living in a de facto relationship with William Smith (General Hewitt 1814) in Sydney. In the 1825 muster she was listed as "wife of Wm Smith, Kent St".

Amelia received her Certificate of Freedom on 29 May 1828.[16] This certificate had the information that her trade or calling was "servant & needle worker" and her description: 5ft 3½in, fair ruddy complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes.

In the 1828 Census Amelia Hatfield was listed as age 33, protestant, free by servitude, ship Northampton, 1815, 14 years sentence. Householder, at Clarence St. Sydney, with her de facto husband William Smith 33 (General Hewitt 1814), her son John Hatfield, 18, (came free on ship Northampton, 1815), and George Salmon 30, (ship Guilford 1822).[17]

By 1841 Amelia was living in a de facto relationship with Mark Day in Sydney.

Death: Amelia Cook alias Day died on 9 June 1841 from burns received after her de facto husband Mark Day hit her and she fell into a fire. A jury at her inquest found him guilty of her murder.[18] However Mark Day was acquitted for her murder when he was tried in the Supreme Court in July 1841.[19][20]

Burial: Amelia Cook was buried 10 June 1841 in the Sydney burial ground in Devonshire/Elizabeth Street (known as the Sandhills cemetery). Her burial was registered at St James, Sydney: Amelia Cook, age 47 years, residence Market Street.[21] When the cemetery was closed in 1901 for Central railway station, her grave was moved to Rookwood Necropolis (arranged by her grandson George Henry Jones, son of her daughter Harriet).[22][23]

Research Notes

Is Mark Day the same as Marcellas Day b. abt 1802 NSW - d. 1880? The Gaol Description Book for 1841 has the same description as Marcellas's gaol record of 1832, however the 1841 record has his birth year 1816.[24][25]

Sources

  1. ↑ London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for John Robey, Westminster St Mary Le Strand 1813-1826 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1623/images/31547_212709-00067?pId=10103284
  2. ↑ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for John Robey, Westminster St Martin in the Fields 1800-1811 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1624/images/31547_213346-00143?pId=10433568
  3. ↑ Old Bailey Proceedings Online (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 13 August 2020), May 1814, trial of AMELIA HATFIELD (t18140525-16).
  4. ↑ Records of the Bank of England (as filmed by the AJCP [microform] : [M2924-2970] 1875-1992./Series F/Subseries F 25/File 3/Prison Correspondence (Freshfield Papers, F25) https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1153357219/view and https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1153314910/view (image 70)
  5. ↑ Community contributors, Convict Records database https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/bailey/ann/103013
  6. ↑ Records of the Bank of England, Freshfield Papers, F25, Memo about husband Hatfield https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1153336839/view (image 36), followed by letters from the informer Martha Bromwell re visits to the prison by Hatfield and his brother. see also image 47.
  7. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 for Amelia Hatfield, Bound Indentures 1814-1818 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2024/images/32082_223755__0001-00033?pId=18232
  8. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856, Main Series of Letters Received, 1788-1826 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1905/images/32086_228447-00224?pId=22360
  9. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856, Copies of Letters Sent Within The Colony, 1814-1827, https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1905/images/32086_228406-00382?pId=145068
  10. ↑ Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1814-2011 for George Hatfield, Liverpool St Luke Composite 19 May 1811 - 07 July 1823 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/61177/images/45578_liv%5Eco18111823-00032?pId=231585
  11. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856, Copies of Letters Sent Within The Colony, 1814-1827 https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/143658:1905?_phsrc=Dlw13081&_phstart=successSource&gsln=hatfield&ml_rpos=1&queryId=501cb5c718466410031fb752cea7e11e
  12. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856, Copies of Letters Sent Within The Colony, 1814-1827 https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/160881:1905?_phsrc=Dlw13082&_phstart=successSource&gsln=hatfield&ml_rpos=6&queryId=501cb5c718466410031fb752cea7e11e
  13. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Copies of Letters Sent Within The Colony, 1814-1827 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1905/images/32086_228409-00196?pId=164644
  14. ↑ St Philip's Church of England, Sydney NSW: Church Register - Marriages; ML ref: Reel SAG 90, cited in [Biog Item No. 300031138] Biographical Database of Australia (BDA) https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/biographical-report/30003113802?f=amelia&l=cook&ol=&i=3&s=&p=
  15. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Applications and Admissions to Orphan Schools, 1817-1833, Male Admission Books https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1676/images/30517_081769-00423?pId=854
  16. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1814, 1827-1867 (NRS 12210) Butts of Certificates of Freedom 1828 May https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1689/images/31801_216687-00507?pId=1248
  17. ↑ Biographical Database of Australia (BDA) https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/biographical-report/10013314701?f=amelia&l=hatfield&ol=&i=3&s=&p=
  18. ↑ 1841 'INQUEST.', The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), 12 June, p. 3. , viewed 12 Sep 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2553591
  19. ↑ 1841 'LAW INTELLIGENCE.', The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), 14 July, p. 2. , viewed 12 Sep 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12869995
  20. ↑ Biographical Database of Australia (BDA) https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/index-search-results?f=amelia&l=cook&ol=&i=3&s=&p=
  21. ↑ Amelia Cook, Residence: Market Street [Sydney]; Died: 9 Jun 1841; Buried: 10 Jun; 1841 Age: 47 years Gender: F; W H Walsh; Registered at St James, Religion: Church of England; Registered at Sydney NSW AUS; List number: 102; Vol. number 025; Volume entry number: 025/00318. Church Register: NSW Sydney St James Burials 1832-1856; ref: ML - SAG Reels 0061 & 0136 cited in https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/biographical-report/33011208501?f=amelia&l=cook&ol=&i=3&s=&p= [Biog Item No. 330112085]
  22. ↑ Sydney Burial Ground 1819-1901 and History of Sydney's Early Cemeteries from 1788 by Keith A Johnson and Malcolm R Sainty, LAH 2001, Sydney. Transcribed from original volume now held by SRNSW. Book entry number: 1168. cited in Biographical Database of Australia (BDA) https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/biographical-report/40001052401?f=amelia&l=cook&ol=&i=3&s=&p=
  23. ↑ Rookwood Cemetery transcripts https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=ANZ%2FSAUG_ROOKWOOD%2F137141
  24. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930 Description Book, Darlinghurst 1841-1849 https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/186057:1783?_phsrc=Dlw12974&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=mark&gsln=day&ml_rpos=1&queryId=404fa801ca24e0f74db5f7ccbd89b0ea
  25. ↑ Purnell, Marion, Australian Royalty database, "Marcellas Day, 1802–1880" https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccord.ged/individual/I9794/Marcellas-Day

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Grave of Amelia Cook, and her daughter Harriet Jones and family
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