A Loveluck Excursion |
If you are familiar with the Hambleden-Tasmania Tree then you will have come across Henry Lovelock, the son of Martin and Ann (nee Lappeth) who was baptised at Hambleden in Buckinghamshire on 10 Jun 1787.
Henry married Amey Makey in St George's, Hanover Square, Middlesex on 31 Jul 1815, the groom signing as Henry Loveluck, and his presumed brother Thomas, who was a witness, also signing as a Loveluck. The Register image at Findmypast on which we base our knowledge of the wedding is very clear.
We have details of three of their children who were baptised in St George's: Catharine Elizabeth was recorded as the daughter of Henry and Amey Loveluck, George as the son of Henry and Amey Lovelock, and Martin the son of Henry and Amy Loveluck.
Just why the Loveluck version was taken up we will probably never know, and so far as we do know there is no link between this family and the Lovelock who went to South Wales and began what we consider to be the main Loveluck family.
In 1847 Henry married again, to Sarah Fisher, being recorded once again as a Loveluck. We seem not to have found the couple in the 1851 Census, but in 1861 the Enumerator very clearly recorded the surname as Lovelock.
At his death Henry was recorded as Loveluck, the version also rendered in the Probate records.
Henry and Amey's son George seems to have spent most of his life as a Loveluck, the only aberration being in the 1841 Census. He married Martha Wilding in 1858 , and their son Harry George was born on 27 Nov 1859. In his turn Harry George, always a Loveluck as far as we know, married Elizabeth Rice in Lymington, Hampshire in 1883 and their son Harry Frederick Loveluck was born in Putney, Surrey on 5 Oct 1883.
On 3 Jun 1905 Harry Frederick married Mary Eldridge Abbott, and on 18 Aug 1905 they emigrated to Tasmania, aboard the Peninsular and Orient Steamship Navigation Company's SS Britannia.
Harry George died in 1885 and in 1887 his widow Elizabeth married James Thomas Porter.
Kahren Quickenden, a great-granddaughter of James Thomas Porter and Elizabeth, has very kindly provided a copy of papers gathered by her father which contain information by and about Harry George and Harry Frederick Loveluck, which she has agreed may be made available to all Lovelocks and Lovelucks as a matter of interest.
The papers, which include reproductions of letters, newspaper cuttings and photographs, also include a fascinating diary kept by Harry Frederick during the voyage from England to Tasmania.
This wonderful collection may be accessed through the following link: