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A young George Krick with his mother Theresa Wilhelmina and
Julia May Krick nee Wright in the 1940s.
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Born at Carngham Julia married John George Frederick Krick (1866-1938) there in 1894. According to the 'Burdett Family Tree' on Ancestry.com, George's father, George Frederick Krick (1840-1900), came from Potsdam in Germany. His mother, Theresa Wilhelmina Zimmer (1844-1914), was from Dresden. His great granddaughter, Helen Bretherton, tells us George was born at Rocky Lead (which is at Rocklyn, some 5km north of Ballarat) and worked as a baker. She adds that, like most chefs, George was fond of his food and, as a consequence, grew very large; 'there is a great family story of him getting stuck in a seat at the cinema'. Despite or perhaps because of his size, he was much loved by his family who remember him as being both gentle and jovial.
As the photo below shows, George and Julia owned for a time a bakery at Snake Valley although the Australian electoral rolls and the birth of their nine children indicate they spent most of their married life at Ballarat (where they lived on Ascot St). George died at the Melbourne suburb of Eltham in 1938 but is buried at Ballarat. As the following death notice, published in the Melbourne Argus on 11 November 1948 indicates, his wife Julia died at Ballarat ten years later: 'KRICK. On November 10 (suddenly), at her residence, 221 Ascot St. South Ballarat, Julia May, widow of the late George Krick, and loving mother of George, Daisy (deceased), Dorrie, Vera (Mrs. Renfrey), Trissie (Mrs. Kerr), Gilbert, Albert, Ronald, and Eva (Mrs. Misson)'. She, too, is buried in the Old Cemetery at Ballarat.
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A young George Krick with his mother Theresa Wilhelmina and
Julia May Krick nee Wright in the 1940s.
George Krick outside his bakery at Snake Valley.
The woman standing behind George is probably his wife Julia.
George and Julia had nine children (pictured together with their parents in the photo below):
1) George Krick jnr (1894-1967) who married Elsie May Branston in around 1920 probably in Ballarat. The 'Palmer Family Tree' on Ancestry has Elsie's parents as William Henry Branston (1865-1938), who was born at Warwick in England, and Sarah Elizabeth Hearn (1865-1941) who were married in Victoria in 1893 and both died in Ballarat. The Australian electoral rolls show that after their marriage George and Elsie lived at Ballarat until 1936 when they moved to the Melbourne suburb of Carlton where George worked as a nurseryman at the local cemetery. In 1942 George, then working as a florist, and Elsie were living on Hampton St in Sandringham. The 1954 roll shows George, Elsie and their daughter Joyce Beverley Krick, a clerk, at 84 Canterbury Road in Deepdene where George was employed as a nurseryman. They remained at Deepdene until George's death in 1967. Elsie lived the remainder of her life in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood. The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries website shows both she and George are buried at the Burwood cemetery.
2) Daisy May Krick (1896-1941) married Henry Herbert Whiting (1894-1955) in 1920. The Australian War Memorial database shows that Henry had enlisted in the 1st AIF on 9 November 1915 and left Melbourne on the HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916 as part of the 15th reinforcements for the 8th Infantry Battalion. His military record held by the Australian Archives shows Henry was born in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton in 1894, was working as a labourer on enlistment and had served previously with the city's 52nd Scottish Regiment Citizen Forces. Henry arrived at Plymouth in England on 16 June 1916 and underwent further training at Rollerstone in Leicestershire. Following a stint in the Fargo Military Hospital at Birmingham he was transferred to the 65th Battalion and proceeded overseas in August 1917 as part of the reinforcements for the 37th Battalion. He again spent time in hospital in France before being gassed in May 1918 while serving with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion. He was repatriated to England where he spent time in the Dartford Hospital before returning to Australia on the HMAT Shropshire and being discharged from the Army in June 1919.
The Australian electoral rolls show Daisy and Henry lived at Ballarat and later Port Melbourne where Henry worked as railwayman. Helen Bretherton tells us that Henry 'did a runner when mum was quite small and so the family lived in poverty in Port Melbourne. Daisy was often ill with a kidney condition and died when she was only 44. Mum spent a lot of time living with her maternal grandparents Julia and George Krick in Ballarat, moving in full-time at 14 after Daisy's death'. Henry remained in Melbourne and re-married sometime between 1943 and 1949. A letter on his military file, dated 11 December 1961 and written by the solicitors Gilbert, Field and Warne, indicates he also abandoned his second wife, Olive May Whiting, who, genuinely or otherwise, believed he had been killed in action in the Second World War. Like so much else in his life, this turned out to be false. Henry died in the Heidelburg Repatriation Hospital in Melbourne on 29 December 1955. According to Helen Bretherton, Daisy and Henry had two children: 1) Edwin George Whiting (1921-2008) who served in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War; and 2) Helen's mother Olwyn Madge Whiting who was born in 1924, married Patrick Lynch (1921-90) and had four children.
3) Dora Jane ('Dorrie') Krick (1898-1966). The electoral rolls show that Dora (pictured below with her mother) lived and worked as a nurse at the Wendouree mental hospital until the late 1950s when she moved to Port Melbourne to live with her younger sister Vera Renfrey and her family. She died in Melbourne in 1966 and was cremated at the Altona crematorium. We don't think she married.
4) Catherine Vera Maude Krick (1900-82) married Frederick George Renfrey (1899-1955) in 1922. According to the 'Burdett Family Tree' on Ancestry, Frederick's parents were Mark Renfrey (1860-1916) and Jemima Jane Magor (1867-1945) who were born respectively at Gumeracha and Yankalilla in South Australia. The 1924 electoral roll chows Vera and Frederick George, a draper's assistant, living on Hurd St in Portland (interestingly another Catherine Vera Maude Renfrey was registered as living at Woomelang in Victoria). In 1936 Vera and Frederick, now said to be a draper, were at Quambatook. By 1936 they too had moved to Port Melbourne where Frederick was working as a packer. From 1949 to 1954, they were registered as living at 253 The Boulevard Port Melbourne along with their daughter Barbara Winifred Renfrey who worked as a packer. Vera and Frederick and their young family are shown in the photo below (the baby is Colin King's mother).
Julia May Krick nee Wright with her daughter Dora Jane ('Dorrie') Krick, Daisy May Whiting nee Krick and
Vera and Frederick Rebfrey and their young family.
5) Theresa Krick (1902-85) married Walter James Kerr (1900-61), the son of James Mathew Kerr (1859-1931) and Margaret Ann Hunter (1839-1935), in 1926. The 1936 electoral roll shows Walter James, a dairyman, and Theresa were living at Warrenheip (on the outskirts of Ballarat) in Victoria. The following year they moved to Linton (near Snake Valley) Where Walter died in 1961. Theresa continued to live at Linton until her death in 1985. Like Walter she was cremated at Ballarat. She and Walter had two sons we are aware of: Walter James jnr, farmer, and Ivan George Kerr, woolclasser (the electoral rolls show Walter, Ivan and the latter's wife, Eileen Mary Kerr, living at Linton in 1980).
6) Gilbert John Krick (1905-86) married Ballarat-born Olive Phoebe Francis (1907-97) in 1931. The 'Day Family Tree on Ancestry tells us Olive was the youngest daughter of Thomas Francis (1866-1943) and Phoebe Ann Goddard (1876-1937) who were married in Victoria in 1896 and had five children. The Australian electoral rolls show the couple lived in Melbourne after their marriage (at Malvern, Glen Iris and Carnegie). Helen Bretherton has Gilbert dying at Caringbah in Sydney in 1986. The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust shows that a Gilbert J. Krick who died on 14 November 1986 was cremated at Altona on 8 December 1988. Olive died in Melbourne in 1997 and was cremated at the Springvale Botanical Cemetery. We don't know if she and Gilbert had any children.
7) Albert Krick (1907-94) married Nellie Mavis Veitch Jones (1910-55) in 1922. The 'Randells and Turners and Beyond' Family Tree on Ancestry says that Nellie's parents were an unknown Veitch and Eliza Fry Jones (1876-1947). The 1931 electoral roll shows Albert, a dairyman, and his wife Mavis Nellie living at Warrenheip near Ballarat. They both died and were cremated at Ballarat, Mavis in 1889 and Albert in 1994. They had two daughters we are aware of: 1) Margaret Jewell Krick, who was working as a teacher at Ballarat in 1954 and Ararat in 1963; and 2) Norma Lyle Krick (1933-73) who married Geoffrey William George Urquhart (1930-89) and had three children before her death in Ballarat.
8) Ronald Krick (1911-76), a machine setter and metal worker, lived in Melbourne with his wife Beryl Estelle, a cashier. Ronald died at Box Hill in Melbourne in 1976. As the following tribute posted in Melbourne's Herald Sun on 10 November 2010 indicates, Beryl died at Maleny near the Sunshine Coast in Queensland: KRICK. - Beryl Estelle. Passed away in Maleny, Qld on Nov. 7, 2010, aged 90. Loved wife of Ron (dec), loved mother of Judy, Peter, Noel and David, grandmother to eight, great grandmother to nine. You will be sadly missed and never forgotten. A funeral will be held on Monday in Caloundra, Qld.
9) Eva Krick (1913-96) a textile worker, was living with her parents at Ballarat at the time of the 1936 election. According to Ray Hutchinson's 'Family Tree February 2008' on Ancestry, she married Arthur Morris Misson (1909-93) at St Jude's Church in Carlton in 1940. The website adds that Arthur's father, Arthur Misson (1867-1922) was born at Corinella in Victoria and married Gertrude Alice ('Gerte') Densley (1880-1967) at Kilcunda in 1907. The 1943 roll has Arthur Morris, a grocer, and his mother Gertrude Alice Misson both registered as living on Jeffrey St in Leongatha in Victoria whereas Eva Misson was living on Bellingham Street. The couple remained in Leongatha for the remainder of their lives, Arthur dying there in 1993 and Eva in 1996. Their respective funeral plaques at the local cemetery show they had two sons, Alan and George Misson.
Supplied to us by one of their descendants, Colin King, this photo is of George and Julia Krick (nee Wright) and their family.
It was taken, Colin thinks, 'sometime around the Great War or just after'.
Back row L/R: Albert, Theresa, Vera, George, Dora and Daisy. Front row: Ronald, George snr, Julia, Eva and Gilbert.
Image sources:
'Theresa and George Krick', 'Julia May Bodger Krick nee Wright' and 'Daisy May Krick', from Helen Bretherton's 'Bretherton Family Tree' on Ancestry.
'George Krick's bakery', from Hugh Anderson, The Flowers of the Field: A History of Ripon Shire (Melbourne: Hill of Content Publishing Company, 1969).
'Julia and Dora Crick', the 'Renfrey family' and the 'Krick family', courtesy of Colin King.
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