Frederick Garling (1775 - 1848)

Born 17 Feb 1775 in Holborn, London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Spratt) Garling — married 14 Apr 1801 in Bloomsbury, London, England

Husband of Sarah Olivia (Wilkinson) Garling — married 15 Sep 1835 in St. Matthews Church, Windsor, New South Wales

Descendants

Died 2 May 1848 at age 73 in Aspinall Lodge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Frederick Garling is Notable.

Frederick was born in 1775. He was the son of Nicholas Garling and Elizabeth Spratt.

Birth 17 February 1775 : date from baptism record.

Baptism 16 March 1775 • St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England: "Frederick son of Nicholas & Elizabeth Garling".^[1]

1790 Articles of clerkship: his father is Nicholas Garling of King Street Bloomsbury, mantua maker.^[2]

Marriage: to Elizabeth Spratt, at Bloomsbury, London, on 14 April 1801.

They had children:

• Elizabeth Garling 1802–1881
• Carolyn Ann Garling 1803–1835
• Sophia Garling 1804–1856
• FREDERICK Garling 1806–1873
• Nicholas Garling 1809–1840

Legal career of  Frederick Garling (source:  Australian Dictionary of Biography)

Frederick Garling, solicitor, practised in London in New North Street, Red Lion Square, as an attorney in the Court of King's Bench and a solicitor in the Court of Chancery until 1814. In February of that year he and another London solicitor, William Moore, were selected to go to Sydney to conduct cases before the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction and the newly-established Supreme Court and Governor's Court.

On 20 October 1814 Garling embarked with his wife Elizabeth and five children in the Francis and Eliza. This ship was captured and plundered by an American privateer off the island of Madeira and as a result the Garling family did not reach Sydney until 8 August 1815,

On 11 December Lachlan Macquarie appointed Garling a magistrate of the colony and by a commission dated 12 December appointed him acting deputy judge advocate. Garling acted as deputy judge advocate 'with zeal, impartiality and integrity' according to Macquarie, until 5 October 1816 when John Wylde arrived and took up the duties of that office. Garling then reverted to the position of crown solicitor, in addition to which he enjoyed a large private practice.

In March 1824 Sir Thomas Brisbane appointed Garling clerk of the peace for the County of Cumberland. As such he attended all the Quarter Sessions held at Sydney, Parramatta, Campbelltown and Windsor, and was specially empowered to file informations in the name of the attorney-general. In January 1830 he was appointed crown prosecutor for the Courts of Quarter Sessions, and he acted in the double capacity of clerk of the peace and crown prosecutor at Quarter Sessions until September 1837. In October he was succeeded by George Holden as crown prosecutor. He remained clerk of the peace until January 1839 when his retirement was sanctioned by Governor Sir George Gipps on account of his old age and infirmity.

He served on several committees, including those of the Female and Male Orphan Institutions, the Native Institution, the Bible Society, the Sydney Dispensary and the Benevolent Society. He was granted 1200 acres (486 ha) by Macquarie in 1819, was a foundation member of the Australian Racing Club, and a shareholder in the Bank of New South Wales.  

On 9 June 1828 Garling's first wife Elizabeth, died at the age of 52.

Marriage: 15 September 1835 Garling married Sarah Olivia Wilkinson at Windsor NSW.^[3]  Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), Thursday 17 September 1835, page 3:^[4]

On Tuesday, the 15th of September instant, at Windsor church, by the Rev. Mr. Stiles, Frederick Garling Esq., of George-street, Sydney, to Sarah the third daughter of Thomas White Wilkinson, Esq., of Stonehouse, near Plymouth Devon, formerly of the 4th or King's own Regiment, and now of the Ordnance Department.  

His wife Sarah Garling died in September 1840.

Death of Frederick Garling:  2 May 1848, and buried 4 May 1848: the burial register of Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney has the following: Frederick Garling,  abode Elizabeth Street, aged 73, gentleman. He was buried in the Devonshire Street cemetery.

Death notice, Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wednesday 3 May 1848, page 4:

On the 2nd instant, at his residence, Aspinall Lodge, Elizabeth-street South, Frederick Garling, sen., Esq., in the 73rd year of his age.

Research Notes

Sydney Gazette 1815 page 2. Mr Garling whose arrival in the capacity of Solicitor of the Courts arrived per "Francis & Eliza"

Sydney Gazette 16.12.1815. Page 1. Appointed Mr Frederick Garling Esq. Justice Of the Peace & Magistrate throughout NSW . The said Frederick Garling Esq. to Deputy Judge Advocate. Mr Garling to receive a salary of 800 pounds sterling per annum to be paid half yearly from the police fund. ^[5]

Sydney Gazette 13.10.1829 Page 3. Mr Frederick married 10-10-1829 by Special Licence at St. Phillips Sydney to Elizabeth eldest daughter of the late Lieutenant Ward of the 1st. Regiment of Royal. She is the niece of the late General Hawkshaw in the Hon. East India Company's Service. ^[6]

Sydney Gazette 3.6.1840 Page 2. I have received your Dispatch No 3, of the 3rd of January, reporting the retirement of Mr. Garling from the office of Clerk of the Peace at New South Wales. Having conferred on this subject with the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, I have to convey to you the sanction of Her Majesty's Government of a retired Allowance of £300 per Annum, under the peculiar circumstances of his appointment, to that Office; and as it appears that his age and infirmities must wholly incapacitate him for re-employment in any Public Department in the Colony or elsewhere, Her Majesty's Government are prepared to sanction your further proposition respecting the commutation of such retiring Allowance for one equivalent payment in ready money. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Frederick Garling, CamdenSt George, Bloomsbury 1730-1775 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1624/images/31280_195170-00111?pId=1186291
2. ↑ UK, Articles of Clerkship, 1756-1874 for Frederick Garling, 1790 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2380/images/40180_612057_0115-00634?pId=61553
3. ↑ NSW Marriage registration index:  V18351442 19/1835 GARLING FRADERICK WILKINSON SARAH O (CC)
4. ↑ 1835 'Family Notices', The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), 17 September, p. 3. , viewed 07 Nov 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12853053
5. ↑ Classified Advertising (1815, December 16). The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 1. Retrieved September 12, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article629249
6. ↑ Family Notices (1829, October 13). The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 3. Retrieved September 12, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2193605
7. ↑ RETIRING ALLOWANCE TO FREDERICK GARLING, ESQ. (1840, June 3). The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), p. 2 (Supplement to The Sydney Herald ). Retrieved September 12, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12856493

• Joanna McIntyre, 'Garling, Frederick (1775–1848)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/garling-frederick-2079/text2603, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 7 November 2020.
• New South Wales Marriage Registrations, 1835, Fraderick Garling and Sarah O. Wilkinson. District: CC Ref: 1442/1835 V18351442 19. Accessed at NSW BDM (https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search)
• New South Wales Death Registrations, 1848, Frederick Garling. Age: 73. Ref: 177/1848 V1848177 33B. Accessed at NSW BDM (https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search)
• Family Notices (1848, May 3). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved September 12, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12907005
• Frederick Garling

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Barry Meadows for creating Garling-44 on 8 Nov 13. See the Changes page for the details of contributions by Barry, Heather Stevens and others.