Frederick Moffatt READ (OH's MMMF)

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Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Frederick Moffatt READ

Date and place of birth
8 Oct 1837, Dublin Ireland

Names of parents
George Read (born Walmer Kent) and Eliza Fanny Rice (born Longford Ireland)

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
not found

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
"Sydney 1861", so stated by his "wife" Eliza GURREN in Jun 1864, when she registered their daughters birth.

Occupation(s) - if any
Clerk in the NSW Immigration Dept, 1854

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
no census records
1848 - arrived Sydney NSW per "Sir Edward Parry".His mother Mrs Read was the matron of the Irish children sent out to join their parents. She later married the Religous Instructor of the voyage, Edward Capps.
1854 - employed by NSW Immigration Dept as Clerk at the Female Immigration Depot, Hyde Park Barrarcks, Sydney (60pounds per annum). His mother was also Matron of the Depot (1848-1854) and Edward Capps also a Clerk there (1848-1852, then Post Master at Sofala NSW).
1864 - daughter Eliza born
1866 - son George born
1868 - son Alfred born
Feb 1869 - son Alfred dies
Sep 1869 - "wife" Eliza remarries under maiden name.
1898 - sister Jemima states he is deceased on their mothers death certificate.[/

Date, place and cause of death
not know possibly 1887


Date and place of burial / cremation.
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any
for all see above

As Edward Capps left the Immigration Dept for the goldfields town of Sofala, I have wondered if Frederick did also, but there is no trace of him.

His mother, Mrs Capps, appears in the Sydney Sands Directories running a Servants Registry Office from 1861-1873. Edward Capps returned to Sydney before 1855, when he was charged with indecent assault and jailed for 3 years. He disappeared after his release in 1858, but was very interested in the disappearance of Ludwig Leichhardt in northern Australia. I wondered if Mrs Capps sent her daughter-in-law, Eliza and three children off to work on a property on the Liverpool Plains far from Sydney, which is where she married in Sep 1869 and stayed until 1882.