Henry Charles Sampson was born in 1868 in Clunes, Victoria to William Sampson and Ellen Beattie/Beattey (Record 1437/1869). As a young man he moved to NSW, to work as a jackaroo. In 1871 he joined the NSW police.
Henry was described as "6 feet, 1 inch in height, with blue eyes, brown hair, sallow complexion, born in Clunes, single, protestant, previously a station hand".
In 1895, he worked as a police constable with Sergeant Thomas O'Brien in Peak Hill. In 1896 he resigned from NSW policeand joined the WA police. In 1898 he married Thomas O'Brien's daughter, Sarah Ellen (NSW BDM 4124/1898) and they livedin Perth. They had two children:
- Arthur J Sampson (born 1899, Subiaco Police Station, Bagot St); and
- Noel Edgar Sampson (born 1901). The house at Bulwer St is listed.
1903 appointed 2nd class detective.
1909 resigned from WA police. He ran a farm, with his family remaining in Bulwer St..
1913 he kept the farm, but left it to take up work as a Special Investigator with the PMG.
1928 he retired and lived with his wife "in a state of armed neutrality".
Early 1930s he sold the farm and later has a stroke and became an invalid.
He died in 1945.
NEWS ITEMS
1895 - MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF PEAK HILL.NOTICE is hereby given that Constable Henry Charles Sampson has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances, Inspector of Slaughter-houses and of cattle intended for slaughter, and Inspector under the Noxious Trades and Cattle Slaughtering Act of 1894.THOMAS RING, Mayor.Peak Hill, 5th April, 1895.
1945 - DEATHS. SAMPSON.
On April 20. 1945, at his residence, 200 Bulwer-street. Perth, Henry Charles, the dearly loved husband of Sarah Sampson, and devoted father of Arthur and Noel; aged 76 years. Privately interred in the Anglican portion of the Karrakatta Cemetery on Saturday, April 21. 1945. Arthur J. Purslowe and Co.
Source: The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) Monday 23 April 1945 p 1
