Family background
Edward Robert Stack was born on 7 August 1803 at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, the son of John Stack and Mary Sisk.
He arrived in Sydney aboard the ship, Recovery, on 30 July 1823. He married Sabina Palmer at Castlereagh, NSW on 17 April 1826. They had a 9 children. Sabina Stack died in September 1860, after a long illness, aged 60.
Just over a year later Edward married Sarah Ayers, the widow of John Ayers, of Parramatta. During the 1860s they lived in Nepean Cottage, Bourke Street, Redfern. Stack died on 2 January 1873, leaving a will.
Occupation & interests
Until about 1833 Edward Stack had been the assistant superintendent at Carter’s Barracks, on Pitt Street, Sydney (running along what is close to contemporary Eddy Avenue). The barracks comprised several buildings built to house convict gangs working as carters on the brick fields. It was also used, in this period, as a boys’ barracks. From 1833 to 1855 he was superintendent of the Benevolent Asylum.
Local government service
Edward Stack was elected as an alderman for the Surry Hills Ward, Redfern Council on 14 September 1859.
References
England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Souvenir to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the Municipality of Redfern, 1859-1909 Sydney, NSW, Redfern Municipal Council, 1909 (Sydney, McCarron, Stewart & Co.)
‘Redfern, Historic and Industrial Suburb’, Daily Telegraph, 12 May 1922, p. 4
‘Borough Councils’, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 April 1872, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13256458
‘Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction’, NSW Government Gazette, 10 January 1873 (No.10), p. 81, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230046651
‘Old Sydney’, Truth, 26 February 1911, p. 12, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168733190
‘Family Notices’, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 September 1860, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13045345
‘Family Notices’, Sydney Mail, 30 November 1861, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166694419
‘Family Notices’, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 January 1873, p. 7, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13309871
NSW State Archives: NRS-13660-1-[14/3483]-Series 1_9817: Edward Robert Stack, Date of death 2 January 1873, Granted on 11 February 1873