Julia Kick was born in Vancouver, B.C., Canada on the 29th of May 1900. Her father, Augustus Charles Kick emigrated to Canada from Monmouthshire, a British county that straddled the Welsh and English borders. Her mother, Mary Isabella Downes, was also an English emigre. Mary and Augustus married in Vancouver in 1897 and Julia was the first of three children: Augustus Charles, or "Justus" was born in 1899, and Mary Isabella, was born in 1901.
Augustus Sr., worked as a marine engineer onboard various merchant ships and was often absent from home. The 1901 Canadian Census recorded the family living in the city of Vancouver however, within the next two years, Augustus Sr., would move to San Francisco while the rest of the family traveled to England and Wales before joining him there in 1903.
Tragically, in 1907, wife and mother, Mary Kick died from cancer at age 38 and is buried at Cypress Lawn Cemetery in San Francisco. In 1908, Augustus moved back to Vancouver with his children.
By 1921, Julia was living in New York and working as a stenographer. Mary Kick was living in Canada where she would marry and become Mary Craig. Justus Kick left Canada for England 1916 where he would serve with the Royal Air Force during WWI, returning to the United States in 1919.
Augustus Sr., died in 1944 and is buried in Victoria, B.C., Canada. Justus died in 1973 and is buried in Comox, B.C., Canada, and Mary Kick Craig died in 1991 and is buried in Colwood, B.C., Canada.
The 1940 U.S. Census shows that Julia is still single and living and working in New York.
Julia Kick died at St. Vincent's Manhattan on the 30th of December 1986 and was buried on Hart Island on the 11th of February 1987.
