Edward "Ned" Trickett - 1876 World Skulling Champion
Family interest has been sparked by the mention of the Trickett name!
The last post covered the marriage of Jane Turner (sister of our Sarah) and John Trickett.
John was the oldest of the six children of George Trickett (abt 1813 to 1881) and Mary Anna Evans (abt 1815 to 1890).
In 1833, George was sentenced to death for "break, enter and steal" in Lincolnshire, England. This was communted to transportation for life. George arrived in Sydney Cove on 16 February 1834.
In 1844, George married Mary Anna Evans who was born in County Limerick, Ireland about 1815.
George and Mary's six children all survived to adulthood which was unusual for those times - John (1845 to 1891), William (1848 to 1917), George (1848 to 1902), Edward "Ned" (1851 to 1916), Sara Mary (1853 to 1896) and Eliza Jane (1855 to 1938).
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| The family of George and Mary Trickett |
Edward "Ned" Trickett was George and Mary's fourth and youngest son. He won the world sculling championship on the Thames in 1876 to become the first Australian world champion in any sport.
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The Sculling Match at Sydney for the Championship of the World - 1877
Ned's sporting achievements are widely recognised but there is a lot more to Ned's story as the description attached to the above poster tells-
Edward 'Ned' Trickett (1851 - 1916), sculler and hotelier, was the best sculler in New South Wales by 1875. Taken to England by James Punch, an innkeeper from Sydney, he won the world championship on the Thames in June 1876 to become the first Australian world champion in any sport. On his return to Sydney he was greeted by 25 000 people. In June 1877 he retained his championship against Michael Rush, a fellow Australian, on the Parramatta river, with some 50 000 spectators in attendance. During a period as licensee of Trickett's Hotel and later the International Hotel on the corner of King and Pitt streets, he suffered a crushed hand when a keg rolled onto him; he is said to have amputated his own finger. After one more world championship win in August 1879 he entered onto a series of losses in the early 1880s, when William Beach was the coming man. In all Trickett amassed than 150 trophies; his image was reproduced on cigarette cards and his achievements were noted in verse and song. He moved to Rockhampton, where he ran the Oxford Hotel, but returned to Sydney where he worked in various low-level government jobs. A Salvationist and a teetotaller, of magnificent size and appearance, he had eight sons and three daughters. While visiting one of his sons at Uralla, he died from injuries sustained when a mineshaft fell in on him. His friends and admirers paid for a marble monument standing ten and a half feet high over his grave in Uralla, inscribed '... a man justly honoured by all who knew him, as a noble type of sportsman, and an equally noble type of citizen.'
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http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/sport/display/23585-edward-trickett |
And to answer the final question, Libby Trickett, the swimming champion, is married to Luke Trickett a descendant of William - George and Mary's second son.
