A coincidence of Trickett's or more?
Most days I review the "significant events" that have happened around that date on my ever growing family history data base! Today was the day to take a closer look at Oliver William Trickett.... Oliver will be know to some of our cousins as he married Shirley Prince in 1955 in North Sydney. Shirley was the daughter of Violet Manning Prince (nee Webb), grand-daughter of Chris Webb and great-granddaughter of William Webb Wagg and his wife Sarah Turner. Here's a pedigree chart for Shirley from my tree on ancestry.com.au. Sarah Webb (nee Turner's) sister, Jane, married John Trickett. We know that the Webb Wagg and Trickett families were close. Their children were baptised on the same day at St Thomas's North Sydney many times, Webb Waggs are informants on Trickett death registrations and vice versa and, as in this case, witnesses at marriages. Here's the parish register from Christ Church Lavender Bay. It records the wedding ...