THE TRICKETTS
My TRICKETT Family Tree starts with James TRICKETT, who was
born in 1766 and married Jemima Walker in 1790 at Bradfield in Yorkshire.
They had ten children and one of them was John TRICKETT who
was baptised in Bradfield in 1793.
It has been difficult to locate John's family and I have no
evidence to say that all members have been found.
It could be that John and Maria TRICKETT baptised some of
their children at a non-conformist chapel but so far I have
no evidence of this. With the marriage of John
and Maria TRICKETT's son John Barber TRICKETT, who was for
some time Registrar of Births and Deaths at Bradfield,
records have been much easier to trace.
Tragedy
has always been close to my TRICKETT Family. In
1864 the Dale Dyke Dam at Bradfield burst and killed in
excess of 250 people - this disaster is now known as the
Sheffield Flood. Among its victims were
two of my great, great grandfather's cousins and their three
children. His uncle was also drowned and
his aunt and another cousin died in 1864 as a consequence of
the Flood. Another cousin was seriously
ill with a fever and had to have a leg amputated.
In 1867 John Barber TRICKETT died - he was only 45 years
old. His son John Thomas TRICKETT, who succeeded
him as Registrar, died in 1882 aged 38. My
great grandfather William, Henry TRICKETT died in Chesterfield
in 1884, aged 33, and was buried in St John’s
churchyard, six months before my Grandmother was born.
Emily
Mary TRICKETT was my Grandmother. In 1907 she eloped to marry
my Grandfather (Wilfred BARKER) who was working as a french
polisher in the Shipyards on the Mersey.
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