Icke
Challenge Cup Competition
Career: 1865 - 1870
Ike/Icke/Ick/Iek/Jek?
Little is known about this player.
His name appears on a team list of players for this year.
There is very little information about the players in Carlton teams prior to 1868.
1865 May 25
Ick is named in the 25 man Carlton squad to play the Warehousmen at Royal Park.
1866 July 07
Ick is named in the Carlton Second Twenty (or Carlton Reserves) squad to play East Collingwood at Princes Park.
1867 August 31
Icke was named the best Carlton player in a mixed Carlton team that played the Pentridge Football Club at Royal Park.
1870 May 28
Iek/Ick/Ike? is named in the 23 man Carlton Reserves team that played Collingwood at Royal Park.
1870 June 18
Jek/Ick? is named in the Carlton Reserves to play Albert Park at Albert Park.
Could be,
Thomas Edwin Icke, his father lived in Carlton.
Born 1846 Antigua. Died 20 November 1907, Claremont WA.
This person became a Reverend in 1871. (RofAd)
At the 1866 Queen Victoria's birthday celebrations held at the old Exhibition Buildings Melbourne, the guest list mentions
Thomas Edwin Ick attended with W. Ievers (Argus 25 May p5)
Probably William Ievers (Jnr) MLA Carlton vice president and State politician to be.
The Rev. T. E. Ick was working at Geelong West in 1872
He was at the Wesleyan Parsonage at Eaglehawk Vic. in January 1876
His wife gave birth to a son at Eaglehawk on 05 July 1876 (Geelong Adv. 12 July)
On Trove there is a pamphlet about the history of the Albert Park Presbyterian Church.
It says, "Rev. T. E. Ick M.A. on gaining his medical degree resigned his pastorate in January 1889.
The Murchison Advertiser 06 September 1902 (p2) reports from Peak Hill WA,
"At last we have a doctor again (Dr. Ick) ...."
Newspaper articles indicate there was more than one Dr. Ick in Western Australia at this time.
The name Dr. E. Ick appears in a WA govt. list of settlers (1904) in the Peak Hill area, which is approx 150km to the east of Errivilla. (same person?)
Dr. Thomas Edwin Ick M.A.M.B.B.S. husband of Gertrude E. Ick, aged 61 died 20 November 1907
Buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery Perth, Presby. Section. (West Australian 21 November p1)
Residence was "Errivilla" on the Perth - Fremantle Road, Claremont.
Errivilla is/was a sheep station 188km north west of Meekatharra in the Upper Gascoyne region of Western Australia. It is near the town of Gascoyne Junction and Mt. Augusta. Perhaps Ick worked in the area?
Peak Hill was a thriving gold mining area, now a ghost town, 120km north of Meekatharra.
Ancestry.com has, Ick born 1846 Antigua, died Claremont 20 Nov 1907
Antigua is an island in the West Indies.
M.A.M.B.B.S. meaning - M.A. Master of Arts, M.B. Bachelor of Medicine, B.S. Bachelor of Surgery.
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