Lower Barrington Rovers 1914
The Lower Barrington Rovers were football premiers in 1912, 1913 and 1914. This picture is of the 1914 team and was published in the Advocate on 13 May 1985 and in the 1985 book The Days of Our Youth: being a brief history of Lower Barrington with memories of students from the last years of the school's life by Three Old Scholars.
Over half of those pictured live somewhere in our family tree.
Front Row
Charlie Ivory:
Charles Edwin Ivory born 16 Feb 1866 and brother
of Alf and James
Jim Vincent
Jack Leary
Charlie Allison:
Son of Henry Allison and Emeline Page and brother in law of Edmund
Rockliff
Edmund Rockliff:
Edmund George Rockliff born 21 Nov 1894 Sheffield, son Henry
Rockliff and Bessie Lord.
Alf Ivory:
Alfred Joseph Ivory born
24 Jun 1890 and brother of Charlie and James.
Second Row
Mag Blackaby: William Magnus Blackaby born 21 Jul 1886 son
of William Blackaby and Sarah Reeves
Fred
Costelloe:
Frederick Costello born about 1891 to Richard
Costello and Hariett Jones, brother to Vic.
Les Bennett:
Probably Edwin Leslie Bennett born 18 Jun 1883, son of Thomas
Bennett and Sarah Cocker.
Jo Rutter:
Joseph Charles Pickering Rutter, born 17 Oct 1894 son of Thomas
Samuel Rutter and Louisa Cocker. Note dark colour. His WW1
colleagues thought his brother Watty was of Maori descent.
Herb Cocker:
Herbert John Cocker born 22 Jun 1889, son of John Cocker and
Rebecca Airey.
Con Leary
Murray Hutton
Charlie Williams
Third Row
Bill Cole nursing mascot Derrell. : Probably William Walter Cyril Cole born 9 Jun 1894, son of Henry Cole and Caroline
Jane Medcraft
Mascot Deril Ivory:
Deril James Ivory born Lower Barrington 29 Aug 1909 son of James
Thomas Patrick Ivory and Jane Bingham.
George O'Brien
Jack Sherriff
James Ivory:
James Thomas
Frederick Ivory born Sheffield 19 Feb 1881 (father of Derril) son
of James Thomas Ivory and Elizabeth Johnson Goss.
Whatty Rutter:
Walter Leonard Rutter (Watty) Rutter, son of Thomas Rutter and Louisa Cocker. After his death in
1916 in WW1 his twin sons returned from New Zealand and were
fostered by Thomas and Ethel Goss.
Bill
Bennet: Probably William Marson Bennet born 5 Aug 1891 son of
Thomas Bennett and Sarah Cocker and brother of Les Bennett.
Dick Macrow
Pat Mahoney: Probably Patrick Dennis Mahoney who married
Madge Irene French at Lower Barrington on 30
Jun 1917
Back Row
Vic Costelloe:
Victor Costello. Brother to Fred
Garn Walsh
Dick Elwood
John Cocker:
John Cocker born 22
May 1846, son of John Cocker and Sarah Elizabeth Briggs.
Harry Goss:
Henry Herbert (Harry) Goss born 24 Nov 1888 to Samuel Goss and Elizabeth Walker
Malcolm
McGuiness
Mac Moore:
Malcolm Samuel Moore
born 17 Dec 1877 to James Jessop Mawer and
Isabella Findlay. He married Annie Louisa Cocker.
Ken
Harkness
