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Who Were Your Early Namesakes?
Researching Your Ancestors

The PickwickBicycle Club has been in continuous existence since its formation in
1870, and the soubriquets of its members have been faithfully passed down
from generation to generation. If you would like to receive the available history
of your soubriquet, please contact Joseph Smiggers at:
steve@stephenbullen.com and you will have the information by return

Henry Beller – toast-master temperance convert.

“'Henry Beller was for many years toast-master at various corporation dinners, during which
time he drank a great deal of foreign wine; may sometimes have carried a bottle or two home
with him; is not quite certain of that, but is sure if he did, that he drank the contents. Feels
very low and melancholy, is very feverish, and has a constant thirst upon him; thinks it must
be the wine he used to drink (cheers). Is out of employ now; and never touches a drop of
foreign wine by any chance (tremendous plaudits).”
J. Bonnick pre 1881
Thomas Grant Scarfe 1924 to 1953 President (1930) and sub-Captain for many years.
Hon. Sec. Fellowship of Old-Time Cyclists
E. Archer 1958 to 1961
G H Fleming 1963 to 1983
F Joe Summerlin 1983 to 2015

Young Edmunds - the son who is buried in the Dingley Dell churchyard.

“' A robbery of a daring and aggravated nature occasioned a vigilance of pursuit, and a
strictness of search, they had not calculated on. Young Edmunds was suspected, with three
companions. He was apprehended--committed--tried--condemned--to die. 'The wild and
piercing shriek from a woman's voice, which resounded through the court when the solemn
sentence was pronounced, rings in my ears at this moment. That cry struck a terror to the
culprit's heart, which trial, condemnation—the approach of death itself, had failed to
awaken. The lips which had been compressed in dogged sullenness throughout, quivered and
parted involuntarily; the face turned ashy pale as the cold perspiration broke forth from
every pore; the sturdy limbs of the felon trembled, and he staggered in the dock.”

J E Grose 1942 to 1958
C R Mitchell 1958 to 1980
Jeffrey W Hurst 1981 to 2002
Anthony Blyth 2004 to present