Notable TROTTs – Past & Present
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Jonathan TROTT
Jonathan TROTT is a former England Test Cricketer. He was a right handed top-order batsman and prior to his retirement he used to play for Warwickshire. In August 2020 he was appointed as coach to the England Cricket Team.
His highest score in a Test Match was a remarkable 226 against Bangladesh at Lord’s on 28th May 2010. He has made nine Test Centuries, and a further four Centuries in One Day Internationals. He was awarded the accolade of ‘Cricketer of the Year’ for 2011 by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Jonathan TROTT
TROTT Family History
Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott was born on 22nd April 1981, in Cape Town, South Africa, although he holds a British passport. He has a half brother, also a cricketer, Kenneth Conrad JACKSON, born on 16th August 1968, in Kitwe, Zambia.
Jonathan’s family originated in Suffolk. His earliest known ancestor is John Trott, who married Elizabeth Day in 1695 in Melton, and lived in Woodbridge, a few miles from Ipswich.
Jonathan is said to be related to Albert Trott, the only player ever to hit a ball over the Pavilion at Lord’s during a first class cricket match. However, it has now been proved, using DNA, that this is definitely untrue. Albert’s family is descended from the Bermuda Trotts, who originated in Yorkshire, whereas Jonathan’s family originated in Suffolk, as described above.
Sources
1. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/10/10284/10284.html
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Trott
3.Trott Y-DNA Project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/trott/about/results
4. TONRG Newsletter: June A Willing, Jonathan Trott's Ancestry, Vol 32 No 2 (Aug 2021).
Dame Laura Kenny, DBE
Laura Kenny nee Trott is a professional racing cyclist. She won two Olympic gold medals in London in 2012, in the Team Pursuit and Omnium and two more in Rio in 2016, in the same events. She won a fifth Olympic gold medal in Tokyo in 2021, in the Madison, and a silver in the Team Pursuit. She also won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014, in the Scratch Race. In addition, she has won a total of seven track cycling world titles since 2011, four Team Pursuit, two Omnium, and one Scratch Race. She has also won a total of 14 European track cycling titles, and a total of eleven British track cycling titles. In 2014, Laura won the British Road Race title, having won the Under 23 title in 2011 and 2013.
Laura TROTT
Laura had won four World Championship gold medals and two Olympic gold medals, before her 21st birthday. No other British cyclist, male or female, has ever won as many World Championship and Olympic gold medals before the age of 21. Laura’s current total of seven track cycling world titles is just two short of the nine won by Victoria Pendleton (now retired from cycling), who holds the British women’s record.
Laura’s total of five Olympic gold medals and one silver is also a British women’s record. She is at present fourth in the all-time
list of British Olympic medallists.
Laura was awarded an OBE in the 2013 New Years Honours for services to cycling, a CBE in the 2017 New Years Honours and a DBE in the 2022 New Years Honours. In July 2013 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Essex. On 24th September 2016 she married fellow cyclist Jason Kenny, and is now known as Laura Kenny.
Emma Trott
Emma Trott is a former professional racing cyclist. She turned professional in 2008 for the Halford’s Bikehut Team in the UK, and after riding for several Dutch teams, retired from cycling in 2014. She is now a coach with the Great Britain Cycling Team.
In 2010 she represented England at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Her biggest win was probably the Under 23 European title in the Scratch Race in Portugal in 2011.
Emma TROTT
TROTT Family History
Emma Victoria Trott was born on 24th December 1989, in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Her sister Laura Rebecca Trott was born on 24th April 1992, in Harlow, Essex.
Their ancestry can be traced back to George William Trott, son of Joseph Trott and his wife Mary Tacey, baptised on 12th March 1809 at St John the Evangelist, Smith Square, Westminster. Joseph was probably baptised on 17th July 1783, in the same parish, son of William Trott and his wife Elizabeth White.
Sources for Emma
1/. http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=42732
2/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Trott
Sources for Laura
1/. http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=69018
2/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kenny
3/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics
David Trott
David TROTT is a retired Republican United States Congressman he was elected for the 11th Congressional District of Michigan.
He was first elected in January 2015 and retired in January 2019.
David TROTT is a lawyer. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors Degree in 1981, and a Doctorate from Duke University School of Law in 1985.
He was reputed to be one of the wealthiest Members of Congress, with a net worth of US$300 million.
Before being elected to Congress, David TROTT worked for his family's law firm, TROTT & TROTT of Farmington Hills, Michigan, founded in 1976 by his father Robert A. TROTT.
David TROTT
TROTT Family History
David Alan TROTT was born on 16th October 1960, at Birmingham, Michigan. He is married to Kathleen (Kappy) and they have 3 children.
David’s ancestry can be traced back to James TROTT, son of William TROTT and Sophia Hawkins, who married in 1824 at Hutton, Somerset, England.
James TROTT and his wife Susan Toby married in 1848 at Wells, Somerset. They left England in 1849 for Ontario, Canada with their daughter Elizabeth. In 1880 their son Frank left Canada for Wisconsin. He married Jessie N. Higbee in 1896 at Barron, Wisconsin.
Sources
1/. USA, Congressional Record: Nov 8th 2001 to Nov 28th 2001, Proceedings & Debates of the 107th Congress, page 22380
(Vol 147 Part 16)
2/. Family Search Indexes
Greg Trott
Greg TROTT was a winemaker and the owner of Wirra Wirra Estate, McLaren Vale, South Australia.
Greg TROTT established Wirra Wirra Wines back in the 1960s and developed into an internationally acclaimed vineyard, his famous red, ‘Church Block’ winning many prestigious awards. The original winery was founded back in 1894 by Robert Wigley.
After his death in 1925 the winery remained closed until 1969 when it was bought by Greg TROTT. McLaren Vale has a Mediterranean type of climate. The region is fortunate, the surrounding hills and the waters of Gulf St. Vincent ensure temperate growing conditions.
'Church Block’ was the first wine Greg TROTT produced under the Wirra Wirra name, back in 1972. Greg took the name from one of the original vineyards which runs next to the small Bethany Church (est.1854) which is across the road from Wirra Wirra's century old ironstone cellars.
TROTT Family History
Richard Gregory TROTT was born on 25th September 1934 at McLaren Vale, South Australia. He died on 6th March 2005 at McLaren Vale.
Greg TROTT's family originates from Dalwood, Devon. His earliest known ancestor is James TROTT, born in 1774 at Lyme Regis, Dorset and died on 1st Oct 1859 at Stockland, Devon. James married Sarah Haycroft on 15th September 1803 at Lyme Regis. James and Sarah TROTT moved to Dalwood, Devon after their marriage. James became a farmer on Cuckford Farm where their 9 children were born. James and Sarah TROTT's eldest son was William TROTT (1804-1881) who married Elinor Fursman in 1839 at Bath, Somerset. William TROTT (1805-1881) was Greg TROTT's great-great-grandfather, who emigrated to the USA with his younger son James Alfred TROTT (b.1841) and died at Eldon, Wapella County, Iowa. Greg TROTT descends from William's elder son George William TROTT, born 4th July 1839 and died in 1901 at Exeter.
Sources
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Sir Nicholas TROTT (ca 1551/2–1636)
Sir Nicholas Trott was a lawyer, a Master in Chancery, a Member of Parliament, and Sheriff of Hertfordshire.
Nicholas was born around 1551/2. He matriculated at Cambridge in 1567, and received a degree from Clare College in 1571. He was admitted to Gray’s Inn in 1573.
He was a Member of Parliament for Bramber, Sussex, in 1597-8, and Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1608. He was knighted on 19th July 1619. He was a Master in Chancery (one of the assistants to the Lord Chancellor, and therefore one of the most important lawyers in England) from 1619 until 1625, when he resigned and went to live on his country estate at Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire.
He was a personal friend of some of the most important men of the period, including Sir Francis Bacon, the lawyer and statesman, to whom he lent a large sum of money.
Sir Nicholas Trott was buried on 19th November 1636 at Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire.
TROTT Family History
Nicholas was born around 1551/2, the eldest son of Edward Trott, a London draper, and his wife Elizabeth Park. He married Mary Perient, daughter of Sir George Perient, in 1602 at Sunbury, Middlesex. They had three daughters.
Edward Trott, the father of Sir Nicholas, was one of five brothers, whose origins have been proved, using DNA, to lie in Yorkshire, probably in the Scarborough area.
Sources
1/. The History of Parliament: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/trott-nicholas-1636
2/. TONRG Newsletter: June A Willing, Who was Nicholas Trott? Part 1, Vol 4 No 4 (Feb 1992) and Part 2, Vol 5 No 1 (Apr 1992)
3/. Trott Y-DNA Project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/trott/about/results
Sir John Trott, 1st Baronet of Laverstoke (ca 1615-1672)
Sir John Trott was a London haberdasher, who was created a baronet on 12th October 1660.
He attended Clare College, Cambridge in 1638.
He married, on 6th February 1638, Elizabeth Wright, aged 16, a daughter and co-heir of Sir Edmond Wright, Lord Mayor of London. His only daughter was Katherine, who married Sir Hugh Stewkley, Baronet of Hinton, Hampshire.
John TROTT was a haberdasher of Broad Street, London. He became Member of Parliament for Andover in 1660 and held the seat until his death. He was Sheriff of Hampshire, 1651-1652.
The Manor of Laverstoke, which formed part of Hyde Abbey, was seized by the Crown at the dissolution. It was sold by Henry VIII in 1539, then it was purchased from Thomas Hussey in 1653 by Sir John TROTT. It passed to the Stewkleys on his death.
St. Mary The Virgin, Laverstoke
In the chancel of St. Mary the Virgin, Laverstoke, are several monuments to the family of TROTT. There is a marble bust of Katherine, Sir John's daughter. His two sons, who predeceased him, John Trott (1638-1664) and his brother Edmund (1643-1667) are also depicted. Another bust is of Sir John TROTT himself commissioned by his wife Elizabeth (nee Wright). There are further black and white marble monuments to Sir John’s father, John Trott (d.1658) and his wife Katherine (nee Hill).
TROTT Family History
Sir John TROTT was born around 1615.
His father was John TROTT (ca 1586-11 Jul 1657) of St. Peter-le-Poor, London, who was a haberdasher and an Alderman of the City of London (1649-1658). He married Katherine Hill in 1611 in London.
Father and son descend from John TROTT, originally of Westerham who died in 1631. For coat of arms see Historical TROTTs.
Sir John TROTT was a beneficiary in the will (PROB/11/160/438) of his grandfather, who was regarded as being amongst the wealthiest citizens of London.
Sir John died on 14th July 1672, and is buried at Laverstoke, Hampshire. As he left no male heirs who survived him, the baronetcy became extinct. His widow Elizabeth married a second time to Lord James Russell, sixth son of William, Duke of Bedford.
Sources
1/. The History of Parliament: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/trott-john-1615-72
2/. The House of Commons, 1660-1690, Volume 1, by Basil Duke Henning. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.
3/. The National Archives: Will of John Trott (PROB/11/160/438), dated 30th September 1631.
4/ British History Online - Aldermen 1601-1650:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-aldermen/hen3-1912/pp47-75
5/. Complete Baronetage Vol III, 1649-1664, edited by G.E.C. Exeter: William Pollard, 1903. Page 125.
6/. British History Online - Parish of Laverstoke: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp208-210
Perient Trott (1614-1679)
Perient Trott was a London merchant, who was prominent in the early history of Bermuda, and owned a considerable amount of land there.
He was a shareholder of the Somers Islands Company, which had been set up in 1615 to settle and develop Bermuda, also known as the Somers Islands. In 1666 he was appointed Deputy of the Company. In 1669 he sent his sons Samuel and Perient Jr to Bermuda to look after his interests there, although he never went there himself. He was buried on 4th September 1679 at St Katherine Cree, London.
Trott Coat of Arms
TROTT Family History
Perient Trott was baptised on 6th November 1614 at Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, a younger son of Martin Trott, a gentleman, and his first wife Anne Peryent or Perient.
He married around 1641 to Martha Smith, a daughter of George Smith, a London grocer, and his second wife Sarah Skinner. They had twelve children (three died in childhood), including Martha (ca 1642/3-1705), who married Sir Robert Clayton, and Samuel (1646-1699) and Perient Jr (1649-1691), who settled in Bermuda. Perient Jr’s male line soon died out, but Samuel’s descendants were prominent in Bermuda history until recent times.
Following the death of his first wife in 1671, Perient married Elizabeth Holloway, a daughter of William and Mary Holloway. They had no children. Perient died in 1679, and his second wife Elizabeth in 1691. Perient and his two wives were buried at St Katherine Cree, London.
Perient’s ancestry can be traced back to John Trott (ca 1507/8-1551), a London draper. John was one of five brothers whose origins have been proved, using DNA, to lie in Yorkshire, probably in the Scarborough area.
Sources
1/. Henry C Wilkinson: The Adventurers of Bermuda (2nd ed, London: Oxford University Press, 1958)
2/. John Henry Lefroy: Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands 1511-1687
(2 vols, London: Longmans, Green, 1877 and 1879)
3/. Trott Y-DNA Project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/trott/about/results
4/. TONRG Newsletter: June A Willing, Who was Martha? Part 1, Vol 28 No 4 (Oct 2017), Part 2 and Part 3, Vol 32 No 1 (Feb 2021).
Dame Martha Clayton, nee Trott (ca 1642/3–1705)
Martha Clayton, nee Trott, was the wife of Sir Robert Clayton, a merchant banker, Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.
Robert Clayton began as a scrivener, before establishing a bank, Clayton & Morris Co. He was knighted in 1671, and was elected Lord Mayor of London 1679-80. He was a Member of Parliament between 1679 and 1707, representing London and Bletchingley, Surrey.
Martha died on 25th December 1705, when her husband erected an elaborate tomb to her memory in St Mary’s Church, Bletchingley. He died in 1707.
The Clayton Memorial at St. Mary the Virgin, Bletchingley, Surrey
TROTT Family History
Martha Trott was born around 1642/3, probably in London, the eldest child of Perient Trott (1614-1679), a merchant, and his first wife Martha. She was NOT Perient’s coheir, as her father had a number of sons.
Martha married Robert Clayton in 1659 at St Botolph Bishopsgate, London. They had one son, who died young.
Martha’s ancestry can be traced back to John Trott (ca 1507/8-1551), a London draper. John was one of five brothers whose origins have been proved, using DNA, to lie in Yorkshire, probably in the Scarborough area.
Sources
1/. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/clayton-sir-robert-1629-1707
2/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clayton_(Lord_Mayor)
3/. Sir Robert Clayton (1629-1707) by Frank Melton (in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, and online by subscription,
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5579)
4/. http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/surrey/churches/bletchingley.htm
5/. Clayton Memorial: http://www.bletchingleyparishchurch.org.uk/f6bca4ea.htm
6/. Trott Y-DNA Project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/trott/about/resu
Nicholas Trott (1658-1728)
Nicholas Trott was a landowner and merchant of Bermuda who became Governor of the Bahamas, and was also associated with South Carolina.
He was born in 1658 in London and went to Bermuda before 1691. He was appointed Governor of the Bahamas in 1694. He laid out the capital, then called Charles Town, and renamed it Nassau, after one of the titles of King William III. But he was soon in trouble with the proprietors of the Bahamas. He was accused of allowing a notorious pirate, Henry Avery, to anchor in the Bahamas in 1696 to obtain food and water. He was subsequently exonerated, as Henry Avery had used a false name, Henry Bridgeman, but he was sacked anyway. He went to South Carolina, where he married the daughter of one of the proprietors of South Carolina.
Nicholas was later accused of personally appropriating the cargo of a vessel which had gone aground in the Bahamas during his term as governor. He was ordered to repay the value of the cargo. Unable to do so, he ended up in the Fleet Prison in London in 1702. He died in London and was buried at St Benet Sherhog on 18th December 1728.
Coat of Arms of the Bahamas
TROTT Family History
Nicholas was born in London on 27th May 1658, and baptised at St Botolph Bishopsgate on 15th June 1658, a son of Perient Trott (1614-1679), a merchant, and his first wife Martha. He married Anne Amy, daughter of Thomas Amy, one of the proprietors of the Bahamas, probably in South Carolina in 1698. They had at least two children.
Nicholas was a first cousin of the man of the same name who was a lawyer and became Attorney-General and Chief Justice of South Carolina. As the two men were contemporaries and were both associated with Bermuda and South Carolina they are often confused. They are sometimes known as Nicholas Trott the Elder (Governor of the Bahamas) and Nicholas Trott the Younger (lawyer of South Carolina).
Nicholas’s ancestry can be traced back to John Trott (ca 1507/8-1551), a London draper. John was one of five brothers whose origins have been proved, using DNA, to lie in Yorkshire, probably in the Scarborough area.
Sources
1/. TONRG Newsletter: June A Willing, Two Nicholas Trotts Vol 21 No 4 (Mar 2009)
2/. A History of the Bahamas by Michael Craton (London: Collins, 1962)
3/. Trott Y-DNA Project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/trott/about/results
Nicholas Trott (1662/3-1739/40)
Nicholas Trott was a lawyer who became Attorney-General and Chief Justice of South Carolina.
He was born in 1662/3 in London and was admitted to the Inner Temple on 14th June 1695. In 1696 he became Attorney-General of Bermuda. In 1699 he was appointed Attorney-General of South Carolina. He became Chief Justice of South Carolina in 1703. He was also a Member of the Council.
Nicholas is probably best known as the judge at the trial of the pirate Stede Bonnet in 1718. Stede Bonnet was found guilty and executed at Charleston on 10th December 1718. The proceedings of the trial were published in London, and were widely quoted as precedents in many subsequent piracy trials. Nicholas was awarded a Doctorate in Civil Law (DCL) by Oxford University in 1720. He died on 21st January 1739/40 at Charleston, South Carolina.
Nicholas TROTT
TROTT Family History
Nicholas was born in London, where he was baptised on 28th January 1662/3 at St Botolph Aldgate. He was the posthumous son of Nicholas Trott, a merchant, and his wife Mary, whose surname is unknown.
Nicholas was married twice, firstly to Jane Willis in 1694 in Bermuda. Jane died in 1726/7 in South Carolina. In 1727/8, Nicholas married Sarah, nee Cooke, the widow of William Rhett. He had no children with either wife. Two grandchildren, mentioned in his will, were actually his second wife’s by her first marriage.
There is confusion around Nicholas’s parentage in the published sources, which say he was the son of Samuel Trott of Bermuda and grandson of Perient Trott (1614-1679), but this is incorrect. The register of Inner Temple Admissions states that his father was Nicholas Trott, merchant of the City of London. His obituary, published in the South Carolina Gazette on 2nd February 1739/40 gives his date of birth as 19th January 1662/3, which corresponds with the date of his baptism nine days later on 28th January in the register of St Botolph Aldgate.
Samuel Trott was baptised on 31st December 1646 at St Botolph Bishopsgate and was therefore really too young to have been the father of Nicholas. Samuel did have a son Nicholas, who was aged under 21 when Samuel made his will in 1699, so he was too young to have been the South Carolina lawyer. Nicholas’s father Nicholas was a brother of Perient Trott, thus Nicholas the lawyer was actually a first cousin of Samuel, and nephew of Perient Trott.
Nicholas was also a first cousin of the man of the same name, the Governor of the Bahamas, who was a brother of Samuel Trott. As the two men were contemporaries and were both associated with Bermuda and South Carolina they are often confused. They are sometimes known as Nicholas Trott the Elder (Governor of the Bahamas) and Nicholas Trott the Younger (lawyer of South Carolina).
Nicholas’s ancestry can be traced back to John Trott (ca 1507/8-1551), a London draper. John was one of five brothers whose origins have been proved, using DNA, to lie in Yorkshire, probably in the Scarborough area.
Sources
1/. Nicholas Trott (1662/3-1739/40) by L. Lynne Hogue (in American National Biography, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
and online by subscription http://www.anb.org/)
2/. Nicholas Trott (1663-1740) by Alexander Moore (in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004, and online by subscription http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/68759)
3/. TONRG Newsletter: June A Willing, Two Nicholas Trotts Vol 21 No 4 (Mar 2009)
4/. Inner Temple Admissions Database: http://www.innertemplearchives.org.uk/detail.asp?id=6686
5/. South Carolina Gazette, 2nd February 1739/40 (in Death Notices in the South Carolina Gazette 1732-1775, compiled by A.S.
Salley, Columbia, SC: The Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1917,
https://archive.org/details/deathnoticesins00carogoog)
6/. Trott Y-DNA Project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/trott/about/results
Albert Trott (1873-1914)
Albert Trott was a Test Cricketer, one of only fourteen players who have played for both Australia and England. He was an all-rounder, and his main claim to fame is that he is the only player ever to hit a ball over the Pavilion at Lord’s during a first class cricket match.
Albert began his career in Victoria, Australia in 1892. He made his Test debut for Australia against England in 1895. In 1896 he travelled to England, where he played for Middlesex Cricket Club. He was selected to play for England on their tour of South Africa in 1898-9, during which he made the first of his eight first class centuries. On 31st July 1899, he hit a ball over the Pavilion at Lord’s during a match between the MCC and Australia.
Albert retired in 1910, and on 30th July 1914 he shot himself while in poor health, at Willesden, London. He was buried in Willesden Cemetery. In 1994, the Middlesex Cricket Club paid for a headstone to mark his grave.
Albert TROTT
TROTT Family History
Albert Edwin Trott was born on 6th February 1873 in Melbourne, Australia, one of eight children of Adolphus Henry Trott and his wife Mary Ann Stevens. His brother George Henry Stevens Trott, known as Harry, was also a professional cricketer.
Albert married Jessie Alvetti Rice in 1897 in Australia. They had two daughters.
Adolphus was born around 1837 in Antigua, West Indies and emigrated to Australia arriving Melbourne 5th January 1855 with his brother Julius Nanton Trott. It has recently been proved, using DNA, that Adolphus is a descendant of the Bermuda Trotts, who originated in Yorkshire.
Sources
1. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/182/182.html
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Trott
3. Trott Y-DNA Project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/trott/about/results
4. TONRG Newsletter: June A Willing, Trott Cricketers, the Mystery Solved?, Vol 30 No 1 (June 2020)
GHS (Harry) Trott (1866-1917)
Harry Trott was an Australian Test Cricketer. He was an all-rounder who played for Victoria.
Harry made his first class debut for Victoria in 1886, and his Test debut against England in 1888. He played in 24 Test Matches between 1888 and 1898, when he often captained the team, and was said to be an outstanding judge of human nature. He suffered a breakdown in 1898, ending his Test career, although he later returned to play for Victoria and his club, South Melbourne.
Harry died on 10th November 1917 in Melbourne. He was buried in Brighton Cemetery, Melbourne, where a monument was later erected over his grave, paid for by the Victorian Cricket Association.
Harry TROTT
TROTT Family History
George Henry Stevens Trott was born on 5th August 1866, one of eight children of Adolphus Henry Trott and his wife Mary Ann Stevens. His brother Albert Trott was also a professional cricketer.
Harry married Violet Priscilla Freda Hodson in 1890, and they had one son.
Adolphus was born around 1837 in Antigua, West Indies and emigrated to Australia arriving Melbourne 5th January 1855 with his brother Julius Nanton Trott. It has recently been proved, using DNA, that Adolphus is a descendant of the Bermuda Trotts, who originated in Yorkshire.
Sources
1. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/109/109.html
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Trott
3. Trott Y-DNA Project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/trott/about/results
4. TONRG Newsletter: June A Willing, Trott Cricketers, the Mystery Solved?, Vol 30 No 1 (June 2020)
William Augustus TROTT (1874-1959)
William Augustus TROTT was an Army Captain in WW1 and a General in WW2 . He was a POW of the Japanese in Malaya and a holder of the Military Cross (MC).
Australian Army
William TROTT enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, 18th August 1914 in Newtown, NSW, Australia, aged 20. He had been in the Militia as a junior and Senior Cadet. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion. His prior service was to hold him in good stead, and he was promoted to Sergeant in September 1914. Further rapid promotion followed and he was made Company Quarter Master Sergeant in June 1915. The 2nd Battalion formed part of the Ist Brigade. The Battalion embarked for Gallipoli and took part in the ANZAC landings on 25th April 1915. William TROTT was wounded in May 1915 and was hospitalized in Cairo. He re-joined his unit in June 1915. In October 1915 he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant and to Lieutenant in March 1916. The battalion was withdrawn from Gallipoli to France and the Western Front. The Battalion was deployed principally in the Somme Valley with its first major action at Pozieres.
In November 1916 William TROTT was promoted to Captain. On the 26th November 1916 Captain William Augustus TROTT was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for:
‘Conspicuous Gallantry in Action. He showed marked Courage and Initiative in re-organising leading forward a Raiding Party. After the Raiding Party withdrew he returned to Enemy’s Trenches to ascertain that none of his men had been left behind’.
Military Cross
In March 1918 whilst in London he was appointed to a Commission in the Indian Army.
Indian Army
Captain William TROTT was commissioned into the Indian Army and posted to the 9th JAT Light Infantry Regiment, in the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force until WW1 ended. He graduated from the Indian Army’s Quetta Staff College in 1933. In August 1939 he was promoted Brigade Major and in December 1940 T/Lt. Colonel.
In WW2 Lt. Colonel TROTT was with the 9th Indian Division in Malaya. During the disastrous retreat down the Malayan Peninsula he was ordered to take over command of the 8th Brigade in the final stages of the Malaya Peninsular Campaign. He was captured by the Japanese and was a POW until 1945. He served as Deputy Director Repatriation Indian Army, 1946-1947. He then retired and lived in Adelaide, South Australia. He was an active worker for Legacy, the charity providing services to families of veterans who paid the ultimate sacrifice. He died in 1959.
TROTT Family History.
William Augustus TROTT was born on 17th April 1894, at Newtown, New South Wales, Australia.
William TROTT’s family originated in Ash Priors, Somerset, England. His earliest known Ancestor is John TROTT, born around 1690 at Ash Priors, died 2nd November 1746 at Ash Priors. He married Grace Mosse (ca 1694–1775) on 6th May 1715 at Ash Priors.
Source:
1/. The AIF Project, ADFA (https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=304789)
2/. Indian Army Officers (1939-1945): http://www.unithistories.com/officers/IndianArmy_officers_T01.html
3/. London Gazette, 11th February 1919: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31174/page/2166/data.pdf