There
have been many families by the name of TRICKER living in Stowmarket from before
the early 1600s.
Two grand daughters of one William Tricker, a Cooper of the town in the first
half of the 1800s, went on to marry two brothers named BARLTROP from
Walthamstow, Essex, whose family had been in the bootmaking business since 1829.
JANE TRICKER, was the daughter of GEORGE PHILIP TRICKER (known as Philip). He
was at first a farmer at Hacheston, then a coachbuilder at Wickham Market.
Jane
moved to London and married ALBERT THOMAS BARLTROP in 1860. He was a
leather dealer in Junction Road, Islington, from the 1870s until after 1904.
CLARA, Jane's sister, married WALTER JAMES BARLTROP in 1862 and he went on to
found the firm of R.E. TRICKER now known internationally for the quality of
their boots and shoes. The name Tricker was used in preference to the more
difficult to pronounce Barltrop.
(Walter and Clara are listed at 63 Huntingdon Bldgs, Bethnall Green, London in
the 1881 census, his occupation - bootmaker).
By 1891
the business had expanded and had moved to Northampton where a shoe and
bootmaking factory was built.
Until 1925 the products were sold by a number of major stores in London's West
End when their son ERNEST RAYMOND BARLTROP founded the shoe shop in Jermyn
Street, London from which a large variety of made-to-measure high quality
footwear is provided to customers throughout the world.
The text for this section was written by John Patey who is researching Stowmarket Trickers.
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