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Carkeek Park Marine Preserve
Carkeek is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Carkeek (1843–1897), member of the Armed Constabulary in the New Zealand Wars * Barlow Carkeek (1878–1937), Australian sportsman who played cricket and Australian rules football * Guendolen Plestcheeff (1892–1994), Seattle, Washington preservationist and arts advocate; born Guendolen Carkeek * Jack Carkeek (1861–1924), American Cornish champion wrestler from Rockland, Michigan United States * Stephen Carkeek (1815–1878), New Zealand civil servant * Vernon Carkeek (1893–1968), Australian footballer * Vivian Carkeek (1879–1934), Seattle, Washington lawyer See also * Carkeek Park Carkeek Park is a park located in the Broadview neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The park contains Piper Orchard, Pipers Creek (and its tributaries Venema Creek and Mohlendorph Creek), play and picnic areas, picnic shelters, and hiking ..., 216-acre (87.1 ha) park located in the Broadview neighborhood of Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Carkeek
Arthur Wakefield Carkeek (1843 – 24 May 1897) was a member of the Armed Constabulary in the New Zealand Wars, and was one of only 23 recipients of the New Zealand Cross for gallantry. Later he was a civil engineer and land surveyor. Early life He was born in Nelson in 1843, a son of Stephen Carkeek, and brother of Frances Ann Stewart (née Carkeek). Military career He was a Sergeant in the Armed Constabulary at Ohinemutu during the Te Kooti's War episode of the New Zealand Wars. On 7 February 1870 the force of Arawas under Captain Mair at Ohinemutu was attacked by Te Kooti and his force. Thomas McDonnell needed to be told of the location of Te Kooti Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki (c. 1832–1893) was a Māori leader, the founder of the Ringatū religion and guerrilla fighter. While fighting alongside government forces against the Hauhau in 1865, he was accused of spying. Exiled to the Cha ... and his force, but Carkeek could not find a Māori willing to go thirty mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barlow Carkeek
William "Barlow" Carkeek (17 October 1878 – 20 February 1937) was an Australian sportsman who played Test cricket for Australia and first-class cricket for Victoria, as well as playing Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for Essendon. "Barlow" Carkeek, generally known otherwise as "Bill", earned the nickname "Barlow" among the Australian cricketing community, because his batting style was reminiscent of Dick Barlow, the notoriously defensive opening batsman for England and Lancashire. Cricket Principally played as a wicketkeeper, "Barlow" Carkeek was also a stolid, defensive left-hand batsman. He played for Victoria for 10 years from 1903 to 1914, and was rated as steady rather than spectacular. He toured England in 1909 as the second wicketkeeper to Sammy Carter and returned in 1912 as first choice on the tour that was blighted by the dispute between Australia's leading Test players and the Australian Board of Control and the consequent una ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guendolen Plestcheeff
Guendolen Plestcheeff (née Carkeek, December 19, 1892 – August 30, 1994) was a preservationist and arts advocate from Seattle, Washington, known variously as "Seattle's Grand, Grand Lady" and "the most elegant woman in Seattle". She was the wife of the Count Theodore Plestcheeff. Born Guendolen Carkeek to Morgan and Emily Carkeek, one of the area's early pioneer families for whom Carkeek Park is named, she started schooling in Seattle before being sent abroad to boarding and finishing schools in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Upon her return to Seattle, she met Cav. Paulo Brenna, the Italian consul in Seattle. The pair wed in London and eventually moved to Tallinn, Cav. Paulo having been appointed Italian ambassador to Estonia. By the late 1920s Guendolen Brenna had become one of the most fashionable women in the world and, in 1928, author Bertrand Collins penned a novel, ''Rome Express'', based on her life. While in Estonia, Guendolen met Count Theodore Plestcheeff, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Carkeek
Jack Carkeek, (January 22, 1861 – March 12, 1924) was an American Cornish wrestling, Cornish champion wrestler, from Rockland, Michigan. His parents were from Cornwall. He died March 12, 1924, in Havana, Cuba. He made his first appearance at Michigamme, Michigan, on July 5, 1877, at age 16. There, he won the fourth prize in a tournament of 64 entries. Jack Carkeek and John Pearce (the Cornish champion from Cornwall for five years) met for the World Championship of Cornish Wrestling in Redruth, Cornwall. Wrestling career Up until 1882, he wrestled just in Michigan, and then afterwards in Wisconsin, Iowa, Montana. At the beginning, he wrestled only in ordinary tournaments, with a dozen or so other wrestlers, while later only wrestling in challenge matches for side money. ;1884 * March 4, defeated Nels Stone at Peterson, Iowa, for $100 each * September, defeated William Harrison, at Kinsley, Iowa * December 10, Carkeek defeated James Pascoe, the champion Cornish wrestler of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Carkeek
Stephen James Carkeek (12 April 1815 – 27 November 1878) was a New Zealand civil servant, the colony's first Inspector of Customs, and the builder of the oldest-surviving observatory in the country. Early life and Australia Carkeek was born in Swansea, Wales, on 12 April 1815; his name is Cornish, as his father Morgan was a Cornish sea captain who had moved to Swansea. Stephen Carkeek joined the Navy (possibly after attending the Royal Naval College) and in late 1837 came to New South Wales as the first officer of a convict transportation ship. He then worked for the colonial administration in Sydney and was appointed first officer of the revenue cutter ''Ranger'', a coastal patrol vessel that enforced tariffs, on 21 February 1838. He became commander of the ''Ranger'' and its crew of 13, based in Port Phillip, on 23 July 1839. In Sydney he married Martha Piotti (1807–1892), and his daughter Frances was born there in 1840. Career in New Zealand On 3 March 1840 he and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Carkeek
Vernon Carkeek (13 February 1893 – 28 December 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Carkeek, who played originally for Hawthorn in the VFA, made three appearances for Collingwood, two in 1915 and one in 1916. In the 1922 VFL season The 1922 VFL season was the 26th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured nine clubs, ran from 6 May until 14 October, and comprised a 16-game ..., he officiated in a single game as a boundary umpire. References 1893 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players Hawthorn Football Club (VFA) players Australian Football League umpires 1968 deaths {{AFL-bio-1893-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Carkeek
Vivian Morgan Carkeek (November 23, 1879 - December 29, 1934) was an American attorney and businessman from Seattle, Washington. Born to Morgan and Emily Carkeek, one of the area's early pioneer families for whom Carkeek Park is named, Carkeek graduated from the University of Washington School of Law's inaugural class in 1901 (a classmate of Walter B. Beals and Walter M. French, who later married Vivian's cousin, Bessie Westlake Carkeek), and was a partner at the firm Carkeek, McDonald, Harris and Coryell. From 1930 to 1931 he taught at the University of Washington School of Law. Carkeek was generally recognized as one of Seattle's powerful and influential civic personalities. Carkeek, like his mother and sister, was passionately interested in the history of the Seattle area, and he served briefly as president of the Seattle Historic Society, which his mother had founded in 1911, and was a founding officer of the Associates of Eighty-Nine, which was established in 1919 to perpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carkeek Park
Carkeek Park is a park located in the Broadview neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The park contains Piper Orchard, Pipers Creek (and its tributaries Venema Creek and Mohlendorph Creek), play and picnic areas, picnic shelters, and hiking trails. A pedestrian bridge across the main lines of the BNSF Railway connects to the Carkeek Park sand beach on Puget Sound. Park program activities are largely out of the Carkeek Park Environmental Learning Center. History Seattle's first park to be called "Carkeek Park" was on Pontiac Bay, Lake Washington (1918–1926), now site of Magnuson Park. The original was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan J. Carkeek, prominent builder and contractor in Seattle, Oregon, and Victoria, B.C. The original was displaced by a Naval Air Station. Morgan Carkeek offered the proceeds of his sale to the City for another park. The new park was to be at the mouth of a creek at a location named kʷaatəb in Lushootseed, translated at "place where people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
