Edward McCausland
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| Birth name | Edward Elsmere Montgomery McCausland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 11 May 1865 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 9 November 1936 (aged 71) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward Elsmere Montgomery McCausland, (11 May 1865 – 9 November 1936) was an Australian born sportsperson who as a rugby footballer toured with the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team. The touring party played predominantly rugby union, but also a small number of association football and Victorian rules football matches. McCausland was also a cricketer of note and is recorded to have represented Wellington in a First-class match.[1]
McCausland was born in Jamieson, Victoria Australia in 1865 to John Conyngham McCausland and his wife Sarah. McCausland's parents were originally from County Armagh in Ireland, but emigrated to Australia where his father became a manager for the Union Bank of Australia.[2] Around 1880 the family moved to New Zealand and McCausland followed his father into banking.[2] By 1892 McCausland had returned to Australia, marrying Alice Shore that year in St Leonards, New South Wales. The marriage was short lived and in 1895 he remarried to Ada May Barber (born 1869/1870), the couple settling in Goulburn. The couple had six sons, John (known as Jack) EB McCausland (1896), Harold Conyngham McCausland (1897), James E McCausland (1899), Selwyn M McCausland (1903), Geoffrey M McCausland (1905) and Thomas R McCausland (1909). In 1930 Ada died and in 1932 McCausland married again, to Alice Maud Barber (born 1871), the sister of his second wife. He died in Sydney in 1936 at the age of 71.[3]