Prospero Coulon

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Rhonda Thomas who writes:
Won the singles sculling event, as well as other events at Lawrence, Grafton and Lower Ulmarra.

• source. & Stephen Gard who notes:
I'm researching materials for a biography of my great-grandfather Michael Rush, the champion sculler of the Clarence etc.
Prosper Coulon seems to have been one of Michael Rush's close personal friends, as well as a sporting rival. I want to add a chapter on Rush's sculling rivals, since they seem to have been a well-knit fraternity, and I suspect, often exploited by the various hosts and backers of their many contests...
He added an article from The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954), Tuesday 4 May 1875, page 4, which in turn is citing the Clarence and Richmond River Examiner:
DEATH OF AN OARSMAN.
The Clarence Examiner announces the decease of Mr. Prospero Coulon, well known in the Clarence district. & correspondent furnishes the following particulars: - Prospero Coulon died at his late residence at the North Arm, Clarence River, on the 17th April, aged 33 years, alter a painful illness of four weeks. He has left a wife and three children to mourn their loss. Mr. P. Coulon was a native of Shoalhaven, and, previous to his arrival on the Claience, was engaged in the coasting trade. In the early part of 1860 he came to the Clarence to assist in working the ketch Juno. He was one of the first who took advantage of the present free selection clause by enabling his father to select the land lately occupied by him. It was about that time that he commenced as an amateur sculler, making his debut at a regatta got up by Mr. S. Cohen, of Ulmarra, beating in the then light skiffs some Sydney scullers. Since then he attended regattas regularly, and was generally successful, until Michael Rush, the present champion sculler of Australia, began to try for pre-eminence. Then began a series of struggles for premier position with various results, until Mr. Rush wrested the coveted honour, both in Sydney and on the Clarence. As a sculler few could equal him, and he occupied a high place in aquatic circles. Cut down in the prime of life by remittent fever, brought on by exposure in his occupation, it is not too much to say that the district has lost an enterprising and estimable settler."

• connection. The connection between Stephen Gard & myself is as follows:
Stephen Gard is researching materials for a biography of my great-grandfather Michael Rush, the champion sculler of the Clarence etc. who was a rival of Prospero Coulon (1839)

Prospero Coulon (1839)
His father was Adolphus Coulon (1806) who married Mary Fowler (1812)
Her father was Henry Fowler (1791) & he also had Elizabeth Fowler (1819) who married Joseph Warby (1818)
His father was John Warby (1767) & he also had Elizabeth Warby (1802) who married James Layton (1804)
They had Eleanor Layton (1821) who married James Keighran (1808)
They had John Keighran (1845)
He had Joseph Keighran (1879)
He had Leslie Keighran (1904)
He had Mary Keighran (1927) who married Mervyn Collins (1924)
They had Leslie Collins (1950) who married me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Prospero married Christina Ann McMillan, daughter of Donald McMillan and Janet MacDonald, on 9 Aug 1866 in Palmers Island, near Maclean, NSW Australia. (Christina Ann McMillan was born on 4 Feb 1840 in Dunmore, Patterson River, Hunter Valley, NSW Australia and died on 4 Jun 1888 in Maclean, NSW Australia.)