The son of Benjamin Joseph Teather (1842–1929),[2] and Jessie Agnes Teather (1855-1930), née Horne,[3][4] Charles Ernest Teather was born in
Geelong, Victoria on 24 January 1889.
He married Elsie May Barnott (1888-1966), later Mrs. Herbert Whiter, on 15 August 1914.[5] They had one child: Jack Barnott Teather (1917-2010).[6]
Football
Many of the contemporaneous newspaper sporting reports have his family name as "Tether".
Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing.
ISBN978-1-921496-32-5.
Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996.
ISBN0-9591740-2-8: Note that Maplestone (pp. 407, 449, 450, and 453) consistently has his family name as "Tether".