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Billy
Betts |
Wednesday FC
1 cap, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 4:
A 1
100% successful
1889
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
William Betts |
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Born |
26 March 1864
in Sheffield, Yorkshire [registered in
Sheffield, March 1864]. |
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Birth notes |
the date 26 March
is offered by Jason Dickinson's Sheffield Wednesday's Who's Who. As it
fits in with his registration and census details, we are happy to go with
it. |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1871 census,
seven year-old William is the second eldest of four children to William and Mary A.,
living on Barnsley Road, Brightside Bierlow in Sheffield. His father was a
file cutter. |
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According to the 1881 census,
now a file cutter himself, William is the eldest of three children still
living with their parents at 37 Haywood Road in Brightside Brierlow. |
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According to the 1891 census,
William is now married to Charlotte with four sons, George, Harry, William
and five-week old Harold. They live with the in-laws, the Taylors,
at 52 Danville Street in Brightside Brierlow. William is a gas stoker. |
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According to the 1901 census,
still married and still a gas stoker, and now with three more children,
Lottie, Leonard and May. All living in 93 Mulehouse Lane in Nether
Hallam, Ecclesall Bierlow. |
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According to the 1911 census,
still married with five of his children with him, one of them new in the
past ten years, Annie. All living at 26 Lonsdale Road in Ecclesall Bierlow.
He is now a Foreman gas stoker. |
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Married |
to Charlotte Taylor
[registered in Sheffield, September 1882].
They had nine
children, sadly one died. |
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Died |
8 August 1941 in Sheffield, aged
77 years 135 days
[registered in Sheffield, September 1941]. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
8", 11st.
8lbs [1891]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], FindMyPast.com &
Jason Dickinson's Sheffield Wednesday Who's Who [2005]. |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Went from playing junior football Pyebank Rovers FCm Heeley FC and
to Wednesday FC in 1883, playing with Lockwood Brothers FC later in the
year. Returned to Wednesday from 1885 to 1895, making 109 league
appearances, scoring three goals, in his time there. |
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Club honours |
Football Alliance winners 1889-90; FA Cup
runners-up 1889-90; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Bett's
grandson is
Sheffield Wednesday FC's left-winger Dennis Woodhead (1947-55),
born 12 June 1925. His father, Joseph Woodhead married Billy's youngest
daughter, Annie, in Wortley [registered September 1923]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
Jason Dickinson's Sheffield Wednesday Who's Who [2005]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of five who became the 152nd
player (154) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Left-half |
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Only match |
No. 35,
23
February 1889, England 4
Wales 1,
a British Championship match at
Victoria Ground, Stoke-upon-Trent, aged
24 years
334 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1888-89; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Later Wednesday's groundsman and from
1922, the club's trainer. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.33/34. |
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