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Tim
Coleman |
Woolwich Arsenal FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 1:
A 0
100% successful
1906-07
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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John George Coleman MM |
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According to the 1881 census,
Julia Ann (née Butlin) is pregnant with a child who will become John George. She is
married to George and already have three children, Arthur, Betsy and
Hannah. They live in the Brick Yard on London Road in Kettering, where
George is a brickburner. |
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Birth |
Wednesday, 26 October 1881 in London Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire |
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registered in Kettering October-December 1881 |
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According to the 1891 census,
scholar John is now the fourth of seven children to George and Julia, now living at
9 Lower Albert Street in Kettering. His father is now a milkman. |
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Marriage |
to Sarah Ellen Moore, on Thursday, 27 December 1900 at St.
Peter's & St. Paul's Church in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Still
living at Albert Street |
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registered in Kettering October-December 1900 |
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Children |
Tim and Nellie Coleman have five children
together. Arthur Edward (b.5 April 1901) and John Victor (b.4 January
1909), and another three that had died before 1911 |
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According to the 1901 census,
John is a shoe rivetter and married to Ellen and they live at 36 Albert
Street, with her parents Charles and Lydia Moore, and younger siblings.
Charles is a furnace labourer.
At the time of Arthur's enrolment to
Purrett Road School in Greenwich, on 31 October 1904, they are living at
82 Riverdale Road. |
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According to the 1911 census,
John is a professional footballer, living with his wife Nellie and two
children, Arthur and Victor. As well as two
visiting members of the family, the Coleman's had a servant and three
boarders, all fellow Sunderland footballers, William Cringan, Harry Read
and David Main. They lived at 38 Roker Baths Road in Sunderland.
During the war, he was stated as living at Northgate Street in
Kettering, he was a member of the Footballer's Battalion. |
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"Tim Coleman, the well-known Forest inside-right, should
have appeared at the Nottingham Police court today to answer a charge of
being drunk and disorderly in Millstone Lane last night, but when his name
was called he had not put in an appearance, and a warrant was accordingly
issued for his arrest." - Nottingham Evening Post,
5 February 1915 |
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He was reported as
dying during the war on 29 December 1915, but despite three separate
reports making its way to Northampton stating he was killed in action, it
was reported on 1 January 1916 that he was alive and well. |
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London Electoral Registers state that John
George and Sarah Ellen were at 15 Gowan Avenue in 1914 and then 24C Buer
Road from at least 1918.
According to the 1921 census, John George, now
a shoe maker, is still married, and with his children, his mother-in-law,
his sister-in-law and a boarder, they live at 24C Buer Road in Fulham.
His father died on 4 March 1923 |
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According to the 1939 register,
John G., a general labourer, and Ellen Sarah,
are still married and still living at 24C Buer Road.
His mother
died on 15 September 1940 |
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Death |
Wednesday,
20 November 1940. Living in 24c Buer
Road in Fulham. He sustained fatal injuries when he fell off a roof. |
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aged
59 years 25 days |
registered in Kensington October-December 1940 |
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Obituary |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Biographies |
Fighting For
Football: From Woolwich Arsenal to the Western Front: The Lost Story of
Football's First Rebel - George Myreson (Aurum Press, London 2009) |
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
ed at Kettering FC
before signing with Northampton Town FC in 1901. Woolwich Arsenal FC
signed him in May 1902. Joined Everton FC in February 1908. Sunderland AFC followed in May 1910.
Returned to
London and Fulham FC on 19 May 1911, before joining
Nottingham Forest FC on 20 July 1914. Although he retired
during WW1, he was assisting Tunbridge Wells Rangers FC following the war. |
League honours
405 appearances, 189 goals |
Woolwich Arsenal FC 1902-08 172
appearances, 79 goals
debut
(division two): 6 September 1902 Preston North End FC 2 Woolwich Arsenal
FC 2.
Everton FC 1908-10 69 appearances, 29 goals
debut: 29
February 1908 Nottingham Forest FC 5 Everton FC 2.
Sunderland AFC 1910-11 32 appearances, 21 goals
debut: 1
September 1910 Sunderland AFC 2
Newcastle United FC 1
Fulham FC 1911-14 94 appearances, 46 goals
debut (division
two): 2 September 1911 Bristol City FC 1 Fulham FC 0.
Nottingham Forest FC 38 appearances, fourteen goals
debut
(division two): 2 September 1914 Nottingham Forest FC 1 Birmingham FC 1.
last
(division two): 24 April 1915 Arsenal FC 7 Nottingham Forest FC 0.
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Club honours |
Football League
Division Two third place 1902-03 (30ᵃ 17ᵍ), runners-up 1903-04 (28ᵃ
23ᵍ); Division One runners-up 1908-09 (3ᵃ3 19ᵍ), third place
1910-11 (32ᵃ 21ᵍ);
FA Cup semi-finalist 1905-06 (6ᵃ 3ᵍ),
1906-07 (6ᵃ), 1909-10 (0ᵃ) |
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Individual honours |
Football League
(three appearances) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
6½", 11st.
4lbs [1900's]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of five who
became 321st players (324) to
appear for England |
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Position(s) |
Inside-right |
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Only match |
No. 89, 16 February 1907, England 1 Ireland
0, a British Championship match at Goodison Park, Walton, Liverpool, aged
25 years
113 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship
1906-07; |
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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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No additional information. However, he
was one of the four final candidates out of 200 replies that applied for
the vacant Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic FC coaching role in 1923. He
was ultimately unsuccessful. So he went to Rotterdam up until the outbreak
of the second world war, coaching. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.71. |
