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Tom
Crawshaw |
The Wednesday
Club/Wednesday FC
10 appearances, 1 goal
P 10 W 7 D 1 L 2 F
40:
A 8
75% successful
1895-1904
captain: none
minutes played: 900 |
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Timeline |
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Thomas Henry Crawshaw |
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Birth |
Saturday, 28 December 1872 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire |
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registered in Sheffield October-December 1872. |
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According to the 1881 census,
Thomas was the middle child of three, all sons, to George and Mary Ann (née
Simmonite),
living at 136 Park Hill Lane in Sheffield. His father is a saw grinder.
They have a boarder, an uncle, Farwell Simmonite, who is also a grinder.
The Simmonite family lived at 134 Park Hill Lane. |
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(His father died in early 1885)
According to the 1891 census, Thomas is one of
four children living at 48 Duke Street with his parents. His father is now
a beerhouse keeper and his eldest sister Mary is a barmaid. Tom himself is
an edge-tool maker. |
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First marriage |
to Jane Blackwell,
on 30 August 1891 at the Parish Church in Sheffield, West Riding |
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registered in Sheffield July-September 1891. |
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Children |
Tom and Jane
Crawshaw had
six children together, George (b.16 October 1892),
Emma (b.1894), Nellie (b.1895),
Doris (b.30 November 1896), Elsie (b.1899)
and Thomas Henry (b.7 April 1900). |
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"Tommy
Crawshaw, the Sheffield Wednesday half-back, had a narrow escape from
drowning at Boston on Sunday afternoon. He was bathing in the Witham, and
his feet became entangled in the weeds. He was rescued by Harry Smith, the
secretary of the Boston Town Football Club, who was passing in a boat."
- The Lincolnshire Chronicle, Friday, 16 July 1897 |
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(His mother died early
1893)
According to the 1901 census,
Thomas is a professional footballer married to Jane and living at 104 Lord
Street, Sheffield, with five children, George, Emma, Doris, Elsie and
Thomas. |
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"Just
before Tom Crawshaw went on the field at Cardiff last Monday he received
news of the death of his youngest son." - The Cricket Cycling
and Football World, Monday, 23 March 1896 |
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According to the 1911 census,
T.H. and his wife, Jane and their five children live at The Shrewsbury
Hotel, 109 South Street in Sheffield. Thomas is a licensed victualler. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Thomas Henry, a shopkeeper (newsagent and tobacconist) and his wife, Jane,
with one of their children, Thomas Henry, an out-of-work fitter, live at 170
Bramall Lane in Sheffield.
(his wife, Jane Crawshaw, died on 8
February 1930) |
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Second marriage |
to Elizabeth
Greaves, in the spring 1936 in Sheffield |
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registered in Sheffield April-June 1936. |
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According to the 1939 register, Thomas H. and
Elizabeth are married, living at 31 Burgess Street in Rotherham as a
licensed victualler. |
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"Tommy
Crawshaw, who now suffers with rheumatoid arthritis, will be 8[4] next
Friday and as a special treat Eric Taylor had arranged for him to be
brought from home in a car to see the game, and Tommy had been looking
forward to this as the finest Christmas box he could possibly have."
- The Star Green 'un, Saturday, 22 December 1956
The Sheffield Wednesday vs. Portsmouth was postponed because of fog - it
also confirms Crawshaw's birthday as being 28th December. |
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Death |
Friday, 25 November
1960 at Wharncliffe Hospital, Bradfield, Sheffield, West Riding of
Yorkshire. |
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87 years 333 days |
registered in Wortley October-December 1960. |
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Probate |
"CRAWSHAW
Thomas Henry of 174 Lupton Road
Sheffield died
25 November 1960 at Wharncliffe Hospital Bradfield Sheffield
Administration
Wakefield
22 September to Doris Barker
widow and Thomas Henry Crawshaw storekeeper.
Effects £205."
[2023 equivalent: £3,893]. |
| Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], his great grandson, Tom Crawshaw
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"Cup
finalists Sheffield Wednesday are nicknamed The Owls—and yesterday they got
back their original mascot. It is a six-inch-high wood carved statuette of
an owl, presented originally to Wednesday player Tommy Crawshaw to mark
the club's move to Owlerton in 1899. It now belongs to hotelier Albert
Hill—he married Crawshaw's stepdaughter—who says: 'With the
club in the final again, I think it's appropriate that the owl should go
back to them.'." - The Daily Mirror, Thursday, 28 April 1966 |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Started his career with
local clubs in the Sheffield area, Park Grange FC, Attercliffe FC and
then Worksop FC and subsequently to Heywood Central FC, from where he was signed by Wednesday FC
on 24 April
1894. Tommy signed for Chesterfield FC in April 1908. Joined Castleford FC on 5 January 1910 for a brief spell. |
League History
443 appearances,
25 goals |
Wednesday FC 1894-1908
418 appearances,
25 goals.
debut: 1 September 1894 Everton FC 3 Wednesday FC 1.
Chesterfield FC 1908-10 25 appearances
debut
(division two):
1 September 1908 Burnley FC 0 Chesterfield FC 1.
last (division two): 17 April 1909 Birmingham FC 3 Chesterfield
FC 0. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
semi-finalist 1894-95 (4ᵃ), 1903-04 (6ᵃ), 1904-05 (5ᵃ);
winners
1895-96 (6ᵃ 1ᵍ), 1906-07 (8ᵃ);
Football League
Division Two winners 1899-1900 (34ᵃ 3ᵍ);
Division One Champions 1902-03
(3ᵃ3), 1903-04 (32ᵃ 2), third place 1905-06 (38ᵃ 1ᵍ). |
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Individual onours |
Football League
(eight appearances) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5' 11", 12st.
0lbs [1901]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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Management Career |
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Club(s) |
Appointed as the
secretary-manager of Glossop North End FC on 1 April 1914, ahead of sixty
other candidates. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of four
who became 218th players (219) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Centre-half |
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First match |
No. 53, 9 March 1895,
England 9 Ireland 0, a British Championship match at The Derbyshire County
Cricket Ground, Nottingham Road, Derby, aged 22 years 71 days. |
Last match
9 years 3 days |
No. 81, 12 March 1904, Ireland
England 3, a British Championship
match at Cliftonville Gardens, Cliftonville, Belfast, aged
31 years 75 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship
1894-95, 1895-96, 1896-97, 1900-01, 1903-04; |
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Team honours |
British Championship
winners 1894-95, 1900-01, 1903-04; |
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Individual honours |
The Professionals
(two appearances March 1896-March 1897)
The North (two
appearances February 1901-January 1904) |
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Distinctions |
Died two days after Watty
Corbett and fifteen days after
Joe Bache |
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Beyond England |
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After leaving the game, Crawshaw looked after various
public houses in the Sheffield area, firstly, The Shrewsbury Hotel, in
South Street, then The Sportsman's Group in Owlerton until 1913, followed by The
Yorkshireman's Arms on Cross Burgess Street. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.78. |
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