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Frank
Cuggy |
Sunderland
AFC
2 appearances, 0 goals
P 2 W 0 D 0 L 2 F 1:
A 5
0% successful
1913-14
captain: none
minutes played: 180 |
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Timeline |
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Francis Cuggy |
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Birth |
Sunday, 16 June 1889 in
Longbenton, Walker, Northumberland |
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registered in Tynemouth July-September 1889 |
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According to the 1891 census,
Francis is the youngest of eight children to Irish father John and his
Staffordshire mother Sarah (née Handy). The live at 93 Walker Road in Longbenton.
His father is a labourer on the shipyard. |
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According to the 1901 census,
Francis is the youngest of six with his parents living at Cross Row,
Bigges Main in Little Benton, a village in Longbenton. |
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His father died on 26
February 1909.
According to the 1911 census,
Francis is a professional footballer still living at 9 Cross Row in Bigges
Main. Francis is head of the household over his two older sisters. |
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First marriage |
to Mary Robson, in late-1915 |
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registered in Tynemouth October-December 1915 |
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Children |
Frank and Mary Cuggy have two children together. Mary Robson (b.20 May
1918) and
Francis (b.early 1920). |
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His son, Francis, died shortly after he was born, in
early 1920.
According to the 1921
census, Francis, still a professional footballer (for Sunderland AFC) and
now married to May, and now with a daughter, Mary, they live at 105
North Road in Wallsend.
According to Trade Union membership registers, Frank was a member of the
United Society of Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders, from 16 September 1914
until 19 May 1927, membership number 88109.
According to Passenger
lists, Cuggy, a merchant, left for Vigo from Southampton on the RMS Andes
on 2 November 1923, he arrived back a trainer, at Southampton from Vigo on
28 July 1924 on board the RMS Almanzora, he was living at 105 North Road
in Wallsend.
His mother died 7 December 1927. |
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According to the 1939 register, Francis, a
general labourer at the store bakery, and Mary are still married and
living at 3 Hawthorne Grove in Wallsend with their daughter, Mary.
His wife, Mary, died early 1949. |
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Second marriage |
to Doris Mountfield in late-1954 |
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registered in Northumberland South October-December 1954 |
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Death |
Saturday, 27 March 1965
in Wallsend, Northumberland |
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aged 75 years 284 days |
registered in Northumberland South January-March 1965 |
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Obituary |
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Funeral |
Thursday, 31 March 1965 at Our Lady & St. Columba Church, Carville Road
in Wallsend. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Started his career with
Willingham Athletic FC, before joining Sunderland AFC in March 1909, where
he remained until he signed with Wallsend FC, of the
North-Eastern League as a player-manager on 17 July 1921 until 1922. |
League honours
164 appearances, 4 goals |
Sunderland AFC 1910-21 164 appearances, four
goals
debut: 12 February 1910 Sunderland AFC 2 Aston Villa FC 3.
last:
12 March 1921 Chelsea FC 3 Sunderland AFC 1. |
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Club honours |
Football
League Division One third place 1910-11
(3ᵃ), Champions 1912-13 (32ᵃ 1ᵍ);
FA Cup runners-up
1912-13 (9ᵃ); |
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Individual honours |
Football League
(three appearances) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
8½", 11st.
4lbs [1913]. |
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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 seven who became the 361st players
(362) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Right-half |
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First match |
No. 114, 15 February 1913, Ireland 2 England 1, a
British Championship match at Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged
23 years
244 days. |
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Last match |
No.
117, 14 February 1914,
England 0 Ireland 3, a British Championship match at Ayresome Park, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, aged
24 years 243 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1912-13,
1913-14; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners
1912-13; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died eleven days after
Ellis Rimmer |
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Beyond England |
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After leaving Walsall FC, coached in
Spain for Celta Vigo, for five years. After leaving the game, became a
shipyard worker. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.80. |
