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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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"ALLEGED TRADE OUTAGE
AT |
WALLSEND.
"John
Cuggy (32), William Holmes (48), William Hickey (30), and David Marsh
(33), labourers, were brought up and charged with having assaulted
Alexander Lowe, Robert Cowie, Thomas Fortune, and James Rhind, at the
parish of Longbenton, on Friday, 4th of February. The assaults committed
were of a most dastardly, cowardly, and serious nature. In the month of
October last year, men employed at the shipyard of Messrs Schlesinger and
Davis were on strike, and a number of new men—amongst whom were the
complainants—were engaged by the firm. The assaults were committed
on 4th of February, as the4 complainants were returning from work; and
[Mr. Joel, for the complainants] was inclined to suppose that the
defendants must have imagined the complainants to be employed by Messrs
Swan and Hunter, at whose place the defendants were employed until they
and others went out on strike." -
The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 25 February 1881. |
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Birth |
Sunday, 16 June 1889
at Walker Road, 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. Francis is head of the household over his two older sisters. |
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First marriage |
to May 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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"Cuggy has been out of the side for some weeks through
indisposition and bereavement.." - Sunderland Daily Echo,
Wednesday, 31 March 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. |
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"Francis Cuggy, the Sunderland and English half-back, is a
right-hand riveter engaged on munitions, and last week he applied to the
Tribunal for a leaving certificate as the firm had not a left-hand mate
for him. The application was refused." - Dublin Sport,
Saturday, 6 July 1916 |
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"Frank Cuggy, the International Sunderland half-back, is a
candidate for [Northumberland Ward]the municipal elections at Wallsend." -
The Daily Mail, Wednesday, 20 October 1920 |
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"SUMMARY OF VOTES |
NORTHUMBERLAND WARD (1,245 on Register).
"John BROWN,
foreman driller .................. 425
"Francis CUGGY, ship riveter
..................... 240
"John CURRAN, checkweighman (Lab.) ... 183" -
The Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Tuesday, 2 November 1920 |
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According to Passenger
lists, Cuggy, a merchant, left for Vigo from Southampton on the RMS Andes
on 2 November 1923... |
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"Frank Cuggy, the former Sunderland and international half-back,
has accepted a post as coach for the Vigo Celtic Football Club in Spain.
Cuggy, who has accepted a five years' agreement with the club, sailed for
Spain on Friday." - Sunderland Daily Echo, Monday, 12
November 1923 |
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"...It was a good job, but it only lasted nine months. 'You see,
when Vigo beat Newcastle United on the Spanish tour, them Spaniards got
swelled heads.' Frank explained. 'They reckoned they knew all about it,
and they cleared out all the coaches like Steve Bloomer and me." -
Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 19
February 1949 |
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...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.
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, May, 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
at the home of his daughter, 8 Sunningdale Avenue,
in Walker area of Wallsend, Northumberland |
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aged 75 years 284 days |
registered in Northumberland South January-March 1965 |
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"CUGGY. Wallsend, 8 Cunningdale Avenue (daughter's residence), on
March 27, aged 75 years, Frank, beloved husband of the late May, to be
received into St. Columbs's Church on Tuesday, 7.30 p.m. Requiem Mass on
Wednesday 10 a.m.... |
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Funeral |
"...Interment Holy Cross Cemetery after Mass at 10.40. On whose
soul sweet Jesus have mercy R.I.P."
-
The Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Monday, 29 March 1920
Wednesday, 31 March 1965, service at Our Lady & St. Columba Church, Carville Road,
interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, St. Peter 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 as a left-back, but also appeared in the forward
line, before joining Sunderland AFC on 24 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 |
Great uncle of
Steve Cuggy (Maidstone United FC 1991-92). |
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Height/Weight |
'about 5ft. 10in. in height,
and weighs over eleven stone.' [1909],
5'
8½ or ¾", 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. |
Last match
364 days |
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 |
The North
(two appearances, January 1913-January 1914);
The
Professionals (one appearance, October 1913);
England
Trial (one appearance, November 1913); |
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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. |
