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Jackie
Dewhurst |
Blackburn Rovers
FC
unused
1902 |
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Timeline |
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John Dewhurst |
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Birth |
Friday, 15 December 1876 in Padiham, Lancashire |
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registered in Burnley January-March 1877. |
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According to the 1881 census,
John is the youngest of three children to to William and Ellen (nee
Nutter), living at 1 Alma Street in Padiham. His father is an overlooker
at the cotton mill. |
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According to the 1891 census,
John, himself now a cotton weaver, now has a younger brother, and they
boith live with their parents, now at 10 Shuttleworth Street.
His
mother died in mid-1895 |
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Marriage |
to Bridget Tobin, on Thursday, 9 November 1899
at St. John the Baptist Church in Burnley, Lancashire |
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registered in Burnley October-December 1899. |
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Children |
Jack and Beatrice had seven children together, Ellen (b.December
1900), Hilda (b.February 1903), John (b.December 1906),
Margaret Mary (b.September 1908),
Monica (b.23 February 1911), Joseph Edward (b.5
June 1917) and Sheila (b.4 August 1920). |
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According to the 1901 census,
John, an overlooker, is now married to Bridget, and with one child, Ellen,
they live at 21 Stockbridge Road in Padiham. |
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According to the 1911 census,
John is now a publican at the Royal Oak Hotel, on Meadow Street, living
with his wife and four more children, Hildam John, Margaret and Monica. As
well as Mary Tobin, a barmaid and his sister-in-law. |
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According to the 1921 census,
John is a dairy farmer, still married, with two more children, Joseph and
Sheila. They live at Ashley Lane Head Farm in Whittingham.
His
father died in early 1922. |
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According to the 1939 census, John is a
retired farmer, still married to Bridget, and still living at Ashley Lane
Head Farm, with three of their youngest children.
By 1949, when
they were celebrating their golden wedding anniversary, they were living
at 18 Church Street, in Burnley, and had done for just over a year. |
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Death |
Tuesday, 27 May 1952 at 8 South Grove in Broughton-with Fulwood, Lancashire |
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75 years 164 days |
registered in Amounderness April-June 1952. |
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Probate |
"DEWHURST
John of 8 South-grove Broughton-with-Fulwood
near Preston
Lancashire
died 27 May 1952 Probate
Lancaster
29 July to Joseph Edward Dewhurst farmer and Hilda Grimbadeston (wife of
Joseph Grimaldeston).
Effects £5273 8s."
[2024 equivalent: £129,114]. |
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Source |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
"Dewhurst played
football with the local club [Padiham] before joining Blackburn Rovers as
centre-forward in 1899. He also had short spells with Darwen and Bury..."
Also made four Southern League appearances
for Brentford FC in `905-06 |
League History
363 appearances, 52 goals |
Darwen FC
1898-99 eight appearances three goals
debut (division two): 10
September 1898 Lincoln City FC 2 Darwen FC 0.
Blackburn
Rovers FC 1899-1905 169 appearances 43 goals
debut:
14 October 1899 Blackburn Rovers FC 3 Preston North End FC 0.
Bury FC 1905-11 186 appearances, six goals.
debut: 28 October 1905 Bury FC 0 Aston Villa
FC 1.
last: 7 October 1911 Tottenham Hotspur FC 2 Bury FC 1. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division One fourth place 1901-02 (34ᵃ
16ᵍ); |
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Individual honours |
none |
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Distinctions |
none |
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Height/Weight |
not known |
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England Career |
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Position(s) |
Centre-forward |
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Individual honours |
none |
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Beyond England |
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"...When his playing days were over he became licensee of the
Royal Oak Hotel in Accrington, for 12 years, and for 25 years after
leaving Accrington he was farming at Longridge." |
