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John
Maynard |
First Surrey Rifles
FC
2 appearances, 0 goals
0 goals against
one clean sheet
P 2 W 0 D 1 L 1 F 0:
A 3
25% successful
1872-76
captain: none
minutes played: 180 |
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Timeline |
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William John Maynard |
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Birth |
Friday, 18 March
1853 in Albany Road, Walworth, Surrey |
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registered in Camberwell April-June
1853 Camberwell was in Surrey County Registration up until 1889 |
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Baptism |
13
April
1853 at St. George's Church, Camberwell. His father is a Solicitor's
Clerk, Baptism by Samuel Smith his future father-in-law |
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According to the 1861 census,
scholar Wm John is the eldest child of three sons to William and
Elizabeth Connolly (née Stent). Living at 4 Camden Place in Camberwell. His father
is a
solicitor's clerk. They have one servant. |
According to the 1871 census,
William is now a clerk in the County Court. Living with only his mother,
Elizabeth, and two younger brothers at 4 Rectory Villas on the Crystal
Palace Road in St. Giles, London. They have one servant.
(His
mother died mid-1872) |
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According to the 1881 census,
William J. is a Clerk in the divorce courts, living with his father,
William, at Easton Lodge, in Croxted Road, Camberwell. They have two
servants. |
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Marriage |
to Annie Smith,
on Thursday, 2 August 1883, at St. George's Parish Church in Camberwell |
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"MAYNARD-SMITH.―August
2, at St. George's, Camberwell, William John, son of W. Maynard, Esq., of
West Dulwich, to Annie, daughter of the Rev. S. Smith, M.A., Vicar of St.
George's, Camberwell." - The London Daily News. Also
Pall Mall Gazette, Monday, 6 August 1883. |
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Children |
John
and Annie Maynard had six children together.
Aimee Ellen (b.1885), Katherine Mary (b.1887),
May
Elizabeth (b.19 May 1889), William Edmund (b.25 May 1891), Haskett
John (b.1892) and Alfred Frederick (b.23 March 1894). |
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(His father died 13 May 1889, as did his
third daughter, May, whilst still ver young).
According to the 1891 census,
William J. is now married to Annie and they have two daughters.
His children were born in Sevenoaks, where we assume the Maynard family
home is, because on the night of the 1891 census, William, with his family,
are visiting their in-laws at The Rectory in Kingsdown, Dartford. His
father-in-law, Samuel Smith, is the Rector. |
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According to the 1901 census,
William J., now a Private Clerk, still married to Annie, now have five
children and one servant, living at 9 Laurel Grove in Croydon, Surrey. |
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According to the 1911 census,
William John is now a District Probate Registrar, living at 32 South Street, in
Crossgate in Durham.
(His second daughter, Katherine Mary, died on
8 September 1911) |
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Cannot be found on the 1921 census (taken on 19 June), but supposedly at
the Rose & Crown Hotel in Durham. |
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Death |
Friday, 2 September 1921 at The Roker Hotel, Sunderland, County Durham |
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aged 68 years 168 days |
registered in Sunderland July-September 1921. |
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"The death has occurred at Roker,
Sunderland, of William John Maynard, aged 68, for 20 years probate
registrar at Durham." - The Gloucestershire Echo, Tuesday, 6 September 1921. |
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Obituary |
,%20WJ.jpg) Probate |
"Mr. John
Maynard, Probate Registrar at Durham for the past twenty years, has died
at Roker, Sunderland. He had been in failing health for some time. In his
young days Mr. Maynard was a prominent Association football player in
Surrey, and played for England. His son, the late Lt. A. F. Maynard,
R.N.R., who was killed in the war, was a Rugby player, who also secured
international honours. The death of the Lieutenant was a great sorrow to
Mr. Maynard. He leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter."
-
The Yorkshire Post, Tuesday, 6 September 1921. |
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Funeral:
apparently
buried in Harton Cemetery in South Shields. But there is no
burial record for this! |
"MAYNARD
William John of the Rose and Crown Hotel
Durham died 2
September 1921 at the Roker Hotel Roker Durham Probate
London 24 September to Annie
Maynard widow.
Effects £3039 11s. 3d."
[2019 equivalent: £149,391] |
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Annie Maynard died
5 November 1942 in Darlington |
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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) |
First Surrey Rifles, in Camberwell; Wanderers FC 1880-81; |
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Club honours |
None |
| Individual honours |
Surrey FA (one appearance,
1877) |
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Height/Weight |
not known |
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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
eleven who became the first players
(5) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Goalkeeper/Forward;
Second
goalkeeper to appear for England. |
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First match |
No. 1, 30
November 1872,
Scotland 0 England 0, a friendly match at The West of Scotland Cricket
Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Partick, Glasgow, aged 19 years 257 days. |
Last match
3 years 94 days
(new record) |
No. 5, 4 March
1876,
Scotland 3 England 0, a friendly match at The West of Scotland Cricket
Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Partick, Glasgow, aged 22 years 352 days. |
| Individual honours |
The Improbables (one appearance,
one goal,
1878), The Rest (one appearance, February 1879) and
The Stripes (February 1879) |
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Distinctions |
Was the youngest ever goalkeeper to play for England, a record he held for
sixteen years until Billy Moon came along. One of only four teenagers to
keep goal for the National side. |
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Beyond England |
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Maynard was
District Registrar of Durham from 1903 until his death. His son,
Alfred Frederick Maynard, who lost his life in the Great War, was an
England RU internationalist. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.170. |
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