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Tommy
Morren |
Sheffield United FC
1 appearance, 1 debut goal
P 1 W 1 D
0 L 0 F 3: A 2
100% successful
1898-99
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Thomas Morren |
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Birth |
27 March 1871 at 47 Dame
Dorothy Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, county Durham [registered in
Sunderland, June 1871]. Moved to Middlesbrough between
1873-76. |
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According to the 1871
census, six day old Thomas is the second of two children of Thomas and
Margaret. They are one of two families who live at 47 Dame Dorothy Street,
in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland. His Irish father is an iron founder. |
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According to the 1881
census, Thomas and his sister, Mary Ann, who now have three younger
siblings, and his parents now live at 32 Beech Street in Middlesbrough.
His father is still an iron founder. |
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According to the 1891
census, Thomas appears to be the eldest of four children still at home
with their parents, still at 32 Beech Street. Both Thomas and his father
are ironfounders. |
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Marriage |
to Emily Skerry
[registered in Middlesbrough, North Riding, September 1898]. |
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According to the 1901
census, Thomas is now married to Emily and they have two children, Emily
and Winifred. They live at 123 Abbeydale Road in Sheffield with his
widowed mother, who is also their nurse. |
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According to the 1911
census, Thomas is now a newsagent and tobacconist, remaining married to
Emily, and now with three children, Thomas being the new addition. They
live at 79 Junction Road in Hunters Bar, Sheffield. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Thomas, still a newsagent and tobacconist, and still married, and they still
live at 79 Junction Road with their three children. |
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Death |
31 January 1929 at 79 Junction
Road, Sheffield,
aged
57 years 310 days
[registered in Ecclesall Bierlow, West Riding, March 1929].
Left £645 in his will. |
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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 Middlesbrough Victoria FC and Middlesbrough
Ironopolis FC. He then joined Middlesbrough FC before he was picked up by
Barnsley St Peters FC. Morren then joined Sheffield United FC in the 1896
close season, where he remained until his retirement in 1904. |
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Club honours |
FA Amateur Cup winners 1894-95; Football
League Champions 1897-98; FA Cup winners
1897-98, runners-up 1900-01; |
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Individual honours |
Football League (two appearances) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
4¼", 10st.
4lbs [1896],
5'
5¼", 10st. 11lbs [1899]. |
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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 four who became 236th
players (237) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Centre-half |
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Only match |
No. 62, 5 March 1898,
Ireland 2
England 3, a British
Championship match at
Cliftonville Gardens,
Cliftonville, Belfast, aged 26 years
343 days.
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1897-98; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners 1897-98; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Son of an Irishman, Thomas could have featured for Ireland.
Died nine
days after Bill Williams |
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Beyond England |
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After leaving football, became a
Sheffield newsagent. Joined the Royal Air Force in 1918. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.179. |
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