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Jacky
Pearson |
Crewe Alexandra FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 2:
A 0
100% successful
1892
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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John Hargreaves Pearson |
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Birth |
Saturday,
25 January 1868 in Monks Coppenhall, Crewe, Cheshire |
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registered in Crewe January-March 1868 |
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According to the 1871 census,
John Hargreaves is the sixth of seven children to George and Mary (née
Warren), living
in Nantwich Road in Crewe. His father is a railway engine driver. |
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According to the 1881 census,
John is now a scholar, now with two more sisters, one adopted. Still with parents at 83 Nantwich Road. His father is still driving
trains.
According to the UK Railway Employment Records, John
Hargreaves was employed as a mechanical engineer for the London Midland
Scottish Railway, from 6 March 1882 until his retirement on 12 December
1930, rising in the ranks who became the chief engineer. |
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According to the 1891 census,
John H. is now a railway clerk, and one of only three of the children
still at the same house with their parents. |
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Marriage |
to Ann Williams in mid-1895 in Crewe |
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registered in Nantwich April-June 1895 |
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Children |
Jacky and Ann Pearson had one daughter together. Norah Williams
(b.1899) |
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(His father
died in Blackpool in 1896)
According to the 1901 census,
now married to Ann, with a new daughter, Norah. With a single servant,
they all live at 11 Ruskin Road in Crewe. |
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(His mother died in
Ashton-under-Lyne in early 1905)
According to the 1911 census,
still married and still with one daughter and one servant. Living at 262
Alexandra Recreation Ground, Nantwich Road in Crewe. He is a Railway Clerk. |
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Cannot be found on the 1921
census. |
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Death |
Monday, 22 June 1931 at 2 Suffolk Road South, Bournemouth,
Hampshire.
He died three weeks after his brother, George (d.5 June
1931 in Nantwich). |
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aged
63 years 148 days |
registered in Bournemouth April-June 1931 |
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Obituary |
"DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN CREWE
SPORTSMAN
"The
death has occurred at Bournemouth of Mr. J. H. Pearson, a well-known Crewe
sportsman, who played for Crewe Alexandra forty years ago when he was
capped. He later became referee in addition to international matches, had
charge of the English Cup final one occasion. He was a founder of Crewe
Golf Club, which in Saturday celebrated its twenty-first anniversary."
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The Liverpool Echo, Wednesday, 24 June 1931.
"Cup Final Referee and
Ex-International.
"Crewe sportsmen have heard with regret
of the death of Mr. J. H. Pearson, a former stalwart of the Crewe
Alexandra football team, an International footballer and an English Cup
Final referee. Mr. Pearson recently retired from the L.M.S. General
Offices at Crewe owing to ill-health, He went to live at Bournemouth,
where his death took place. He had served in the General Offices for over
40 years and was for several years Secretary of the L.M.S. World Insurance
Society."
- The
Staffordshire Sentinel, Thursday, 25 June 1931. |
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Probate |
"PEARSON
John Hargreaves of 2 Suffolk-road South
Bournemouth died 22
June 1931 Probate
London 22 September to Ann
Pearson widow.
Effects £648 14s. 2d."
[2019 equivalent: £44,734] |
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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) |
Played junior
football in Crewe, before joining the Crewe Alexandra FC reserve team when he was only 13
years-old. After two season's he was promoted to the senior side. Remaining with the club until injury forced retirement in
1895. |
League History
14 appearances,
3 goals |
Crewe Alexandra FC 1892-95 fourteen appearances,
three goals.
debut (division two): 3 September 1892 Burton Swifts FC
7 Crewe Alexandra FC 1 .
last (division two): 12 April 1895 Manchester City FC 4 Crewe Alexandra
FC 1. |
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Club honours |
Football League best:- Division Two tenth place 1892-93
(12ᵃ 2ᵍ); |
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Individual honours |
Cheshire FA (1887-90); |
Distinctions |
"Mr. Pearson commenced refereeing local
matches in 1893. Quite soon he was entrusted with English cup-ties in the
qualifying stages, and for the past ten years he has controlled all kinds
of exciting matches under the auspices of the English Association and The
League. In addition to these he has been in charge of the final ties for
the English Amateur Cup, the Birmingham Cup, the Gloucestershire Cup,
semi-final ties of the Irish and Welsh Cups, the Consolation match at the
Olympic Games (London), between Holland and Sweden, when the teams called
for 'Three hochs for the referee', and lastly he officiated between
Denmark and England at Copenhagen last May."
- The Athletic News, Monday, 3 April 1911
Becoming chairman of the Crewe Society of Referees.
Refereed the 1911 FA Cup Final between Newcastle United FC and Bradford City FC,
and remained a top class referee in the Football League until 1914. |
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Height/Weight |
5' 7½", 9st 2lb [1892] |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & ENFA. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
five who became the 185th players
(188) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-right |
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Only match |
No. 44. 5 March 1892, Ireland 0 England 2, a
British Championship match at Cliftonville Gardens, Cliftonville, Belfast, aged
24 years
40 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1891-92; |
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Team honours |
British
Championship winners 1891-92; |
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Individual honours |
The North (one appearance, January 1888)
The
Whites (one appearance, February 1892) |
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Distinctions |
Died fourteen days after John Dixon |
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Beyond England |
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From his early years, he was in the
railway industry, an accountant, with the London & North Western Railway, which amalgamated in
1923 with LMS. He retired in December 1930. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.194. |
