Jack
Plant |
Bury FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D
0 L 1 F 1: A 4
0% successful
1900
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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John Plant |
Birth |
23 March 1871 in Water Street, Bollington, Cheshire [registered in
Macclesfield, June 1871]. Date of birth confirmed by his 1939
register, however, his School admission records state he was born on the
18 March. Attended St John's CofE School,
Bollington, |
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According to the 1871
census, ten day old John 'James' is the only child to James and Mary Ann
(née McMorris). They live in Water Street in Bollington. His father
is a public baker. (The middle name of 'James' only appears in this
census, before he is officially registered). According to his
school admission records, John attended St. John's School from 8 October
1877 until 1 April 1881. |
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According to the 1881
census, John is the eldest of four children now living with their widowed
mother in Palmerston Street in Bollington. His mother is now a baker. They
have one servant. |
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According to the 1891
census, John is a labourer in the Iron Foundary living with the Bowles
family at 73 Georgiana Street in Bury. |
Marriage |
to Margaret Connolly
[registered in Bury, December 1896]. |
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According to the 1901
census, John, a professional footballer, is now married to Margaret and
they have two children, Ellen and Elizabeth. They live with Margaret's
mother and sister at 90 Edward Street in Bury. |
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According to the 1911
census, still living at 90 Edward Street, John is now a labourer at the
cotton mill, still married and still with two children. |
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According to the
1921
census, Jack is still married and still living at 90 Edward Street, still a labourer,
but now for the gas department. They live with one of their daughters,
Elizabeth. |
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According to the 1939 register,
John is a retired widow living on his own at 15 Queen Street in
Bollington. |
Death |
Thursday, 19 January 1950, at his home in Bollington, aged
78 years 302 days
[registered in Crewe, March 1950]. reported in Football
Post, 21 January 1950 Not the John Plant who died 16
February 1951 in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, he was born in January 1871. |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Began his career playing for local clubs such as Denton
FC and Bollington FC. Plant signed for Bury FC in April 1890. Spent the
1898-99 season with Reading FC before returning to Bury FC until his
retirement in 1907. |
Club honours |
Football League Division Two winners
1894-95; FA Cup winners
1899-1900, 1902-03; |
Individual honours |
None |
Distinctions |
None |
Height/Weight |
5'
8", 12st.
4lbs [1903]. |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
England Career |
Player number |
256th
player to appear for England. |
Position(s) |
Outside-left |
Only match |
No. 70, 7 April 1900, Scotland 4
England 1, a British Championship match at Celtic Park, Kerrydale Street,
Parkhead, Glasgow, aged 29 years 15 days. |
Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1899-1900; |
Team honours |
None |
Individual honours |
None |
Distinctions |
Died four days after Tommy Cook |
Beyond England |
No additional information. But his
census return shows that he returned to the cotton mill when he left
playing. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.199. |