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John
Sands |
Nottingham Forest FC
1 appearance,
2 goals against
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 3:
A 2
100% successful
1880
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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John Sands |
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Birth |
Thursday, 20 July 1854 at 14 Island Street, Sneinton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire |
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registered in Nottingham
July-September 1854 |
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Baptism |
Sunday, 10 September 1854 at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham;
Living in Island Street, Sneinton |
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According to the 1861
census, John is the eldest of three children to James and the Irish Sarah
(née Hall).
His father is a lace maker and they live at 16 Dane Street in St. Ann's
area of Nottingham. |
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According to the 1871
census, John has four more younger siblings and they live on 133 St. Ann's
Well Road, still in Nottingham. John is a hosier's apprentice, while his
father remains as a lacemaker. |
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According to the 1881
census, John is living at 18 St. Ann's Valley in St. Ann's with his
parents and another sibling, making him the oldest of seven. He is a
hosiery warehouseman. His father remains a lacemaker. |
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Marriage |
to Mary Bertha Keating, on 29 August 1882,
at the High Pavement Chapel, in
Nottingham |
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registered in Nottingham
July-September 1882 |
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"On the 29th ult., at the High Pavement Chapel, by the
Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, of Mansfield, John Sands to Mary Bertha, eldest
daughter of John Keating, Belvoir-hill, Sneinton." -
Friday, 1 September 1882, The
Nottinghamshire Guardian |
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Children |
John and Mary Sands had two children
together. John Keating (b.1888) and Mary Bertha
(b.12 January 1884) |
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According to the 1891
census, John is now married to Mary Bertha, with one son, John. He remains
a hosiery warehouseman. They live at 29 Burford Road in Radford area of
Nottingham.
(His mother died at the end of 1893) |
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According to the 1901
census, John is now a railway clerk, still married and now with another
child, also Mary Bertha. They live at 10 Sandon Street in Nottingham.
(His father died at the beginning of 1904) |
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According to the 1911
census, John lives with his wife and daughter. He
remains a railway clerk. And they live at 59 Foxhall Road. |
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Death |
Friday, 21 April 1911, in
between Sherwood Terminus and Victoria Station, Nottingham,
Nottinghamshire, living at 59 Foxhall Road in
Sherwood Rise. |
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aged
56 years 275 days |
registered in Nottingham April-June
1911 |
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Obituary |
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"IN THE MIDST OF LIFE―FATAL SEIZURE IN A NOTTINGHAM TRAMCAR
"With tragic suddenness the death took place in a Nottingham
tramcar this morning of a clerk named John Sands, aged 56, of 59,
Foxhall-road, Sherwood-rise.
"He entered the car at the Sherwood
terminus, and when he sat inside, in one of the corner seats, and
commenced to read a newspaper, there was nothing to lead the conductor or
the passengers to suppose that he was in anything but perfect health.
,%20John.jpg) "When
the car was near the Victoria Station
[left],
however, the conducted noticed something wrong about the deceased, and
there was no doubt in the matter when the deceased suddenly threw his head
back and dropped his paper.
"The conductor called to a policeman in
Listergate, and the officer could see then life was extinct. He accordingly
communicated with headquarters.
"An ambulance was sent from Leen-side,
and the car proceeded on its way towards Trent Bridge in order to meet the
ambulance. The body remains at the Leen-side mortuary, where an inquest
will be held." -
Friday, 21 April 1911, The
Nottingham Evening Post |
Funeral
Tuesday, 25 April 1911
Nottingham General Cemetery |
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"FUNERAL OF MR. J. SANDS IN NOTTINGHAM.
"The internment took place in the Nottingham General Cemetery this
afternoon of the remains of Mr. John Sands, at one time a prominent player
with the Nottingham Forest Football Club, who died suddenly in a tramcar
on Friday whilst on his way to business. In the earlier days of the club's
existence Mr. Sands kept goal for the Forest. He took part in 1880 in the
North v. South match, and in the same year kept goal for England against
Wales, at Wrexham.
"The funeral, which took place from the deceased's
residence, 59, Foxhall-road, Sherwood-rise, was conducted by the Rev. J.
M. L. Thomas, minister of the High Pavement Chapel." -
Tuesday,
25 April 1911, The Nottingham Evening Post |
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Mary Sands died at the end of 1945 |
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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 before joining Nottingham Forest FC in 1878 and played his final
game in January 1883; |
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Club honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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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
six who became the
75th players (75) to appear
for England.
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Position(s) |
Goalkeeper;
Twelfth
goalkeeper to appear for England. |
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Only match |
No.
11, 15 March 1880,
Wales 2 England 3, a friendly match at Racecourse Ground, Mold Road, Wrexham, aged
25 years 239 days. |
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Individual honours |
The
North (one appearances, 0ᵍᵃ, March 1880); |
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Distinctions |
Created a new record set by Anderson
when going eighty minutes before conceding a goal. |
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Beyond England |
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Nothing known apart from
his Nottingham Forest exploits. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.216. |
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