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Jimmy
Settle |
Bury FC, Everton FC
6 appearances, 6 goals
three goals
on his debut
P 6 W 5 D
1 L 0 F 26: A 5
92% successful
1899-1903
captain: none
minutes played: 540 |
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Timeline |
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James Settle |
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Birth |
Sunday,
5
September
1875
in Millom, Cumberland |
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registered in Bootle October-December 1875 |
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Baptism |
Sunday, 26 September 1875
in Holy Trinity Church, Millom |
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(His father, Stephen,
died in early 1881)
According to the 1881 census, James is the
youngest of four children, to the widowed Hannah (née Eccleston), living
at 103 Wellington Street in Millom. |
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According to the 1891
census, James remains the youngest of the four children still living at
home with their mother at living at 12 Huxley Street in Halliwell. He is a
tenter at the bleachworks. |
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Marriage |
to
Catherine Leigh Higham,
on 23 May 1898 at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Aspull,
Wigan, Lancashire |
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registered in Wigan April-June 1898 |
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Children |
Jimmy and Catherine Settle had four children together. John
(b.21 December 1898), Bertha (b.1900), James
(b.14 April 1902) and Robert (b.10 November 1904). |
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According to the 1901
census, James is a professional footballer married to Catherine and they
have two children, John and Bertha. They also have one servant and they
live at 18 Eton Street in the Walton-on-the-Hill area in Liverpool,
opposite Goodison Park stadium.
(His mother died in 1903) |
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According to the 1911
census, James and Catherine are running the Dog & Partridge on the Moor
Lane in Bolton. The census reveals that one of their four children had
died (Robert died 15 January 1908, aged three years). |
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According to the 1921
census, James is still married but is now a crane driver, and with their
three children, they live at 74 Victoria Grove in Bolton.
(His wife
died in 1926, three years later, so did his only daughter, Bertha) |
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According to the 1939 register, widowed
James is an Iron Foundary Labourer, living at 6 Bottom of Moor Old Lane in
Horwich with his son, James, and his wife, Minnie. |
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Death |
Tuesday, 1 June
1954, in hospital in Bolton, Lancashire
Living at
102 Chorley New Road, Horwich. |
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aged 78 years 269 days |
registered in Farnworth April-June 1954 |
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Obituary |
"JIMMY SETTLE DEAD.
"The death has taken place of Jimmy Settle, a famous Everton player of 50
years ago, in hospital at Bolton, at the age of 78. Though the name will
convey little to the younger generation of football followers, older folk
will recall Settle as one of the most skilful and artistic inside forwards
of his day. He joined Everton from Bury toeards the end of the 1898-99
season, shortly after he had been capped by England for the first time, at
a fee which to-day is not ever chicken-feed. Everton paid £400, which in
those distant days was big money. Settle was on the small side, being
barely 5 feet 6 inches, but he was a player who excelled in many of the
arts whiuch are to-day so rare. He was a member of the Everton Cup-winning
side in 1906 against Newcastle United and appeared in the final the next
year, when EVerton lost to Sheffield Wednesday. He partnered Harold
Hardman on the left wing each time. England honored him on six occasions." -
Liverpool Echo, Friday, 4 June 1954. |
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Funeral |
Friday, 5 June
1954 at St. Peter's
Church, Halliwell, buried with his wife and two of his children, Robert and
Bertha.
"Jimmy Settle was buried
at Halliwell, Bolton, to-day." |
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 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Played
junior football in Bolton before joining Bolton Wanderes FC in 1894.
Joined Halliwell Rovers FC a year later and transfered to Bury FC in
January 1897.
Everton FC spent £400 on him on 13 April 1899. Becoming club
captain.
On 12 May 1908, Settle joined Stockport County FC, retiring a year later. |
League honours
339 appearances 118 goals |
Bolton
Wanderers FC 1894-95 thirteen appearances four goals
debut: 13
September 1894 Liverpool FC 1 Bolton Wanderers FC 2.
Bury FC 1897-99 63 appearances 28 goals
debut: 6
February 1897 Bury FC 0 Aston Villa FC 2.
Everton FC 1899-1908 237 appearances 84 goals
debut:
22 April 1899 Burnley FC 0 Everton FC 0.
Stockport County FC 1908-09 26 appearances two goals
debut
(division two): 1 September 1908 Grimsby Town FC 3 Stockport County FC 0.
last
(division two): 12 April 1909 Stockport County FC 0 Gainsborough Trinity
FC 1. |
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Club honours |
Football
League Division One fourth place 1898-99 (1ᵃ); runners-up 1901-02
(29ᵃ 18ᵍ), 1904-05 (32ᵃ 9ᵍ); third place 1903-04 (29ᵃ 8ᵍ),
1906-07 (21ᵃ 6ᵍ);
FA Cup
winners 1905-06 (5ᵃ 1ᵍ), runners-up 1906-07 (8ᵃ 4ᵍ); |
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Individual honours |
Football League (four appearances);
Football League Division One
Top Goalscorer 1901-02 (18); |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
6", 11st.
0lbs [1902-03]. |
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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 242nd
player (244) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-left |
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First match |
No.
65, 18 February 1899, England 13 Ireland 2, a British
Championship match at Roker Park Ground, Association Road, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland,
aged 23 years 166 days.
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Last match
3 years 361 days |
No. 77, 14 February 1903,
England 4 Ireland 0, a British Championship match at Molineux,
Wolverhampton, aged 27 years 162 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1898-99, 1901-02; |
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Team honours |
British
Championship winners 1898-99; |
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Individual honours |
The North
(two appearances, 3ᵍ February 1899-March 1904; replaced in February 1902)
England's Top
Goalscorer (two 1902); |
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Distinctions |
most appearanced Englishman at Bury FC,
shared with
Norman Bullock since 1926. |
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Beyond England |
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No additional information, but we
know from census records that he became a publican. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.219. |
