Bernard
Wilkinson |
Sheffield United FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D
0 L 0 F 1: A 0
100% successful
1903-04
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Bernard Wilkinson Pickles |
Birth |
12 March 1878
in Thorpe Hesley, West Riding of Yorkshire
[registered as Bernard Wilkinson Pickles in Rotherham, June 1878].
Birthdate confirmed by the 1939 register. |
Baptism |
14 April
1878 in Thorpe Hesley |
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According to the 1881
census, Bernard (Pickles) is the seventh of eight children to Joseph and
Ann Elizabeth (née Williamson), his younger brother is six month
old Willliam Herbert. His father is a school teacher. They live in the
Thorpe Street area of Thorpe Hesley, next to the Mason's Arms. |
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According to the 1891
census, Bernard (Pickles) is a twelve year old scholar living at school.
His parents are the schoolmaster and school mistress, two of his older
brothers and older sister are also teachers. He also has two more younger
sisters, now being seven of ten. They live in Church School House, on
Thorpe Road in Thorpe Hesley. |
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According to the 1901
census, Bernard (Wilkinson) is boarding with his brother, William Herbert
at John and Eliza Parkin's house. He is a steel manufacturing clerk,
living at 161 Steade Road in Ecclesall Bierlow. |
Marriage |
to Gertrude Dobson
[registered as Bernard Wilkinson Pickles in Rotherham, September 1907]. |
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According to the 1911
census, Bernard (Wilkinson) is married to Gertrude and the have one child,
Amy. He is a clerk and they live at 77 Percival Road in the Ecclesall
Bierlow area of Sheffield. |
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According to the
1921 census, Bernard is a wholesale fish salesman, still married, and with
their daughter, they live at 167 Hunter House Road in Ecclesall Bierlow. |
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According to the 1939 register, Bernard, a fish and
game salesman, remains married to Gertrude. They live at 43 Ecclesall Road
South in Sheffield with their daughter Amy. |
Death |
28 May 1949 at 43 Ecclesall
Road South, Sheffield,
aged 71 years 77 days
[registered as Bernard Wilkinson, in Sheffield, June 1949].
Left £4618 0s. 5d. to his widow Gertrude, and daughter Amy. |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Began playing
football with his local junior club, Thorpe Hesley FC juniors. Stepped up
to Shiregreen FC before joining Sheffield United FC in July 1899, he
eventually made club captain. He resigned his captaincy after being left
out of a cup tie in January 1912. Rotherham Town FC signed Wilkinson in
June 1913. |
Club honours |
Football League
Division One runners-up 1899-1900;
FA Cup runners-up 1900-01, winners 1901-02; |
Individual honours |
None |
Distinctions |
Played for Yorkshie
Council CC, rejecting an offer to play for Yorkshire CCC. Brother of
William H. Wilkinson (Sheffield United FC). |
Height/Weight |
5'
5½", 10st.
6lbs [1902],
5'
6", 11st.
0lbs [1904]. |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
England Career |
Player number |
One of four who became 298th
players
(299) to appear for England. |
Position(s) |
Centre-half |
Only match |
No. 82, 9 April 1904, Scotland 0 England 1,
a British Championship match at Celtic Park, Kerrydale Street, Glasgow, aged
26 years
28 days. |
Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1903-04; |
Team honours |
British
Championship winners 1903-04; |
Individual honours |
None |
Distinctions |
Died 26 days after
Sid Bishop and 27 days after Fanny Walden |
Beyond England |
Subsequently a successful Sheffield
business man. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.268/9. |