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Sam
Wolstenholme |
Everton FC,
Blackburn Rovers FC
3 appearances, 0 goals
P 3 W 2 D
1 L 0 F 5: A 2
83% successful
1902-05
captain: none
minutes played: 270 |
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Timeline |
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Samuel Wolstenholme |
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Birth |
Friday, 16 March 1877 in Little Lever, Lancashire. |
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registered in Bolton April-June 1877 |
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Baptism |
Saturday, 28 April 1877 in St. Matthew's Church, Little Lever.
To Samuel & Dinah, by James Slade. Samuel's occupation stated as mechanic. |
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According to the 1881
census, Samuel is the fourth of five children born to Samuel and Dinah (née
Jackman) living at 41 Nob End Row in Little Lever. His father is a
millwright. |
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According to the 1891
census, Samuel is now the fourth of nine children, now living at 7 Alpine
Terrace in Kearsley. His father is a fitter in the local foundry, whilst
Samuel himself is a joiner's apprentice. |
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According to the 1901 census, five of
the children, not including Samuel, are living with their parents at 1
Alpine Terrace. Their father is a millwright. |
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Marriage |
to Alice Simmons,
on Wednesday, 3 July 1901 at St. John's the
Evangelist Church, Farnsworth-under-Kearsley, Lancashire. Living at 1 Alpine
Terrace, stated as being a moulder. |
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registered in Bolton July-September 1901 |
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Sam and Alice Wolstenholme had two daughters together. Lily Agnes
(b.5 November 1902) and
Alice (b.19 February 1907). |
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His mother
died in Little Lever, 31 May 1909.
According to the 1911
census, Samuel is a professional athlete, married to Alice, with two
children, Lily and Alice. They live at 55 Muriel Road in Norwich.
His father died in Little Lever, 1 July 1914 |
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According to the
1921 census, Samuel, now an iron moulder, still married, and with his two
daughters and his brother, James, as a boarder, they live at 12 Darley
Street in Farnworth. |
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According to the 1939 register, Samuel, a football
scout, and Alice, are still married, living at 6 Preston Street in Bolton
with their younger daughter, Alice. |
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Death |
Saturday, 20 October 1945,
in a Bolton hospital. Living at 6
Preston Street, Great Lever, at the time.
"Sam Wolstenholme, the Blackburn
Rovers, Everton, Croydon and Norwich City half-back, who 40 years ago made
three appearances for England, has died in hospital aged 68."
- The Evening Express, Saturday, 20 October 1945 |
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aged
68 years 218 days |
registered in Bolton October-December 1945 |
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The
death previously given as March 1933 is wrong, that Samuel Wolstenholme
was born in 1879. |
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Funeral |
Tuesday, 23 October 1945 at St. Michael's Church,
Manchester Road, Great Lever. |
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His
wife, Alice Wolstenholme, died in early 1956. |
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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) |
Began his football
career with Darley Vale FC. Shortly followed by Farnworth FC and Farnworth
Alliance FC. Time spent with Horwich FC before he left for Everton FC late
in 1897. Blackburn Rovers FC signed him on 12 May 1904.
Croydon Common FC signed him on 19 June 1908 as club captain and Norwich City FC in
the first days of May 1909. Signed with Chester FC, becoming their captain in the
1913-14 season. |
League honours
257 appearances 9 goals |
Everton FC
1898-1904 160 appearances, eight goals
debut: 17 January 1898 Everton
FC 1 Stoke FC 1.
Blackburn
Rovers FC 1904-08 97 appearances, one goal
debut: 3 September
1904 Bury FC 0 Blackburn Rovers FC 2.
last: 25 April 1908 Blackburn
Rovers FC 0 Manchester City FC 0. |
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Club honours |
Football
League Division One runners-up 1901-02
(27ᵃ 1ᵍ), third place 1903-04 (32ᵃ 4ᵍ);
Southern League Division Two winners 1908-09; |
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Individual honours |
Football League (two appearances); |
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Distinctions |
Brother of Tom (Blackpool FC, Bolton Wanderers FC,
Burnley FC and Bradford FC 1902-10) |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9½", 12st. 0lbs [1904], 11st
9lbs [1912] |
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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 298th
players (298) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Right-half |
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First match |
No.
82, 9 April 1904, Scotland 0 England 1, a
British Championship match at Celtic Park, Kerrydale Street, Glasgow, aged
27 years
24 days. |
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Last match |
No. 84, 27 March 1905, England
3 Wales 1, a British Championship match at Anfield Road, Liverpool, aged
28 years 11 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1903-04, 1904-05; |
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Team honours |
British
Championship winners 1903-04, 1904-05; |
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Individual honours |
The North
(two appearances (February 1901-February 1905) |
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Distinctions |
Died three days
after Harry Davis |
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Beyond England |
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Went to Hamburg, Germany, as a coach
and was interned at the outbreak of war. He was held in Ruhleben. He
was repatriated in England on 22 November 1918. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.274. |
