I spend a lot of time digging about the geneological records with the same gusto as some category-Z celebs on "Who do you think you are?", Except, I am not trying to prove I am related to royalty.
The opposite in fact, I know I am loosely related to the Meffen Brothers who played for Campsie in the early 1880s, and that is that.
But I do use the same tools to look up people from a long time ago, so we are just doing the same thing.
NB: In the 1870s, 1880s & 1890s we had to look up football players using other evidence [ie other than football], in the 1901 [and especially] the 1911 Census the profession "Professional Footballer" started becoming more prevalent in the Census.
And thus it was that I found at Bradford a singular boarding house that had not only two former Falkirk Footballers [Archie Devine and William Gildea] but at the same time a [yet to be] Falkirk FC player [David Taylor]
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Of course, this is not magick, this is not a portent, it was three Scottish Footballers living together in England, I still like it.
The opposite in fact, I know I am loosely related to the Meffen Brothers who played for Campsie in the early 1880s, and that is that.
But I do use the same tools to look up people from a long time ago, so we are just doing the same thing.
NB: In the 1870s, 1880s & 1890s we had to look up football players using other evidence [ie other than football], in the 1901 [and especially] the 1911 Census the profession "Professional Footballer" started becoming more prevalent in the Census.
And thus it was that I found at Bradford a singular boarding house that had not only two former Falkirk Footballers [Archie Devine and William Gildea] but at the same time a [yet to be] Falkirk FC player [David Taylor]
Of course, this is not magick, this is not a portent, it was three Scottish Footballers living together in England, I still like it.