This list of short biographies forms part of Chapter 3 of the thesis. It focuses on football club members who have been linked to the rugby and association codes between 1868 and 1873. The primary aim of this study is to link each club member to the 1871 Census. In doing so, information relating to their place of birth, their employment status and birth information relating to their parents can be unearthed. For verification purposes, each member has also been linked to a particular football match or committee meeting at the relevant club / clubs within the six year period. For each individual, a notes field is included where any additional information uncovered during the investigation has been recorded.
(1) Anderson, Peter
Club(s): Kilmarnock FC (rugby and association)
Born in Ayr, on April 8, 1846, Peter is recorded as 24 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Kilmarnock with his parents. The household has 0 servants. Peter is employed as a schoolmaster. His father, Thomas Anderson, is a retired brewer born in Maybole, Ayrshire and his mother, Margaret Goudie, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire. Peter is appointed to the committee of Kilmarnock FC on November 25, 1872 and takes part in the meeting which accepts rugby rules on October 29, 1872. He also takes part in the meeting of March 28, 1873 when the club formally agrees to join the Scottish Football Association. Peter dies in North Riverside, Illinois, United States in 1926, aged 80.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 14 East Shaw Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. In the 1861 Census he is 15 and living in Ayr with his parents and possibly 2 sisters. In 1872, Peter Anderson marries Jessie Connell in Kilmarnock. In 1878, Jessie, aged 24, dies at Kilmarnock. In the 1881 Census, Peter Anderson, age 34, and born in Ayr is living at 11 Montgomerie Terrace in Ayr. He is listed as a teacher. Peter’s baptism date is April 26, 1846. For information on his emigration to America see the Ayr Observer, December 9, 1884, 4. The Kilmarnock FC committee meetings of November 25, 1872, October 29, 1872 and March 28, 1873 can be found in the Kilmarnock FC Minute Book, 1872-1879.
(2) Barclay, Rev James
Club(s): Dumfries FC (rugby and association)
Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire on June 19, 1844, James is recorded as 26 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Dumfries as a boarder. The household has 1 servant. James is employed as a parish minister. His father, James Barclay snr, is a residenter born in Paisley, Renfrewshire and his mother, Margaret Cochrane Brown, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Beith, Ayrshire. James jnr is a member of Dumfries FC and is linked to both codes, being listed as a candidate for the first official international match under association rules in 1872 and playing to the rugby code during season 1873-74.* He dies in Keswick, England in 1920, aged 75.
Additional notes: *Although Dumfries FC switched from rugby to association rules around 1870 (see Alcock, Charles W. ed. (1870) Football Annual. London: Virtue, 60), the club was clearly still playing rugby matches. In the 1871 Census, James jnr is living at 9 Assembly Street, Dumfries. He is listed as a candidate for the international football match in the Glasgow Herald, November 19, 1872, 6. James jnr was a famous athlete in his student days, being captain of the Glasgow University cricket and football clubs for some years (he is listed as being president of the football club in 1865). He was also captain of the Gentlemen of Scotland Cricketers. James jnr played for the Merchiston Castle School team against Edinburgh Academy under rugby rules on December 10, 1859. After university, his ministry took him to Dumfries in 1870 and Canonbie in 1874 where he played for the local football clubs.
(3) Cochrane, Andrew
Club(s): West of Scotland FC (rugby) and Glasgow Wanderers FC (association)
Born in Laurieston, Glasgow, on July 8, 1853, Andrew is recorded as 17 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Partick, Lanarkshire with his stepmother, 2 brothers, sister, stepbrother and cousin. The household has 2 servants. Andrew is employed as a warehouseman. His father, William Cochrane is deceased, and was a merchant and warehouseman born in Strathaven, Lanarkshire and his mother, Elizabeth Dykes, is deceased and was born in Strathaven (Avondale), Lanarkshire. Andrew is a member of West of Scotland FC and Glasgow Wanderers FC and is listed playing for the former club against Glasgow Academical FC on December 2, 1871 and the latter club against Clydesdale FC on March 29, 1873. He dies at Hillhead, Glasgow in 1922 aged 68.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 6 Hamilton Cresent, Partick, Lanarkshire. His father William dies in 1868. His mother Elizabeth Dykes dies aged 36 in 1860. Andrew dies on January 21, 1922. He is recorded playing for West of Scotland FC in the Glasgow Herald, December 4, 1871, 5, and Glasgow Wanderers FC in the Glasgow Herald, March 31, 1873, 5.
(4) Dickie, James
Club(s): Kilmarnock FC (rugby and association)
Born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire on December 9, 1845, James is recorded as 26 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire with his parents, 2 brothers, sister and a visitor. The household has 2 servants. James is employed as a seedsman’s clerk. His father, John Dickie, is a seed merchant and provost, born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire and his mother, Elizabeth Morton, is listed as a Seed Merchant’s Wife and is born in Girvan, Ayrshire. James is a member of Kilmarnock FC and is listed as being president of the club at the meeting of November 2, 1872 when rugby rules are formally accepted. He is later listed playing for the club’s 2nd XI against Paisley FC 2nd XI on December 27, 1873 under association rules. He dies at Kilmarnock in 1936 aged 92.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at Titchfield House, 97 Titchfield Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. He is 16 in the 1861 Census, living in Kilmarnock. In the 1881 Census he is 36 years old, living at 20 London Road, Kilmarnock. He is a seed merchant and head of household, living with his brother, two sisters and an aunt, plus 2 servants. The Kilmarnock FC committee meeting of November 2, 1872 can be found in the Kilmarnock FC Minute Book, 1872-1879. James is recorded playing for Kilmarnock FC under association rules in the Glasgow Herald, December 29, 1873, 6.
(5) Easdon, Ralph
Club(s): Callander FC (association) and 105th Lanark RV FC (rugby)
Born in Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire on May 4, 1843, Ralph is recorded as 27 years old in the 1871 Census, living in High Church, Glasgow as a boarder. The household has 0 servants. Ralph is employed as a vanman. His father, Ralph Easdon, is a wood forester born in Stirling and his mother, Catherine Campbell, is listed as a wife in the 1871 Census and is born in Killin, Perthshire. Ralph is a member of Callander FC and the 105th Lanark RV Club and is listed playing for the former club against the Alexandria Athletic Club on October 18, 1873, under association rules, and for the latter club against the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders on April 6, 1871 under rugby rules. He dies at Cumberland, England in 1917 aged 73.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 19 Blackfriars Street, High Church, Glasgow. He is 37 years old in the 1881 Census and is listed as a gamekeeper living in Maybole, Ayrshire. His mother Catherine’s birthplace of Killin is mentioned in the 1861 Census. Ralph is referenced playing for Callander FC (association rules) in the Glasgow Herald, October 20, 1873, 7, and 105th Lanark RV FC (rugby rules) in the Falkirk Herald, April 13, 1871, 3.
(6) Elliot, Edward Hay Mackenzie
Club(s): Craigmount FC (rugby), Harrow Chequers FC (association) and London Wanderers FC (association)
Born in Madras (Chennai), India on November 30, 1852, Edward is recorded as 18 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Edinburgh as a boarder. The household has 0 servants. Edward is listed as a scholar. His father, Walter Elliot, is a landowner and retired member of the Indian civil service, born in Edinburgh and his mother, Maria Dorothea Hunter Blair, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Doonholm, Ayrshire. Edward is a member of Craigmount FC, Harrow Chequers FC and London Wanderers FC and is listed playing for the first club against Edinburgh Wanderers FC, under rugby rules, on December 10, 1870. For the second club he is listed as being a member when playing for Scotland in the unofficial international match with England, under association rules, on February 24, 1872. He is listed playing for the third club against Queen’s Park FC, under association rules, on March 4, 1872. Edward dies in Herefordshire, England in 1920 aged 68.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at Craigmount House, Dick Place, St Cuthbert, Edinburgh. A soldier, he rose to the rank of major. He dies on December 9, 1920. Edward is recorded playing for Craigmount FC in the Scotsman, December 12, 1870, 7. He is listed as a Harrow Chequers FC member in the Sportsman, February 27, 1872, 3, and is recorded playing for London Wanderers FC in the Sportsman, March 5, 1872, 3.
(7) Kidston, William Hamilton
Club(s): West of Scotland FC (rugby) and Glasgow Wanderers FC (association)
Born in Govan, Lanarkshire, on April 29, 1852, William is recorded as 18 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Anderston, Glasgow with his grandmother, sister and cousin. The household has 3 servants. William is employed as a merchant’s clerk. His father, William Kidston, is deceased and was a merchant born in Glasgow and his mother, Hamilton Campbell Wallace, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Glasgow. William is a member of West of Scotland FC and Glasgow Wanderers FC and is listed playing for the former club against Glasgow University FC on November 29, 1873, under rugby rules, and for the latter club against Clydesdale FC on March 29, 1873, under association rules. He dies at Cornwall, England in 1929 aged 77.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 10 Woodlands Terrace, Anderston, Glasgow. In the 1861 Census, William H. Kidston, age 8, is living in Blythswood. In the 1881 Census, Wm. H. Kidston, age 28, is living at 16 Glasgow Street, Rhu (Row), Dunbartonshire – he is recorded as an iron merchant living with his wife, 2 children, brother and sister-in-law and 3 servants. He is president of the Scottish Amateur Athletic Association in 1885. William Hamilton Kidston dies at Falmouth, Cornwall on June 4, 1929. He is referenced playing for West of Scotland FC in the Sportsman, December 4, 1873, 3, and Glasgow Wanderers FC in the Glasgow Herald, March 31, 1873, 5.
(8) Liddell, Alexander Murdoch
Club(s): Western FC (rugby and association)
Born in Glasgow, on June 28, 1851, Alexander is recorded as 19 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Milton, Glasgow with his parents, 2 brothers and 4 sisters. The household has 1 servant. Alexander is employed as a commission merchant. His father, James Liddell, is a commission merchant born in Mearns, Renfrewshire and his mother, Ann Murdoch, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. Alexander is a member of Western FC and is listed playing for the club against Southern FC on November 22, 1873, under rugby rules, and against Dumbreck FC on November 15, 1873, under association rules. He dies at Nova Scotia, Canada in 1891 aged 42.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 63 Cumberland Street, Milton, Glasgow. A. M. Liddell is playing cricket with Blythswood Cricket Club in 1869. He emigrates to Canada and is recorded in the Montreal Daily Witness newspaper, September 27, 1879 (Alexander M. Liddell, Glasgow Scotland) marrying Katherine E. Swabey. His occupation is recorded as commercial traveller on his death record. He dies on September 17, 1891. Alexander is recorded playing for Western FC at rugby rules in the Glasgow Herald, November 24, 1873, 5, and association rules in the Scotsman, November 17, 1873, 7.
(9) Liddell, Robert Murdoch
Club(s): Western FC (rugby and association)
Born in Barony, Glasgow on January 17, 1853, Robert is recorded as 18 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Milton, Glasgow with his parents, 2 brothers and 4 sisters. The household has 1 servant. Robert is employed as a clerk. His father, James Liddell, is a commission merchant born in Mearns, Renfrewshire and his mother, Ann Murdoch, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. Robert is a member of Western FC and is listed playing for the club against Southern FC on November 22, 1873, under rugby rules, and against Dumbreck FC on November 15, 1873, under association rules. He dies in Montreal, Canada in 1918, aged 65.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census, Robert is living at 63 Cumberland Street, Milton, Glasgow. His date of birth and date of death can be found in a biographical sketch published in Wood, W. (1931) The storied province of Quebec. Vol 4. Toronto: Dominion Publishing Company Limited, 231-232 (an obituary also appears in the Glasgow Herald, March 22, 1918, 1). However the suggested birth year in the biographical sketch (1855) is an error as he is recorded as being 18 in the 1871 Census, 8 in the 1861 Census and 65 in the obituary in 1918. The book states that Robert emigrated to Quebec in 1875, where he became a successful businessman. Robert can be found playing football and cricket for the Western Club in 1873 and is elected treasurer of the Scottish Football Association in 1874. He dies on February 10, 1918. He is recorded playing for Western FC at rugby rules in the Glasgow Herald, November 24, 1873, 5, and association rules in the Scotsman, November 17, 1873, 7.
(10) McClure, James Howe
Club(s): West of Scotland FC (rugby) and Glasgow Wanderers FC (association)
Born in Barony, Glasgow, on July 8, 1851, James is recorded as 19 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Glasgow with his father, 2 brothers, sister and a visitor. The household has 3 servants. James is employed as a merchant’s clerk. His father, James Howe McClure snr, is a writer born in Glasgow and his mother, Grace Buchanan, is deceased and was born in Glasgow. James jnr is a member of West of Scotland FC and Glasgow Wanderers FC and is listed playing for the former club against Glasgow Academical FC on November 19, 1870, under rugby rules, and for the latter club against Clydesdale FC on March 29, 1873, under association rules. He dies at Hillhead, Glasgow in 1909 aged 57.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 9 Berkeley Terrace, Anderston, Glasgow. He is referenced attending Glasgow Academy in 1866 and playing cricket for the West of Scotland Club in 1872. In the 1881 Census, James Howe McClure jnr, aged 29, is living in Partick and in the 1891 Census, James H. McClure jnr, aged 39, is living in Maryhill. He dies on May 11, 1909. He has a twin brother, George Buchanan McClure. James jnr is referenced playing for West of Scotland FC in the Glasgow Herald, November 22, 1870, 5, and Glasgow Wanderers FC in the Glasgow Herald, March 31, 1873, 5.
(11) McGeoch, Alexander
Club(s): West of Scotland FC (rugby) and Glasgow Wanderers FC (association)
Born in Partick, Lanarkshire on September 23, 1854, Alexander is recorded as 16 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Partick, Lanarkshire with his parents, 4 sisters and brother. The household has 2 servants. Alexander is employed as a clerk. His father, William McGeoch, is a retired ironmonger born in Kirkinner, Wigtownshire and his mother, Helen Jackson, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Govan, Lanarkshire. Alexander is a member of West of Scotland FC and Glasgow Wanderers FC and is listed playing for the former club against Glasgow Academical FC on February 5, 1870, under rugby rules, and for the latter club against Queen’s Park FC on April 5, 1873, under association rules. He dies at Birmingham in 1922 aged 67.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 4 Hamilton Street, Partick, Lanarkshire. He worked for William McGeoch & Co., a brass foundry owned by his family which specialised in shipping hardware and had works in Glasgow and Birmingham. He played rugby and cricket for West of Scotland and later played for Glasgow v Edinburgh (rugby rules) in December 1875 and Glasgow v Sheffield (Sheffield association rules) in February 1876. He joined Dumbreck FC and played 4 times for Scotland (association) in 1876 and 1877. In the 1911 Census he is living in Warwickshire and has ‘brass founder’ listed as his occupation. He dies on January 24, 1922. Alexander is recorded playing for West of Scotland FC in the Scotsman, February 8, 1870, 7, and Glasgow Wanderers FC in the Glasgow Herald, April 7, 1873, 6.
(12) MacKean / McKean, James Anderson Dunlop
Club(s): West of Scotland FC (rugby) and Paisley FC (rugby and association)
Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire on May 17, 1849, James is recorded as 21 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Abbey Burgh (Paisley), Renfrewshire with his parents and 3 brothers. The household has 3 servants. James is employed as a soap maker. His father, William McKean, is a soap and starch manufacturer, justice of the peace and town councillor, born in Paisley, Renfrewshire and his mother, Mary Muir, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Paisley, Renfrewshire. James is a member of West of Scotland FC and Paisley FC and is listed playing for the former club against Glasgow University FC on November 29, 1873 and for the latter club against Glasgow University FC on January 11, 1873, under rugby rules, and Kilmarnock FC on December 27, 1873, under association rules. He dies at Paisley, Renfrewshire in 1932 aged 82.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 9 Garthland Place, Paisley, Renfrewshire. J. A. D. MacKean is proposed a member of the West of Scotland Football Club in 1872. J. A. D. MacKean is recorded playing cricket for Kelburne CC in 1876 (J. L. Pinkerton is a team mate). James A. D. McKean is living in Paisley, Renfrewshire, age 31, in the 1881 Census. He dies on April 19, 1932. His brother is Louis Kossuth MacKean. James is recorded playing for West of Scotland FC in the Sportsman, December 4, 1873, 3, and Paisley FC at rugby rules in the Scotsman, January 13, 1873, 7, and at association rules in the Glasgow Herald, December 29, 1873, 6.
(13) Orr, John Campbell
Club(s): St Leonard’s FC (rugby), St Andrews University FC (rugby) and Birmingham Clerks FC (association)
Born in Gorbals, Glasgow on November 21, 1850, Campbell is recorded as 19 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Edinburgh as a lodger. The household has 0 servants. John is employed as a clerk to writer to signet. His father, John Cunningham Orr, is a bookseller and printer born in Maybole, Ayrshire and his mother, Wilhelmina Campbell, is deceased and was born in Ireland. Campbell is a member of St Leonard’s FC, St Andrew’s University FC and Birmingham Clerks FC and is listed playing for the first club against Edinburgh Academy FC on January 8, 1870, under rugby rules, for the second club against Glasgow Academical FC on March 5, 1870, under rugby rules, and is acknowledged as being co-founder of the third club in 1873 under association rules. He dies at Staffordshire, England in 1921 aged 70.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census, ’John C. Orr’ is living at 2 Alfred Place, Edinburgh. He didn’t use his first name and was better known as Campbell Orr. He is recorded playing for St Leonard’s FC in the Fifeshire Journal, January 13, 1870, 5, and St Andrews University FC in the Scotsman, March 7, 1870, 7. Alongside John Carson, Campbell was co-founder of Birmingham Clerks FC in 1873 (which became Calthorpe FC) and was an early pioneer of association football in Birmingham (see Huddersfield Daily Examiner, January 23, 1932, 4). He dies on November 16, 1921.
(14) Pinkerton, John Latta
Club(s): Paisley FC (rugby and association)
Born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire on February 17, 1854, John is recorded as 17 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Anderston, Glasgow as a boarder. The household has 1 servant. John is listed as a student of arts at Glasgow University. His father, William Pinkerton, is a potato merchant born in Paisley, Renfrewshire and his mother, Jean Gardner, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Paisley, Renfrewshire. John is a member of Paisley FC and is listed playing for the club against Southern FC on December 20, 1873, under rugby rules and against Kilmarnock FC on December 27, 1873, under association rules. He dies at Paisley in 1918 aged 64.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 421 St Vincent Street, Anderston, Glasgow. John L. Pinkerton from Paisley is listed as a Glasgow University prize taker, being commended for writing in the Faculty of Arts. J. L. Pinkerton is playing cricket for Kelburne in 1876 (J. A. D. MacKean is a team mate). He is recorded playing for Paisley FC under rugby rules in the Glasgow Herald, December 22, 1873, 7, and under association rules in the Glasgow Herald, December 29, 1873, 6.
(15) Robinson, Arthur Grene
Club(s): West of Scotland FC (rugby) and Glasgow Wanderers FC (association)
Born in Partick, Lanarkshire, c.1852, Arthur is recorded as 19 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Partick, Lanarkshire with his father, mother-in-law, 6 brothers and sister. The household has 3 servants. Arthur is employed as a clerk. His father, Robert Robinson, is a timber merchant born in Ireland and his mother, Sarah Wilson, is deceased and was born in Ireland. Arthur is a member of West of Scotland FC and Glasgow Wanderers FC and is listed playing for the former club’s 2nd XX against St Vincent FC on December 13, 1873, under rugby rules, and for the latter club against Queen’s Park FC on April 5, 1873, under association rules. Arthur Grene Robinson dies in Tenerife in 1898 aged 45.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at Clydeview, Dumbarton Road, Partick, Lanarkshire. Arthur’s baptism date is April 5, 1852. His mother Sarah died on March 14, 1858. Arthur marries Elinor Louise Winterbotham on March 16, 1881. His father, Robert, remarried in 1860 to Mary Steel Watt. Arthur dies on February 17, 1898. He is referenced playing for West of Scotland FC in the North British Daily Mail, December 23, 1872, 6, and Glasgow Wanderers FC in the Glasgow Herald, April 7, 1873, 6.
(16) Tennent, John Pattison
Club(s): West of Scotland FC (rugby), Clydesdale FC (association), Alexandra Athletic FC (association) and Glasgow Wanderers FC (association)
Born in Hobart, Tasmania on July 31, 1846, John is recorded as 24 years old in the 1871 Census, living as a lodger with his brother in North Meols, Lancashire, England. The household has 1 servant. John is listed as an undergraduate of Wadham College, Oxford. His father, William Middleton Tennent, is a merchant born in Errol, Perthshire and his mother, Wilhelmina Simson, is deceased and was born in Islay, Argyllshire. John is a member of West of Scotland FC, Clydesdale FC, Alexandra Athletic FC and Glasgow Wanderers FC and is listed playing for the first club against Glasgow University FC on November 29, 1873, under rugby rules, for the second club against Granville FC on October 25, 1873, under association rules, for the third club against West End Wanderers FC on December 6, 1873, under association rules, and for the fourth club against Queen’s Park FC on April 5, 1873, under association rules. He dies in Melbourne, Australia in 1893 aged 47.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at Promenade, North Meols, Omskirk, Lancashire. He was an athletics champion at Oxford University in the late 1860s, winning the 100 yards for Oxford against Cambridge in 1868. In 1873, it is recorded that “John Pattison Tennent, Gent., to be Sub-Lieutenant of the 105th Lanarkshire Rifles”. He is playing cricket for the West of Scotland Club in 1875. In the 1861 Census, John is boarding at Merchiston Academy, Colinton Road in Edinburgh. His father, William Middleton Tennent is described as a merchant residing in Liverpool in a petition for liquidation which appears in the Liverpool Daily Post, December 28, 1875, 4. John dies on October 31, 1893. He is recorded playing for West of Scotland FC in the Sportsman, December 4, 1873, 3, Clydesdale FC in the Scotsman, October 27, 1873, 7, Alexandra Athletic Club in the Glasgow Herald, December 8, 1873, 6, and Glasgow Wanderers FC in the Glasgow Herald, April 7, 1873, 6.
(17) Thomson, William
Club(s): Kilmarnock FC (rugby and association)
Born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire on June 24, 1841, William is recorded as 29 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire with his wife, 3 sons and daughter. The household has 2 servants. William is employed as a grain merchant. His father Joseph Thomson is a master baker and grain merchant born in Girvan, Ayrshire and his mother Mary Young is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. William is a member of Kilmarnock FC and is a member of the committee which agrees to play Paisley FC at rugby rules during the meeting of February 4, 1873 and is on the committee which agrees to change to association rules at the meeting of March 3, 1873. He dies at Kilmarnock in 1925 aged 84.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 8 South Hamilton Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. A founder of the football club and of the older Kilmarnock Cricket Club, he was the first president of the Ayrshire Football Association. His wife is Jessie Ritchie McKie of Kilmarnock. William dies on December 27, 1925. The Kilmarnock FC committee meetings of February 4, 1873 and March 3, 1873 can be found in the Kilmarnock FC Minute Book, 1872-1879.
(18) Verel, Francis William
Club(s): Southern FC (rugby and association)
Born in MacDuff, Banffshire on December 11, 1852, Francis is recorded as 18 years old in the 1871 Census, living in the Queen’s Park district of Glasgow with his parents, 4 brothers and sister. The household has 3 servants. Francis is employed as a chemist. His father, William Aristides Verel, is a company manager, born in Caen, France and his mother, Ann Bisset, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Monifieth, Forfarshire. Francis is a member of Southern FC and is listed playing for the club against Helensburgh FC on November 16, 1872, under rugby rules, and against Granville FC on February 1, 1873, under association rules. He dies at Hillhead, Glasgow in 1914 aged 61.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 35 Regent Park Square, Glasgow. In the 1881 Census, Francis William Verel is 28 and from Cathcart. Francis is a brother and team mate of Julien James Verel. He dies on September 12, 1914. Francis is referenced playing for Southern FC under rugby rules in the Scotsman, November 18, 1872, 7, and under association rules in the North British Daily Mail, February 3, 1873, 6.
(19) Verel, Julien James
Club(s): Southern FC (rugby and association)
Born in Banff, on March 14, 1858, Julien is recorded as 13 years old in the 1871 Census, living in the Queen’s Park district of Glasgow with his parents, 4 brothers and sister. The household has 3 servants. Julien is listed as a scholar. His father, William Aristides Verel, is a company manager, born in Caen, France, and his mother, Ann Bisset, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Monifieth, Forfarshire. James is a member of Southern FC and is listed playing for the club against Partickhill FC on March 29, 1873, under rugby rules, and against Granville FC on February 1, 1873, under association rules. He dies at Linwoood, Renfrewshire in 1949 aged 92.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at 35 Regent Park Square, Glasgow. In the 1881 Census, Julien James Verel is living at 18 Queen’s Square, Glasgow – he is 23 years old, an alcohol and india rubber merchant who is son-in-law to the head of the household. Also at the address is Julien’s wife, a visitor and 2 servants. Julien is a brother and team mate of Francis William Verel. He dies on July 5, 1849. Julien is referenced playing for Southern FC under rugby rules in the Glasgow Herald, March 31, 1873, 5, and under association rules in the North British Daily Mail, February 3, 1873, 6.
(20) Wilson, Hugh
Club(s): Kilmarnock FC (rugby and association)
Born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire on April 11, 1850, Hugh is recorded as 20 years old in the 1871 Census, living in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire with his parents, 2 sisters and 4 brothers. The household has 2 servants. Hugh is employed as a clerk. His father, Hugh Wilson snr, is a carpet manufacturer born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire and his mother, Jessie Paterson, is not accorded a status in the 1871 Census and is born in Edinburgh. Hugh jnr is a member of Kilmarnock FC and participates in the meeting of October 29, 1872 when the rugby rules are adopted ’in toto’. Hugh is listed playing for the club against Queen’s Park FC, under rugby rules, on December 6, 1873. He dies at Kilmarnock in 1912 aged 62.
Additional notes: In the 1871 Census he is living at Bellsbrae House, 78 Titchfield Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. In the 1881 Census, Hugh Wilson jnr is living at Howard Street Maybank, Kilmarnock; age 30, he is head of the household. A carpet manufacturer born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, he lives with his wife, 4 children and 2 servants. He dies on September 17, 1912. The Kilmarnock FC committee meeting of October 29, 1872 can be found in the Kilmarnock FC Minute Book, 1872-1879. Hugh is referenced playing for Kilmarnock FC under association rules in the Glasgow Herald, December 8, 1873, 6.
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