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Biographical notes on miscellaneous players from outside
Yorkshire and Lancashire.
(See Person Index for
main alphabetic index.)
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James Percival Mollard
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Birth:
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1873, Deptford, Kent
(London from 1889)
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Death:
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08/02/1929, St. Thomas’s
Hospital, Lambeth [probate]
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Parents:
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Master mariner James
Mollard (born 1844, Portreath, Cornwall) and Elizabeth Mollard (born 1845,
Limerick, Ireland)
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Siblings:
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Marion Jessie Mollard,
born 1870, Mile End, London; died 1883, Deptford, London
Kathleen Mary
Mollard, born 1875, Deptford, London; died 1963
Elsie Maude M
Mollard, born 1877, Deptford, London;died 1886, Deptford, London
Kenneth Mollard,
born 1880, Deptford, London; died 1918
John Norman Mollard, born
1882, Deptford, London; died 1886, Deptford, London
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Marriage:
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to Emily
Hastings Brunt (born 1875, Newport, Monmouthshire) in 1901, at Newport,
Monmouthshire
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Children:
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Dorothy
Elizabeth Mollard, born 1902, Hebburn, Northumberland
William Percival
Mollard, born 1907, Arundel, Sussex
Charles James Spencer
Mollard, born 1909/10, Portsmouth
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Residence,
Occupation:
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03/04/1881
[census]: (elusive
05/04/1891
[census]: 34 Selby Road, Penge; electrical engineer
31/03/1901
[census]: 183 Malpas Road, Deptford; electrical engineer
02/04/1911
[census]: wife & children at 96 Kingston Road, Portsmouth; she a
florist
02/04/1911
[census]: him a boarder at 36 New Road, Littlehampton; he a nurseryman
08/02/1929 [probate]: 10 Burnley Road, Stockwell, Surrey
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Chess:
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There are
reports of him playing club and county level chess at the various locations
listed below. A notice in a chess column, noting him taking up
residence in Ilfracombe, mentioned he was a past Surrey champion. At
the 2nd Devon CA congress held in Exeter in April 1903, J P Mollard drew a
game with Pillsbury, in a blindfold simultaneous display by the latter, a
feat eclipsed by Miss M. Hunt of Barnstaple, who won her game. (A
reference to him playing correspondence chess for Suffolk against Norfolk
clearly means Sussex against Norfolk.) He played in both North of
England v South of England matches, of 1893 and 1894
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Notes:
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Newspaper reports of cricket, chess and tennis activity,
and places of birth of children, identify his places of residence over the
years as:
1873-1894: London
area
1895-1897: Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Northumberland (played cricket for North Durham, so maybe lived at Hebburn)
1899-1901: Deptford
(playing chess for Redhill)
1902-1903: Hebburn,
Co. Durham (playing chess in Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
1903-1904: Ilfracombe,
Devon
1904-1905: Manchester,
Lancashire
1907-1909: Arundel,
Sussex
1909-1913: Portsmouth,
Hampshire
1914-1921: Southampton,
Hampshire
1927: Portsmouth
(place of death of wife
1929: Stockwell,
Lambeth, London (residence at death per probate)
What
precipitated these peregrinations is unclear, though it may have related to
his work as an electrical engineer.
At some time from
1901 to 1909 he switched occupation from electrical engineer to nurseryman.
Whether this was before or after his wife became a florist is unclear.
An advert in the Portsmouth Evening News of 02/06/1909 read, “Geraniums,
5,000, mostly Ivy, double scarlet and white, from 1s. doz. – J. P. Mollard,
Floral Hall, Kingston-road, Portsmouth.” A notice of his nursery
business going into receivership in November 1912 placed his business, Cussbush
Nursery, in Arundel, and his home at 2 Orchard Road, Southsea (a district
of Portsmouth). Arundel is 3 miles north of Littlehampton, and this
explains him and his wife being in different places in the 1911 census.
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Harwood Clapham Moore
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Birth:
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1868, Bath
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Death:
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Harwood Clapham
Moore of Walton House Tyning Road Bath, died on 09/03/1914, per to probate
records at 9 Portland Place, Bath.
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Parents:
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Richard Harwood
Moore (1838/39, Bath) and Sarah Jane Moore (née Targett, 1835/36,
Bath) who married in 1865, in Bath.
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Siblings:
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Alfred Bartlett
Moore, born 1869, Bath
George Ernest
Moore, born 1872, Bath
Richard Herbert
Moore, born 1976, Bath
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Marriage:
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to Selina Bessie
Jayne (born 1868/69, Bristol), 1896, Penzance
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Children:
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Henry
(“Harry”) William Harwood Moore, born 1897, Bath
Winifred Betty
Jayne Moore, born 1899, Bath (known as “Betty”)
Douglas James
Wentworth Moore, born 1902, Bath
Alice Mary
Harwood Moore, born 1907, Bath
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Residence,
Occupation:
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02/04/1871
[census]: 4 Victoria Terrace, Tiverton, Devon; father was an
accountant’s clerk
03/04/1881
[census]: 13 Pulteney Gardens; father was now High Bailiff of Bath
05/04/1891 [census]:
13 Pulteney Gardens; solicitor (admitted a solicitor in 1890 per obits.)
1895
[directory]: 13 Pulteney Gardens; solicitor
31/03/1901
[census]: Kirklands, St Nicholas Road, Bath (family living in home of
wife’s married sister and her family); solicitor
02/04/1911
[census]: Walton House, Tyning Road, Bath
1914
[directory]: 4 North Parade, Bath (business); solicitor
1914
[directory]: 14, The Tyning, Bath (home)
09/03/1914
[probate]: Walton House, Tyning Road, Bath; solicitor
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Chess:
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He joined Bath Chess
Club in his late teens, in the latter 1880s, and worked his way up to board
2 in the Bath team (with Edmund Thorold
on board 1). He played for Bath and Somerset through to the season of
his death. He shared 1st-2nd place in the club championship of
1908-09 (no play-off due to H C Moore being ill). In 1909 (and
probably before and after) he was a vice-president of the club. He
won the club handicap tournament in 1913-14, as he doubtless did in other
seasons. He played in both North v South matches, of 1893
and 1894.
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Notes:
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The address
where according to probate records he died was the home of Rev. Preb.
Maurice Erskine Hoets M.A., incumbent of Christ Church. An account of
the funeral used the stereotypic “died at his home . . . ”,
which was probably inaccurate, but serves to excludes hospital or a river
etc. The account mentioned the attendance by a number of members of
the chess club.
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