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1900: Gainsborough v Sheffield Y.M.C.A. |
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Played at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
This match was reported in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph. The reason for this match being arranged is probably that A. E. Mercer had moved to Sheffield from Gainsborough in 1882, give or take a year, and retained contacts in the Gainsborough club.
Apparent identities of players:
* Dr. Theodore Cassan was born to Thomas & Jane Cassan, in 1850, in Warwick (baptised 16/10/1850, St Mary, Warwick). In 1871 he was a medical student in London. In time he became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries (according to the 1881 census). At some time from 1871 to 1880 he moved to Gainsborough, where he lived for most if not all of the rest of his life at 167 Bridge Street, working as a physician and surgeon. In 1880, in London, he married Mary Emily Bannister, with whom he had 5 children of whom only 3 survived to 1911. He died on 02/10/1903, in Gainsborough, and was buried there on 04/10/1913.
** Max Schweiger was an Austrian subject, born 1872/73 in Austria, who was described in the 1901 census as a “foreign corresponding clerk to mechanical engineers” living as a boarder in Gainsborough.
*** Clement Howard (b. 1878, Norwich; d. 13/11/1961, Sheffield) was grandfather to D. M. Howard currently of Chesterfield Chess Club.
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Created 13/01/2015 |
Stephen John Mann |
Last Updated 13/01/2015 |