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Default Re: The sad case of a founding members and player of Wrexham Football Club

Updated details for Thomas Hanner (page 2 of thread)

Thomas Hanner was born the son of Thomas and Martha in Overton in 1839.
He had one brother Arthur (b1834) and two sisters Rosina (b1838) and Dorcas (b1832).
The census of 1851 reported that he also had a cousin, Emily Dawson (b1840) who, along with a servant lived with the family at The Coach and Horses, High Street, Wrexham.
Thomas Hanmer (snr) was a publican and the family where associated with a number of Taverns in the area; Arthur Hanmer was the landlord of The Royal Oak in Bangor-is-y-coed but in 1861 he attained the license of the Turf Tavern (Hotel) and the family moved to their new home at The Racecourse where they built close ties with the members of The Denbighshire County Cricket Club and where Thomas Hanmer (jnr) would become one of the 10 founding players of Wrexham Football Club in their first ever game on the 22nd October 1864. He was also trophy winner in the first athletics event arranged by the newly formed Football club on 13th May 1865.
An obituary in The Wrexham Advertisor reported that Thomas’s father died at The Turf Hotel, aged 60 on 2nd November 1867.
There are no records to show that Thomas Hanmer ((jnr) was married or that he had any children, but a newspaper article in 1869 recorded that he still lived with his sister and his mother at The Turf Hotel. WREXHAM COUNTY COURT.?WEDNESDAY.|1869-01-30|Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register - Welsh Newspapers Online until he too died at The Turf Hotel, aged 48 on 14th March 1887.

Thomas Hanmer
1839-1887

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