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1st September 2020, 20.36:44 | #802-0 (permalink) | |
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Re: The sad case of a founding members and player of Wrexham Football Club (Massive history thread!)
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He had married his second wife Mary Jones in Wrexham in 1909. His only child was Margaret Susannah Marlice Eyton Jones, who married a Mr George Seymour Swan in 1918 Last edited by eastsussexred; 1st September 2020 at 20.44:13.. |
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3rd September 2020, 19.13:46 | #803-0 (permalink) | |
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He was the son of the former magistrate and mayor of Wrexham in 1875 (Dr Thomas Eyton Jones) who died in France in 1893. Dr Thomas Eyton Jones was a very well known surgeon in the area and was also the secretary and President of The North Wales Branch of The British Medical Association. Thomas was a surgeon in The Denbighshire Rifle Volunteers and the regimental surgeon of The Wrexham Yeomanry Cavalry John Arthur Eyton Jones was also a famous surgeon in the area, and he was a Lieutenant surgeon in The 1st and 2nd Volunteer Brigade of The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who’s headquarters were based on the Crispin Lane end of The Racecourse. He was the President and vice captain of The Wrexham Hockey Club, on its inception in 1897 and also played cricket for The Wrexham Cricket Club in the 1880’s and 90’s. He was the nephew of Sir Edward Samuelson, who was the Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 1862/63 and the great nephew of Sir Rowland Hill, the inventor of the penny post. He was commonly known by the name of Arthur, and mostly received the title of Dr J.A. Eyton Jones in his medical career. Arthur had three brothers-Thomas (born 1862) Hugh Mortimer (b-1864) Robert (b-1871) and both Thomas and Hugh Mortimer had played in scratch matches for Wrexham FC. Arthur had been playing for The Hare and Hounds (Wrexham) Football Club since at least 1881 till the end of the 82/83 season, while his brother Thomas (jnr) was also listed as the goalkeeper in the same team. In those days, players were interchangeable between clubs, and The Hare and Hounds, who played on The Racecourse, often served as a feeder club for Wrexham FC, so that players would step in if there were shortages in either team. In the 1883/84 season, Arthur was mostly playing for Wrexham FC, although sometimes would also play for Bootle. He was one of the Wrexham players in the team against Oswestry in the second round of the FA Cup on December 1st 1883, in which crowd trouble led to Wrexham being banned from English FA games. Most of that team were then released from the club as Wrexham reformed as Wrexham Olympic at the end of the season, although Arthur played for Wrexham Olympic against Ruthin at The Racecourse on 30th August 1884, even though he remained on the books of the Hare and Hounds Football Club. This, however, was just a ruse- a safeguard for Eyton Jones against expulsion from English FA games. When Wrexham reformed into Wrexham Olympic prior to the start of the 1884 season, they just absorbed the Hare and Hounds into the new club, and former Hare and Hounds players like John Arthur Eyton Jones and Herbert Sisson continued to play for Wrexham Olympic. The Hare and Hounds ceased as a football club at the end of the 83/84 season, although it continued as an athletic sport club and a club for hunting. But when objections were raised about Eyton Jones playing in the international match against England in March 1884, he just produced documentation to say that he was on the books of The Hare and Hounds, even though that football club would shortly be absorbed into Wrexham Olympic. In the 1883/84 season, Albert had played for both Wrexham and Bootle, but from 84 to late 85 he was playing for Bootle, although Olympic may have kept a retainer on him as he would sometimes play in testimonials for Wrexham Olympic on The Racecourse and was listed as a Wrexham Olympic player in all of his international matches, as well as the many county matches which he played for Denbighshire, and was also listed as an Olympic player in the games he played for North Wales against the South. He also played in a friendly match between representatives of the legal profession in Wrexham and those representing the medical profession in Wrexham at The Racecourse on 9th April 1897. Eyton Jones scored the only goal for the doctors and Thomas Parry Jones Parry- the Wrexham solicitor who later bought The Racecourse, scored a goal for the Legal Profession who won the game by 2 goals to 1 He was declared Bankrupt in 1903. https://newspapers.library.wales/vie...53/4248059/57/ Wrexham Olympic were formed in August 1884 |
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9th September 2020, 19.39:34 | #805-0 (permalink) | |
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Re the 1921 development of the Plas Coch end (tech end)... Whilst today doing some research at the museum came across the following snippet from the Wrexham Leader 5th June 1920. "Public Notice" Wrexham Football Club " Contractors and others are invited to dispose of ashes, gravel etc suitable for banking purposes by tipping same on the racecourse " |
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12th September 2020, 11.07:26 | #806-0 (permalink) | |
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This was the start of a ground improvement scheme, to raise the capacity of The Racecourse to 35,000. Wrexham were elected into The Third Division North in 1921 and the club set aside £2,000 for ground improvements in that first season alone. We often think back to Wrexham’s hayday in the 1970’s, but the club also enjoyed relatively successful seasons during the first three decades of the 20th Century, with crowds increasing during the years of success. Although ‘as far as I am aware’ our average attendance during a season only ever exceeded 11,000 in 1977/78, when our average attendance was 11,651. Last edited by eastsussexred; 12th September 2020 at 11.09:34.. |
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12th September 2020, 11.48:22 | #807-0 (permalink) |
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Re: The sad case of a founding members and player of Wrexham Football Club (Massive history thread!)
In 1920 they were in as already aware the Birmingham district league..
Just before the proposals came through for a division 3 north which were to be delayed for 12 months.. The club was actually considering switching to the central league as a means of getting elected to the FL. |
12th September 2020, 13.44:58 | #808-0 (permalink) | |
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I understand that Wrexham did re-apply to join The Central League again in 1920, WAL, but their application wasn't successful; therefore, after changes in the constitution of a number of different leagues, Wrexham joined the newly-formed Third Division North of the English Football League, on its inception in 1921. |
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Wiki has his place of birth as Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willia...lsh_footballer) but he was definitely born in Portsmouth in Hampshire in 1872, as recorded in the birth register on Ancestry and FamilySearch, as well as recorded on all subsequent census records. Last edited by eastsussexred; 15th September 2020 at 10.25:38.. |
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15th September 2020, 11.08:16 | #810-0 (permalink) | |
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It's a small world.. Dr Eyton-Jones was on the bench when my great grandfather was brought before the local magistrates court in the 1880's on a charge of assault whilst serving as a PC in the local constabulary..(police brutality is nothing new).. The damming evidence may have been his colleague a PC Lee's quote " I think you've kicked him too hard PC Pleavin" |
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