Utah Owl Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 1 hour ago, 31Dec1966 said: Very interested in this superb research, keep posting, great work. And No, it's not morbid or sad. Many headstones in the General Cemetery are almost impossible to get to. I walk through there once a week, early in the morning (about 6am). Beautiful in the summer but dark and "cold as the grave" in winter. And deserted most of the time. To think that thousands attended the funerals of such as Mark Firth and John Cole (Cole Brothers) and now their graves and monuments are ignored. It's sad how many of our early players died at a very early age, but that's what life was like back then. Carry on looking and please post any results on here. We talking about Cemetery Road? That place scared the crap out of me when I was little! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Fascinating stuff bringing the back the past, a real labour of love and such an obvious story to tel,l yet no one else thought to tell it. Must be a very time consuming task. Look forward to any updates. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughdowd Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Fascinating thread ... As morbid as it is ... it’s still more interesting than the EFL hearing/Garry Monk threads !!! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevdi9 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 nice to read some of your stuff again Kivo ,enjoyed it so i have done you an avatar ,;) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladeshater Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Brilliant work kivo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyboy66 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 10 hours ago, KivoOwl said: Harry Chapman This is one I have a personal interest in. Harry was born in my home village, Kiveton Park, in 1880, two years after his brother Herbert, who went on to manage Arsenal and Huddersfield to Football League titles. Harry helped Wednesday to the 1903 and 1904 Football League championships and was man of the match in the 1907 FA Cup final. Sadly, he died of tuberculosis in 1916, and was buried at Wales Cemetery. His nephew, Ken, is still alive and I speak with him regularly. He recalls seeing Harry's headstone, in the shape of the FA Cup, but it was stolen and not replaced. Harry currently has no headstone, which I'd love to change. Couldn't we do something on here ? Great job Lee fascinating stuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatzooma Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Fascinating stuff. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternlad Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Fascinating stuff Kivo, would be great to mark the graves of those who have no headstone or marker of any kind. Some very sad stories, just shows how fragile life was in the early 20th and late 19th centuries. We should thank our lucky stars for antibiotics and other ‘magic bullets’ discovered over the last 150 years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KivoOwl Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 Billy Mosforth Perhaps the smallest player to play for Wednesday, Billy Mosforth was perhaps the clubs first superstar. He appeared throughout the 1870s and 1880s and was capped 9 times by England. He died in 1929, and is buried at Crookes, overlooking Hillsborough. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictoryBell Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 13 hours ago, KivoOwl said: George Ulyett Famed more for his career in cricket, George Ulyett did occasionally swap wicket keeping duties for the goalkeeping position on the football field. He played in one FA Cup game for Wednesday, in 1883. He played for Yorkshire in the summer game, and won his first England cap in the first ever test match, against Australia in 1877. This means Wednesday are the only club to have been represented in the first football and cricket international games. A famous incident occured in 1884 at Lord's - "Ulyett sent down a straight half-volley to Bonnor, who drove at it with all his considerable might and got it right out of the middle of the bat. The ball flew back towards the bowler with a resounding crack. It seemed to Ulyett barely to have left his hand—yet already it was flying back to him at what seemed like the speed of light. He had no time to judge it but held out the right hand instinctively, and the leather stuck, right in the middle of his palm. With the sound of Bonnor's stroke still echoing about the ground, many eyes in the gallery were looking for the area near the boundary where they thought that the ball would land. The eyes of George Giffen, the non-striker, were among the wanderers, and he was certain that everyone else must be looking for it, too: indeed, a segment of the crowd, in panic, had even opened up a space in the ring in anticipation of the ball's descent. Giffen reckoned it to have been a very mighty drive indeed—but he could not see where it had gone. When, finally, his and other eyes were diverted back towards the pitch, they noticed Ulyett celebrating and Bonnor was departing. It soon dawned on them that Ulyett had taken the catch. Although Ulyett felt no pain in the centre of his hand, there was definitely a fair amount of it on the outside. Bonnor looked at him disgustedly, thinking it almost immoral to have done such a thing, and he walked off gloomily. The England players gathered around Ulyett in wonderment. They seemed to the Wisden correspondent to be curious as to what kind of man this was—although they were also keen to congratulate him on his evasion of impending danger. The looks on the faces of Allan Steel and Alfred Lyttelton would stay with Wisden's man for a long time. WG Grace and Lord Harris both told Ulyett that he was foolish to have attempted to take the catch: had it hit his wrist or arm instead, that bone would surely have snapped. Giffen believed that this was one of the finest catches that he had ever seen, and, although on the team which it had adversely affected, he definitely appreciated it." Over 4,000 turned out for his funeral when he died of pneumonia aged 46. He is buried at Burngreave Cemetery. 14 hours ago, KivoOwl said: John Marsh Our very first captain. Nicknamed the 'Little Wonder', he helped form the club in September 1867 and led the side to the Cromwell Cup victory the following spring. It is believed Marsh is the figure holding the ball in this drawing, of the Sheffield FA team that took on London in 1874. He retired to take over the Crystal Palace pub in Thurlstone, and broke an arm while playing for the village team he had helped form there. The arm never healed properly, and he died in 1880 aged just 37. He is buried in the churchyard at St. James the Baptist in Penistone. His headstone is laid down, with the edges partly buried, under a big tree next to the wall on Church Street. In that first picture - what's going on to their right that has caught the attention of so many of them? Has a Victorian sexy babe just hove into view? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greengrass Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Great work Kivo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Past Member Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 14 hours ago, KivoOwl said: John Marsh Our very first captain. Nicknamed the 'Little Wonder', he helped form the club in September 1867 and led the side to the Cromwell Cup victory the following spring. It is believed Marsh is the figure holding the ball in this drawing, of the Sheffield FA team that took on London in 1874. He retired to take over the Crystal Palace pub in Thurlstone, and broke an arm while playing for the village team he had helped form there. The arm never healed properly, and he died in 1880 aged just 37. He is buried in the churchyard at St. James the Baptist in Penistone. His headstone is laid down, with the edges partly buried, under a big tree next to the wall on Church Street. Going to visit this today, as it's only down, the church is St John's, right in the middle of Penistone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concrete Owl Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Very interesting Kivo. Nice 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concrete Owl Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Been looking on Wikipedia for Wednesday legend Andrew Wilson . Sounds like he could be buried up in Irvine in Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffix Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Really interesting thread. Thanks for this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KivoOwl Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 42 minutes ago, zzmdu said: Going to visit this today, as it's only down, the church is St John's, right in the middle of Penistone. If you can, take a better picture? Yesterday it was covered in grass cuttings so I tried washing them away but made it worse. It's bang underneath a tree on the wall next to Church Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Past Member Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 58 minutes ago, KivoOwl said: If you can, take a better picture? Yesterday it was covered in grass cuttings so I tried washing them away but made it worse. It's bang underneath a tree on the wall next to Church Street. Will do, might even chuck a letter to church, regarding it being marked in some small way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Rimmer Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 (edited) Mick Prendergast is buried near my Nanan and Grandad (Denaby Main), he has the Wednesday crest on the headstone and the year he won player of the year on there Edited July 25, 2020 by Ellis Rimmer 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofbert2 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Top thread @KivoOwl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofbert2 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 18 minutes ago, Ellis Rimmer said: Mick Prendergast is buried near my Nanan and Grandad (Denaby Main), he has the Wednesday crest on the headstone and the year he won player of the year on there My dad loved him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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