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George
Holley |
Sunderland AFC
10 caps, 8 goals
P 10 W 9 D 1 L 0 F x:
A x
95% successful
1909-13
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: 900 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
George Holley |
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name notes |
No evidence of a middle name. |
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Born |
20 November 1885 in Seaham Harbour, county Durham [registered in
Easington, March 1886]. |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1891
census, George is the youngest of five children to cockney George and
Scotswoman, Catherine. His father is a fireman at the bottle works. They
live at 2 Fenwick Row, Dawdon in Seaham Harbour. |
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According to the 1901
census, George is the youngest of four children still living at home with
their parents at 1 Stewart Street in Dawdon. George is a locomotive
boilersmith, his father is a glass bottle finisher. |
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According to the 1911
census, George still lives at home with his parents and two of his older
brothers, who are both widows. Along with a nephew and a servant, they all
live at 2 Stewart Street in Dawdon. George is a boilersmith
journeyman, his father is now a glass bottle maker. |
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Married |
to May Lightfoot
[registered in Easington, county Durham, June 1911]. They had five
children, George (1912), Tom (1913), Ronald (1916), Joyce (1918),
Catherine (1921), and George S. (1926). |
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Died |
27 August 1942, aged
56 years x days
[registered in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, September 1942]. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9", 12st.
0lbs [1909]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Biographies |
x |
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x.
- A Football Compendium, Peter J. Seddon (1999). |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
x |
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Club honours |
x |
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Individual honours |
x |
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Distinctions |
x |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
xth
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
x |
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First match |
No. x, aged 23 years
110/115 days. |
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Last match |
No. x, aged 27 years 131/136 days. |
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Major tournaments |
x |
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Team honours |
x |
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Individual honours |
x |
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Distinctions |
x |
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Beyond England |
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x. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.x. |