Stephen Smith Footballer

[mastead]

Thanks Margp,  I think thats the right one i might research a bit and find out what match they were playing lol
I dont know if he married then
Thanks for all your help
                                         Lisa

[MargP]

Yes he did marry and had children see my posts 5 and 6

Margp

[mastead]

Lol sorry blonde moment
I have discovered that all the Aston villa football team were stopping at the Station hotel Blackpool
although i dont know why, they played Birmingham city away on 23/3/1901 and then at home on 27/3/1901 and on the sat 30/3/1901 they were at home to Sheffield united
perhaps they were having a rest at the seaside!!!

[MargP]

Hi Lisa

I would contact all the all the Football teams he played for, to see if they have any information on him.

Margp

Edit  I would also contact Birmingham and Staffordshire Archives

[MargP]

Lol sorry blonde moment
I have discovered that all the Aston villa football team were stopping at the Station hotel Blackpool
although i dont know why, they played Birmingham city away on 23/3/1901 and then at home on 27/3/1901 and on the sat 30/3/1901 they were at home to Sheffield united
perhaps they were having a rest at the seaside!!!

Hi Lisa the 1901 census was taken on the 31 March 1901 so he either went after the match or the next day, as you say probably for a rest, far from the perks the footballers get today.

Margp

[MargP]

Hi Lisa

Have you seen this link on him

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ASTONsmithS.htm

Marg

[paulmh]

Hello, i just wondered if anyone has any information on Stephen Smith  the footballer from Hazelslade who played for Aston villa.
He was the brother of my GG grandad
I have googled him and can only find his footballing stats
 
                                                              Thanks Lisa

I am by not a fan of Aston Villa but I am a football nut who has lots of reference books etc on various teams - I have the 'Who's Who of Aston Villa' by Tony Matthews on my bookshelf. The information given on Smith was:

Smith, Stephen
Outside-Left   194 apps 42 goals
Born: Abbotts Langley, 14 January 1874
Died: Benson, Oxfordshire, 19 May 1935

Career: Cannock and Rugeley Colliery, Cannock Town, Rugeley Ceal FC, Hednesford Town (September 1891), Aston Villa (August 1893), Portsmouth (May 1901), New Brompton (July 1906; then player/manager, December 1906-May 1908), lived in Portsmouth until 1932; then manager of Roke Stores, Benson (Oxfordshire).

Smith was an accomplished winger, very tricky, who could pass a ball with pinpoint accuracy and produce a stunning shot. A player who rose to big occasion, he was signed by Fred Rinder after doing a ten-hour shift as a haulage machine operator at the coal-face. He shared the left-wing berth with Albert Woolley when Villa won the League title in 1893-94, and the figured prominently when the same prize was won four times in five seasons between 1896 and 1900. He also gained two FA Cup-winner’s medals (1895, 1897) and was capped by England against Scotland in 1895. He helped Pompey (Portsmouth) win the Southern League in 1902.

- I have other reference books at my disposal and I am sure that given a day or two I can help further!

[mastead]

Thanks for that Paulmh, I cant believe ive got such an interesting ancestor lol,

[millymcb]

Hi Mastead. I wonder if he played against my ancestor Arthur Lockett

And Paul - would you be able to see if you have anything on him in any of your books.  I've got various references from the internet and a newspaper report from when he played for England in 1903. Plus his military records and marriage/children - but if there is a little write up about him in a book that would be interesting.
Arthur Lockett - born 1877 Audley, Staffordshire

1900 & 1902 Stoke
1902 & 1904 Aston Villa
19051907 Preston North End 
Watford
Mardy (post war)

Thanks

Milly