Wigan Album
St Barnabas Mission AFC (Amateur Football Club), Marsh Green
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Photo: Jim Orrell
Item #: 33256
My grandfather Jack Birkett, middle row Right most player.
Susan,
I think this is my uncle Harry and not your grandad.My dad uncle Harry and uncle Jack(your grandad)were brothers.Uncle Harry was the eldest of the brothets and I do not think your grandad was born before the 1900's.
see same scenario year before at Album > St Barnabas Marsh Green
link
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=8&id=33238&gallery=St++Barnabas+Marsh+Green&page=1
Peter, I don't think they are brothers, probably 2 different branches of the Birketts (there were a lot of them). My grandad Jack Birkett, born 1899, was youngest son of John Birkett and Elizabeth Ormesher, had many brothers but not a Harry. I will upload another photo of him in a charabanc. You might find a Birkett link on here
https://gw.geneanet.org/jimlad68 - it may ask you to register after a while (free and easy).
Right end of the front row is my Great Uncle Tommy. Thomas Heyes that is. He was one of three brothers Thomas, Mathew, and William. Uncle Mat was killed in a mining accident in the early 1960's. William (Bill) Heyes was my grandad. They lived on Marsh Green road next to the doctor's surgery and had a smallholding on the land that is now an industrial estate.
Graham, have you any birth years for Thomas, Mathew, and William. It might help clarify people etc. I can then add the details to the picture.
Thomas (Tommy) Heyes March 1902
Matthew (Matt) Heyes August 1906
William (Bill) Heyes July 1908
All born in Marsh green area. My great grandad Matthew Heyes used to live in 5 Noble Street, long gone now. He moved to the house at 1 Marsh Green Rd when it was built. My grandparents moved into that house when great grandad died in 1947. Matthew married my auntie Nellie and lived at 3 Marsh Green. Tommy, in the picture, never married and lived with my grandparents until his death in 1966. The greenhouses at the back of the house were watered using rainwater collected in two old bath tubs. All I remember of Tommy was that we used to float things in the baths and Tommy would say "get owt o' yon water".