Football

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:06 am

Hi all,

I have just discovered an ancestor who gave his occupation as Professional Footballer on his marriage registration in Bridgeton in 1909. His name was Hugh Logan, born in Glasgow 1886. Can anyone please tell me if I can find out about his career, especially given that I do not know which club he played for. I do know he was Catholic, but of course I know that doesn't mean he HAD to play for Celtic.

Nina

annie1 · Post by **annie1** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:45 am

Hi Nina,

I had a few in my tree also, this is where I found one of them, as he was playing for a bigger team and went on to play for Scotland,
www.scottishfa.co.uk/archive.cfm.
Hope you have some luck
Ann

It does not seem to work, try without the .cfm.

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:02 am

Hi Annie,

Thanks for replying. I had to fiddle with the link a bit to make it work

http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/archive.cfm?curpageid=153

but he wasn't there. Neither was my living (and retired) relative who should be, I think.

That is a great place to search, anyway. Thanks for the link!

Nina

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:38 am

Hello Nina,

If you search for the name as a phrase in the Scotsman Archives http://archive.scotsman.com/search.cfm there’s a Football column on 1st May, 1914 and another on 18th December, 1924 and others on 5th and 19th May 1927 and then he crops up again in 1937. Maybe this Hugh Logan is yours, he’d be getting a bit old by then unless he’s an official of some kind or there’s more than one of him. It’s a paysite and I can only see the article headings.

Hope this helps,
Alan

nancy · Post by **nancy** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:46 am

Aye,thanks a lot thats a good wee site

Will be something diff for teenage grandkids to check out.Theyll enjoy it

Hope you have luck in finding your rellies.

Cheers Nancy

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:25 am

Thanks Currie. I think he may have died at Gallipoli in WW1. I found a good sitre for Scottish Footballers in WW1 here,

http://www.geocities.com/athens/pantheon/3828/

but he isn't on that either.

I cannot confirm this as the death record at SP is a list with his name on it...and I have actually been retracing someone else's research today. That is how I found the marriage registration and occupation.

That is another problem isn't it...how to make sure it is him on the Service Returns record....

Anyway, off to see what is at The Scotsman....maybe I can add search items to ensure it is him.

Thanks, Nina

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:06 pm

I just found out that he played for Hibernian

, but nothing else. He did seem to be living in Glasgow when he married, however.

Hoping someone will know where to look for his football history now?

Nina

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:19 am

Hi Nina, just in case you weren´t aware, Hibs was and is the "other" Edinburgh team, Hearts being the protestant one, though these definitions are not particularly binding these days - for most.

Hope you find more.

Guid hunting,

Thrall

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:39 am

Hi Thrall,

I was aware of Celtic being a Catholic team, but not Hibernia (well I wouldn't know...living in Australia!), and yet on looking at stuff on the net, I see it existed before Celtic.

It is odd that I spoke to my mother about this last night, and this was her great uncle, and it was never spoken of. My mother knew his mother (her great grandmother) so you think it would have been mentioned, particularly when Mum's brother was able to play for a couple of football teams too. But not a word. Not even an "Oh, you get that from my side of the family!" Very strange. Must have been yet another family rift back then. Oh to have been a fly on the wall.

Nina

Archiver · Post by **Archiver** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:59 am

ninatoo wrote:I just found out that he played for Hibernian , but nothing else. He did seem to be living in Glasgow when he married, however.

Hoping someone will know where to look for his football history now?

Nina

It's possible that Hibs themselves might have some information - although the Scottish Football Association should be the place to go, Hibs might have a club historian who could point you in the right direction.