Bernard "Barney" Breslin
It is hard to imagine a life, apart from the football, more miserable than that of Bernard "Barney" Breslin. His parents were Scots-born, the children both of Irish-immigrants, his father, an Ironstone Miner, from Carfin, his mother from Tollcross. And Barney himself was Carfin-born and spent the whole of his childhood and youth in thankfully long-gone miner's rows in Holytown, and going down the pit as he started his football with Carfin Shamrock.
That was before in 1893 a move, as a right-half, not the fastest, but with a tackle and a pass, to Hibernian. And there he would remain for thirteen season seeing the club promoted from the Second Division in 1895, keeping it there, and taking the Cup in 1902 and the League the following season.
In fact he would play on until thirty-two still it seems living in Holytown and already recorded as a Wine and Spirit Merchant. That is until 1906 when, having put money aside, he bought a bar in Fauldhouse, which he ran for a while. But he would sell up, perhaps already suffering from the tuberculosis that would soon take him. His death came at the age of just thirty-nine in 1913, he having moved to Harthill, there working as barman, never marrying, to be buried in Craigton Cemetery with other members of his family.
Birth Locator:
Residence Locations:
1881- I, Double Brick Row, Holytown, Lancashire
1891-1901 - 3, Cottage Row, Holytown, Lanarkshire
1901 - 3, Cottage Row, Motherwell Road, Holytown, Lanarkshire
1913 - Main Street, Harthill, Lanarkshire
Death Locator:
1913 - Main Street, Harthill, Lanarkshire
Grave Locator:
St. Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth, Glasgow
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