Duncan McFarlane & William Moore
In 1895 and 1896 two Scots-born players featured alongside the footballing philosopher, Alex Meiklejohn in the Pawtucket team, YMCA, that would reach but lose on a replay the semi-final of American Cup in the first season, Moore scoring, but was knocked out in the first round in the second. The first was the forward cum half-back, William Moore and the second, the 'keeper, Duncan McFarlane, MacFarlane or McFarland.
Duncan McFarlane
That Duncan McFarlane was Scots-born seems certain. It is recorded on not one but seven US censuses as are the names of his father and mother, John and Mary. But the where and how of that birth are a mystery except that it took place in about 1872. If fact what is known really only begins with his arrival in America in 1885 at the age of eleven or twelve, settling in Rhode Island. It meant that when he was first recorded on-field in 1892 for Pawtucket Free Wanderers he was twenty or so. However, the following season he seems to have been replaced between the posts and moved on to the Gorham club in neighbouring Providence and again first round defeat in what was the countries premier competition. However, that was to change to a certain degree when perhaps in late 1894 but certainly 1895 for two full seasons.
But in the meantime in 1893 he had married, his wife Rhode Island-born Helena Fisher, with whom he was to have five children. And perhaps he was already by then working at a local Bleachery where he seems to have stayed for the best part of fifty years, perhaps more. He started as a Folder, progressed to Steam Fitter and finished as a Cardman well into seventies, perhaps even working until his death in 1952 at the age of seventy-eight. He would be buried in Pawtucket's Moshassuck Cemetery with his wife and eventually three of their children, Helena both born and dying in the same year as he.
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1872 - N/A
Residence Locations:
1881 - N/A
1885 - arrives USA
1895 - N/A
1900 - Smithfield Ave. , Pawtucket/Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA
1910 - 15, (Balton St.), Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1915 - 1022, Smithfield Ave., Pawtucket/Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA
1920 - 1025, Smithfield Ave., Pawtucket/Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA
1925 - 1027, Smithfield St., Pawtucket/Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA
1930-40 - 5, Chestnut Ave. Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA
1950 - 5, Smithfield Ave., Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
1952 - N/A
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1952 - N/A
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William Moore
William Moore was a Paisley boy, his father born originally a soldier from Belfast, his mother local of Irish parents. He was born in 1873, brought up in Thread-Town and at eighteen was working as a Land Boiler Fireman. But the following year, 1892, he was with the family on the boat to America as a Labourer, finding his way to Central Falls in Rhode Island and by 1894 at just twenty or twenty-one in the YMCA team for at least three seasons, at left-half beside Meiklejohn to begin with, then at right-half and finally at inside-left.
And it would be there in Pawtucket that in 1899 that he married England-born Ester Kennedy, with whom he was to have five children and would become a Machinist to trade, working as Foreman and then Machine Shop Manager until retirement. Meanwhile the family would move between Pawtucket and Providence he passing away in the latter in 1942 at the age of sixty-eight. He would be survived by Ester for a decade and half, she dying still in Providence, aged eighty in 1955.
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Residence Locations:
1881 - Paisley
1891 - 73, Broomlands St., Paisley
1900 - 68, Moore St., Central Falls, Rhode Island, USA
1910 - 185, Benefit St., Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
1915-20 - 91, Benefit St., Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
1925 - 5, Raleigh Ave., Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
1930 - 103, Dexterdale Rd., Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1940 - 41, West Clifford St., Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1942 - N/A
Death Locator:
1942 - Providence
Grave Locator:
N/A
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