James "Jimmy" (& John "Jack" or "Jock") McDougall
James McDougall was, with taller John (Jack), the younger of two brothers, who would each go on to play for Scotland and both as centre-halves, the former attacking, the latter defensive. They had been born in Port Glasgow, the sons of Greenock parents, their father a Shipyard Blacksmith. Both would start their football with Port Glasgow Athletic, as apprentices, engineer and plater respectively, again in the ship-yards, John going on for eight seasons as a forward to the powerful Airdrieonians team of the era culminating with a Scottish Cup win in 1924. By contrast James would have three campaigns with Partick Thistle before both boys went South, Jimmy to Liverpool in 1928, Jack to Sunderland the next year.
At Partick, although he signed in January1925, Jimmy had to wait to the start of the next season before making his debut. There he was an inside-left. Indeed it was only in 1927-8 that he was first choice and also came to notice elsewhere. But even then Liverpool must have seen something more in him since they almost immediately moved him back as one of the halves, left still but increasingly as the middle of the three. And from there over the next decade he was to make over three hundred and fifty starts plus win three caps in 1931 on European tour, stepping down but not quite only at the age of thirty-four. He was to have one more season in him as player-trainer of South Liverpool before becoming the manager of a ships chandler.
However, he had done it married. In 1933 he, from the family home in Glasgow, had wed Annie Mann from back in Greenock and in the town, returning to Liverpool and settling eventually on a street, Booker Avenue, in the Allerton suburb of the city. Indeed it was to be there that Jimmy was to pass away seemingly quietly at the age of eighty in 1984 to be cremated.
John's death, however, was to be sadder. He after retirement in 1937 would return from Leeds to Port Glasgow. There he would work as a Green-Keeper, marry in 1951 but in 1973 just a few days past his seventy-second birthday be found drowned in the nearby Harelaw Reservoir.
Birth Locator:
(1901 - 90, Ivy Bank, Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire) (Jack)
1904 - 90, Ivy Bank, Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire (Jimmy)
Residence Locations:
1911 - 90, Ivy Bank, Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire (Jimmy)
1921-(33) - 12, Spring Hill, Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire (Jimmy)
1931 - Great Newton St., Liverpool (Jimmy)
1934 - 129, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool (Jimmy)
1936-63 - 84, Booker Avenue, Liverpool (Jimmy)
1964-84 - 65A, Booker Ave.,Allerton, Liverpool (Jimmy)
Death Locator:
1984 - 65A, Booker Ave.,Allerton, Liverpool (Jimmy)
Grave Locator:
Springwood/Allerton Cematorium, Liverpool (Jimmy)
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