Alexander "Sandy" McMahon
Whilst Alexander McMahon was born in 1870 on a Selkirkshire farm, the son of Irish agricultural labourers, who had met married in Scotland, whilst he was still a boy the family had moved to Edinburgh, his father working there as a labourer. He was thus to learn his football in the city at local junior teams Woodburn and Leith Harp before in 1889, at still eighteen and as a forward, first turning out for Hibernian.
But it was to prove very temporary. In November that same year he played under an assumed name along with four other imported Scots and with a back story for Darlington St. Augustine's. It had been founded seven years earlier by the Nolli brothers, Italian-Scots from Leith with Hibbie connections. And on New Year's Day 1891 he then made a debut for Celtic.
And there he would settle, moving to Glasgow and spending thirteen seasons at the club, in his time winning four League titles, three Cups as well as six caps in two clusters, four between 1891 and 1894 and then one more in 1903 and a final one in 1892. By then he was thirty-one, was suffering from knee problems, had one season left at Celtic Park, before final retirement just four games in a season at Partick Thistle, at which point he turned to running a bar he bought in the nearby Gallowgate.
It was 1904 and he, having married Annie Devine in Glasgow in 1896, had by then four children. And it looks as if another would follow in 1905 in 1908 Annie was pregnant once more but she would die in the process or as a result of giving birth. She was just thirty-three years old and he was left at thirty-seven with six very young children.
However, worse was to follow. In 1911 the children seem to have remained in Glasgow being looked after by an aunt, Jane, and an uncle, James with the latter even on his marriage seeming to continue to do so when in 1916 Alexander would pass away. His death was from kidney disease in Glasgow's Royal Infirmary to be buried in Craigton Cemetery with his mother, in time joined by a sister and brother James' wife.
Birth Locator:
1870 - Whithillbrae, Kirkhope, Selkirkshire
Residence Locations:
1871 - N/A
1881 - 2, Campbells's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh
1891 - N/A
1896 - 135, Dalmarnock Rd., Glasgow
1901 - 1, Winton Place Shettleston, Glasgow
1908 - St. Marks St., Shettleston, Glasgow
(1911 - 107, East Nelson St., Glasgow)
1916 - 28, Slatefield St., Glasgow
Death Locator:
1916 - Royal Infirmary, Glasgow
Grave Locator:
St. Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth, Glasgow
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