Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle came to prominence as a full-back in the otherwise all-English Sheffield United team that won the FA Cup in 1899 and 1902, lost the final in 1901 and had in 1898, when he was recruited, just won the League. In all between 1898-9 and 1903-4 he would make one hundred and fifty starts for the Bramhall Lane club and also win from 1901 five Irish caps, including one in 1903 in the country's first ever win after almost twenty seasons over Scotland, in Glasgow, at Celtic Park and barely eight miles from where he had actually learned the game.
For, whilst Boyle had been born in 1876 in Carlingford in Ireland, his family, when he was a lad, had moved to Coatbridge and it was there at eighteen he had begun with a season with Gaelic at Coatdyke and then another with Albion Rovers. And it was from there also that in 1896 he moved at twenty South to Sunderland for two seasons, there too in 1899 aged twenty-three he married Annie Hand and after his football career was almost over to where in 1911 he returned briefly with Annie and their by-then four children before a final footballing fling as player-manager at York.
But his time at York did not last long, probably because of the war, and by 1921 Peter and Annie and the family of now eight children had moved to Doncaster, where he was a miner, albeit one not working just then because of soldiering disability. And it is there too at the age of sixty-three and having clearly finally prospered that he died in 1939, is buried in town's Hyde Park Cemetery with his wife laid beside him on her passing in 1960, both from the good-sized house they had shared, named "Cairlinn", that is still there in Scawsby; Cairlinn being Carlingford in Gaelic.
Birth Locator:
1876 - Carlingford, Northern Ireland
Residence Locations:
1881 - N/A
1891 - 23, Jackson St., Coatbridge
1899 - 181, Main St., Coatbridge
1901 - 19, Alderson Drive, Ecclesall, Sheffield
1911 - 50, Jackson St., Coatbridge
1921 - 24, Windmill Balk Lane, Adwick Le Street, Yorkshire
1939 - "Cairlinn", Barnsley Road, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Death Locator:
1939 - Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Grave Locator:
Hyde Park Cemetery, Doncaster, S. Yorkshire
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