Football - Queen's Park

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McConnachy
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Football - Queen's Park

Post by McConnachy » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:02 pm

I believe that I may have a relative who played for Queen's Park in the 1915 and 1916 seasons. I have found a McConnachy on the score sheet for Queen's Park in both seasons -

http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scot15.html
http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scot16.html

I have written to the Secretary of Queen's Park to see if I can find more information on the player eg DoB, where he was from and maybe even a photo but no response yet.

Any other ideas to track down a possible football relative? :idea: :?:

Justin

Searching for McConnachy - particularly in Aberdeenshire and Argllshire

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Post by Tracey » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:21 pm

Any other ideas to track down a possible football relative?
Hello Justin

My - we will call him step great grandfather - played for Rangers, Elgin, Third Lanark and Capt an Scotland v Ireland match and is supposedy noted in "The Wee Red Book". One of my family has a copy of the book but hasnt sent me a copy of the page and none of the Football Clubs i have contacted have been able to tell me anything :?

So..good luck !
Scotland - Donaldson / Moggach / Shaw / Geddes / Sim / Gray / Mackie / Richards / Joel / Coull / Mckimmie / Panton / McGregor
Ireland and Scotland - Casey / McDade / Phillips / McCandle / Dinely / Comaskey + various spellings

djcrtoye
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Post by djcrtoye » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:02 am

Have you both tried the SFA, the football governing body in Scotland. They might have the information you require.

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Re: Football - Queen's Park

Post by DavidWW » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:18 am

McConnachy wrote:I believe that I may have a relative who played for Queen's Park in the 1915 and 1916 seasons. I have found a McConnachy on the score sheet for Queen's Park in both seasons -

http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scot15.html
http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scot16.html

I have written to the Secretary of Queen's Park to see if I can find more information on the player eg DoB, where he was from and maybe even a photo but no response yet.

Any other ideas to track down a possible football relative? :idea: :?:

Justin

Searching for McConnachy - particularly in Aberdeenshire and Argllshire
Remember that it's an amateur club, so the secretary and others are probably volunteers.

Another connected problem in terms of the amateur aspect is that an awful lots of amateurs had a trial for the club, or played just a few matches.

You might be better to Google for one of the many histories of the club that I'm sure exist, and see if you can track down a copy.

David

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Post by Falkyrn » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:01 pm

Have a look at http://www.qpfc.com/pastplayers.html


who list an FJ McConnachie playing between 1915 and 1917 making 10 appearances for the club
~RJ Paton~

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Post by DavidWW » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:15 pm

McConachy actually, and the 10 is league appearances, - he also played in 3 cup matches.

And scored 3 goals :!:

David

McConnachy
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Football legends...

Post by McConnachy » Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:06 pm

Many thanks guys! That is an awesome bit of research!!