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Excellent work! It should be 20 July 1955 BTW.Terry Walsh - looks to be 20 June 1955
WALSH MARTIN TERRANCE
25557/1955
FURGUS JOSEPH
FREDA MARIE
TOCUMWAL
Finley Footballer Killed - Kyabram Free Press and Rodney and Deakin Shire Advocate (Vic. : 1894 - 1955) - 28 Jul 1955
CHAMPION Finley football ruck man. Martin Terence (Terry) Walsh, and another man were killed in a level-crossing ...nla.gov.au
His son, Brendan Worrall, is currently Queensland Auditor General - see Our people | Queensland Audit Office
I'll give Rodgers the heads up on this
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It looks certain you have the right chap. The St Kilda player was living at Ascot Vale in 1933:
I now have access to GenealogySA transcripts which give DOB and DOD if there are any SA players required
That would be ok
I'm not so sure about this one, Rhett! I think it's very likely that's the father of the Fitzroy footballer (who happens to have the same name)!
The "Scotland connection" for the North player would have to come from this:another email from Stephen Rodgers
(i haven edited this one to remove paragraphs that arent really necessary)
HAROLD DAVIDSON
- the curious case of (not Benjamin Button but) Harold Davidson
What are the odds that there are only 2 Harold Davidson's to have played League football - and they both debuted in 1930?
About 100 to 1, maybe.
Now, what are the odds that, both with the 1930 debut, they both later died on the same day?
Not too sure of that, but I'd say I've got a better chance of winning Tattslotto!
Yet, this is what their Wikipedia entries are telling me at the moment - Hahaha!!
So, this is what I've got:
Harold Albert (known as Hec) Davidson of Melbourne, with a date-of-birth of
29 - 3 - 1908.
Hec Davidson - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
And with the other one, it's always been a bit of a bugbear, that I haven't had a middle name, but
Harold (no middle name) Davidson of North Melbourne, with a date-of-birth of
19 - 8 - 1910.
(And I've got in the Remarks,
Born Scotland - not sure where that's from)
Morrie Davidson - Wikipedia
Now, if you go to Ryerson, you'll see:
Harold Albert, with a Funeral notice, of
27 - 5 - 76, from The Age, of the day before.
He's the only Harold Albert, so I think it's safe to assume Harold Albert (Hec) of Melbourne, has the death of
24 - 5 - 1976.
Now, turning again to
Harold (no middle name) Davidson, as you can see, there's a number of, simply,
Harold Davidson's on Ryerson.
As you'll see, we can eliminate the ones with an age given, because none of them match, in terms of a birth, the player.
But that still leaves (no age given)
the Harold Davidson's of, the death in,
1957
1997
2007
So, these, you'd think "could be" the player, also bearing in mind, the '57 one is The Age, and the '07 one is The Age and The Herald Sun. (and even the '97 one could have "moved to Queensland" later in life.)
Of course, I'm well aware, Harold Davidson, North Melbourne player, may not be in Ryerson!
(Not to mention, I'm assuming, haha!, they both didn't die on the same day!)
But for the time being, would you say
we'll go with 24 - 5 - 76 for Harold Albert (Hec) of Melbourne
and Harold (no middle name) North Melbourne is still unknown, unless you can possibly deduce it from any of the above, or from some other way?
| DAVIDSON | HAROLD | ROBERTSON | M | 1910 | 701 / 52 | WEST CALDER | Buy creditsOrder certificate |
| DAVIDSON | HAROLD | STEWART | M | 1910 | 168 / 1 / 1132 | ST NICHOLAS |
| DAVIDSON | HAROLD | 77 | STEWART | M | 1988 | 304 / 264 | ABERDEEN |
| DAVIDSON | HAROLD | 78 | ROBERTSON | M | 1988 | 711 / 96 | WHITBURN |
Just a minor issue for AustralianFootball adminI wonder if the AFL could also see to the fact that Hec Davidson is missing two Gardiner Medals from which he should have been awarded retrospectively; he lost both on countback in 1932 and 1933 yet was never recognised when the AFL awarded retrospective medals in 1992. He was also runner-up in 1931 and 1934 – a handy player!
There are a couple of other cases of missing retrospective medals in there too; it would be a shame for the families not to receive recognition – even if it is just private acknowledgement by the league.
AFL Reserves - Gardiner Medal
A history of the Gardiner Medal, awarded to the best & fairest in the AFL Reserves (includes the Murie Cup and Gordon-Dobson Medal)www.hardballget.net
nla.gov.au
Maybe it's out there somewhere, but I haven't seen anything from around the time Davidson played for North that tells us what his (first) name is or hints at his age. So I'm very dubious about what the records have on him!!
GC, would you be able to have a look at the death reg. for the great Len (Leonard Charles) Fitzgerald, who died in Adelaide in 2007? I'm hoping it has the names of his parents, as it's believed his father played some reserves games for Collingwood (District), but we have not been able to find out his name. There seems to be very little on Ancestry with regards to Len, which is very surprising. He was born in 1929, so his birth came after the Vic BDM cutoff point.
