But it does look like it should be Percival Stuart:
Closer inspection shows they did get the year he was born wrong!:
Interesting! AustralianFootball.com has the 28th: https://australianfootball.com/players/player/john+allan/1627Also, Ancestry has him as 28-12-1933 at Port Melbourne as his basic death details.
And this obit matches that date of death.
A late job more than a rush job! I decided to try to confirm the death and other details as I worked down the list and ended up taking a long time and often confusing myself. I'll fix the link, easily done.
So... what a rabbit hole this has taken me. Or should I say Possum hole.
So... what a rabbit hole this has taken me. Or should I say Possum hole.
These 2 games by Abe Watson in 1898 were previously allocated to William "Poss" Watson, a former Essendon VFA champ (1891-1894), but who was well and truly established in Western Australia playing for Freo in 1898.
The guy won 4 flags for Essendon and 3 more for Freo in 8 years! He was the Scotty Pippen to Albert Thurgood's Jordan. But he seems to have been completely ignored. Not even in the WA Footy Hall of Fame.
Anyway, I see that *Paul* has listed Abe as "Unknown Watson" and Oliver Gigacz still has Poss playing for 2 teams in 1898 (don't delete Poss, just add Abe/Albert). Once they are cleaned up, I'll create Abe in wikipedia. Any idea of a DOD for Abe? Can't seem to find him in the Vic records. Parents from the above birth record are William George and Sarah Lancaster.
Ok, looks like this is him, yet another Watson who moved to Freo! DOD 29/11/1932.
Was about to create the wikipedia article for Abe, and it looks like ol' Watty, as he was called in his funeral notice, was a POW in WWI. 51st Battalion. Does the AFL need to be advised of this?So... what a rabbit hole this has taken me. Or should I say Possum hole.
These 2 games by Abe Watson in 1898 were previously allocated to William "Poss" Watson, a former Essendon VFA champ (1891-1894), but who was well and truly established in Western Australia playing for Freo in 1898.
The guy won 4 flags for Essendon and 3 more for Freo in 8 years! He was the Scotty Pippen to Albert Thurgood's Jordan. But he seems to have been completely ignored. Not even in the WA Footy Hall of Fame.
Anyway, I see that *Paul* has listed Abe as "Unknown Watson" and Oliver Gigacz still has Poss playing for 2 teams in 1898 (don't delete Poss, just add Abe/Albert). Once they are cleaned up, I'll create Abe in wikipedia. Any idea of a DOD for Abe? Can't seem to find him in the Vic records. Parents from the above birth record are William George and Sarah Lancaster.
Ok, looks like this is him, yet another Watson who moved to Freo! DOD 29/11/1932.
Geoff Kerr is listed as passing in May in the Recent Deaths thread
Wikipedia has categories for "living people", "possibly living people" and "date of death missing". They use 90 years old for possibly living and 115 for DOD missing.
I think it is more often that people not don't know the deceased well enough to correct the official record, but that the VFL games played were only a minor part of the man's life, that no one thinks that anyone would be interested. Many families would think that no one at the clubs or the AFL would care if Granddad, who played a few games for Fitzroy or South Melb 50-70 years ago, had died. Plenty of other things to worry about after a death.
