Appeal to identify ‘Star’ soccer team (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Appeal to identify ‘Star’ soccer team

1:28pm Thursday 28th May 2009 in

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AN Australian reader has asked if anyone can help identify this football team and any of the players.

Ann Heywood, from Melbourne, thinks it may be of Star Paper Mill, Feniscowles, taken in the early 1900s.

The player on the right on the front row is her grandfather, James Heywood, who was born in Livesey in 1885.

Next to him, she thinks, is his brother John, known to his family as Jack, and you can certainly see the resemblance.

Ann says the team captain could also be another brother, Walter, while his half-brother, William Costello, is one of the officials.

She has discovered in the census of 1901 that her grandfather, then 15, was employed as a ‘paper scraper’. Walter was a backtenter and William an operative paper maker.

Several other family members were also employed in the mill, including their father Thomas, a labourer, another brother, Joseph, an operative paper maker, and sister Mary Agnes, a paper sorter. Can anyone help with any information?