Wigan Album

My grandfather Jack Birkett, middle row Right most player.

Susan,
I think this is my uncle Harry and not your grandad.My dad uncle Harry and uncle Jack(your grandad)were brothers.Uncle Harry was the eldest of the brothets and I do not think your grandad was born before the 1900's.

see same scenario year before at Album > St Barnabas Marsh Green
link
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=8&id=33238&gallery=St++Barnabas+Marsh+Green&page=1

Peter, I don't think they are brothers, probably 2 different branches of the Birketts (there were a lot of them). My grandad Jack Birkett, born 1899, was youngest son of John Birkett and Elizabeth Ormesher, had many brothers but not a Harry. I will upload another photo of him in a charabanc. You might find a Birkett link on here
https://gw.geneanet.org/jimlad68 - it may ask you to register after a while (free and easy).

Right end of the front row is my Great Uncle Tommy. Thomas Heyes that is. He was one of three brothers Thomas, Mathew, and William. Uncle Mat was killed in a mining accident in the early 1960's. William (Bill) Heyes was my grandad. They lived on Marsh Green road next to the doctor's surgery and had a smallholding on the land that is now an industrial estate.

Graham, have you any birth years for Thomas, Mathew, and William. It might help clarify people etc. I can then add the details to the picture.

Thomas (Tommy) Heyes March 1902
Matthew (Matt) Heyes August 1906
William (Bill) Heyes July 1908

All born in Marsh green area. My great grandad Matthew Heyes used to live in 5 Noble Street, long gone now. He moved to the house at 1 Marsh Green Rd when it was built. My grandparents moved into that house when great grandad died in 1947. Matthew married my auntie Nellie and lived at 3 Marsh Green. Tommy, in the picture, never married and lived with my grandparents until his death in 1966. The greenhouses at the back of the house were watered using rainwater collected in two old bath tubs. All I remember of Tommy was that we used to float things in the baths and Tommy would say "get owt o' yon water".

I have a copy of this photo together with a piece of paper containing the following names:
Front Row: S Davies, C Anders, F Smallshaw, P Johnson, T Heyes, J Smith.
Middle Row: J Berry, J Swift, J Hardacre, P Berry, J Birkett, T Houghton,
Smith

As my brother Graham has already commented our great uncle Tommy Heyes is the last player in kit on the right in the front row. I therefore think J Smith on the piece of paper must be the person next to him with the towel on his shoulder. I’m not sure about the names for the middle and back row as the paper lists seven names for the middle row and no names for the back row.
It is my understanding that the names were compiled by my dad and another old Marsh Greener.