Rugby player died on pitch in last century in Birmingham

hi all
not sure which part of site to put this on.

am looking to see if there are any notices in local bham newspapers about a reg morgan who died playing rugby. he died on the pitch.

i have found a reg a morgan on the freebmd dying 1923 in birmingham.

would anyone know if this was him, or any information re a rugby player dying on the pitch.

thanks

molly

Molly
He is not on the Wikipedia list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spo...ers#Rugby_Union ) though this is undoubtably very incomplete

Hi Mikee

i know i checked. this is still the research i am doing re morgan/rowbotham. my elderly neigbour's cousin announced that reg morgan used to play rugby and died on the pitch.!! i know his son was born 1908 and his mom died 1927 and she was down as a widow, so i checked the igi deaths and the only one that came up was reg a morgan aged 36 died in birmingham 1923. i dont think he was a professional player. according to these two, he owned loads of shops and had something to do with morgans meats, but i could not find a link with morgans meats in digbeth. anyway on the death cert and his sons birth cert it says he a plumber.

is it still possible to access newspapers from the 1900. when is the new library going to open.

for my own part,one of my e husbands ancestors was 'tommy ball' the only league footballer to be shot, he played for aston villa, we have a book on him.

thanks molly

I think the only way to access 20th century newspapers is at the library

do you know when the library closes and re opens please.

steph

I don't know, as i don't live in the area, and have only visited it twice in the last few years but I do know that the hours are very restricted for the next few years while they prepare and then transfer to the new library

molly

I think everything you need to know is here.

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/centrallibrary


Phil

thanks for all the information, will give them a ring and see what they have got and make an appointment to see if i can find what i am looking for.

thanks everyone

steph