The original 11...

John Connell Anderson, Thomas Caldwell Anderson, Edward Beaven, Robert Buckle, Hamilton Casey, Lindsay Casey, Frederick Dexter, Stuart Leaman, John Thompson, P Thompson and Edmund Wall.  These 11 names are those of our founding schoolboys back in 1882 and it is now my pleasure to tell you about their life and times - In 1882 to the grave.  

John Connell Anderson was born in Tottenham on 12th August 1868 and baptised on 4th October at St John's.  In 1882 he was living at 6 Ashfield Villas in Willoughby Park Road before moving to Stratford and beginning a career as an engine fitter.  A well travelled man he appears to make several trips to Canada and as far as Yokohama, Japan before his sudden death on 11th January 1931 aged 62.

Thomas Caldwell Anderson was the younger brother of John.  Born on 30th September 1869 he too was baptised at St John's.  A bank clerk as early as 1891 he married Katie Findlay in Shanghai, China in 1904 and doesn't reappear back in England until 1921 now living in Willesden Lane, NW2 this time as a bank manager.  In 1939 he is documented living in Frinton-on-Sea and Thomas died on 26th April 1942.  A service was held for him at Ipswich Crematorium and his ashes were interred with his mother and father in Tottenham Cemetery.

Edward Beaven was born in nearby Edmonton in 1869 but by 1882 was living on the Tottenham High Road.  He returned in 1894 to marry Eva Barner and spent the next 30 years living at Church Street, Edmonton as a clock and watch maker.  He is listed as an employer of the Great Eastern Railway until his death on 2nd June 1933 at North Middlesex hospital.

It is not wrong to say that Robert Buckle is perhaps the most pivotal of all our founding young men and his name is stamped all over the first almost two decades.  Living in White Cottage on White Hart Lane from a few years old until around 1901 Bobby oversaw the inception of the club, the move to Northumberland Park and, in 1899, to White Hart Lane as well as professionalism in 1895 and the decision to become a PLC 3 years later.  His move to Merton for the final 60 years of his life to start married life and raise 8 children meant he didn't watch the club for over 50 years but did keep in touch with results.  Bobby was the last of our 'original 11' to pass away doing so on 14th April 1959 aged 90.                                                                                                                               

Born to James and Harriet Bull was a young Hedley Bull and whilst spending many a night plotting our early fortunes he is recorded on the 1881 census as a printers apprentice aged 16.  Hedley never left Tottenham when his death was recorded on 3rd October 1917 at the age of 52.

Thomas William Bumberry was one of the few born outside of Tottenham (Islington) and in 1881 was living on the Fulham Road in Kensington.  He married Miss Ada Keep in April 1892 at All Hallows in Tottenham and spent his life as a coal merchant and moved back to Islington in 1907.  On the electoral role there until 1923 his death is recorded on 2nd November 1924 in Sturry, Kent at the age of 57.