Lancashire player number 38 - Kaye, Joseph Lowther by Don Ambrose

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Player:

JL Kaye

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Lancashire 1867
Born 21.6.1846 Honley, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
Died 12.10.1882 Whitefield, Bury.

 

Middle order right-hand batsman, right-arm fast bowler.

 

He was professional for the East Lancashire Club, Blackburn in 1864, their inaugural year, and there is a professional by the name of Kaye at Fairfield, Liverpool in 1866.

 

He played for Lancashire in the match against Yorkshire at Middlesborough on 2nd and 3rd September 1867. This was a match for which Lancashire appear to have struggled to find a team, judging by the high proportion of professionals and one match players.

 

In the 1881 Census he appears living at Kirkhams House, Pilkington, Lancashire, aged 34, a commercial traveller, with his wife Mary Jane aged 29, and their 9 year old daughter Florence Helen Lowther.

 

(Article: Copyright © 2004 Don Ambrose)