440 Yards Handicap 18, 20, 23, 30
½ Mile 16, 18, 19, 20, 23
½ Mile Flat 11
½ Mile Handicap 10, 18, 19
½ Mile Hurdles 11
½ Mile Scratch 23
½ Mile Trial 16
1000 Yards Scratch 13
1000 Yards Steeplechase 8, 23
1500 Yards Bicycle Race 22
1500 yards scratch 21, 22
¾ Mile Race 21, 22
¾ Mile Steeplechase 10, 13, 20, 32
1 Mile 2, 8, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 32
1 Mile, Open 11
1 Mile Flat 10, 11
1 Mile Handicap 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 23, 30
1 Mile Hurdles 11
1 Mile Scratch 12, 18, 22, 23, 32
2 Mile 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 31
2 Mile Handicap 10, 11, 12, 18, 19
2 Mile Steeplechase 12
3 Mile Championship of Wales 10, 13
3 Mile Handicap 18
3 Mile Members' Handicap 13
4 Mile 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 23, 32
4 Mile Handicap 10, 11, 12, 18
6 Mile 31
7 Mile 13
7½ Mile 13
10 Mile 2, 12, 20, 22, 23, 39
10 Mile Members' Scratch Race 19
A
AAA 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 53. Amateur Athletic Association
AAA 1-Mile Trophy 24
AAA 10-Mile Trophy 24
AAA 1 Mile championship 1884 20
AAA 4-Mile Trophy 24
AAA Annual General Meeting 1887 30
AAA Championships 10, 13, 20, 21, 23
AAA General Committee 30
AAA Southern Counties Committee 25
AAC 4. Amateur Athletic Club
Admaston College 6
Alcester Street, Highgate Park, Birmingham 43
Alexander, Mr. W. W. 20, 40, 44
Amateur Athletic Association 1, 2, 3, 4, 44
Amateur Athletic Club 4
American athletes 21
Aske 23
Assizes 37
Association that the Northern Counties AA 18
Aston 20
Aston Lower Grounds 12, 19, 21, 22, 32
Aston Villa FC 8
Athens 8
B
Bancroft, Archbishop 36
Barbourne Athletic Association Sports 23
Barrel Inn, Walsall 36
Bates, Mr 32
Beech, Elizabeth 35, 36
Berger, Mr. C. 44
Betting 14, 25, 26
Betting Club 14
Bicton Asylum 33
Birchfield Harriers 9, 10, 12, 21, 22, 39, 44, 53
Birmingham 2, 8, 11, 13, 19, 21, 28, 29, 32, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 52, 53
Alcester Street, Highgate Park 43
Old Stone Cross Public House, Dale Street 39
Rowton House, Highgate Park. Rowton House
The Vine Inn, Alma Street 39
Birmingham Athletic Club 11
Birmingham Cricket and Football Club Sports 8
Birmingham Workhouse, Erdington 2, 43
Birmingham Workhouse Hospital 43
Blackheath Harriers 20
Blackley 17
Bois de Boulogne 13
Bookmakers 26, 28
Borough Surveyor 6
Brecon 10
Bridgenorth 18
Bridgewater 8, 10
Bridgnorth Rowing Club Annual Regatta & Athletic Meeting 20
Bristol 31
Brookes, William Penny 8
Bryan, C. 20, 21
Buffalo Cycling Track 39
C
Cannon, P. 32
Carnarvon 18
Carter, B. C. 19
Championship of Wales 10, 13
Chantilly Leviathan 14
Chesterfield 10
Chief Constable 37
Civil Service Sports 19
Coad 25
Cock a Snook 1
Coleman, Edwin 34
Coleman, Elizabeth Jane 2, 33, 46
Coleman, John Bennett 39
Coleman, Martha Annie 34, 35, 36, 37
Common Lodging House 43
Concannon, J. 12, 18
Copthorne 6, 45
Courtney, J. 20
Coventry 26, 44
Coventry and Birchfield Harriers 44
Cox, Mr 31
Crellin, T. 20
Crescott, Mr 30
Crewe 10, 13
Criterion, The 38, 39
Croydon 25, 29
Cummings, Mr 39
Cycling 39
D
Dale End, Birmingham 34
Dalton, Mr. T.H. 44
Death Certificate, William Snook 50
de Coubertin, Baron Pierre 8
Decree nisi 35
Disraeli, Benjamin 43
Divorce Court 36
Divorce Petition, Elizabeth Jane Snook 47
Douglas, Isle of Man 19
Dudley 19
Dunning 12
Duplay, M. 13
Duxfield, Mr 14
E
Eddowes Shrewsbury Journal and Salopian Journal 13, 30, 51
Erdington 2
Evans, H. 12
F
Faram, Mr 14
Footmen 3
Fountain Inn, Manchester 14
Frederick, H.E. 21, 22
G
George, Walter Goodall 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 39, 51
Glasgow 14
Godiva Harriers 25
Grand Hotel, Manchester 27
Grand Steeplechase de Paris 13
Great Highland Gathering 32
Guinness Trust 43
H
Hadley Football Club 11
Halifax 10
Handicaps 19, 21, 26
Heywood Bowling Club 12, 18
Heywood Phoenix Bowling Club 12
Hickman, J. E. 25, 26, 28
High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division 34
Hodges, H. 21
Huddersfield 10, 12, 14, 22
Huddersfield Athletic Club 12
Huddersfield Cricket and Athletic Club 22
Hulley, John 4
Hunter, C.V. 27, 29
I
Ilkley 11, 18
Ilkley Sports 11
International Amateur Athletic 21, 22
International Congress on Physical Education 8
J
Jeune, Sir Francis 35
John Bennett Coleman 49
Jones, Mr. Daite 44
K
Knifton, Mr 30
Kynoch Challenge Cup 22
L
Lamb Hotel, Newport, Monmouthshire 49
Lante, M. E. 14
Lea Brook Recreation Grounds 32
Leeds 10
Leicester 23, 32
Le Lanisel 13
Lillie Bridge Athletic Ground 4, 10, 19, 20, 21
Liverpool 4, 20, 22, 33
London 3, 4, 11, 16, 21, 22, 30, 39, 43
Camden
Rowton House 43
Hammersmith
Rowton House 43
Notting Hill 39, 49
Vauxhall
Rowton House, Bond Street 43
London Athletic Club 4, 11
Long Eaton 23
Lower Aston Grounds 8
Lowry, Montagu William 40
Lurgan 18
M
Macevoy, M. 14
Machin, Mr. A.E. 44
Manchester 3, 12, 14, 16, 22, 27, 54
Manhattan Athletic Club (New York) 22, 23
Marriage Certificate 46
Mason, C. H. 10
Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 36
Measures, Harry Bell 43
Meldrum, Rev. R. 44
Melly, Charles 4
Midland Counties Amateur Athletic Association 4, 27, 30, 44
Midland Professional Pedestrian Association 39
Midlands Cross Country Championship 19
Midland Senior Cross Country Championship 23
Mincing Lane Athletic Club 4
Mirfield 14, 16
Montgomeryshire 6, 51
Moore (of Glasgow) 14, 15, 16
Moseley Harriers 9, 12, 13, 19, 20, 22, 23, 29, 40
Much Wenlock 8, 19
Myers, Lon E 21, 22, 23, 31
N
National Championships 4, 5
National Cross Country Championship 2, 11, 19, 22, 25
National Olympian Society 4
Neuilly 32
Newcastle 3
Newport Athletic Festival 23
Newport Grammar School Sports 9
News of the World 1
Newton-le-Willows 11, 12
Newton Sports 9
Northern Clubs 4
Northern Counties Athletic Association 4, 51, 53, 14, 18, 22, 27
Northern Counties Championship 11, 12, 20
Nottingham 20, 27
Nottingham Forest Football Club 12, 27, 30
Notting Hill 39, 49
O
Old Hall School Athletic Club 23
Old Hall School Sports 11
Old Hall Sports, Wellington, Shropshire 9
Old Stone Cross Public House 39
Oliver, Mr H. M. 9, 29, 40
Olympic Games 8
Olympic movement 8
Oswestry Football Club Sports 8
Oxford University 4
P
Paragon Hotel 43
Paris 2, 13, 14, 16, 19, 32, 39, 40
Paris Exposition of 1889 32
Paris Medal of Honour 32
Pedestrianism 3, 26
Pengwern Boat Club 8
Pepys, Samuel 3
Platt, Mr. 17
Preston 10, 11, 18
Preston Cricket Club 10
Private Running Matches 3
Prizes 4, 11, 17, 23, 28
Professional athletics 3
Professionals 26
R
Racing Club de France 2
Racing Cyclists 39
Roberts, Mrs Mary 36
Rochdale Cricket Club 11
Roehampton 12
Roping 25, 28, 26, 28
Rowton, Lord 40, 43
Rowton House 40-43
Royal Aquarium 27
Royal Courts of Justice 35
Rugby 11
Running tracks 5
S
Salmon, W.C. 43
Salopian Journal 23, 51
Scratch 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 32
Seine Cycling Track 39
Sharpe, Mr 14
Shearman, M. 18
Sheffield 3
Shirley 37
Shrewsbury 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 18, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 45
Shrewsbury Chronicle 35, 51, 52
Shrewsbury Football Club Sports 9
Shropshire 6, 9, 23, 45, 51-53
Slade 11, 12
Smallheath Harriers 12
Smethwick, Edith Road 36
Snook, Elizabeth Jane 39
Divorce Petition 47-48
Will 49
Snook, Elsie Gertrude 34
Snook, George 6
Snook, George Frederick 34
Snook, Hannah Elizabeth 6
Snook, James Wallbridge 23
Snook, Mary 6
Snook, William 6
Death Certificate 50
Southern Counties AAA 27
South London Harriers 22
Southport 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 23
Southport A.S. 14
Sparkbrook Harriers 12
Sport & Play 19, 29, 39, 40, 51-52
Sporting Telegraph 4
Sporting Times 14
Star Chamber 36
Steeplechase 2, 8, 12, 18, 20, 21, 23, 32
St John's Wesleyan Church, Toxteth 33
Stoke-on-Trent 14
Stoke Victoria Athletic Club 11, 18
Stourbridge Cricket Club 8
Strangers' Mile 11, 23
Suspension 18, 25
T
Telford, Thomas 6
The Athlete 26, 27, 31, 51
The Athletics News 25, 27, 29
The Field, The Country Gentleman's Newspaper 31
The Midland Athlete 16, 17, 51
The Sports Argus 33, 51
Training 5
U
Ulster Cricket Club 12
University Boat Race 4
V
Vaults, The 39
Vine Inn, The 39
W
Wall, Mr 30
Walsall 35, 36, 37, 52
Walsall Petty Sessions 35, 36
Wellington 6, 9, 23, 45
Welshpool 6, 51
Wenlock Olympian Association 8
Wenlock Olympian Games 8
Wenlock Olympians Class Minute Book 1877-1895 51
Wenlock Olympian Society Sports 8
West Lancashire B.C 11
West View House 6, 7, 45
Wheel 40, 51, 52
Wheel Life 19, 51
Widnes 10, 12, 20, 23, 28
Widnes Athletic Club 23
Wigston 10
Will, Elizabeth Jane Snook 49
Willcock, Mr R A 36
Wilson, Dr J Scott 37
Wilson, W - Mirfield 14
Witton Cemetery 2, 44
Wolverhampton 11
Worcester 11
Workhouse 2, 43
World Record 21, 22
World War I 2, 40
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