
Mick Higgins , The Original True Blue- Tony Onslow
Mike Higgins
No Other player can claim a tighter bond with the early development of Everton Football Club than “good old” Mike Higgins who can surely lay claim to the title of “Original True Blue” From the start of club records, he can be found representing them when they first appeared on Stanley Park. Higgins was with the club during their one-year tenure at Priory Road and took part in the first game Everton played at Anfield.
He the longest serving member of the playing staff, when they became founder members of the Football League in 1888.
His
Irish born Father, Michael, and his Carlisle born Mother Eleanor, were living
at Great Yarmouth when their first child Thomas was born in 1860. They then moved
to the Southend of Liverpool and were living on Essex Street when they brought
their second child to be baptised, on the 20th of September 1862, at
the church of St John the Baptist. The names they choose were William Michael. The
1871 census find...