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George Marshall (New Zealand cricketer)

New Zealand cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2023
Entity authorityQ101079966 ↗
Source-derived summary

George Marshall (1863 – 1 July 1907) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in seventeen first-class matches for Canterbury and Hawke's Bay from 1888 to 1902.

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“George Marshall (New Zealand cricketer)” enters the record as new Zealand cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what George, Marshall and Zealand can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1863, 1907, 1888, 1902—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1863-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around George, Marshall and Zealand.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 12, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q101079966. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1863, 1907, 1888 and 1902.

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This entry incorporates text from “George Marshall (New Zealand cricketer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.