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William Bremner (cricketer)

South African cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2023
Entity authorityQ104004016 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Bremner (1884 – 30 March 1961) was a Cape Colony cricketer. He played in one first-class match for Border in 1906/07.

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“William Bremner (cricketer)” enters the record as south African cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what William, Bremner and cricketer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1884, 1961, 1906—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1884-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around William, Bremner and cricketer.
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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 Jul 21, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q104004016. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1884, 1961 and 1906.

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This entry incorporates text from “William Bremner (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.