Two Scots who had brief a association with Everton in 1901-02 before moving on to Grimsby Town

Signed as an amateur playing for Sittingbourne, Birnie would make three Football League appearances for Everton in 1905 before returning to the southeast and then finishing his career with Bury

Ted Shaw had a successful amateur career with Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire but he turned out for Everton as a guest player in a couple of pre-season matches in 1891 and might have been good enough to join them full-time that year

The Scot played briefly for Everton in 1892 just as Goodison Park was being opened.

Thomas Marriott, Richard Morris and John Pickering played together at Everton in the 1880s

Discovered in Kendal, Turner made two Football League appearances for Everton at the end of the 19th Century before joining Portsmouth

He was to play a major role in the development of Everton Football Club before they established a permanent home at Anfield.

The Trefonen-born player represented Everton during the inaugural Football League season in 1888

At the time of his death, Billy Wilson was the last surviving member of the Everton team that had taken part in the first season of the Football League

Another of the Scots who played for Everton in the inaugural 1888-98 season, although he is believed to arrived on Merseyside with no knowledge whatsoever of the association game

Bangor-born and a regular Wales international, Billy Lewis joined Everton for their inaugural Football League season in 1888 but his time with the club was short-lived

The Bromborough Pool-born player played over 70 times for Everton after joining them when they were reigning Football League Champions in 1881

Isaac Roberts would play just once for Everton in February 1889

The story of Robert Stevenson who returned to live in his native Scotland after giving up football but spent the last days of his life back in Liverpool where he had represented Everton between 1886 and 1889

Born on Aughton Street but raised on the famous thoroughfare behind Goodison Park's most famous stand, "Willie" became the first Liverpool-born player to score on his Football League debut

Trying to compile an inventory of Scotsmen who have played football for Everton is like compressing springs in an old iron bedstead. Just when you think your task is complete, another one" jumps up". The latest addition to this list is John Walker.

Clarence Herbert Berry, who joined in 1908 and played for the club until 1912, was the first Rugby League player to switch codes and sign for Everton

The Shropshire-born player briefly represented Everton and Lincoln City in the early 1900s and went on to fight in World War I and was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal

Hailing from the same locale as his one-time Everton team-mate, Sandy Dick, John McPherson would briefly represent the Toffees as an amateur in 1887

The story of Liverpool-born William Gibson Walter Richards and Thomas Whittle who represented Everton in the 1880s

He collected a Liverpool Cup winner's medal in his first season at Anfield and played three Football League games for Everton between 1884 and 1888.

The first of a long line of “first-choice" goalkeepers at the club

The forward played for Everton in the early years of the 20th Century and was caught up in World War I when he was imprisoned by the Germans while working as a trainer in Europe

The story of another of the Scots who came south to play for Everton in the early years of the club's existence

The life and times of Peter Meehan, yet another import from Scotland in Everton's early history

By being the first man to captain both Everton Football Club and their local rivals Liverpool, Andrew Hannah holds a unique position in Merseyside folklore.

Another Scottish import to Goodison Park, the forward would go on to make FA Cup history.

Many Everton players over the years have been asked to make their debut in some tough “must win" situations but the first of these must surely be a young Scotsman who arrived in Liverpool during the November of 1891 at a time when his new club were challenging to take the football league championship away from Preston North End

The story of another Scottish import, Hope Robertson, who played for Everton between 1890 and 1892, leaving the club shortly after the move to Goodison Park.

Drawn to the northwest of England from Scotland in the mid-1880s, Andrew Gibson eventually signed for Everton but never made a Football League appearance for the club.

The story of Jack Keys and William Warmby who played for Everton during the club's first season in the inaugural Football League

The Scot played 54 times for Everton after joining the club in 1909 before going to to forge an impressive career back north of the border with Morton

Following the first international fixture to be played on Merseyside at Liverpool Cricket Club, Aigburth, Everton FC hosted the second at Anfield in 1889.

After many years of searching, I finally managed to find a newspaper report confirming the last resting place of the Everton benefactor Dr James Clement Baxter.

An article not intended to either praise or condemn John Houlding for the role he played in the decision made by Everton Football Club to move away from Anfield but an effort to try and throw some light on this “larger than life character" who played a big part in the establishing the game of Association Football in his home town of Liverpool.

The story behind the very first Merseyside derby that took place in 1894, two years after the schism that saw Everton leave Anfield for Goodison Park, and Tam McInnes who scored the first goal between the two clubs.

The story of the man who scored the first goals for Everton in the Football League.

The story of Jack Angus and the events of Christmas 1888 when the then20-year-old Scot made his debut for Everton.

Tracing the location where Everton FC briefly played their football off Priory Road in Anfield between 1883 and 1884.

The story of the man who captained Everton in the season they would lift their first piece of silverware.

The story of David Waugh who went from Everton player to successful club trainer.

The story of Nick Ross, the Victorian version of the present-day soccer super star who captained both Preston North End and Everton. He was described at the time as "the most brilliant back of his day, if not of all time."

It was to the Midland Railway Company's goods depot on Liverpool's Victoria Street, that Tom Evans, an instrumental figure in the formation of Everton FC, was transferred from Derbyshire in 1875.

As reigning champions of the Football League, Everton travelled to London and played their first match against Arsenal in 1891.

The story of George Dobson who made his Everton debut in 1885 who went on to become Everton's first captain.

The story of Bob Smalley, the man between the posts when Everton kicked off the inaugural Football League season in 1888-89.

John Henry Kirwen, born appropriately in 1878, is possibly the first Irishman to play for Everton.

The short and somewhat acrimonious history of Everton's match-ups with one of their early opponents in Lancashire

Profiling Tommy Costley who joined the club in 1886 and was a member of the Everton side that became founder members of the Football League in 1888

Many of the early adherents to association football in the south of England played the game for love and not money and some of them ended up playing for Everton via Oxford University

A signing from local rivals Bootle, David Jardine was in goal for Everton's first match at Goodison Park.

The story of George "Dod" Brewster, an Everton captain who played for the club between for 18 months between 1921 and 1922.

The story of John Weir, a Scottish defender who played 19 league games for Everton in 1889-90.

Profiling George Molyneux who played for Everton over two spells at the end of the 19th century.

Everton's first captain at Goodison Park, Howarth took over as skipper from Jonny Holt after the move from Anfield