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Fazackerley History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Fazackerley

What does the name Fazackerley mean?

The ancient history of the Fazackerley name begins with the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the family resided in Fazakerley, Lancashire.

Richard Fizacre, Fishacre, Fissakre, or Fishakle (d. 1248), was an early Dominican divine, and is said to have been a native of Devonshire. "Fishacre in his old age became a Dominican; but as he and Robert Bacon continued to read divinity lectures for several years after entering the order in the schools of St. Edward, his entry can hardly be dated later than 1240." 1

Early Origins of the Fazackerley family

The surname Fazackerley was first found in Lancashire at Fazakerley a township, in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, union and hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 4 or so miles from Liverpool, The township comprises 1565 acres, all are arable as noted in 1321, Fazakerley was described as: the country is extremely flat an

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Biography

By Ulla Fazakerley

The Liverpool born artist Gordon Fazakerley was very charming and full of witty and unusual ways of seeing things. A fan of Monty Python, his humour was unpredictable, ever present, disrespectful, naughty, realistic and very Merseyside. Many were surprised by the breadth of his learning. He was self-effacing and unpretentious, but with low tolerance for stupidity and he could turn into a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-figure. When his painting did not go the way he wanted, he could vanish on the spree, to fight with his demons, but he always came out on the other side, with the brush and colours ready to try again.

The forming years

Gordon Fazakerley was born in Widnes outside Liverpool in 1937 of old merchant stock. At eleven years old he began an education in “Pall Mall” an old Catholic grammar school with monks as teachers. In the streets during the war he had to fight in a brutal pecking order, but at school he found books on philosophy in the library and began to draw in the library´s loft with the extraordinary lighting created b

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Derek Fazackerley

English footballer

Derek William Fazackerley (born 5 November 1951) is an English former footballer who was previously assistant manager at Oxford United, and managed the club on a caretaker basis for two months in 2018. He spent the majority of his career playing for Blackburn Rovers.

Playing career

Fazackerley made a record 671 appearances for Blackburn in an 18-year career.^[2] In February 2019 he was one of the first seven players to be inducted into the club's Hall of Fame.^[3]

Coaching career

In January 1987, he joined Chester City as a player and assistant manager. The long-term plan was for qualified coach Fazackerley to succeed Harry McNally as manager,^[4] but he grew unhappy at the lack of progress at the club.^[5] He moved on in the summer of 1988 to York City to assist ex-Rovers manager Bobby Saxton. In February 1989, he joined Bury where Martin Dobson was manager and ended the season helping run the side after Dobson departed. This was his final playing season in professional football.