FOLLOWING an appeal in last week's Peeblesshire News, heritage researchers have found the grave of the goalkeeper who helped Everton win their first Championship.

David Jardine also became the Merseyside club's first keeper to ever play at Goodison Park in 1892.

The son of a stonemason from Dumfriesshire died a cottage between Biggar and Coulter on March 28, 1948.

Everton Heritage Society carry out several research projects each year to locate the graves of prominent former players and hold rededication ceremonies.

They have already erected headstones for two other players from north of the Border, Andrew Hannah and Sandy Young, who were buried in unmarked graves.

Despite extensive searches around Biggar as well as family plots at Elvanfoot and Applegarth in Dumfriesshire, they couldn't find the grave of David Jardine.

And a search had begun in the rural graveyards around Tweeddale.

But just hours after we published an appeal, information has led the historical group to the goalkeeper's grave - in a church yard that had already been checked.

Tony Onslow from Everton Heritage Society told us: "David's wife Sarah is buried at Elvanfoot and we carried out checks which showed he isn't buried with her.

"But we didn't think to check the rest of the graveyard.

"We have now received information that he's buried in plot 70 where as Sarah is in 116.

"We will be travelling up from Liverpool soon to visit his grave."