He was one of the pioneers of the game in Western Australia, one of the first inductees into the state's Soccer Hall of Fame, a man who for eighteen seasons either side of The Great War, when he served as a Farrier in France, stood between the sticks for three of the best local sides, Caledonian that came out of the Freemantle Caledonian Society, Northern Casuals and Thistle plus on his arrival Fremantle Rovers, the local "Scotland" and District team and also the state eleven. And we know exactly when he arrived in Australia, 4th January 1913, , who he married, Mabel Cromar from Birse by Arboyne, probably in 1915,,when he died, September 1984 at the age of ninety-three, where he is buried, in Perth's Karrakatta Cemetery and when he was said to have been born, in Aberdeen in June 1891.  We are also told that in Aberdeen he played first in its Juvenile League before he joined Shamrock F.C. in Aberdeen and District League. We even know the name of the boat, on which he arrived, the Armadale, recorded, it seems, as an agricultural labourer

Yet there is a problem, not in any way to do with his footballing record. It is second-to-none. It is simply that there was only one Alexander Marr born in Aberdeenshire in the year in question. However his birthday was in December. In Aberdeen itself there are none, although eight other Marr boys were born in the city. Marr is, after-all, a North-Eastern name. But even then none has Alexander recorded as second name. So was Alex Marr, apart from an extremely good goalkeeper, from a year after hanging up his boots in 1933 manager of Caledonian, a State team-selector, a President of the West Australia Football Association and a member of its Board of Control, in other words not just a career's but a lifetimes contribution to the beautiful game? The answer is that we don't know.

However, here is a suggestion. Alex Marr was twenty-one and just a few months when he set sail to the other side of the World. In other words he had reached the then age of legal maturity and could make his own decisions, and whilst in 1911 there is no census record of someone of his name in the Granite City in 1911 and aged between eighteen and twenty there is a nine-year-old in 1901. An Alexander N.G. Marr is living at 5, Elmbank Road, Old Machar with John, a Railway Clerk, and Helen Marr. And he is both their POSTER son and born in Turriff.  Moreover, Turriff June 1891 had seen the illegitimate birth of an Alexander Norris Gray, Alexander N.G.. Might they have been one and the same? Certainly it seems so with the admission already in 1895 of an Alexander N.G. Marr to King Street Public School in Aberdeen, his address given as 33, Jasmine Street in the city and his father as John Marr.