Harry Kane Family History

Harry Edward Kane, captain of the English football team, was born on July 28th, 1993 to Pat and Kim Kane in Leytonstone. East London.  He grew up in a working class family in nearby Chingford.  He was the younger of their two sons.

Pat infused the household with Irish traditions from Galway – music, humor, and storytelling – while Kim rooted them in London’s football culture.  Harry played football from a young age, joining his local Walthamstow club when he was six years old.  He spoke about the football in his family as follows:

“I think the sporting genes come from my Mum’s side of the family, although the topic has been a hot debate in the Kane household.  Dad probably won’t like me saying that.  But I think my granddad Eric on my Mum’s side was quite a good footballer and played at a decent level.”

When Harry faced rejection from Arsenal’s youth academy at the age of nine, his footballing dreams might have been crushed.  But his father was supportive and encouraged him to seek trials with other London clubs.  In 2004, at the age of eleven, he got his chance at Tottenham Hotspur.  He began his senior career there five years later.

Football Career.   After being loaned out to a number of clubs, he started to make his mark at Tottenham in 2014 under manager Mauricio Pochettino.  He was named PFA Young Player of the Year for the 2014–15 season.  In the following two seasons Harry finished as the Premier League’s top goalscorer.  But he would never earn any silverware at Tottenham.

After fourteen years at Tottenham, Harry became the most expensive signing in German football history when he joined Bayern Munich in a transfer worth €110 million in 2023.

His international career with England began in 2015 at the age of twenty-one.  He became the England captain three years later.  His goalscoring has been prodigious.  After the World Cup in 2026 he had scored 85 goals in 119 appearances, making him by a long way England’s all-time top goalscorer.

Irish Heritage

Some have said that Harry got his sporting ability from his Irish great great grandfather Jim Flood.  He was a farm worker who helped win the All-Ireland hurling trophy for Limerick in 1897 before dying of Spanish flu in 1918.  But that connection may be stretching things.

Galway.  Harry’s paternal grandfather was Michael John Kane and he came from Galway, a region in Ireland known for its rugged coastline and vibrant cultural traditions.

Michael was one of twelve children of Joseph and Annie Kane.  He grew up in the small townland of Dawros near Letterfrack.  A Gaelic speaker, he was immersed in its closely-knit community where music and storytelling thrived.  His family maintained strong ties to Connemara’s Gaeltacht, that bastion of Irish language and culture.

Many of Harry’s extended family in Ireland still live in Letterfrack and nearby Renvyle.  In fact some of his cousins are well-known traditional Irish musicians in the area.  Liz and Yvonne, daughters of Michael’s brother Joseph, have performed as the Kane Sisters.  And many of the locals who congregate at the pub have started to support England’s football team when Harry is playing.

Emigration.  Times were hard in Letterfrack in the 1950’s.  Michael set off for London in the hopes of a better life.  There he met and married his wife Theresa from Limerick.  They lived first in Lambeth and then in Hackney.

The family would frequently return to Letterfrack over the summers.  When Michael died in 2013, he requested that his body be taken back to his native Letterfrack to be buried in the local cemetery.  That occasion was the last time that Harry, his grandson, has gone back to Letterfrack.  Football has taken over his life.

Pat, Michael’s third son, was born in London in 1964 and has remained there.  He has worked at various jobs, from factory shifts to other manual labor, and has embodied a resilience that he brought with him from Galway.  His work ethic became a cornerstone for the Kane household.

His London Base

There were two London families on Harry’s maternal side to note here, both based in Islington – the Parrotts and the Hoggs.

The Parrotts.  It appears that Harry’s twice great grandfather Alfred Parrott, born in 1869, was a well-known street artist in Islington.

He had married in 1902 and was the father of two children.  Sometime around 1920 his wife Sarah died and he went missing.  He was doing OK as a street artist.  He could earn as much as £2 per day when the weather was fine.  But, according to a 1921 court case, he left his two children to fend for themselves.

His son Alfred Parrott, fifteen at the time, was parked at an Industrial School.  He got married in Islington four years later.  His daughter Brenda married into the Hogg line.

The Hoggs.  These Hoggs had a long history in the pottery trade, with several generations working as potters in north London.  The first recorded of them was William Hogg, Harry’s five times great grandfather, who was born in the late 1700’s.

But the Hoggs here started out poorly.  Sarah Hogg had lost her father, a potter, in Islington in 1898.  Two years later, she was living at the Islington workhouse on St. John’s Road where she gave birth to a baby boy, William Hogg, on January 3, 1900.

William grew up and married in Islington and worked as a storeman and tyre fitter there.  He and his wife Daisy were the parents of eight children, five boys and three girls.

Harry, born in 1925, started up a youth football team in Islington during the Second World War.  Eric, born much later, played football at a semi-pro level for Blundell Rovers in the 1960’s and later for Brentwood.  He it was who united the Hogg and Parrott families by his marriage to Brenda Parrott in 1964.

Their daughter Kim, born two years later, married Patrick Kane in 1986 and was the mother of the footballer Harry Kane.

Harry Kane’s Family Tree

• Michael John Kane from Galway moved to London in the 1950’s and m. Theresa Fitzgerald from Limerick (died in 2018) in Hendon, Middlesex in 1957
• – Michael Kane (born in Lambeth in 1960) m. Marie Hourihan
• – John Kane (born in Lambeth in 1963)
• – Patrick (Pat) Kane (born in Lambeth in 1964)
• – Jacqueline Kane (born in Hackney in 1968) m. James Reilly

• Patrick (Pat) Kane m. Kim Hogg from Islington, London (b. 1966) in Hackney, London in 1986
• – Charlie Kane (b. 1989), football agent
• – Harry Kane (b. 1993), football star

• Harry Kane m. Katie Goodland, fitness coach (b. 1993)  in London in 2019
• – two daughters Ivy and Vivienne (born in 2017 and 2018)
• – two sons Louis and Henry (born in 2020 and 2023)

• Eric Edward Hogg from Islington m. Brenda Parrott (b. 1946) in Islington in 1964
• – Eric W. Hogg (b.1965) m. Janice Stelfox in 1987 and moved to Norfolk
• – Kim Elizabeth Hogg (b. 1966)

• Kim Hogg m. Patrick (Pat) Kane (b. 1964) in Hackney, London in 1986
• – Charlie Kane (b. 1989)
• – Harry Kane (b. 1993)