Nurse Jessie FLANNERY, Hutton Street, Thornbury Home Service Nurse, Bodington Soldier’s Home and Sanatorium, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales Parents : John Thomas and Mrs Matilda Flannery (nee Horgan) Jessie Flannery is not listed in official records as a member of the A.I.F., but her demise was listed in the “Died In Service” column of […]
Author: ozsportshistory
Brian Membrey ; Local historian for Darebin area and sports of all sorts
World War 1 : Sister Emma Argyle CUTHBERT
Sister Emma Argyle CUTHBERT (R.R.C) Address : c-o Mrs BORTHWICK, ‘Malwa’, Main Street, Heidelberg Next of Kin : mother, Mrs Emma Argyle Cuthbert, King Street, Sydney (later South Yarra), Father Robert (late) Emma Cuthbert was shown c-o Mrs Borthwick, “Malwa”, Main Street, Heidelberg when she embarked; her mother was given as next of kin in […]
World War 1 : Sister Olive Lilian Creswell Haynes
The discovery of Sister Olive Haynes’ post-war connection is largely based on Women Were There, Too, one of the contributions written by Liz Pidgeon for “Fine Spirit and Pluck”, an anthology of WW1 stories from Banyule, Nillumbik and Whittlesea, published 2016 by Yarra Plenty Regional Library). Sister Haynes re-entered the spotlight as a result of […]
James McKinley
James McKinley was born in Dublin, Ireland and migrated to Australia in the mid-1860s with his father James (a publisher), mother, Mary (nee Loughey) and brother, Alexander, and the pair became leading newspaper proprietors of the latter half of the 19th century. After originally managing the modest Talbot Leader from 1869 to late in 1871, […]
First World War and education
An Education Department 1920 publication commemorating teachers and staff that had served in the First World War had appendices showing how much each school had raised for the Department’s War Relief Fund. This was Metropolitan District Area 4; the complete list is given as an indication of the schools and their approximate size during the […]
Duplicating the Reservoir railway (1912)
Many that have browsed WikiNorthia will be aware that the railway line through Northcote and Preston and then on to Whittlesea opened in 1889, then linking for just south of the Merri Creek to the west and via North Fitzroy and North Carlton to eventually terminate at Spencer Street. Initally just sixteen trains a day […]
Reverend Alfred Charles Kellaway
The Reverend Kellaway served 29 years as the vicar of All Saints Church of England, Northcote. (The foundation stone of the church – situated on the south-eastern corner of High and Walker Streets – were laid in January 1859 by the Governor Sir Henry Barkly. The church held services from August 1860). Born in Dorset […]
Edward Richard Bailey, J.P.
Born on June 9, 1844, Bailey arrived in Tasmania in March 1860 on board “The Hope” with his parents from the village of Worthing in Sussex. The sixteen-year old Bailey originally worked as a baker in Launceston at 7/6 per week and saved enough money after three years to move to Melbourne where he worked […]
Colonel William Braithwaite
William Braithwaite was born in Northallerton (the name of his later home at the corner of High Street and Murray Road in Preston), Yorkshire in 1853 and came to Australia on the “Royal Family” with his parents in 1863. His father William established a tannery in Murray Road in 1867 and William junior was trained […]
Carl Augustus Adolph. Schwaebsch
“For six years a Northcote councillor and recognised as the leading historian of cycling in Australia, Mr. Carl A. A. Schwaebsch of Mitchell Street, Northcote has had a very interesting career. “He was born in Northcote in 1865 and received his education at the Helen Street State School and Carlton College. His parents were amongst […]