East Melbourne Historical Society
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Francis George Frazer was 25 years and nine months old when he enlisted on 14 January, 1915. He was the son of Richard White Frazer and Lillian Brookwell Frazer, nee Cox, and gave as his next of kin his mother, Lilian Frazer, living at 93 Victoria Parade East Melbourne and later...
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Copy of obituary of Fred Williams, artist, written by Barbara Blackman for the The Bulletin. It tells of Blackman's first meeting with Williams at their house in East Melbourne. Charles and Barbara Blackman lived in a small cottage behind 129 George Street in 1951. File also incl...
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Newspaper clipping about tours of the Melbourne General Cemetery run by the National Trust of Victoria's senior historian, Celestina Sagazio. One of the graves mentioned and shown in a photograph is that of Frederick Baker, the opera singer known as Federici, and best known as th...
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A scanned copy of a typescript of the life of Frederick William Debney by Margaret Brookes, his grand-daughter. Debney and his wife lived at Chandos, 44 Hotham Street, East Melbourne between 1910 and 1919. When they lived there they formed the 'Chandos Club' where their friends a...
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Newspaper clippings about residents fight against proposed new development of Freemasons Hospital. May 2003-Jan 2004. Subsequent articles on proposed sale of Freemasons.
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Copy photograph of Freemasons Hospital with building on corner of Grey Street still standing. Corner building was demolished to create parking area. The photo is taken from the Fitzroy Gardens and shows Grey Street fountain surrounded by iron picket fence. Florrie and Keith Macke...
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Pamela Webster-Bloom: Clarinet Faye Goldsmith: Cello Veronica Westcott-Kirsch: Piano Robert Tuttleby: Narrator
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Story about Gary Newman, author of The Beginner's Guide to University.
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Maud Josephine Frey (1892-1967) Maud Josephine Frey (1892-1967) was born in the northern Victorian agricultural town of Tungamah, to Arnold James Frey (c1841-1897) and his wife Kate (also Cath, Catherine, Katherine) (c1859-1904). Maud came from Swiss (possibly German) stock on he...
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Herbert Frith was the second child of Sydney Silver Frith and his wife, Nora, nee Murray. He was born in 1884, according to the Birth Index, but is listed elsewhere as born in 1887. He followed on from Florence (1881-1969) and Percy (1886-1969) and was born in Williamstown, Victo...
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Professor Peter Tregear is a graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has published widely in both the academic and mainstream press on Australian music history, arts policy, and European musical modernism, In 2020 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (...
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Newspaper clipping about frogs in the Fitzroy Gardens' lake. Melbourne Yarra Leader, 26 May 2003, p. 7.
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A history of St. Peters Church, its buildings, clergy, congregation, doctrines. Photos. Index.
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Painting of the front garden of Gwyllehurst, residence of John Gill, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne done in 1859 by Charles Norton.
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Harold William Froomes was born in 1884, the eldest child of Arthur William Froomes and his wife, Rosalie Harriet, nee Parsons. He was followed by six further children: Beryl May (1885-1886) ); Olive Maude (b.1887);Arthur Wray (b.1889): Eric (b.1890) Marie Constance (b.1892); Ric...
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Dudley Vye or Vyer Frost was born in East Melbourne in May, 1897. He was the son of Ernest Frost and his wife, Adelaide Flora, nee Dudley, of 74 Patterson St., Middle Park, and this was the address he gave on his enlistment form. By occupation, Dudley Frost was a draughtsman, and...
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Hugh Frowd was born in Kyabram in 1895, but by 1915, when he enlisted, was living at 51 Berry St., East Melbourne. He was a maltster by trade and probably worked at one of the breweries in nearby Abbotsford. His parents may have been dead, because he gave his next of kin as his b...
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Article on destruction of Fitzroy Gardens by bats in Elm Watch June 2003.
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Albert Douglas Fryer was born in 1892 th,e son of Robert Frye and his wife, Marianne or Maria Theresa Bird/Baird. He was born in Windsor, Victoria, a small suburb of Melbourne, but was living with his father at 44 Jolimont St., Jolimont, East Mlebourne, when he enlisted on 7 Janu...
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Herbert Ivan Furphey was born in 1895 to Thomas Furphey, a manufacturer, and his wife Elizabeth Mary, nee Wright. He was the eldest of six children and the only boy. In 1915, when he enlisted as Ivan Furphey, he was living at 4 Jolimont Terrace, Jolimont, with his family. He was...
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Edward Gagan was 27 years and 8 months old when he enlisted at Brunswick on 25 May, 1916. A clerk by profession, he lived at 116 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, with his mother, Janet, and his sisters, Margaret and Helen, a telephonist. In both the 1914 and 1916 Electoral Roll...
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Cyril Gain was born in 1895 and was the eldest child of Frederick Gain and his wife, Martha, nee Bartholomew. In the years that followed the family grew, until there were eleven young Gains, 5 boys and 6 girls. His younger brother, Augustus, was also to join up for the war and be...
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Thomas Gallagher was a single man, aged 23 and working as a labourer when he enlisted on 22 August, 1914. He was English by birth and gave as his next of kin his sister, Mrs. Agnes Bonet, living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He trained in Melbourne, was taken on strength with the...
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Introduction: three Gallin sisters AANS Alice Matilda Gallin was the first (and youngest) of three Gallin sisters to enlist in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Great War. Her enrolment in 1915 preceded Eleanor’s by just weeks. Their eldest sister Mary Josephine joined i...