Notable Women of East Melbourne
This project is aimed at building a repository of short biographies of Notable Women of East Melbourne
There is other biographical information about other women of East Melbourne including biographies of nurses who served in WW1. They may be found here:
People of East Melbourne or here:
EMHS Catalogue
Everyone can participate by suggesting candidates for a biography and by gathering or documenting information:
- Photos, memorabilia and family records
- Stories in books, newspapers and on-line
- Search the wonderful resources of the State Library of Victoria
AINSLIE, Margaret
The Ainslie family were natives of Gladsmuir, East Lothian, Scotland.
- 2283 reads
BERMAN, Margaret
Margaret (Peggy) Berman (1923-2002)
- 4549 reads
BRAHE, May
Mary (May) Hannah Brahe (née Dickson) was born at 23 George Street, East Melbourne (now part of Georgian Court B & B) on 6 November 1884. Her father was Richard Dickson, a Melbourne-born cordial manufacturer. Her mother died when May was 12 years old. She had, however already taught May to play the piano and May’s musical interests were further fostered at Stratherne Girls
- 1885 reads
BROCKELBANK, Lilla
Lilla Brockebank, cricketer and architect, was the fifth of the six daughters of Duncan Brockelbank, actuary and accountant, and his wife Bessy Jemima, née Westmore .[1] Lilla was born in Hackney, London in 1883.[2] The family left London for Australia in August 1885 aboard the Melbourne. A month into the journey Duncan died of consumption.[3]
- 2303 reads
BROOKS, Constance Jessie
Constance Jessie Brooks (1888–1966), who served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in India from 1917 to 1919, was the daughter of Yates and Emma Brooks (nee Mullen).
- 8148 reads
CAMERON, Edith Clare
For many of the Great War nurses linked with East Melbourne, the connection was primarily a professional one, that is they trained or nursed in one of the suburb's hospitals. Some, however, were brought up and/or lived in East Melbourne for a number of years.
- 8110 reads
CLARKE, Janet Marion
Janet Marion Clarke was born on 4 June 1851 at Doogallook Station on the Goulburn River, Victoria, the eldest of nine children of the affluent landowner Peter Snodgrass and his wife Charlotte.
- 2441 reads
DAVITT, Ellen
Ellen Davitt is best remembered as a pioneer educationalist in her role as the first superintendent of the Model School, East Melbourne, which once stood on the island site now occupied by the Royal College of Surgeons. She and her husband, Arthur, who held the senior position of principal, resided and worked at the school from its foundation in 1854 until 1859.
- 2180 reads
GALLIN, Alice Matilda
Introduction: three Gallin sisters AANS
- 5537 reads
GALLIN, Eleanor
Introduction: three Gallin sisters AANS
- 6221 reads
GALLIN, Mary Josephine
Introduction: three Gallin sisters AANS
- 5752 reads
LA TROBE, Sophie
Born Sophia de Montmollin, in Neuchâtel, a French speaking town in Switzerland, Sophie was the eighth of sixteen children. Sophie grew up in an imposing town house and M. Montmollin was active in public affairs as befitted his noble birth, the family having been prominent citizens of Neuchâtel for two hundred years.
- 2263 reads
MAXWELL, May
From the time when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India to the landing on Mars – this was the span of the interesting life of May Maxwell, who died at the age of 100 in 1977 at 157 Wellington Parade South Jolimont, which had been her home for sixty years.
- 1736 reads
MOUCHETTE, Berthe
Berthe Mouchette, nee Lion, was born in 1846 at Forcalquier, Provence-Alpes-Cotes d’Azur, France. She studied painting, gained qualifications as an art teacher and developed into an admired artist in her own right, exhibiting regularly at the Salon.
- 2354 reads
MURPHY, Agnes
Agnes Gillian Murphy was born in Ireland but that is as much as we know about her early life. She appears to have arrived in Melbourne about 1884 on a visit to her sister, Elizabeth (Lily), who was already living here. She was first employed transcribing legal documents but in 1885 managed to persuade Maurice Brodsky to take her on as a contributor to his new magazine, Table Tal
- 2406 reads
ROBERTSON, Gertrude Muriel Norton
The life of Gertrude Muriel Norton Robertson encapsulates in many ways the development of Victoria as colony and state, and its ongoing links with the British Empire. Early colonial Melbourne, medical practice in the colony, its involvement in the Boer War, and pioneering veterinary research in the interwar period were all part of her family's life.
- 6814 reads
SEARL, Alice
Their working lives brought Alice Searl and several of her siblings to East Melbourne in the first decades of the twentieth century. Alice and her sisters Mary Ann and Louisa (1101 and 1109 Hoddle St) were all nurses, and Matthew their brother (108 Powlett St) was a law clerk. Louisa lived in East Melbourne for many years working as a nurse.
- 5231 reads
WALLER, Louisa
Louisa Waller was born in Benalla, Victoria on 29 January 1887, the daughter of local storekeeper Charles Richard Waller (c1856-1932) and his wife Jane Matthews (1859-1936). She was the fourth of the couple’s fourteen children.
- 5925 reads
WHITE, Jessie McHardie
Notes by Janet Scarfe additional to material below.
- 5029 reads
