People of East Melbourne
This is a list of biographies of residents of East Melbourne.
This project started to commemorate the soldiers and nurses who went to Europe to serve in World War 1. But it has grown from there to cover biographies of any and all residents of note.
Along with many of their fellow Australians people from East Melbourne flocked to enlist. Many were heroes. Many lost their lives or suffered horrific physical or mental injuries. At home family and friends worked, endured and suffered consequences that were sometimes terrible and persisted long after the war.
Major-General Michael O'Brien gave us a starting point with a list of East Melbourne people who served in WW1. He spoke to the Society in April 2013 to give us some context to the period and to help the EMHS prepare for its own commemorations of this most devastating period in our history.
Everyone can participate by gathering or documenting information:
- Photos, memorabilia and family records
- Stories in books, newspapers and on-line
- Memorial plaques in churches and public places
- War memorial, church, national and state archives
You can refine the list by applying the various filter criteria and go to a particular detailed biography by click on the title.
SMITH, Winifred Jane
Winifred Jane Smith and her younger sister Elsie Dora Smith joined the Australian Army Nursing Service together and sailed from Australia on active service together on 7 July 1915.
- 3473 reads
QUARTERMAN, Rosa Elizabeth Kate
Rosa Elizabeth Kate Quarterman (1872–1940) served in the Australian Army Nursing Service from 1914 to 1920.
- 3164 reads
LAWRENCE, Helen Ruth
- 2160 reads
MILLER, Edith Caroline Munckton
Edith Miller's connection with East Melbourne was as a parishioner of St Peter's Church, Eastern hill, East Melbourne.
- 2934 reads
RUNDELL, Ada Sophia
Ada Sophia Rundell was in the first contingent of masseuses (physiotherapists) sent overseas with the AIF. From 1915–1918, she worked in hospitals in England, France and England.
- 2579 reads
EDGCUMBE, Erica Valletort
- 2163 reads
DILNOT, Emily
Emily Dilnot (1887–1984) worked at Mena House Hospital, Simpson St, East Melbourne from 1912 until 1916 when she travelled to England and enlisted in the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing
- 1962 reads
NEWTON, Eileen Catherine Kearney
- 2224 reads
ROBERTS, Annie Florence
- 2520 reads
CRAMER, Winifred Mary
- 1901 reads
BONNIN, Irene Gertrude Hiller
- 2224 reads
KEPPEL, Beatrice Emma
- 1802 reads
AINSLIE, Margaret
The Ainslie family were natives of Gladsmuir, East Lothian, Scotland.
- 634 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 Hac
- 619 reads
BERMAN, Margaret
- 755 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 Roya
- 518 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 a
- 476 reads
MATHER, Esther
Enid Esther Mather was born on 6 January 1910 in Queensland. She was the daughter of William Mandeville Ellis L’Estrange and his wife, Mary Emmeline, nee Alder. William was an electrica
- 338 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), w
- 401 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
- 338 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.
- 363 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 Wellin
- 347 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.
- 464 reads
Larkins, Frank Lockwood
Frank Lockwood Larkins was the twin brother of Brian Lockwood Larkins. The twins were born to Margaret and Walter Larkins on 20 March 1899.
- 34 reads