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.
COONEY, Francis Joseph
Francis Joseph Cooney was the son of James and Catherine Cooney and was born at the family home, Doontallie, 1121 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne 1886. He was the youngest of nine children. The others were: twins, Annetta and James (b.1871); Hugh Patrick (b,1874); Thomas (b.1876); Edward Augustus (b.1877); John Joseph (b.1879); Mary (b,1881) and Catherine Grace (b.1883).
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COOPER, Charles
Charels Cooper was aged 37 when he enlisted on 7 July, 1915. He was placed in the 8th Field Artillery Brigade at Broadmeadows and subsequently was moved to Maribynong to join the Australian Veterinary Section. He named as his next of kin his wife, Mrs. N.L. Cooper, whose address was 16 Brunswick St.
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COOPER, George Henry
George Henry Cooper was one of ten children of Jesse Cooper and his wife Kate, nee Haggarty. He was a carpenter by trade, living in Heidelberg when he enlisted on 31 August, 1916. He married his first wife, Ruby Mertle Davis in 1917, and it is her address at 101 George St., East Melbourne, which gives hi his claim on East Melbourne.
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COOPER, Leslie
Leslie Cooper was a hairdresser, possibly working at Thellier Hairdresser, Prahran, where he had done his apprenticeship. He was a month off his 29th birthday when he enlisted on 12 February, 1916, and at 6' 1" tall, must have seemed liked an ideal recruit. He gave as his next of kin his father, William Cooper, who lived at Hethersett Grove, Murrumbeena.
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CORCORAN, George John
George John Corcoran was born in Port Melboune in 1886. His father George was a Civil Engineer. At the time of his enlistment on 21 October, 1914, his next of kin is his aunt Lucy Johnson who was living at Victora Parade, East Melbourne. Aged 28, George was single and occupation listed as an Ironworker.
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CORDNER, Joseph Alan
Joseph Alan Cordner was born at Bridgewater on the Loddon River in May 1890. His father Isiah Joseph Cordner and mother Jessie Walker moved regularly as Isiah was a bank Manager with the National Bank of Australasia. Isiah was living at Colermine and is listed as a bank Manager in the 1903 electoral roll.
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CORRIGAN, Noel Aubrey
Noel Aubrey Corrigan was one of five children of Joseph and Catherine or Kathleen Corrigan, nee Finlayson. He was probably the youngest brother, with Signa Daphne, b.1887, Joseph, b. 1890, Thomas Norman and one other. He was no doubt eager to enlist to go to war. He joined up on 12 April, 1915, and was in camp at Broadmeadows with the No. 4 Company on 20 April.
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CORRIGAN, Thomas Norman
Although born in East Melbourne in 1892, Thomas Norman Corrigan had little contact with the suburb. When he enlisted, aged 22, on 27 January, 1915, he was living at 25 Ford St., Brunswick and working as a tea packer. He joined the 21st Battalion, raised at Broadmeadows in early February, 1915, and drawn from all over Victoria.
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COTTERILL, William
William Cotterill is a slippery character and his relationship to East Melbourne is tenuous. He first enlisted for the First World War at Liverpool NSW on 25 November, 1915. He was then 42 years' old and was dscribed as 5'6" tall with tattoos on both forearms and chest.
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COUGHLAN, Talouchlan
Talouchlan [ Thomas] was born in Sydney in1894
He enlisted on the 15 December 1914 at Echuca Victoria. He is 20 years old labourer. A small man 5'3'' and weighing on 8stone 4 lbs. He is the only son of Annie Coughlan who is living at 480 Albert Street East Melbourne.
He embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Runic on the 12 Feb 1915
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COURTNEY, Henry William
Private Courtney put his age as 21 years and 1 month when he enlisted at South Melbourne on 6 July 1917. He gave his next of kin as his sister, Rose Courtney, who resided at 55 Studley Road, Forest Gate, Essex; in May 1918 he changed his next of kin to name his father, of the same address.
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COWPER, Gerald Audrey Cadogan
Gerald Audrey Cadogan Cowper was born in England, probably Hertfordshire, in 1882, to Frank Cadogan Cowper and his wife Edith. He went to Preparatory School for two years in Hertfordshire, then on to Cranleigh College, Surrey, for five years. Cranleigh was reputed to have one of the best Cadet Corps in England.
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COXON, Jack Garnet
Son of Thomas William Coxon and Alice Taylor Garnett, born 1893 in East Melbourne. A search of the Sands & McDougall Post Office Directories shows the family to be then living at 108 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. The house was a boarding house and it does not appear that the Coxons lived there for more than a year. In 1889 Thomas, employed as an accountant by L.
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COY, John William
John William Coy was the son of John William Coy and his wife, Agnes Veronica, nee Hannan.
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COZENS, Lewis William
Lewis William Cozens was born in Newcastle NSW on 24 September, 1885, the eldest son of Evan William Richard Cozens and his wife, Mary, nee Jeffrey. He was to have three sisters, Eleanor jane, b. 1883, Emily May, b. 1884, and Marion Irene, b. 1885. He may also have a brother, either Alan or Jeffrey Gully Cozens.
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CRANSTON, Albert Victor Herbert
Albert's Attestation Papers indicate he was living in East Melbourne upon enlistment on 19th August 1914, whilst his next of kin lived in East Brunswick. Albert was 22 years and six months of age at enlistment, being 5 feet 5 and 1/4 inches tall.
As a younger person, Albert spent 3 years as a Junior Cadet and a further four years as a Naval Cadet.
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CRAWLEY, Richard Henry
Like his father, Richard Henry Crawley was a baker. He had undertaken a four year apprenticeship with Mr. A.C.
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CRICHTON, Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson Crichton was one of seven children of Andrew Brown Crichton and his wife, Sarah, nee Dobson. He was the fifth child with five sisters and one brother, Andrew. At the time he enlisted he was 24 years' old, single and workign as a carpenter. In 1914, he had been living at 714 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, but by 1915, was living with his mother at 70 Gipps St. East Melbourne.
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CROW, Francis Peter
Born East Melbourne, enlisted 24 January 1916 at Melbourne, embarked 20 May 1916, disembarked at Plymouth 18 July 1916, died of disease (scarlet fever) at Isolation Hospital, Salisbury, England 28 December 1916, his 19th birthday. Buried Stratford sub Castle Churchyard near Salisbury. His name is on the honour board of the Riddell district in the local Mecha
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CULLIVER, Seth William
Norman Seth Culliver was born in 1894 to Eli Culliver (1866-1903) and his wife Margaret Moore Culliver (1866-1943). The family lived in Drysdale, Victoria on the Bellarine Peninsula, but probably moved follwinging Eli Culliver's death in 1902.
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