49 Agnes Street, front view with Louis Monichon

Photograph of cottage from Agnes Street with a young Louis Monichon leaning against the picket fence.

Francois Monichon's family included a daughter Mathilde Marie, born in Melbourne on 19 November 1858. On 5 June 1877 she married William John Forbes at St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne in a ceremony celebrated by Rev Father Aylward (according to entries in the family bible held by Mathilde's great grandson Steven Lamande, Oct 2009).

W J Forbes became a prominent auctioneer whose name appears in connection with sales of property and deceased estates in many of the newspapers of the time. They lived in the Ascot Vale / Essendon area.

Another link to the East Melbourne area is through the marriage of Wllliam and Mathilde's daughter Ethel Marie Forbes, born 12 April 1879, to Leopold George Lamande, one of four sons of Ambroise Lamande who lived at 115 Hotham Street in the period 1906 to 1919.