People of East Melbourne

When William Jacobson was born on 20 April 1879 in Launceston, Tasmania, his father, Charles (1835-1904), was 43 and his mother, Margaret, nee Carswell, was 34 . William was the eldest of four children, Janet (b. 1881), Arthur (b.1884) and Ada (b.1886). William was working an eng...

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JACOMB, Robert Arthur

Robert Arthur Jacomb came from a well established East Melbourne family. Robert Elwall Jacomb and his wife, Anne, had first lived in Victoria Parade and then, as their family grew, at 53 Powlett St from the 1860s. Robert Arthur Jacomb was born to their son, Robert Ker Jacomb, and...

Charles Frederick James was born on 17 March, 1885, and was baptised at St. Peter's Anglican Church, Eastern Hill. He was the son of Lewis James and his wife, Sophia, nee Friedlein. At the time of his enlistment, Charles James was 31 and 11 months old, working as a Public Servant...

George Edwin James was born in Birmingham, England c.1886. He arrived in Melbourne shortly before the war broke out and took up residence in East Melbourne. At the time of his enlistment on 17 August 1914 he was living at 125 Gipps Street, where at that stage one could rent furni...

Robert Gibton Jamison, known as 'Skipper', enlisted late in the war and never got to serve at any of the battle fronts. The son of John and Ellen, nee Eades, Jamison. Robert was a clerk, living at 8 Lisson Grove, Hawthorn. On 26 June, 1907, he had married Rita Pilbeam at the Rowe...

Frederick Jenkyn had two lives as a volunteer and gave 874 days of service to Australia in World War 1. He first enlisted on 16 July, 1915, and gave his occupation as Hospital Assistant. He was at that time 30 years and eleven months old, single, with his next of kin his father,...

Henry (Harry) Neimen Johannsen was the second son of John and Mary Anne Johannsen and one of a large family of eleven children. He was born in Allendale in c. 1889. At the time he enlisted on 6 October 1916 he gave his occupation as a tailor. According to newspaper reports he had...

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JOHNSON, Bessie Shircliffe

Bessie Shircliffe Johnson was born on 2 July 1886, in the Fitzroy area of Melbourne to Webb Johnson (1863-1890) and his wife Kate (nee Ryan, no dates). Formally registered as Elizabeth at her birth, she was the sibling of Kate/Catherine Mary (born 1883) and Ryan (born 1889). Bess...

Edwin Campbell Johnson was the second son of Alexander Campbell Cusac Johnson and his wife, Ella May, nee Young. He was born on 13 May, 1892 in Adelaide and baptised at St. Mary Magdalene's, Adelaide. At the time he enlisted, on 1 May, 1916, he was 24 years and 4 months old, work...

This is a story of two soldiers, not one, Frederick Johnson and his brother Ralph. They were the children of Hubert Thomas Coster Johnson and his wife, Alice Maud Mary Ivey. A third child, Alice, born 1893, died at the age of eight. The eldest child, Constance, born 1891, died in...

David Robertson Johnston was the son of John Johnston and his wife, Margaret Bolton Johnston. He was one of eleven children and had served a four year apprenticeship as a draper in his birthplace, with J. Falconer of Aberdeen. By 1915, he was living in East Melbourne, at 49 Georg...

Stanley Watson Johnston or Johnstone, was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1887, but little else is known of him. His father was Andrew Johnstone, but this is the only fact in his early life, other than that he served four years as an apprentice at Gourlay Brothers, presumably in Dund...

When David Jones was born on 19 April 1889 in Eaglehawk, Victoria, his father, Henry, was 34 and his mother, Jane, was 34. He was their fourth son and one of eight children. Henry Jones died in 1897, aged 43, when David was nine. By the time David enlisted, his mother, Jane Jones...

Francis Joseph Roy Jones enlisted on 8 November, 1917. He was reasonably old for a new recruit, 40 years and 3 months. He was, by occupation, an Assistant Surveyor, 5' 8" tall and Roman Catholic by religion. Who his parents were is not known; he gave as his next of kin a friend,...

George Jones, born on 18 October, 1896, was the youngest of five brothers, at least three of whom enlisted for the 1st World War. There was George Henry, born 1877; Henry Joseph and Samuel Albert, born 1878; David, born 1889. In 1887, a sister was born, Alice Catherine, followed...

Norman Fletcher Jones enlisted at the age of 28 years and 10 months Occupation at the time was as a Printer He was Single Next of Kin: Mother - Mary Jones who at one stage resided at 134 Powlett Street East Melbourne before moving to Western Australia Enlisted 11 March 1916 being...

Oliver Jones was born in Richmond in 1891. He was the son of John Jones and his wife, May Matilda. By 1909 the family had moved to East Melbourne, initially renting at 90 George Street, then moving to 1105 Hoddle Street, and then, in 1916, back to 88 George Street. The Jones late...

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JONES, Robert

Robert Thomas Jones was the son of Henry Jones and his wife Jane, nee Smith. He was the fourth of five sons and three daughters, born in May, 1885: George Henry, b. 1877, Henry Joseph and Samuel Albert,b. 1878; Emily Caroline, b.1887; Alice Catherine, b.1887; David, b.1889; Daisy...

George Junck was born in East Melbourne to Otto Junck ,a German who came to Australia at 12 months old and subsequently became an Australian citizen, and Selina Mary Forrester, of Australian origin. George was unemployed when he enlisted for the AIF on 17 June, 1916. He had been...

Michael Joseph Kavangh enlisted as soon as war was declared on August 12, 1914. He was a young single man, aged 27 years and 5 months old, living in Melbourne, but with his family living in Perth. By trade, he declared himself a woodworker, coach builder and wheelwright. He was a...

Raymond Fairbairn Keast stated that he was born in Ballarat on 21 March 1895. He was the son of John Keast, accountant of Buningong, and his wife, Jessie, nee Bowes. The couple’s marriage ended in divorce in 1910 on grounds of his desertion. An article in the Geelong Advertiser r...

William Sydney Keegan was living with his mother, Margaret Keegan, in Princes St., Carlton, when he enlisted on 5 April, 1916. He was then 44 years and 6 months old, 5'5" tall, and working as a groom. In his later life, he did not marry, though he had a son, born in 1906, with Ma...

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KELLAWAY, Frank Gerald

Frank was born on 7 January, 1895 in East Melbourne. His father the Reverend Alfred Charles Kellaway had emigrated to Australia from Swanage, Dorset arriving in Melbourne in 1863 on the 'Istamboul'. In 1886 he married Ann Carrick Halliley Roberts from Longford, Tasmania at St Jam...

Fracis Hugh Patrick Kelly was born in Richmond, Victoria in 1891, the son of Francis Kelly and his wife, Anne or Annie, nee Gellin. Francis Kelly Senior worked for the railways, giving his address on his son's Enlistment Form as Time Keepers' Office, Goods Shed, Spencer St.. Fran...