People of East Melbourne

John Michael Mackay was the son of Joseph Mackay and his wife Charlotte, nee Piper. The couple married in 1890 and had nine children: Joseph (1890); Theresa (1892); William (1894); Ada (1897); Winifred (1900); Thomas (1904); Anthony (1908); Mary (1909). John. known as Jack, was b...

John Shaw Mackay was in the fifth year of his medical degree at Melbourne University when he enlisted on 18 August 1914. Born in 1890, he was then 24 years old and gave as his next of kin his mother, then living at 4 Fawkner St., South Yarra. He was tall for the time, 5' 10", wit...

Michael Mackey was Irish by birth, the son of Wilma and Peter Mackey, a policeman, from Lavan, County Wicklow, Ireland. At the date of his enlistment in the Australian Army Medical Corps on 10 September 1914 he was living in Perth, Western Australia.Two of his siblings were also...

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MACKEY, Vincent Patrick

Vincent Patrick Mackey was born and raised in East Melbourne. He attended Christian Brothers College, Parade on Victoria Parade, a short walk from his home at 87 Grey Street. Matriculating at age 13 he was too young to attend the University of Melbourne; he obtained a clerical po...

Arthur Magill was a 21 year old Bank Clerk, probably living in Ballarat, Victoria, when he enlisted for the First World War on 26 July, 1915. His next of kin was given as his father, Alexander Magill of Wendouree Parade, Ballarat. He may have enlisted in at the Drill Hall in East...

Maher enlisted on 4 November 1914. He was 5' 5" tall, weighing 136 lbs, with brown eyes and brown hair. He was 22 years and 8 months of age. His occupation was described as "tinsmith", and he is probably the Frederick James Maher, galvaniser, on the electoral roll at 55 Murphy St...

Martin Mahoney was born in 1893 in Mount Gambier, South Australia, and enlisted for the war on 14 August, 1914. He had already had some military training, having been one year with the Broken Hill Rifle Club and six months with the 82nd Regiment. His mother, Annie Mahoney, lived...

Whether Sidney Albert Maidment had any connection to East Melbourne is dubious. He enlisted under a false name, gave a false place of birth and, it may be assumed, a false place of residence. Certainly he does not appear on the electoral records under either of his names. The rea...

Leslie William Mansell was the son of Reuben Mansell and Louisa Gowan. Born in Ballarat East in 1894, he enlisted for World War 1 on 2o August, 1914 at the age of 20 years and eight months. He was at the time a fruit grower in Mildura, something he would return to after the war....

William Mansfield enlisted at Melbourne Town Hall on 16 May 1916. He was a married man, living with his wife Adelaide at 535 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne. They had married around the same time that he had enlisted. He was 47 years old at the time and described his occupation a...

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MARKS, Cecil Solomon

Cecil Solomon Marks was the son of Edward Marks and his wife, Fanny (nee Benjamin). He was born on 4 March 1876 at the family home, 2 Burlington Terrace, 398 Albert Street, East Melbourne where Edward and Fanny continued to live until their deaths in 1900 and 1909 respectively. A...

John Stanley Marsh was born at Castlemaine Victoria in November 1888. He was the son of Henry Marsh, then aged sixty, and his wife Margaret, nee Edwards, aged forty. He enlisted at Melbourne on 18 April, 1918 at the age of 30 and 6 months. He was single, a manager by occupation,...

Albert Edward Martin was the youngest son of Thomas Martin and his wife Margaret, nee Kain. He was forty years old when he joined the A.I.F. on 4 July, 1917 and a married man: 1 June 1904: Martin-Jones, June 1 at the residence of the bride's mother, 21 Pitt St Redfern, Albert Edw...

Alexander Colin or Collin Martin was 33 and 11 months when he enlisted on 19 February, 1916. Both his parents were dead and he gave as his next of kin his aunt, Helena Coleman. According to the Electoral Rolls, he had been living with her for nearly two years. He was 5'5" tall, s...

Edward Percy Martin was a clerk living at 330 Ferrars street, Albert park. He enlisted into the army on the 20th of April, 1915. At the time of enlistment he was 5 feet and 4 and a quarter inches tall, weighed 10 stones and 31 pounds, had blue eyes and brown hair. He claimed to b...

Edwin John Martin was unusual, in that he enlisted in the A.I.F. twice and twice was found to be 'unfit for General Service'. In June 1915, Edwin John Martin enlisted in the army at Liverpool, N.S.W. He had been born in Kyneton, Victoria, and described himself as British born, ag...

Carroll James Messina, known as Jim, was born in Slaty Creek, near St.Arnaud , Victoria in July, 1890, the son of William and Agnes Massina. By the age of 25, he was living at 162 Powlett St., East Melbourne, with Delia and Louis Massina, probably an uncle. There were two other m...

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 electrical engineer and administrator who became managing director & chairman of directors of the City E...

Roland Clyne Mathews was born in East Melbourne on 26 January, 1893 to Francis Herbert Seymour Mathews and Margaret Mathews (nee Hudson). He grew up in Brighton Beach and was living there when he enlisted on 2 February, 1915, aged almost 22 years, occupation as a purser. With his...

The son of Gregory and Matilda (nee Lyons) Matoorekos, Panaye was born in 1898 in Albert Park. Gregory was the proprietor of a licensed (wine only) restaurant and oyster saloon in Swanston Street known as the Athenaeum. In 1904 he added to his 'already extensive and palatial prem...

Henry John Matson was just a boy when he enlisted on 3 July, 1917. He was only eighteen years and two months old, and had to get a document of consent from his mother. His father, also Henry Matson, was already at the war as part of the 21st Battalion of the A.I.F., although he w...

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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. May was born i...

Arthur Edward May was nineteen and six months old when he enlisted for the Australian Imperial Force at Korumburra. Victoria. he was the son of Thomas Edward May and his wife Matilda, nee Henson. He was a slight man, 5' 5" in height, with blue eyes and light brown hair. and a lab...

Edmund Maynard was the son of George and Catherine Maynard and was born in Bendigo in 1880. George was Clerk of Courts in Bendigo until his death in 1884. Edmund enlisted at Coonamble, N.S.W. on 1 July 1917 and gave his next of kin as his sister Miss Mary Maynard of 76 Vale Stree...