Recently, a reader, Mary Day, contacted me to say she’d found a photo of the Purnim FC’s 1930 premiership side. Purnim is down Warrnambool way. Her father is in it and she’s interested to know a bit more.
Mary sent a note:
The only person I know is my father, William (Bill) Meade, he is seated second from the left.
I wondered if his older brother Thomas Francis (Frank) Meade is in the photo but I never knew him, he died in 1938. None of his siblings are stil alive to help.
I didn’t even know the name of the team but found this photo online using the Trove site published in the Weekly Times on Saturday 23rd August, 1930 (no players names there), just the team name.
I also found another photo online in the Weekly Times for Purnim for 1931. The photo had no names and was of poor quality. I do not recognise my father in that team.
Regards, Mary.
Hopefully someone who can help will contact us by adding a comment.
Here’s the photo of Emma Westwood’s grandparents (see the comment below):
Robert and Jean Meade circa 1942 – wedding photo.
Historian Roy Hay has sent in this photo.
The Purnim team in 1923. Aboriginal footballers, Purnim (Western District), 1923—Wanders [sic] Football Club [Wanderers Football Club, South Western District Association Premiers 1923].
Back row, left to right: Harry “Terrick” Rose, Edgar Cooper, Wallace Taylor,
Charlie Alberts, Billy Carter, Ted Edwards, Gordon Oldton, Ted Egan, George
Burns, Lynch Cooper, Jim McKinnon, Wogar Cooper, Mr Kelly.
Front row: Wally Carter, George Rose, “Dinty” Angus Alberts, T. Kelly, Chris
Saunders, Dowie Nicholls, Leo Lovett, Herbert Lovert [sic], George Clarke.
Apparently, Cooper went on to win the 1929 Stawell Gift. Writing on the reverse
of the photograph indicates that it belonged to R.J. Evans, Halfway Hotel,
Bushfield, and states that Tom Kelly was president. Writing on the front of the
photograph identifies the player 3rd from the left as “S. Anders, Father”.
Source: Corangamite Regional Library Corporation.
Also in the Vern McCallum Collection.
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This is from Emma Westwood…
Hey there John – here’s my grandfather, Robert Albert Meade, with my grandmother, Jean Meade circa. 1942 (wedding photo which is added to the post above). I have no doubt we’re related to Mary and her dad, Bill, because Pa was from Warrnambool too. Just not sure how. His father was Jack Meade (married to Olive Dixon) and his sister’s name was Joyce Meade. I’ll dig around in the family photo album when I next visit my uncle and see what I can find, but we don’t have strong connections to the Meade side of the family, unfortunately.
It might be worth contacting Vern McCallum whose huge collection of photographs covers the Western Districts of Victoria for much of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
75 Fergusons road, Portland, VIC, Australia, Victoria
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