Edwin McDonald explained

Edwin McDonald
Fullname:	Edwin Patrick McDonald
Birth Date:	29 September 1875
Birth Place:	Nagambie, Victoria
Death Place:	Nagambie, Victoria
Statsend:	1905
Years1:	1905
Games Goals1:	1 (1)

Edwin Patrick "Ted" McDonald (29 September 1875 – 17 March 1919) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Family

Parents

He was born on 29 September 1875 in Nagambie, Victoria. He was the son of Patrick McDonald (1852–1928)^[2] and Margaret McDonald (1853–1928), née Figgins.^[3]

Siblings

He was one of five boys and three girls. Two of his brothers also played VFL football: Arch McDonald with Essendon, and Fen McDonald with both Carlton and Melbourne.

Fen enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF), and was killed in action during the landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, in Turkey on 25 April 1915. Another brother, Stanley David McDonald (1888–1945), also served in the First AIF, enlisting on 20 May 1915, before the news of Fen's death had reached his family.^[4]

Wife

He married Mary Ann Vaughan (1872–1940) in 1898.^[5]

Football

Ted and his younger brother, Arch, played together in their only game with the Essendon First XVIII: the last match of the season, against Fitzroy, at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 9 September 1905.^{[6] [7]}

The Nagambie Hotel

From 1904, until his death in 1919, he was the owner and licensee of The Nagambie Hotel.^[8]

Death

He died at Nagambie on 17 March 1919.^{[9] [10]}

See also

• List of Australian rules football families

References

• Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996.

Notes and References

1. Book: Holmesby, Russell. The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 . Main. Jim . 2014 . 10th . 978-1-921496-32-5 . BAS Publishing . Seaford, Victoria . 572.
2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3967753 Deaths: McDonald, The Argus, (Thursday, 8 November 1928), p.1.
3. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3903847 Deaths: McDonald, The Argus, (Saturday, 14 January 1928), p.13.
4. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C972481 Australian War Memorial Photograph: Private Stanley McDonald (1769)
5. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12476167 Deaths: McDonald, The Argus, (Monday, 24 June 1940), p.4.
6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199414726 League Matches: Fitzroy (11.14) beat Essendon (4.13), The Age, (Monday, 11 September 1905), p.9.
7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139196685 Fitzroy in Fine Form, The Australasian, (Saturday, 16 September 1905), p.21.
8. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155318801 Goulburn Valley, The Benalla Standard, (Tuesday, 22 November 1904), p.2
9. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1446849 Deaths: McDonald, The Argus, (Wednesday, 19 March 1919), p.1.
10. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1455707 Wills and Estates, The Argus, (Thursday, 10 April 1919), p.6.