Joe Marr Explained

Joe Marr
Fullname:Joseph Thomas Marr
Birth Date:9 August 1880
Birth Place:Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Death Place:Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Originalteam:Richmond City
Statsend:1903
Years1:1900–02
Games Goals1:27 (6)
Years2:1903
Games Goals2:14 (1)
Games Goalstotal:41 (7)

Joseph Thomas Marr (9 August 1880 – 19 July 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The eldest of the 11 children of James Adam Marr (1859-1914),[2] and Elizabeth May Marr (1864-1912), née Midolo,[3] Joseph Thomas Marr was born at Richmond, Victoria on 9 August 1880.

Although the VFL records (perhaps retrospectively constructed) seem to follow those of the Carlton Football Club[4] and the Essendon Football Club records have him as, simply, "J.T. Marr",[5] given that:

(a) none of his 10 siblings were called "Thomas", the death notices for his mother and his father indicate that he was known to his family as "Thomas", rather than as "Joseph",

(b) at his marriage, on 19 August 1934, he was identified as "Thomas Joseph Marr",

(c) as early as 1934, his electoral roll entry was showing "Thomas Joseph Marr", and

(d) his death notice, and his gravestone, indicate that, although his birth was registered as "Joseph Thomas Marr", he was known as "Thomas Joseph Marr" — at least, in his later adult life.

He married Ruth McAndrew, née Heslin (1900-1981), in Marrickville, New South Wales, on 10 August 1934.[6]

Death

He died in a hospital at Liverpool, New South Wales on 19 July 1975.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Holmesby & Main (2009), p.521.
  2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7251140 Deaths: Marr, The Argus, (Tuesday, 31 March 1914), p.1.
  3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197361149 Deaths: Marr, The Age, (Friday, 31 May 1912), p.1.
  4. Both the AFL Statistics and the Blueseum entry have him as "Joe Marr".
  5. Maplestone (1996), pp.404, 409, and 446,
  6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16320016 Law Report: In Divorce: McAndrew v. McAndrew, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Thursday, 4 November 1926), p.6.
  7. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L8FWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=566%2C5808671 Deaths: Marr, Thomas Joseph, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Monday, 21 July 1975), p.20.