Person:Joseph Amoore (1)

Watchers
Joseph Amoore
b.9 May 1886 Mortchup, Victoria, Australia
d.23 Apr 1968 Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
Parents and Siblings
(edit)
m. 26 Dec 1871
  1. Henry Hastings Amoore1872 - 1939
  2. Edward Walter Amoore1874 - 1874
  3. Phillip Walter Rendell Amoore1875 - 1917
  4. Caroline Ellen "Nellie" Amoore1877 - 1957
  5. Frances Harriet Amoore1878 - 1878
  6. Albert Horace "Bertie" Amoore1880 - 1889
  7. Frank Amoore1881 - Aft 1945
  8. John Balmain Amoore1883 - 1973
  9. Joseph Amoore1886 - 1968
  10. Mary Margaret Amoore1889 - 1951
  11. Violet Emma Amoore1893 - 1975
Spouse and Children
(edit)
m. 8 Jul 1911
  1. Walter Sydney Amoore1914 - 2005
  2. Morris Joseph Amoore1916 - 2010
Spouse and Children
(edit)
m. 1934
Add another spouse & children
Facts and Events
Name Joseph Amoore
Gender Male
Birth[1] 9 May 1886 Mortchup, Victoria, Australia
Marriage 8 Jul 1911 Warrnambool, Victoria, Australiato Jean Lowery McCullough
Marriage 1934 Victoria, Australiato Agnes Barnett "Kit" Warwick
Death[2] 23 Apr 1968 Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
Burial[2] 26 Apr 1968 Fawkner, Victoria, AustraliaFawkner Cemetery

Joe was born on the 9th May 1886 at Mortchup near Carngham, Victoria. He was the sixth child of Albert Hasting Amoore and Harriett Margaretta (nee Rendell).

In 1894, when Joe was about eight, his father Albert left Melbourne and immigrated to New Zealand as a schoolteacher leaving Harriett in Ascot Vale with three unmarried adult children and five young children aged from fourteen to one.

In 1903, when Joe travelled to NZ to visit his father and wrote a diary of this trip [see Joe's Diary below], he was aged 17.

Little is known what Joe did after 1903 until he was married in 1911, but there is an indication that he travelled by ship to Perth and went to the Kalgoolie Goldfields. By July 1906 he was working as a plumber at Maryborough, Victoria, then in 1908 he was plumbing in the N-W suburbs of Melbourne.

In 1914-15 Joe was at Main St, Box Hill where his first son Walter was born in 1914. As Wal was so "slow arriving", it seems that Jean ran a Lolly/Icecream shop in Box Hill while Joe continued to work as a plumber. His second son Morris was born in 1916 at Ascot Vale and in 1917 Joe was living at 12 Roseberry St, Ascot Vale then in 1918-19 at 278 Epson Rd, Ascot Vale. In about 1920 the family moved to Warnambool, where Joe was the resident steward/manager at the Warnambool Club until about 1927.

They returned to Melbourne and lived at the cnr of Smith St & Victoria Pde, Collingwood from 1927-1928 where Wal finished his schooling at C'wood Central school. As Jean's health was declining, they moved to a warmer climate, Strathalbyn in S.A. in about 1928 where Joe took on a plumbing business making water tanks with Wal's help.

Jean died of cancer at The Alfred Hospital, Prahran in 1931 and the two boys (aged 17 & 15) were then left in the care of Jean's sister Agnes in Warrnambool.

Joe re-married in 1934 to Kit Warwick and moved to Melbourne; in the 1940's he lived at 3 Wakefield St, Hawthorn.

Joe did not sign up during WW1 however he signed up in 1942 by putting his age back 10 years, but he did not serve overseas.

Joe died from a post- prostatectomy urinary tract infection, another victim of the Amoore "prostate curse", at the Warrnambool Hospital, 23 April 1968 and was buried with his mother at the Fawkner cemetery.


[edit]

Joe's Diary

Joe Amoore's Diary 1903

Image Gallery
Joe with Wal & Morrie
Enlarge
Joe with Wal & Morrie
References
  1. ↑ Birth, in Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Pioneer Index, Victoria, 1836 - 1888: Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages in Victoria
    Reg. No. 16816, 1886.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Death Certificate, in Victoria, Australia. Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates. (Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages)
    Reg. No. 9441, 1968.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Joseph_Amoore_%281%29"