Joe Phillips
Image: Eileen Redden
FatherJohn Phillips b. 25 Jul 1863, d. 6 Aug 1925
MotherEllen O'Loughlin b. 26 Mar 1869, d. 24 Jun 1951
Pedigree

Birth, Death, Marriage

Joseph Phillips was born on 17 January 1902 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria.1,2,3 
He married Vera Rogerson, daughter of William Rogerson and Ada Mary Wilson, on 13 March 1933 in South Melbourne, Victoria.4,5 
He died in 1972 in Mooroopna, Victoria.6,7 

Family

Vera Rogerson b. 23 May 1906
ChartsO'Loughlin, Michael, descendant chart
Phillips, James, descendant chart

Story

Joe was one of ten children and grew up in Bacchus Marsh where he was born. In his twenties, he moved to Shepparton where he worked closely with his brother Tom in several business ventures that included billiard saloons and pubs. Joe had a head for figures and put this skill to considerable use as an SP bookmaker. Joe married Vera Rogerson; there were no children. He died at age 70.
 
Joseph was born in Bacchus Marsh on 17 January 1902. He was the sixth child of Ellen and John. Unusually, he has the same birthday as two single-birth siblings, Larry and Eileen. He was known as Joe.1,2,3
 
When Joe was born, his father worked for the railways in Bacchus Marsh, and they lived in likely a railway house in Turner St.

All the children attended St Bernard's school or St Joseph's Convent school.8
 
In 1890 four sisters of the order of St Joseph's, arrived from Sydney to act as educators. A house was purchased for them to use as a convent and high class ladies' school. In time, a detached schoolhouse was erected at the site and it was then that the students were relocated for the last time to our current site in Gisborne Rd - St Bernard's School.

Our beautiful convent was erected in 1900 with classes being held in the downstairs area and the upper floor being used as convent and boarding school. The attached chapel was built in 1905.

St Bernard's was the first Catholic school to be run by the Sisters of St Joseph, founded by Saint Mary MacKillop. Mary would often visit the convent on her journeys between Sydney and Melbourne and past students fondly remembered her handing out boiled lollies to the children.9
 
In 1908, the family moved into the gatehouse on Vallence Rd.10,11
Railway gatehouse (Phillips family home), Vallence Rd, Bacchus Marsh
Image: Bacchus Marsh & District Historical Society
The gatehouse was next to the railway line on the north-east corner of the Vallence Rd crossing (this crossing was removed in 2004). It was a small four-roomed house, and the older boys slept in a tent in the back yard.

The children would play with any children nearby or who were known through school or St Bernard's church. There was a strong connection with all the Vallence families with a number living nearby including Nell, Eddie, Amy and Harry, who were just over the railway line. Lifelong friendships were known between the Phillips children and Vallences. And Mary married Bill Vallence.

The wide age range of the children, nineteen years to the day between the eldest and youngest, created an interesting household. Larry was working as a hairdresser before Eileen was born. He married when Eileen was just three, and made her Auntie Eileen at age four, before she started school.

During and following the First World War, the children gradually started leaving home.

Larry was first to leave the gatehouse, around 1914. About five years later he was followed by Tess and Tom. Last to leave home from the gatehouse was Mary in 1923.12,13,14
 
Sunnyside
When their father died in 1925, the children still at the gatehouse, Jack, Joe, Jim, Annie, Danny and Eilie, moved with their mother to a recently completed house on Vallence Rd. This house was on the north-facing side of a hill and they named it 'Sunnyside'. In later years, nephews and nieces all referred to it as 'the house on the hill'. It was a twin weatherboard house with a covering between the two sections.

It is possible Jack and Joe stayed in the gatehouse for a couple of years after the others left, as Jack is shown as still at the gatehouse in 1926 and 1927, and Joe was still in Bacchus Marsh.15,14,16,17,18,19,20,21
 
Our first glimpse of Joe's head for figures comes from two bookkeeping exam results when he was 14 and 15.

The first in December 1916 was for pupils attending St Joseph's Convent, Bacchus Marsh, who were successful in obtaining Certificates at an examination held by Stott's Business College in Melbourne. Master J Phillips obtained a score of 80.

The second in July 1917 was at an examination held at St Joseph's Convent. For Intermediate grade (Year 10 equivalent) bookkeeping, Joseph Phillips obtained a score of 70. During the same exams, Joe obtained a score of 90 for 'typewriting'.22,23
 
There is some uncertainty over Joe's second name.

It is likely the Joseph John Phillips, billiard marker, on the Bacchus Marsh electoral rolls for 1925, 1926 and 1927 is our Joe. The first entry is shortly after Joe reaches voting age. In the year following the last entry, our 'Joseph Phillips' was granted a billiard licence in Shepparton. And there is no other Joseph John Phillips on the Victorian electoral rolls in the ten years after 1927.

The last name we have for Joe is Joseph Patrick Phillips. This is on his death registration, the informant for which is his nephew Brian Phillips. In 2020, Brian could not recall where the Patrick came from.

On his birth registration, his mother named him simply Joseph Phillips, and that is the name he used for his 1933 marriage registration.3,7,4,24,20,21,25,26
 
Unknown and Joe Phillips
Image: Laurie & Lorraine Phillips
Motor Car Accident
Another car capsizes
Occupants suffer injuries

About 11.30 pm on Thursday evening last a double seater Studebaker touring car containing three men, was passing through Main Street, Mooroopna, and going towards Shepparton, when, swerving to avoid a bicycle, two of the right hand wheels collapsed, with the result that the car turned completely-over. The occupants were Constable FA Maher, of the Shepparton police station, Joseph Phillips, billiard room proprietor and Frederick Ward, laborer. Const McCallister, of the Mooroopna police, was quickly on the scene of the accident, and found it was necessary to take Maher and Phillips for treatment at the Mooroopna Hospital. The other occupant, Ward, escaped with shock and was able to go to his home in Shepparton. From latest reports from the hospital this morning, the condition of Maher is still serious, he suffering from abrasions to the face, arms and head. Phillips’ condition has improved, his injuries being mainly to the back.

Latest enquiry this morning elicited the information that both patients were progressing satisfactorily.

The car was badly damaged. [Jan 1930]27
 
Car Collides with Grocery Cart
Horse killed - Driver injured

On Friday afternoon, of last weekend, at about 4.50 o'clock, the notoriously bad corner at the junction of Grant and Main streets, Bacchus Marsh, was the scene of another traffic smash, involving a car travelling west on the Highway (Main street) and a delivery cart emerging from the side street.

The car, which was a Bentley sports coupe, was driven by the owner, Mr Alan Blackwood Ritchie, of 'Blackwood' Station, Penshurst, who was travelling alone.

The cart was the property of the Bacchus Marsh Dairymen's Co-operative Association, and driven by Mr 'Jack' Phillips, of Bacchus Marsh, who had been out delivering groceries.

Travelling west up Main street, the car, which was on its correct side, struck the horse, which with the cart, was slowly crossing to make a correct right turn round the 'silent cop' to go east down Main street. The horse was lifted off its feet by the front dumb-irons of the car and from the top of the bonnet was, according to an eyewitness, literally thrown the five yards to the kerbing, where it died a few minutes later, badly smashed. Both shafts snapped off and the cart was slung round with the horse.

Mr Phillips, with the impact, was thrown out of the cart, head foremost, right over the car, behind which he landed on the hard bitumen road on his head. He got up and was assisted to the doctor's surgery nearby, later being admitted to 'Quamby' private hospital, suffering from concussion. Latest reports state that he is making good progress.

The car, which suffered considerable frontal damage, came to a stop 25 yards past the point of impact. The triplex safety glass in its windscreen was 'dented,' but achieved its purpose, and the occupant of the car was uninjured.

The local Police have the matter in hand, and await instructions from headquarters. The driver of the car will probably be charged with negligent driving, on account of the excessive speed at which it is alleged his car was travelling. There were several eyewitnesses.

The BMD Co-operative Company estimate the value of the horse and the damage done to the cart at £30.
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Accidents seem to 'run' in some families. It is a coincidence that Mr 'Joe' Phillips (a brother of the one injured in the above episode) was a participant in a recent motor accident at Shepparton, where he is in business. Whilst travelling in a motor there, 'something happened' and the car overturned three times, with the result that Mr Phillips had his arm broken, which he is still carrying in a sling. [Feb 1930]28
 
Marriage
Vera Victoria Rogerson and Joseph Phillips were married at 9 Palmerston Cres in South Melbourne on 13 March 1933. They had no children.4,29
 
Vera was born in South Melbourne and it might explain why Joe and Vera chose to get married there even though they both lived in Shepparton immediately before and after their marriage.

Vera's parents, William and Ada, had a farm out on Benalla Rd.30,4,31
 
Joe (2nd left) & Vera (right) Phillips and friends
Image: Lost Shepparton, Facebook
Billiard Brothers
Brothers Tom, Jack, Joe and Danny all had some involvement in billiard saloons in Shepparton.
 
Tom had established a four-table billiard saloon in High St, later expanded to six tables, and had been running it for four years.32,33
 
By early December 1926, Tom had decided to establish a second billiard saloon with the help of his brothers.32
 
The second billiard saloon was also in High St, further west at no. 41 [later Cellar 47 in renumbered High St].

In January 1927, Jack quit his job in Bacchus Marsh and headed to Shepparton:
Mr 'Jack' Phillips, who has been a member of the Bacchus Marsh Co-operative Store staff since its foundation (eight years ago last July) left there last week-end, with the object of entering business with his brother at Shepparton.

Danny, only 18 or 19 at the time, also left Bacchus Marsh for Shepparton.

Tom described the working arrangements:
Then Roy McPherson built The News; underground, where Cellar 47 is now - a real old gentleman, Roy.

He was going to put his staff in there I think, but for some reason he agreed to lease it to me.

We put in another four tables and a hair dressing salon, my brother Jack and I running it with Tommy McAuliffe working for me and Danny (who runs a salon in Tatura now) in the hair dressers.

In 1928, Jack returned to Bacchus Marsh to be replaced by Joe, who had been working in Bacchus Marsh as a billiard marker for the previous three or four years.34,32,33,24,20,21,25
 
Tom only had both billiard saloons for a year or so, around 1928. Before that he leased only the more eastern one at 55 High St. After 1928 he leased only the more western one in the basement at 41 High St. and held it until 1935.

In November 1928, Joe was granted a billiard licence for six tables in Shepparton. None of the newspaper summary licensing court reports shows Tom as licensee, only Joe. Yet court reports relating to objections or misdemeanours, plus other records, refer to Tom as proprietor or running the saloons.

In 1929, Joe was granted the licence jointly with Henry Hill. In 1930 and 1931, he held it on his own.

Billiards
Phillips' saloon tournament
A record number of 220 entries has been received for the open billiard tournament, which begins this week at Phillips’ saloon, High Street. The proprietor (Mr Tom Phillips) claims this to be the largest entry in a billiard tournament outside the metropolitan area. Besides the many local enthusiasts who have entered, players from Toolamba, Ardmona, and the districts round Shepparton will be present. Owing to the great interest which has developed, Mr Phillips has decided to give a handsome trophy for a second prize. The first prize is a £10/10/ suit of clothes tailored by Messrs Lunn and Holmes. The players and their handicaps are as follows: ... [Sep 1929]

Another tobacco robbery
Some time Sunday night burglars made their way through an open window into the billiard room of Mr TJ Phillips, High Street. Then by means of a jemmy or big chisel, the marks of which are plainly visible, they forced a swing window open and entered the adjoining barber's and tobacconist's establishment of Mr H Mathieson where they took possession of about £50 worth of tobacco and cigarettes, as well as about 12/- in loose silver, which was in one of the tills. [Feb 1931]25,33,35,36,37,38,39

 
Tom and Joe offered their customers several ways to place a bet, not all of them legal. This attracted the attention of both the gaming police and thieves.

Heavy Fine
£20 Plus £12 Costs
Charge Of Keeping Common Gaming House In High St Shepparton
... Detective James Albert Cavanagh v. Thomas James Phillips, charged that, on May 5, he did have the care and management of a common gaming house, to wit, premises known as Phillips' Billiard Room. Defendant pleaded not guilty, and Mr PV Feltham appeared for him.
... [lengthy discussion over whether illegal Murrumbidgee or legal "devil's pool" was being played] ...
The PM, after consultation with his colleagues, said the defendant was convicted.
...
The PM said the legislature regarded the offence as a serious one, and provided for a third offence imprisonment without the option of a fine. The Bench, believed the police evidence, and were annoyed at the false statements by others from the witness box. Defendant would be fined £20, plus £12 costs. [May 1928]

Tom's rooms were sometimes targeted in raids by the Melbourne gaming squad:
GAMING RAID
Visit to Billiard Saloon
Police Draw Blank
Following closely upon the recent visit to Shepparton of members of the Licensing Police, who are reported to be taking action against four hotels, a detachment of police from the Gaming Branch made a raid on the town yesterday in a search for starting price bookmakers.

It is understood that they drew a blank so far as actual betting is concerned, but it is reported that the police took the name of one individual who, although he was not caught betting, was alleged to have had in his possession several slips on which were written the names of horses.

While other places were visited, the raiders seem to have concentrated their attention chiefly on the billiard saloon of Mr T Phillips, in High Street, but a thorough search, which included the building itself, failed to reveal any trace of illicit betting. [May 1935]

Gaming Raid at Shepparton
Shepparton, Sunday - Two car-loads of gaming police from Melbourne raided a billiard saloon conducted by Thomas Phillips in High Street Shepparton yesterday afternoon. About 70 men were arrested, and will appear in the Shepparton Court early in the new year. The police seized a book in which bets are alleged to have been written, and charged the proprietor with having had the care of a common gaming-house. Two justices of the peace who had been playing a game of bowls spent more than an hour in taking sworn statements of names and addresses of the men to admit them to bail. [Dec 1936]

Billiard room raid
Phillips is fined £25
The sequel to the raid by a squad of Melbourne Gaming Police upon a billiard saloon in High Street, Shepparton, on December 5, was heard in the Shepparton Police Court yesterday, when Thomas J Phillips and Thomas McAuliffe were charged with having committed breaches of the Gaming Act.

Phillips, who pleaded guilty, was convicted and fined £25, with £9 6/ costs; while McAuliffe, who entered a plea of not guilty, was discharged. [Jan 1937]

Billiard saloon robbed
Shepparton, Wednesday
Breaking a skylight thieves entered the billiard saloon of Mr T Phillips in High street. They removed a fruit machine from the premises, and breaking it with a tyre lever stole approximately £30. [Mar 1939]

There was talk of Tom once playing Walter Lindrum in an exhibition snooker match because no one else would play him. Lindrum's first visit to Shepparton was in October 1937 and he played in Tom and Joe's billiard saloon.

Billiards
Exhibition by Walter Lindrum
The world champion billiard player, Walter Lindrum, will visit Shepparton on Monday night next, and give an exhibition for two and a half hours at the billiard saloon in High street, Shepparton. The exhibition will include billiards, snooker, trick and fancy shots, also a lecturette in which all the shots of the game will be demonstrated.

Walter and his nephew Horace visited on several later occasions.40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48
 
In May 1937, Joe transferred his billiard table licence to Harold James Williams. Harry later did bookkeeping for Tom at the Hotel Australia, and assisted Tom when he was briefly a dogs bookmaker.

Late 1937, Tom purchased the Pine Lodge Hotel. He then left running the billiards to others, but in March 1939 was still shown as a billiard saloon proprietor.

Joe continued his involvement, and in November 1939, a billiard table licence was transferred to him from George Andrew McGifford.

It is thought that a billiard saloon business would struggle to survive during the Second World War.49,44,50
 
As a young child in the mid-1930s, Rene Phillips had polio (infantile paralysis) and wore a caliper. Her Uncle Joe made a doll and gave it to her.51,52,53
 
Marge stayed with Joe and Vera [Phillips, in Shepparton] when the airmen were in town staying at the showgrounds. The airmen would march along High St/Benalla Rd. Marge worked out the time, then would sit outside as they marched past. The sargeant would say 'Eyes left!' as they went past, then "'Eyes right!' as they came back. Marge would wave, and maybe me too. [Rene Barnes]51
 
Hotels 
Tom and Joe worked closely together in their business ventures.

Two years after Tom sold his interest in the Pine Lodge Hotel in Shepparton East, Joe's wife Vera took over the licence. Vera had a cleaner police record than Joe. She took the licence over from Amelia Mildred Mitchell in February 1943, and two years later it was transferred to Arthur William Mammen.50,54,55
Tom Phillips, Ida McLean & Joe Phillips
Image: Eileen Redden
Bookmaking
All during his time with billiards and hotels, Joe was an SP (starting price) bookmaker. This became a full-time activity, and in the electoral rolls from the latter part of the 1940s, Joe gave his occupation as 'nil'.56,57,58,59,60
 
SP Bookmakers
Until 1931, betting with a bookmaker on-course was the only legal form of gambling in Victoria. In that year, a small on-course tote was introduced to give punters an alternative. However with the advent of radio and the telephone, results of a race could be heard off-course and there were plenty of people who wanted to bet without going to the track. While many placed their bets on a daily or weekly basis, the Melbourne Cup was so widely known and loved by the Australian public that punters in every state wanted a piece of the action. This resulted in one of the most entertaining wrinkles in Australia’s history of larrikinism and general illegal activity – the SP Bookmaker.

Flourishing up until the early 1960’s, it was a complex business involving a Bookmaker to take the bets and pay the winners, Runners who would literally run all over the suburbs, taking bets from people at home, in the back lanes and in the local bars and Cockies (short for Cockatoos) who were posted at strategic points such as high spots and intersections to warn the Runners & Bookies of approaching Law Enforcement. However, a lot of blind eyes were turned with Bookies openly settling up with winners in public places at the end of the day. ['Australian Horse Racing - Rogues & Ring-Ins', The Australian Racing Report, Australian Racing Report, 2021, viewed February 2021, SP Bookmakers]
 
As much distance as possible had to be left between hotel licensee and bookmaker. If bookmaking was found to be occuring on or near the billiard saloons or pubs, the licensee could be charged with operating a common gaming house, cop a hefty fine, and lose their licence.

Joe also took bets in his old High St billiard saloon.
 
Bets By Phone
An SP bookmaker was taking bets and calling towards a phone receiver which was off the hook police alleged at the Shepparton court yesterday.

Mr GS Catlow fined Andrew O’Dea and Joseph Phillips of Shepparton £20 with £3 16/6 costs each. Phillips pleaded guilty and O’Dea did not appear.

Superintendent W Jackson conducted the prosecution.

First Constable Clifford James O’Connor of Cobram said that on January 21 he was on duty in High street with two other police when they entered a billiard room. They approached O’Dea and asked to put on a few bets.

'I placed a bet with him,' said First Constable Connor, 'although he said he had to be careful and did not at first want to take one.'

First Constable Connor said the bets were written out on a slip of paper which was handed together with the money to O’Dea. He told them to call back that night if they had money to collect.

Later he returned to the room and at the back met O’Dea who recognised him. He placed more bets and the money was handed to Phillips. 'I saw Phillips take bets from other men and then call towards a phone that was on a cupboard. The receiver was off the hook' stated First Constable Connor.

'At the station I was with Phillips when £162 was taken from his pockets. Phillips denied taking bets in the billiard room.'

Evidence of races being run at Caulfield was given. There were horses Constable Connor heard mentioned running that day.

Supt Jackson said he did not wish to call more evidence in view of Phillips pleading guilty.

Mr Catlow: These defendants gave every assistance, apparently.

Supt Jackson: Yes, your worship.

Mr Catlow: It appeared to be a well organised affair with large receipts, but in view of the assistance they appear to have given the police I will not impose as heavy a fine as I had in mind.61
 
One time Joe was heading home to Wyndham St at night and thought he was being followed by the cops. So as he neared the door, he carefully dropped his betting slips and money so that if the cops came knocking, he'd be clean. When Joe went out in the morning to retrieve his stash, it was gone. [Rene Barnes]51
 
Joe's head for figures was legendary. One commentator has described his brain as being the model for the latest supercomputer. Others have described how Joe would be casually chatting while sitting at the bar having a drink. But when someone asked for odds on a horse in the next race at Flemington, Joe would sit up and in a flash his computer brain had calculated attractive odds, based on every other bet he had taken on the day.32,62
 
Telegraph Hotel
Joe and Vera also had the Telegraph Hotel in Numurkah during 1946.63,64
 
Hotel Changes
The Licensing Court, sitting in Melbourne yesterday approved transfers of the licences of the Telegraphic Hotel, Numurkah, from Mrs A Eddy to Joseph Phillips and the Junction Hotel, Toolamba, from M Darveniza to Mrs Violet A Williams.

Doyen of Numurkah publicans, Mrs Eddy in the course of nearly 40 years at the 'Telegraph,' has established and maintained a tradition unrivalled in the Goulburn Valley. The two new licensees are well known in Shepparton and are the brother and sister in law respectively of Mr TJ Phillips, of the Hotel Australia, Shepparton.65
 
Joe would sometimes head to Bacchus Marsh to see Jim and the family but not buy a train ticket. If he got caught, he'd say he was Jim's brother and everything was all right. [Laurie Phillips]66
 
Bank of Joe
Because most of Joe's income was derived via unconventional means, he didn't bank his money in the conventional way. While he kept his money in a bank, it was in safe deposit boxes, away from the prying eyes of the taxman. With no interest being earned, Joe was happy to instead provide loans to family. Many activities in and around Shepparton were financed through the Bank of Joe.67,68,69
 
One day a fellow down on his luck came to the door of Joe and Vera's. Joe wasn't home at the time, but Vera set him to work in the garden and he did a pretty good job. She gave him something for his efforts and asked if he had any other clothes (his clothes were in pretty bad shape, his shoes had holes in them). When he said 'yes', she gave him some of Joe's old gardening clothes and shoes, and he went off happy. Quite some time later, Joe asked Vera where his old shoes were. He was fairly upset when Vera said she gave them away - they were full of SP money. [Laurie Phillips]57
 
Tom Phillips explains: 'Mum's the word. But you might remember 'Little Sport' (his brother Joe) and I had a slight mishap on the premises the day the flying squad [police gaming squad] comes through looking for SP bookies and catch us red-handed. Well we have to front Georgie Catlow, the beak, but Ray Dunn appears for us and duly gets us off as always. After we all have dinner together back home at the Australia Mr Dunn says, 'Well, TJ, you'd better put in 50 bucks to the footy club and whatever you think's a fair thing to me.' That's how you see that in the Richmond annual report.' [Tom Carey]

[Other notable donors are Sir Robert Menzies, Jim Cairns, Arthur Caldwell & Senator Kennelly. Ray Dunn was club president and club solicitor. George Catlow was a magistrate and Tom Phillips had lunch with him every Friday.]70,71,72
Image: Richmond Football Club
Shepparton Residences
There are many different Shepparton addresses given for Joe and Vera in the electoral rolls and Shepparton rates. It's likely that three are the same house with different numbering.

The first place we have for Joe in Shepparton is in 1931 when he is at 283 Wyndham St. At the time, this would probably have been near the butter factory. Joe was still single then.

In 1935, after Joe and Vera married, Vera is paying rates as the owner of 178 High St. For this entry, the rate books have a note that the rateable property is 'allotment 4 of 28A'. This is opposite the showgrounds, and in the map below is in the block bounded by High St ('Highway'), Archer St, Rowe St (only 'St' visible) and Dudley St.

In 1936, both Joe and Vera give their address as 59 Rowe St. As their property extends from High St through to Rowe St, it's possible this address is the same as the previous one. Between 1937 and 1939, their address is again 178 High St, and described as having a weatherboard dwelling and a 66 foot frontage.

From 1942 to 1954, their address is 304 High St, but with the street renumbering of the early 1940s, this will be the same place.

From 1963, Joe and Vera lived at 22 Wyndham St, not far from Balaclava Rd at the north end of town.73,74
Shepparton township map c. 1950
Tom Phillips, Ida McLean, Joe Phillips, Eileen Connelly, Hec McLean, Vera Phillips, Bill Connelly, Irene 'Sis' Phillips (McDonald)
Image: Eileen Redden
Vera liked the finer things in life. And thanks to Joe's good business sense, he was able to keep her in the manner to which she was accustomed. Vera also liked to be noticed. And while it was hard not to notice her hairdo, it was impossible not to notice her massive green 1959 Chevrolet Impala.

Vera was pretty well off at the time Joe died. But with no one around to manage the finances, the Chevy could be seen sporting more and more expensive dents and the money eventually ran out.68
Nene Courtie, Laurie, Vera & Sis Phillips
Joe was a slightly built, quiet and gentle man. And like all six of the Phillips boys, he always dressed well.56,62
 
Joseph Phillips (Joseph Patrick on the death certificate) died of bronchopnuemonia and lung cancer in Mooroopna on 2 June 1972, aged 70. He was buried at Shepparton cemetery on 6 June.

Joe had had pneumonia for three days and cancer for two years. He was seen by a doctor on the day he died.7
 

Citations

  1. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, 'Jos' Phillips entry, birth registration no. 263, 1902.
  2. [S31] Eileen Redden, personal communication, 10 March 1996.
  3. [S603] Joseph Phillips, birth registration no. 263, 17 January 1902.
  4. [S8] Joseph Phillips and Vera Victoria Rogerson, marriage registration no. 1281, 13 March 1933.
  5. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, Joseph Phillips and Vera Victoria Rogerson entry, marriage registration no. 1574, 1933.
  6. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, 'Joseph Patrick' Phillips entry, death registration no. 12402, 1972.
  7. [S605] Joseph Patrick Phillips, death registration no. 12402, 2 June 1972.
  8. [S318] Bacchus Marsh & District Historical Society, personal communication, 3 November 2013.
  9. [S2] 'History', St Bernard's Parish Primary School, online, St Bernard's Parish Primary School, Bacchus Marsh, August 2021, viewed 12 September 2021.
  10. [S392] Australia, Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, online, division of Corio, subdivision of Bacchus Marsh, 1908.
  11. [S1] Ellen has two electoral roll entries for 1908, one as homeduties in Bacchus Marsh and one as gatewoman in Maddingley, so we have assumed this is the year she started work as a gatewoman.
  12. [S318] Bacchus Marsh & District Historical Society, personal communication, 8 November 2013.
  13. [S38] Lynette Dow, personal communication, 18 December 1996.
  14. [S331] Joan McClure, personal communication, 11 December 2013.
  15. [S32] Laurie Phillips, personal communication, December 2013.
  16. [S44] Roylyn Phillips, personal communication, 13 March 1996.
  17. [S37] Margaret Deveney, personal communication, 11 March 1996.
  18. [S392] Australia, Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, online, Commonwealth division of Ballaarat, Victorian division of Bulla, subdivision of Bacchus Marsh, 1926.
  19. [S392] Australia, Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, online, Commonwealth division of Ballaarat, Victorian division of Grant, subdivision of Bacchus Marsh, 1927.
  20. [S392] Australia, Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, online, division of Ballaarat, subdivision of Bacchus Marsh, 1926.
  21. [S392] Australia, Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, online, division of Ballaarat, subdivision of Bacchus Marsh, 1927.
  22. [S276] 'The Bacchus Marsh Express [heading]', Bacchus Marsh Express, 1857-1983, newspaper, Christopher Crisp & George Land, 9 December 1916, p. 2, viewed 9 November 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74270971
  23. [S276] 'Local and General News', Bacchus Marsh Express, 1857-1983, newspaper, Christopher Crisp & George Land, 7 July 1917, p. 3, viewed 9 November 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74226471
  24. [S392] Australia, Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, online, division of Ballaarat, subdivision of Bacchus Marsh, 1925.
  25. [S201] 'Licensing court: Billiard licenses', Shepparton Advertiser, 1914-1953, newspaper, Thomas Pettit and William Callender, 26 November 1928, p. 4, viewed 16 August 2020, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/179176738
  26. [S408] Brian Phillips, personal communication, 18 August 2020.
  27. [S201] 'Motor car accident: Occupants suffer injuries', Shepparton Advertiser, 1914-1953, newspaper, Thomas Pettit and William Callender, 6 January 1930, p. 8, viewed 16 August 2020, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/171703443
  28. [S572] 'Car collides with grocery cart', Melton Express, 1905-1943, newspaper, Christopher Crisp, 8 February 1930, p. 2, viewed 30 June 2020, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/254722837
  29. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, Joseph Phillips and 'Vera Vict' Rogerson entry, marriage registration no. 1574, 1933.
  30. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, 'Vera Vic' Rogerson entry, birth registration no. 12371, 1906.
  31. [S392] Australia, Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, online, division of Echuca, subdivision of Shepparton, 1928.
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