Thomas and Susan Green With baby at
4 Northbrook Ave. Malvern c.1912-15
Thomas and Susan Green
Thomas Green was born in Mornington in 1878, son of Daniel and Eleanor Green and grandson of Benjamin Constable.
He gained his Merit Certificate at Mornington Primary School, and at the age of 14 he left school and joined his father as a builder, painter and glazier in Mornington.
Thomas married Miss Susan Trudgen in 1908, they lived on in the house in Alfred Street, built by Thomas’s father Daniel. This home stayed in the family until 1962.
Street sign carved by Thomas Green
Thomas was a member of the Mornington Football Club, and a member of the Mornington Rifle Club, and in 1917 won a medal awarded by the Affiliated Rifle Clubs of Victoria for the highest score at the Williamstown Rifle Range.
An item in the local paper shows that Thomas Green was contracted to paint the Dromana Mechanic’s Institute in 1905 for the sum of £11-5-0 ($22.50).
In the 1930’s every street corner had a signpost in the form of a pillar set in the ground, these were supplied and the street names carved into them by Thomas Green.
Thomas died in 1959 and was buried with his wife Susan in the Mornington cemetery.
