Individual Details

Mayor of Caulfield at the time Amy Johnson flew solo to Australia
Birth Certificate No. 1217/70
Death Certificate No. 3951
Shown on Roy's birth certificate as a farmer.
Robert and Tilly left Carisbrook in April 1913.

MR ROBERT McCULLOCH, builder, died at "Kepdarroch," Kambrook Road, Caulfield on Saturday aged 62 years. He was a native of Carisbrook, and served for eight years as a councillor of Tullarook Shire, of which he was a past president. He came to Melbourne about 20 years ago, and was a councillor of Caulfield City from 1925 to 1931, and Mayor in 1929-30. He was a former president of the Caulfield Scottish Society, and was president of the boy scout movement in the district at the time of his death. He has left a widow and family of three sons. The burial took place in the Brighton Cemetery this afternoon.

Anthea has the following memories of being told about Robert and visitors who came to “Kepdarroch”:

“Mum used to talk about John Thomas Packer and Robert Menzies visiting grandpa with other "distinguished" guests in the front room smoking cigars. Grandma, my mother and the other ladies were presented with wine, delicious delicacies to nibble and pastel coloured cigarettes in another room.

My great-grandfather's name is inscribed on the foundation stone at the Caulfield Town Hall. We have a photograph of grandpa in his mayoral robes and Grandma (Matilda, known affectionately as Tilly) in her gown presenting the debutantes. My mother Athalie was one of those presented.”





Robert served one term as Mayor of Caufield (Vic) in 1929. There is a photo of him in the foyer on the now Glen Eira council offices (cr. Hawthorn and Glen Eira Roads.)

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Birth	30 Oct 1869	Carisbrook, Victoria, Australia
Marriage	25 Dec 1894	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia - Matilda "Tilley" PERRYMAN
Occupation	24 Nov 1928	Builder - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	1929	Mayor - City of Caulfield, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	1931	Councillor - City of Caulfield, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Death	27 May 1933	Cardiac Dilatation, Cardiac Asthenia - Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Burial	29 May 1933	Presbyterian S 262, Brighton General Cemetery, Brighton, Victoria, Australia
Probate	4 Jul 1933	Occupation: Builder, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Alt name		Robert T MCCULLOCH

Spouse	Matilda "Tilley" PERRYMAN (1871 - 1960)
Child	Robert Granville Roy "Roy" MCCULLOCH (1896 - 1987)
Child	Ernest Henry Joseph "Ernie" MCCULLOCH (1897 - 1950)
Child	William Charles Leslie "Les" MCCULLOCH (1904 - 1975)

Father	Joseph Henry "Joe" MCCULLOCH (1834 - 1915)
Mother	Jane MCPHERSON (1845 - 1920)
Sibling	Joseph MCCULLOCH (1868 - 1941)
Sibling	Margaret MCCULLOCH (1871 - 1942)
Sibling	George MCCULLOCH (1873 - 1874)
Sibling	Jane MCCULLOCH (1876 - 1905)
Sibling	Jessie MCCULLOCH (1878 - 1928)
Sibling	George MCCULLOCH (1880 - 1917)
Sibling	John MCCULLOCH (1882 - 1955)
Sibling	William Paul MCCULLOCH (1885 - 1947)
Sibling	Alexander MCCULLOCH (1886 - 1955)
Sibling	Rebecca MCCULLOCH (1888 - 1961)

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