# Joe Marr

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**Joseph Thomas Marr** (9 August 1880 – 19 July 1975) was an [Australian rules footballer](/source/Australian_rules_football) who played with [Carlton](/source/Carlton_Football_Club) and [Essendon](/source/Essendon_Football_Club) in the [Victorian Football League](/source/Australian_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](/source/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](/source/Marrickville,_New_South_Wales), on 10 August 1934.[6]

## Death

He died in a hospital at [Liverpool, New South Wales](/source/Liverpool,_New_South_Wales) on 19 July 1975.[7]

## Notes

1. Holmesby & Main (2009), p.521.

1. [Deaths: Marr, *The Argus*, (Tuesday, 31 March 1914), p.1.](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7251140)

1. [Deaths: Marr, *The Age*, (Friday, 31 May 1912), p.1.](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197361149)

1. Both the AFL Statistics and the Blueseum entry have him as "Joe Marr".

1. Maplestone (1996), pp.404, 409, and 446,

1. [Law Report: In Divorce: McAndrew v. McAndrew, *The Sydney Morning Herald*, (Thursday, 4 November 1926), p.6.](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16320016)

1. [Deaths: **Marr, Thomas Joseph**, *The Sydney Morning Herald*, (Monday, 21 July 1975), p.20.](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L8FWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=566%2C5808671)

## References

- Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Melbourne: Bas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4
- Maplestone, M., *Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996*, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8

## External links

- [Joe Marr's profile](http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Joe+Marr) at Blueseum

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