The Lutge Family in Australia

Joyce was the older child of Denis (Dinny) Lutge and Margret Shaunghnessy.  Joyce was born on 6 February 1919 at Mosman.  Dinny and Margaret married in 1917 following the death of Margaret's first husband, Frederick Walkley in 1913. Frederick and Margaret had two children - Margaret Anne (1906 to 1979) born in Balmain and Marie Ivy (1906 to 1978) born in Mosman.  Dinny and Margaret had a son, Denis James, who was born on 11 November 1920 and died 11 days later. Margaret died on 11 April 1926 and the death was registered at Darlinghurst.  Joyce was just 7 years old when her mother died!  Dinny died on 18 February 1953 when Joyce was 34. Joyce married Victor Leslie Kelly in 1940 in Mosman.  They had one child, Denis John, known as John about 1942.  Victor enlisted in the Second World War and died in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp on 12 September 1944.  This is the only photo I have of Joyce with Victor from the Australian War Memorial collect...

Denis (Dinny) is the most well known of our Lutge family.  There's even a "wikipedia" entry which gives Dinny's birth date as 26 November 1879.  All sorts of searching of the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages and still no success in finding a birth registration.  So, the search continues.... Dinny was the eighth child of Peter Benson and Mary Lutge.  He moved to the Mosman area with the family in the mid 1880s.  While Dinny worked as a stevedore in his early life, he commenced his rugby union career with the Mosman Junior in 1893.  We can see how young he is in this picture where he is second from the right in the second row (behind the fellow with the cap).  Three of his brothers are in the bottom row -  far left is Bob Lutge, second from left is Peter Lutge, second from right is Paddy Lutge. Between 1901 and 1907, Dinny played rugby union for the Northern Suburbs Club.  He made his international debut as a lock-for...