FatherWilliam Patrick O'Connell b. 30 Aug 1865, d. 13 Jun 1952
MotherMary Elizabeth Milovitch b. 10 Sep 1867, d. 23 Jan 1919
Pedigree

Birth, Death, Marriage

William Joseph O'Connell was born on 12 August 1901 in Shepparton, Victoria.1,2 
He married Margaret Noonan, daughter of Laurence Noonan and Catherine Anderson, on 28 June 1932 in Shepparton, Victoria.3 
He died on 8 September 1987 in Wodonga, Victoria, at age 86.4,5 

Family

Margaret Noonan b. c 1902, d. 28 Jun 1973
Children
ChartsMilovitch, Thomas, descendant chart
O'Connell, Michael, descendant chart

Story

Will or Billy O'Connell worked as a wine seller, cafe owner, barman and publican. Billy was well known for his piano playing.
 
William was the fourth of six children to reach adulthood.

When Billy was a toddler, the family moved from Shepparton where he was born at the back of a wine shop, to Mooroopna.6,7,8
 
Nellie and Annie attended Mooroopna Primary School, and it is possible the four older boys attended for a time also.9,10
 
For most of the six children's childhood and early adult years, they lived at the back of the Mooroopna wine shop on the main road just west of the Mooroopna hospital.10
 
William, Billy, Willie, Will?
To most, William was known as Billy or Bill O'Connell.

In a birthday card from his parents in 1918, they call him Willie. And he is Willie in a 1919 newspaper notice, probably inserted by his aunt, Annie Fortin.

In the Williams family he was Will. His sister Annie married Roy Williams and that family already had an Uncle Bill Hehir (married Lila Williams), so he was Uncle Will.11,12,13,14,6
Will/Billy O'Connell
Image: Laurie & Lorraine Phillips
Cycling without lamps: Constable O'Farrell was the informant in the Police Court on Tuesday against Alfred Watson, aged 17, and William O'Connell, for riding their bicycles on August 1 and July 19 respectively on a public road, when it was dark, without a lamp. Defendants were fined 5/- each, 13/- costs, by Mr Rogers, PM.15
 
Mother Mary's Illness
In 1918, Mary became quite ill.
 
As the holder of the wine licence, being unable to work would have made it difficult for the family.

Added to this, the First World War had been going for four years, and the two eldest sons, Peter and Thomas, were on active service.
 
Mary made a will on 11 September 1918, appointing husband William as sole executor.

To son William, she leaves the piano (this is not her mother's Bord piano, but one she purchased from her own savings). To daughter Nellie (Mary Ellen), she leaves the sewing machine. To husband William, she leaves the balance including the wine licence and interest in the Elizabeth St property held jointly with her sister, Annie Fortin.

Mary also gives William the right to draw money for their sons Peter and Thomas while they are serving abroad.16,17
 
Mary died in Mooroopna hospital after a long illness and is buried in Mooroopna cemetery. She was 51 and left behind a husband and six children of which the youngest, Annie, was 12.18,19
 
Billy took responsibility for making sure the home continued to run smoothly, and was a taskmaster in getting Nell & Annie to do the ironing, and it had to be done properly.6
 
A family photo was taken at the back of the wine shop, a couple of years after Mary died.
O'Connells: back: Will/Billy, Mick, Tom, Peter; front: Annie, William (snr), Nell (Mary Ellen); c. 1922
Image: Val Williams
Family Wine Shop in Mooroopna
By the mid-1920s, Billy became more involved with the family wine shop business in Mooroopna, though father William senior held the wine licence.
 
Day in court: In December 1925, William senior and Billy were required to front court, charged with having the bar door open during prohibited hours. Billy claimed the senior constable came in just as he was getting some soft drink from the bar, and that no alcohol was served. They were fined £5 and required to pay 7/6 costs.20
 
In November 1926, William had his first licensing breach.

At the Mooroopna Court on Tuesday, before Messrs H McDonald, PM, and J Thompson, William O'Connell, the holder of an Australian wine licence, was charged with disposing of liquor during prohibited hours on November 20. Two further charges of allowing persons on his premises, and failing to keep his lodger's book properly entered up were also laid.

Inspector Nolan prosecuted, and defendant pleaded guilty. The inspector withdrew the latter two charges, and defendant was fined £2 on the charge of disposing of liquor during prohibited hours. It was the first offence.21

 
On licensed premises: Two young men, Vincent Milovitch and Eric Noble, were then charged with having been unlawfully on licensed premises. Sen. Constable WG Baker said on November 20 he found the two men at O'Connell's wine saloon. They admitted having a friendly drink, one being a nephew of the licencee. They were not lodgers. The Bench - For a first offence the fine will be 10/- each, with costs.21
 
In June 1928, liquor licences state wide were being reviewed, including the need for two wine licences in the relatively small town of Mooroopna. Both O'Connell and O'Loughlin put their cases to the licensing court, but ultimately William O'Connell's licence was withdrawn. In December 1928, he was awarded £350 compensation for being deprived of his wine licence.22,23,20
 
The shop became a combined cafe and mixed business to be run by Billy.24
 
In November 1926, Annie O'Connell married Roy Williams in Yarraville where Michael Patrick O'Connell and his family were living. This photo was taken then at their home.
O'Connells: standing: William Patrick (Mooroopna), unknown (head only), unknown, Mollie (Yarraville), Leo (front, Yarraville), unknown (back), William Joseph (Mooroopna), unknown; seated: unknown, Elizabeth (Yarraville), Gertrude (Yarraville), wedding of Roy Williams & Annie O'Connell (Mooroopna), Yarraville, Nov 1926
Image: Val Williams
Eating House
By March 1929, the shop was in Billy's name, and by January 1931 was being described as an 'eating house'.24,25,26,20
 
Family friend, Ashley Foley, recalled this time and described it as a mixed business.14
 
On his 1932 marriage registration, he calls himself a 'confectioner'.3
 
The shop was conveniently close to the cinema:
In the late 1920s during the summer months, films were shown at an open-air theatre behind the former offices of the Goulburn Valley Yeoman (now occupied by the garage of A & N Doonan) at the corner of McLennan and O'Brien Streets.

At interval, a wild stampede to Billy O'Connell's nearby shop for a hot home-made pie, price 3d, took place.27

 
Mooroopna Community
Billy became very active in his Mooroopna community. His involvement only tailed off after he married, then lived and worked in Shepparton.
 
He was active in the Mooroopna Mechanics' Institute through the 1920s and early 1930s. The Mechanics' Institute provided a range of activities including film nights.28,29,30,31,32
 
In 1928, he was part of the Improving Mooroopna committee and throughout the 1930s, he was in the Mooroopna Progress Association.33,34,35,36,37
 
In the late 1920s, he was involved with the Mooroopna Race Club, where his brother-in-law, Roy Williams, was secretary.38,39
 
He was part of fundraising for the Mooroopna Hospital.40
 
A lot of the town was involved in the 1933 Back To Mooroopna celebrations, and Billy was involved from the start.41
 
Piano and Organ
Billy was well known for his piano and organ playing.

The piano he played at home was his mother's, and she left it to him in her will.16
 
Billy played the organ at St Mary's and other places, and his sister Annie, sang.42
 
At a kitchen tea:
Mr Moloney then presented a beautiful cake and fruit stand to Mr O’Connell from St Mary’s Church, Mooroopna. Mr O'Connell has been organist for many years.43

 
Billy also taught others to play. Family friend, Ashley Foley recalls:
Cannot remember how old I was when Mum [Lillian Foley nee Moyle] got Billy O’Connell, the son of the man whose house we lived in, to teach me to play the piano. I went to O’Connell’s house each day for an hour to practice. Had one lesson a week with Bill. This was for 2-3 years. Don’t know why I stopped.14

 
Catholic Church
Billy was active in his St Mary's Catholic church community. In 1928, he was assistant secretary of the Mooroopna branch of the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Society (HACBS), a church-based support network.44,45
 
HACBS Smoke Social: If the May 1929 function is anything to go by, a fair bit of drinking took place. During the course of the evening, there were toasts to 'The Pope and the King', 'The Clergy', 'The District Board', 'The visitors', 'Kindrid Societies', 'St Mary's Branch of the HACBS', 'The Ladies' (by Billy O'Connell), 'The Artists' (including Billy O'Connell), and 'The Chairman'.46
 
Marriage and Family
William O'Connell and Catherine Noonan, both from Mooroopna, were married at St Brendan's Catholic church in Shepparton by Father Michael Downey on Tuesday 28 June 1932.47,3
 
William and Margaret had three children, all girls, Catherine Margaret (known as Margaret), Elaine and Patricia.
O'Connells: Will/Billy, Margaret, Sister Patricia, Mag (Noonan), Elaine
Image: Laurie & Lorraine Phillips
They lived in Mooroopna for a couple of years following their marriage, then moved to Shepparton, where they lived at 81 Maude St and 118 Maude St.48,49,50
 
They were then back in Mooropna for a short time while at the Cricketer's Arms Hotel.51
 
Through the 1940s and early 1950s, they lived at 6 Vaughan St in Shepparton.52,53,54
 
By the early 1960s, they were at their final Shepparton place at 38 Corio St.55,56,57
 
Pubs
By December 1936, Billy was working as a barman at the Terminus Hotel in Shepparton.58
 
William took over the licence to the Cricketer's Arms Hotel in Mooroopna in September 1940 from Thomas Davies.

A year later, October 1941, the licence was transferred to Bub (Violet Alice) Williams, who was returning to Mooroopna after several years in Melbourne.59,60
Cricketer's Arms Hotel, Mooroopna
Image: Rene Barnes
Cricketer's Arms Hotel, Mooroopna
Image: Margaret O'Connell
BEER “PLANTED” FOR SUNDAY
Soldier and Licensee Fined

The story of a soldier’s 'beer plant' at the back of the Cricketer's Arms Hotel was related to Mr HC Mohr, PM, in the Mooroopna Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday last when a soldier and the licensee were fined, the former for being on licensed premises and carrying away beer, and the latter for having had unauthorised persons on the premises.

William Joseph O’Connell pleaded not guilty to a charge of having unauthorised persons on licensed premises during prohibited hours. The soldier pleaded not guilty to charges of having been found on licensed premises and having carried away liquor from an hotel during prohibited hours.

Asked where he got it the soldier said he had bought it the day before and had hid it in the back yard of the hotel.61
 
Billy's final pub was the Victoria Hotel in Shepparton where he worked as a barman and possibly for a time as manager, from the 1950s through to the 1970s.62,55,63,56
 
Elizabeth St Property
In November 1951, Billy acquired the property at 9 Elizabeth St, Mooroopna from his father, William. Before that, it belonged to his aunt, Annie Fortin, and before that his grandmother and grandfather, Eliza and Thomas Milovitch.

He offered it for sale in January 1953 when it was described as a four bedroom weatherboard house and subject to existing weekly tenancy by Mr Ronzio. He sold it in May 1955 to Stanley Augustine Monti of Shepparton, a bus proprietor.64,65,66
Title held by William Joseph O'Connell, Mooroopna, Nov 1951
Image: Land Registry Services
O'Connells and Noonans
Over the years, Will/Billy and Mag caught up with their brothers and sisters even though some had moved away.
Mag (Margaret) O'Connell (Noonan, left), Will/Billy O'Connell (seated) & relatives of Mag
Image: Val Williams
Mag O'Connell (Noonan), Nell Bazley (O'Connell), Mick, Myra (Tatlow) & Will/Billy O'Connell, Annie Williams (O'Connell, seated), Mooroopna, Nov 1969
Image: Val Williams
Mick & Myra (Tatlow) O'Connell, Annie Williams (O'Connell), Nell Bazley (O'Connell, seated), Mag (Noonan) & Will/Billy O'Connell, Mooroopna, Nov 1969
Image: Val Williams
Annie Williams (O'Connell), Will/Billy O'Connell, Nell (Mary Ellen) Bazley (O'Connell), Mick O'Connell, c. 1963
Image: Val Williams
Back to Mooroopna
The 'Back to Mooroopna' celebrations were a great opportunity for ex-Mooroopna people to catch up with those who stayed, and the Easter 1963 'Back to' was very popular with the O'Connell, Williams and related families.
'Back to Mooroopna' celebrations, Apr 1963
Image: Laurie & Lorraine Phillips
'Back to Mooroopna' celebrations, Apr 1963
Image: Laurie & Lorraine Phillips
Bob Bazley, Annie Williams (O'Connell), Thelma Johnson (Williams), Myra O'Connell (Tatlow), Mag O'Connell (Noonan), Nell Bazley (O'Connell), Bill Hehir, Mick O'Connell, Rita Johnson (Williams), 'Back to Mooroopna', 97 Main St, Apr 1963
Image: Val Williams
Nell Bazley (O'Connell), Karen & Peter Phillips, 'Back To Mooroopna', Main St, Mooroopna, Apr 1963
Image: Val Williams
Bill Hehir, Annie Williams (O'Connell), Rita Johnson (Williams, front), Mag O'Connell (Noonan, standing), Thelma Jamieson (Williams, seated), Mick O'Connell (standing), Myra O'Connell (Tatlow, seated), Nell (O'Connell) & Bob Bazley (front), 'Back To Mooroopna', 97 Main St, Apr 1963
Image: Val Williams
Standing: Bill Hehir, Annie Williams (O'Connell), Mag O'Connell, Mick O'Connell; Seated: Karen & Peter Phillips, Rita Johnson (Williams), Thelma Jamieson (Williams, on chair), Nell Bazley (O'Connell, front), Myra O'Connell (Tatlow), Bob Bazley (front); 'Back to Mooroopna', Main St, Mooroopna, Apr 1963
Image: Val Williams
It was an occasion for young and old. Always up for a bit of fun, Annie dressed up for the occasion, donning the most 'youthful' clothing she could find and borrowing her grandson's school bag.

The O'Connells also caught up with the Foleys, family friends from over fifty years earlier.
Annie Williams (O'Connell),'Back to Mooroopna', Mooroopna State School, Apr 1963
Image: Laurie & Lorraine Phillips
Annie Williams (O'Connell), Back to Mooroopna, 1963
Image: Margaret O'Connell
Karen Phillips, Mary Williams (Budd), Anne Phillips, 'Back to Mooroopna', Apr 1963
Image: Laurie & Lorraine Phillips
Anne Phillips, 'Back to Mooroopna', Apr 1963
Image: Laurie & Lorraine Phillips
Helen Phillips, 'Back to Mooroopna', Apr 1963
Image: Laurie & Lorraine Phillips
Tom Foley, Peter Phillips, Bob Bazley, Lillian Foley & Mick O'Connell, 'Back to Mooroopna', Apr 1963
Image: Lost Mooroopna, Facebook
Later Years
In later years, Bill moved closer to daughter Elaine in Wodonga. He died there in 1987, aged 86.5
 

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