Moroney Brothers

Trading Name	Moroney Brothers
Years of Operation	1890 to 1897
Company Number
Address	Stamford Road Oakleigh
Council Lot No.	21, 22, 23
Coordinates	-37.892991, 145.101221
Current Use	Public Open Space Park & Commercial Warehousing

Michael and Thomas Moroney were born in Oakleigh to Patrick and Winifred (McMahon).   They lived in Stamford Road near brickworks but later became dairy farmers.

 

Victoria and its Metropolis Alexander Sutherland 1888

Their brick works was built on land they owned on the west side of Stamford Road and was later used by the Oakleigh Brick Company.  The land was purchased by Patrick Moroney in 1864 and sold to the Oakleigh Brick Company in 1903.  Nothing remains of their company but in the aerial photographs of the property, there was an old kiln on the Lever street side that I was told had made the bricks for the Hoffman kilns that were used until the works closed.  It is possible that this was the original kiln at the rear used by the former owners for smaller scale production.  To the North on the other side of Scotchmans Creek is the rise still known as Moroney’s Hill.  There is a reference to the Oakleigh Junction Brickworks being started by the Moroney Brothers; there appears to be some evidence for this but I cannot be sure. 

The Moroney Home "Fair Hill" on Moroney's Hill in Oakleigh

 

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