Charles Patrick McCartneySeveral official records (including Victorian BDM records) and news articles spell his surname as MacArtney but official football records have McCartney (17 March 1873 — 26 May 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.567.
Family The son of Francis McCartney (1840-1895), and Ann McCartney (1840-1898), née Ryan, Charles Patrick McCartney was born on 17 March 1873.
He married Alice Maud Felton (1877-1925) in 1904. He later married Jessie Wilhelmina Rachel Johnson (1866-1946), née Gail, in 1933.
Football McCartney first played with West Melbourne in the junior competition and joined South Melbourne for the 1896 VFA season. He played for South Melbourne in its first VFL match, against Melbourne, at the Lake Oval, on 8 May 1897.'Onlooker', "South v. Melbourne: The Red and White Defeated", The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 15 May 1897), p.3.
In 1898 he returned to West Melbourne, the team wearing crepe in the week following his mother's death.
In 1899 McCartney returned to the VFL, this time playing with Essendon.
Later life McCartney worked for the International Harvester Company for nearly fifty years, retiring in 1940.
Death Charles Patrick McCartney died at Colac on 26 May 1949.Deaths: Macartney, The Argus, (Friday, 27 May 1949), p.12.
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Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. Essendon Football Team, Melbourne Punch, (Thursday, 1 June 1899), p.21—note that McCartney is identified as "M'Carty".
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