Albert Ernest Victor Hartkopf (1889 - 1968)

Born 28 Dec 1889 in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

Husband of Isabel Maude (Faulks) Hartkopf — married 1918 in Victoria, Australia

Died 20 May 1968 at age 78 in Kew, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Albert Hartkopf is Notable.

Born in North Fitzroy, Victoria to German immigrants, Ernest Robert Hartkopf (1849-1915), and Mary Louise Hartkopf (1859-1939), née Ranke. Albert Hartkopf attended Scotch College, Melbourne, attracting attention as a star schoolboy athlete. After graduating from Scotch, Hartkopf studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, where he represented University in the Victorian Football League, playing 48 games and kicking 87 goals^[1].

Albert Hartkopf was a notable cricketer playing regularly for Victoria and selected for the Australian national team in 1925 at the age of 35. Batting at no. 8, Hartkopf hit a handy 80 in Australia’s large first inning total but his comparatively poor performance with the ball of 1/134 off 30 overs saw him dropped from the team^[2]

Albert Ernst Victor Hartkopf died at Kew 1968 age 78^[3], father Ernest Robert, mother Mary Louise RAMKE. He is believed to have been cremated at the Springvale Botanical Cemetery, in Springvale, Victoria, Australia. The ashes of Albert and Isabel are buried in the garden next to St John's Church of England Finch St East Malvern where they were married. Albert's parents, brothers, and sisters are all interned in a family vault at the Faulkner Memorial Park Cemetery north of Melbourne.^[4]

From The Australasian newspaper of Saturday 9 March 1918 we see his Marriage to Isabel Faulks below:

HARTKOPF—FAULK.

The marriage of Dr. A. E. V. Hartkopf, younger son of Mrs. Hartkopf, Burke road, Kew, and Miss Isabel Faulks, second daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Faulks,Valeria. East Malvern, took place at St. Johns Church on February 23. The bride wore white tulle over pale pink, tulle veil tiny wreath of pink roses, and carried a sheaf of pink roses with tulle streamers caught with posies. She was given away by her father. The bridesmaids were Miss Mollie Faulks, in pale blue organdy; and Miss Betty Faulks, in pale pink organdy; black lace hats, posies of hydrangea and streamers of tulle. A string of pearls and signet ring were their gifts respectively. Dr. Birrell was best man, and Mr. Westmore Stephens grooms-man. The wedding tea took place at the home of the bride's parents, and the bride travelled in a fawn pleated costume, tete de-negre hat, lined with blue and wreathed with flowers.

From The Age newspaper of Friday 16 June 1939 we see his mother's Death Notice below: Page 1

Death

HARTKOPF. — On June 14, at her residence, 1113 Burke-rond, East Kew, Mary Louise widow of the late E. Rob Hartkopf, lovlng mother of Elsie (Mrs. Wiegmann), Eugenie Arthur (deceased), Albert (Dr. A. E. V. Hartkopf) and Frieda (Mrs. Frazer) and loving grandmother of Roy, Meryl, Nancy, Geoffrey and Leigh, aged 80 years. Private funeral.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hartkopf
2. ↑ http://heritage.darebinlibraries.vic.gov.au/article/263
3. ↑ Death: Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages Register 10829/1968
4. ↑ Information provided by Leigh Hartkopf, only child of Albert and Isabel.

• Albert Hartkopf Australia from the ESPNCRICINFO website. first accessed online on the 11th of December, 2021 at: https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/albert-hartkopf-5591

• Find a Grave, database and images accessed 11 December 2021, memorial page for Dr Albert Ernst Victor “Bert” Hartkopf (28 Dec 1889–20 May 1968), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #222290143, citing Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Springvale, Greater Dandenong City, Victoria, Australia ; Maintained by Jack Edwards (contributor 49577555) . (note: no gravestone photograph as yet)

• Albert Hartkopf (1889–1968): a great-all-rounder from the Great Scot magazine of September 2009. as archived on the Scotch College Melbourne website. first accessed online on the 11th of December, 2021 at: https://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/greatscot/2009sepGS/81b.htm

• Family Notices from The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) of Saturday 9 March 1918, Page 38. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/140202687/11764666

• Family Notices from The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) of Friday 16 June 1939, Page 1. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205630877

• Hartkopf baggy green caps off Test display WORDS: MR DAVID ASHTON (’65) from the Great Scot magazine of May 2010. as archived on the Scotch College Melbourne website. first accessed online on the 11th of December, 2021 at: https://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/greatscot/2010mayGS/52b.htm

• Death of Cricket Identity, from The Age, (Thursday, May 23 1968), page 28 first accessed online on the 11th of December, 2021 at: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fSdWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cOMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4397%2C4062277

• Albert Ernst Victor Hartkopf 1889 - 1968 from the DAREBIN HERITAGE website. first accessed online on the 11th of December, 2021 at: https://heritage.darebinlibraries.vic.gov.au/article/263 (Darebin Heritage website (http://heritage.darebinlibraries.vic.gov.au/) is the property of the Darebin Libraries or the City of Darebin and is protected by the Copyright Act 1968 (Vic) and International copyright laws.)

• Melbourne University Football Team, League, 1909, University of Melbourne Archives note: Hartkopf is second from the right, back row.