Help deciphering a surname please

[Rosinish]

Sorry I  can't help with name but is this enhanced version any help?

Annie

[Anne Lothian]

Looks like G B Morgliany, with a long tail of the y coming back under the full signature. A

[Rodgerslad]

Thank you so much for your help and suggestions everyone.  What a brilliant forum, to receive such a quick and friendly response. 

I think I will try and go down the line of finding out what the star badges could be and see if I can find anything there.

Thanks again all.

Andy

[Malcolm33]

Thank you so much for your help and suggestions everyone.  What a brilliant forum, to receive such a quick and friendly response. 

I think I will try and go down the line of finding out what the star badges could be and see if I can find anything there.

Thanks again all.

Andy

     My thoughts on the star badges were that they might have been some kind of uniform - say a cable car conductor - but cannot see any similarity with the uniforms shown on Melbourne Tramways Museum pages.   OR something like the Masons for there were quite a number of Societies at that time, such as the IOOF - Independent Order of the Odd Fellows.

[Treetotal]

I wondered if the collar badges had a connection to The White Star Line shipping company?
Carol

[Rodgerslad]

Yes, when I was doing research about the white star lapel badge, the only thing I came up with was the orchestra of the Titanic.  So maybe you are correct.  A White Star Line musician maybe?  Especially with Melbourne being a major port. 

[Malcolm33]

I wondered if the collar badges had a connection to The White Star Line shipping company?
Carol

   I rather doubt it.   I've had a look at the White Star uniforms and they don't have anything on the lapels so if he was working in one of their shipping offices it is unlikely that they would have had anything on the lapels.

    Might be something on trove about society uniforms in Australia in the 1800's.

[Malcolm33]

   Could be something to do with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows - they used a star - http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10245800   So their officers might have had something like that.

[Malcolm33]

  They did.   The IOOF had uniforms with a star on each lapel - see http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/us/26land.html