Les. has
discovered more facts about Henry's life.
The ship which brought the Mundys to Australia was the
Abberton, belonging to Marshall of London, which was
built Ipswich 1819. It arrived in Williamstown
September 22nd 1844 having sailed from London on May 16th
and Cork on June 1th. The Master was John Campbell and
the Surgeon Edward John Warring. Bounty paid by the
government was 18/14/0 per couple.
Henry later dug and found gold in Ararat after his
writings finish in the book, and before moving to Clunes.
He was also a carpenter in Echuca on the Victoria and New
South Wales border as well as the places we knew of. He
purchased his farm in 1879, about 25 miles from Shepparton, at
Naringalingalook (see below), leaving his son George to run
the carpentry and undertaking business in Mooroopna.
In September 1878 Henry and nine others established at a
school at Naringalingalook after acquiring a two acre
site there from E. Bentley. The school was
officially gazetted on May 28nd 1880 with a portable building
erected. It was State School 2366 and had an enrollment
of 50 in 1894. Unstaffed in July 1924 it closed on April
22nd 1925.
Henry and John’s mother is buried in the cemetery at
that small town where John built the fine grave and headstone
after Henry’s death.
John Mundy, Henry's brother, had a son
also named Henry - but generally known as Harry. He
became a carpenter and undertaker too in Mooroopna with his
father in 1876. Harry married Amelia Davis and had seven
children - Arnold, Reginald, Eric, Jim, Alice, Rose (who
drowned when 20) and Esther.
Les. is of the opinion that Henry, and more so his son
George's family, did very well and became part of the
establishment in their areas - Henry lived a large proportion
of his later life in St Kilda with his daughter. John
Mundy stayed locally and but the two families were not very
close after John went into business competition with Henry and
George in Mooroopna. Business disputes occurred often
and were publicly aired in the newspaper of the time.
The picture below is thought to be John Mundy (2nd from
right) with the white beard with Dolly his wife beside
him, daughter Rose (middle rose 2nd from right) and Alice
(known as Cis) with her arm on the child beside her. With
them are other early occupants of the Kialla
Settlement. The settlement, on the opposite side of
the Goulburn River at Mooroopna, was divided into 20 or 30
acre lots for living and small farming. Many of the
Mundy children from John's side bought into it.
This area has now been mined for sand and mainly turned back
to bush despite having been very fertile orchards in the
1930s.
