Henry Mundy Society

The Mundy Family of Australia
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In 1885 George was in business with his uncle John in Mooroopna. They separated in 1888. George was Captain of the Mooroopna Urban Fire Brigade in 1880s and on the board of the Mooroopna Hospital - where he also had contracts for building wards, and burying the better-off deceased patients. John was also tendering for jobs, but was often beaten by his nephew - which was a large part of their bickering. John also had the contract to conduct funerals for the unfinancial deceased. George owned land and buildings in Shepparton and Mooroopna and moved his family and business to newly developing Shepparton in 1902 where he became even more successful. George and Esther had four children.

Mary Matilda 1879-1889 (drowned)
Esther Elizabeth 1881 married Arthur Long
Percival George 1884 - 1961
Reginald Clarence Rupert 1888-1915 - went to the US and Canada as a motor bike racer. Killed in Scotland in flight training for Canadian Airforce in 1919.
Sylvia Viviene May 1892 married Hal Northcote

Esther, Sylvia, Percival and Reginald are pictured below:

Percival George 1884-1961 married Emily Broad in 1908 (pictured below).

They had five children, Mary, Alfred, Leslie, Harold (who gave Les's father the manuscript.) and Esther.

Percival worked for his father as a carpenter and moved to Preston (Melbourne) from country Numurkah after his marriage. He often took his family to Shepparton and Dookie for holidays where they stayed with a Mrs Roach. Emily was admitted to the mental institution in Ararat in the early 1920s after the birth of her final child, Esther. She was left there alone and died in Melbourne in 1951, having had virtually no contact with her husband or children probably because of the attitude in those days towards shame of mental illness. Mary and Alfred visited her but she did not know them.

Percival moved to Gisborne in 1926 where he leased the general store and became president of the football club. He had several housekeepers - Constance Victoria Purdon was the final one and he married her in 1935. The picture below shows them on the day of their marriage.

They adopted Arthur in 1937. In 1932 the family left Gisborne, moved to St Kilda (Melbourne) then later, Collingwood. Percival was out of work during the depression but he built some houses with his son Alfred and then worked under contract. He moved to Montmerency (outer Melbourne) where he died in 1961. Alfred George, Percival's eldest son is pictured below with Molly Flack who he married in 1936. They had four children: Joy, Peter, Jeffrey and Ian.

It was in August 2004 that one of Alfred's sons, Peter with his wife Gillian and their daughter Jodee, visited the village. They knew nothing about the publication of the diaries and were surprised to find Les. Hughes' book advertised there. The picture is of Peter on the day of a follow-up trip to Bow Brickhill.

Peter lives in the suburbs of Sydney and has two sons, Shane and Gavin & Shane, a daughter Jode and two grandsons Phoenix and Oskar born in 2004..

Peter Mundy and family in 2001

Percival's granddaughter, Christine Holmes visited Bow Brickhill in April 2007 w the year after the death of her mother, Esther. Chris and her husband Bill are pictured below outside All Saints Church.

And so the generations continue for below is their daughter Keren with her husband Matt.

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