Name: MUDGE 20201024

Updated: 10-24-2020 05:10:97.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Ronald James Mudge: Birth: ABT 1872.

  2. Harold Mudge: Birth: ABT 1872.

  3. William Albert Mudge: Birth: 13 APR 1873 in Willunga, South Australia, Australia. Death: 17 SEP 1943

  4. Mary Emily Mudge: Birth: 5 FEB 1875 in Willunga, South Australia, Australia. Death: 18 APR 1901 in Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia

  5. Ernest Henry Mudge: Birth: 27 OCT 1876 in Oaklands, South Australia, Australia. Death: 18 JAN 1963 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

  6. Beatrice Maud Mudge: Birth: 5 AUG 1878 in Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia. Death: 22 JAN 1959

  7. Ada Agnes Mudge: Birth: 13 SEP 1880 in Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia. Death: 11 JAN 1937

  8. Roland James Mudge: Birth: 6 JUL 1882 in , South Australia, Australia. Death: 26 JAN 1926

  9. Edgar Bastian Mudge: Birth: 25 OCT 1884 in Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia. Death: 13 DEC 1902

  10. Harold Mudge: Birth: 10 AUG 1886 in Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia. Death: 10 JUN 1921 in Nailsworth, South Australia, Australia

  11. Annie Mudge: Birth: 30 MAR 1889 in Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia.

  12. Kate Mudge: Birth: 14 MAR 1890 in Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia.

  13. Marian Holman Mudge: Birth: 29 AUG 1891 in Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia. Death: 25 SEP 1961


Sources
1. Title:   SA Genealogy & Heraldry Society, <i>Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-85
 </i> (CD Index Vol.1-4 & Sth Aust Se
2. Title:   "Find A Grave Index," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W6RM-HNT2 : 4 August 2020), Henry Mudge, ; Burial, Nailsworth, Prospect City, South Australia, Australia, North Road Church of England Cemetery; citing record ID 201594303, <i>Find a Grave</i>, http://www.findagrave.com.
Link:   http://www.findagrave.com
3. Title:   <i>Data from John MUDGE (MyHeritage/ contact MudgeBarritt website) </i>
4. Title:   "Find A Grave Index," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W6RM-HNT2 : 4 August 2020), Henry Mudge, ; Burial, Nailsworth, Prospect City, South Australia, Australia, North Road Church of England Cemetery; citing record ID 201594303, <i>Find a Grave</i>, http://www.findagrave.com.
Link:   http://www.findagrave.com

Notes
a. Note:   H84K-KQ BIOGRAPHY: Henry was the youngest of the Mudge family at the time that they immigrated to South Australia in 1850 aboard the "AGINCOURT". He was educated at Wilunga by a Mr Bassett and moved with thefamily to Milang in 1856.
 When he was 10 years old he obtained employment as a shepherd boy. He returned to Willunga for a year and then went to TOLARNO station, on the Darling River in New South Wales, with his father, William and worked as a stockrider. Later he worked in the saddlery trade with a Mr Lasscock in Wilunga.
 He married Jane BASTIAN, whose parents were well known in the slate quarrying business of the area in 1872. He carried on his work in the saddlery trade, on his own account, before going to Oaklands,on the Yorke Peninsular for a few years.
 In 1887, perceiving an opening for an energetic businessman in Streaky Bay, he established a general store there and sent travelling vans throughout the Gawler Ranges with very profitable results. Herepresented W.Thomas & Company, millers and wheat buyers of the district and was one of the first persons to ship grain from this far western port.
 He conducted the carrying business until he subsequently handed it over to his two sons Ronald James and Harold.
 He successfully conducted farming pursuits in the district and was one of the pioneering agriculturists.
 He was appointed a Commissioner of the Peace in 1896 and was the first councillor appointed by the Government for Streaky Bay, in which capacity he served for ten years. He was one of the founders ofthe local Mechanics Institute. He retired to St .Peters, in Adelaide, in his latter years.

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