George Mundy, Convict "Calcutta" 1802

George MUNDY was born c1778 in Devon, UK ( son of Joseph MUNDY and Martha CLAYTON)

George was convicted at the Devonshire Assizes of burglary & stealing liquor from the house of Richard Beer. Was sentenced to death & then reprieved and transported for life.
Arrived on the 'Calcutta' with David Collins in the attempt to make a settlement at Port Phillip (Vic) in 1803. Was subsequently transferred to the 'Ocean' & arrived at Risdon Cove in 1804.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_(1794_ship)

George married Ann Garland READING in 1811 in Hobart, Tasmania

After Ann died in 1812, George married Sarah ISRAEL / FREE in 1813 in Hobart, Tasmania and they had the following children

• James 1815
• George 1817
• Samuel 1819
• Thomas William 1821
• Henry Edward 1824
• Mary Ann Elizabeth 1826
• John 1828
• Sarah 1830
• Maria Hannah 1832
• Edward 1836

George died 28/5/1867 in Pitttwater, Tasmania

Links

• http://www.australian-english-genealogy.com/George%20Mundy.html
• https://www.cocker.id.au/ancestor_bellett.php
• http://www.tasfhs.org/Volume%2020.pdf page 242
• https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/munday/george/107379
• http://www.htfs.org.au/settlers1804.htm
• https://www.tasfhs.org/downloads/Volume20Number4_2000.pdf

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'Notes:
Convicted & sentenced at Devon Assizes to transportation for life; 22 March 1802.
H.M.S. Calcutta departed: February 1803, arriving in Port Phillip, Vic. & subsequently transferred to Van Diemans Land, 1804.
Source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 335 (167)

George Mundy, born 1778 in Exeter, Devon, England; died 1867 in "Cherry Tree Opening" Sorell , Tasmania, Australia. Buried in St Georges, Pittwater, Tasmania, son of Joseph Mundy and Martha Clayton.

He married In 1811 he married Ann Garland Reading, (born 1796 in Norfolk Island; died 1812, in Hobart), daughter of Andrew Reading(Redding) and Ann Galland; In 1813 he married Sarah Free (Israel), (born 1797 in Norfolk Island; died 1871 in Kangaroo Point, Sorell, Tasmania), daughter of Samuel Free (Convict - Salamander) and Elizabeth Smith.
Convicted at Devonshire in 1802, of stealing liquor; arrived in Hobart on the 'Calcutta'; pardoned in 1813.
Owned 50 acres in Hobart Town then moved to Clarence Plains.