Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
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Matthew Tomkins per Minerva 1819 assigned servant
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State Archives NSW. Convict Indents. Microfiche 678
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Mary Ann Woods per Kains assigned to James Mudie on arrival
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Newcastle Gaol Description Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 137 (Ancestry)
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Richard Poucher, Charles Harrax, Walter Darcy and William Brown all assigned to John Larnach or James Mudie admitted to Newcastle gaol charged with sheep stealing.
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4012]; Microfiche: 666
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Roger Ellison per Prince Regent assigned to James Mudie on arrival in the colony
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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George Stewart per Recovery, assigned to James Mudie. Charged with gross prevarication in giving evidence in the matter of assault by Edwin Baldwin on James Mudie. George Stewart sentenced to 25 lashes
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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Henry Brady, assigned servant to James Mudie charged with absenting himself from his masters service...Mr. Mudie states....About three months since I gave Brady a pass to proceed from Patrick Plains for Parramatta and here I met him. Brady went to Parramatta from Patrick Plains overland. I went from Newcastle to Sydney by water. At Parramatta I gave Brady another pass to proceed from thence to Sydney. I had given Brady his first pass to proceed to Parramatta to look at a winnowing machine as I wanted him to make me one. It is nearly four months ago. When I left him at Parramatta with the second pass, he was to have joined me in Sydney the following day but he did not come and I have only heard of him lately. I reported his absence to the Principal Superintendent of Convicts at Sydney and also to the Chief Constable at Parramatta but not to any of the Magistrates for the districts of Hunters River or at the office of the Commandant at Newcastle. ....The Bench is of opinion that as it appears on Mr. Mudie own admission that he gave Brady a pass to proceed overland from Patrick Plains to Parramatta and afterwards to Sydney and although he was absent upwards of three months no intimation of his having absconded was given by Mr. Mudie to the Magistrates, the Bench having decided that no corporal punishment shall be inflicted on the prisoners but it being a notorious fact that he is a very improper character to be suffered to be at large, either under the sanction of a pass from his employer or otherwise, to prevent a recurrence of such irregularity it is hereby ordered that Henry Bray be recalled to Government service in the gaol gang and that Mr. Mudie be supplied with another mechanic in his stead.
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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Patrick Dunn, John Yates and Thomas Head, all in the service of James Mudie, charged with absconding from their masters service and taking to the bush. Mr. Mudie states....Patrick Dunn is a very troublesome character. I have reason to think he has corrupted my other servants and instigated them to misconduct. Patrick Dunn sentenced to 75 lashes and to be sent to Port Macquarie for two years. Yates and Head sentenced to 50 lashes
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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Mary Smith per Mary, in the service of James Mudie charged with refusing to return to her service and for general misconduct....Miss Emily Mudie states...At the request of my father I this morning directed Mary Smith to hold herself in readiness to proceed with us to our farm at Patrick Plains. She positively refused to go and added that if she did go she would go dead. I have frequently had occasion to complain of her improper language and behaviour towards me and her repeated disobedience of my orders....Mary Smith states in her defence as follows. My reasons for refusing to return to Mr. Mudies farm are 1st. That Mr. Mudie came to the skilling where I slept and without any provocation knocked me down on my bed. 2nd. That frequently for three weeks out of a month I have been obliged to drink siftings coffee instead of tea; 3rd. I have been obliged to eat bread baked in the ashes. 4th. That when I have bread at breakfast, I had not any butter allowed me. 5th. That the only tea I ever got was that which was left from the Parlour breakfast table. Mary Smith admits that anything coming from the Parlour dinner table was allowed to be eaten in the kitchen but adds that so little was in general left that it was but a trifling addition to the dinner of her and the overseer who always partook with her. Mr. Mudie denies most solemnly ever having struck Mary Smith States that upon the occasion alluded to the prisoner called him an old rascal and using other insolent expressions very much irritated him and he laid hold of her to push her away and she fell on her bed ....Miss Emily Mudie corroborated Mr. Mudies statement and stated Mary Smith lived in every respect like ourselves. On one occasion when our stock of tea was extinguished and none was to be procured at Patrick Plains, the family for a short time had to drunk siftings coffee. Mary Smith had always as much sugar as she chose to ask for but was desired not to waste it in making lolly pops. I always put fresh tea in the pot for the servants in the kitchen and the prisoner has always till now expressed herself satisfied with the treatment she receives from me but her conduct has upon various occasions been most insulting. She has shook her fist and spit at me. She has called me and my sisters pigs and hogs....I have detected her taking wine and spirits from the decanter clandestinely and yesterday she left the house without leave and returned in a state of intoxication. Mary Smith being found guilty of the charges preferred against her is sentenced to three weeks solitary confinement in the cells of the Factory at Parramatta and then to be employed at government labour.
Source:
Singleton Court of Petty Sessions. Register of Convicts. Ancestry
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William Downing assigned to James Mudie. Charged by John Larnach and Edward Brampton with losing a sheep. Acquitted
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X633]; Microfiche: 696
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William Wilson, native place Nottinghamshire, shepherd, assigned to James Mudie on arrival
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 678
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James Harvey per Lady Harewood assigned to James Mudie on arrival
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 669
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Charles Stanley per ship Countess of Harcourt 1828 assigned to James Mudie on arrival
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Mr. Mudie, three Miss Mudies and Miss Scargill arrived on the vessel 'Asia' from England
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Castle Forbes, Patrick Plains
Source:
Singleton Pioneer Register p. 64
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Born 1779 in Scotland, son of John Mudie and Margaret Greig. Spouse 1. Maria Mudie (did not emigrate) Issue Emily b 1807, Isabella Hanson b 1809, Maria Greig b. 1811, Ann Scargill (adopted) b. 1797. James Mudie died in 1852 in England
First Name:
James, Emily, Isabella, Maria...
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters
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James Mudie, settler at Newcastle. Came free per 'Asia' with daughters Emily, Maria and Isabella
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Adam Anderson per Bussorah Merchant together with other convicts who escaped from Major Mudie at Castle Forbes on list of prisoners apprehended
