[Transcription] Life of George Muddle [Manuscript]. Personal Diary recording events between 1847-1858. Transcription by Heather Mann, Paterson Historical Society.

[Manuscript] Life of George Muddle. With brief account of his life from his birth on 4th January 1823 to his arrival in Sydney on 31st August 1838; where he became a servant to a number of settlers along the Paterson River; his marriage to Elizabeth Moores on 2nd December 1846, followed by daily account  from 1 January 1847 to 30th June 1858 of his life working at Camerallyn (till 21 May 1853), Beldolba (22 May 1853 to June 1854), Levinsbrooke (July 1854) Beldolba (August 1854-November 1855), Camerallyn (26 November 1855 – 9 October 1857), Cairnsmore (20 October 1857 – 30 June 1858) End of manuscript entries.

The Dudley Museum Copy of George Muddle’s Diary

For the past twenty years, the Dudley Museum has held a xerox copy of a manuscript diary kept by George Muddle (1823-1889) documenting, in the main, his life as a servant worker on Charles Boydell’s estate Camerallyn, located between the Paterson and Allyn Rivers in the Hunter Region, on an almost daily basis from 1847 to 1858.

Provenance

Xerox copy of original manuscript “Life of George Muddle”. Xerox copy bears note: “Diary loaned by Craig Berry. He told Mrs Ede that he would call sometime to collect. Diary is in filing cabinet bottom drawer in hallway near history room. [Signed] Claire 4/6/99.” Dudley Museum was closing down operations in 2019, and the Xerox copy was obtained by Greg Ray and loaned to Gionni Di Gravio for digitising in August 2019.

For more information:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/08/15/george-muddle/