Joseph Muntz and Elizabeth Jamison's
Fourth child
William Thomas Muntz (born 25-5-1862 Belfast died 6-1- 1902 Woodend)
[red denotes  living male descendants  named MUNTZ 2001]

  William Thomas Muntz and Laura Leech: married 31-7-1889 Vic.

Their eight children  were all born Woodend

Probably this was taken about 1894 William Thomas Muntz wife and  before the birth of their last child.

1. Elizabeth "Lizzie"Laura Muntz (1890-1966 Kyneton) unmarried.
Trained as a nurse at the Queen Victoria Hospital Melbourne, and worked for the Red Cross and the Country Women's Assoc. and nursed in the Woodend district and looked after her mother who became crippled.

2. Jean Isobel Ryle Muntz (1891-1965) worked on the "Everleigh" farm and helped her mother look after the children after her father died when she was only 11 years old.  She met and married William Alfred THOMPSON and lived in Brighton, where they had three children Bill, Bett and June.

.3. Florence "Amy" Muntz (1893-1972) worked on the farm until it was sold 195??. She also worked for the Red Cross, CWA and Presbyterian Church.  When she retired she lived in Carlisle St, Woodend opposite Lorna Muntz.

4. Joseph Thomas Jamison Muntz (1895-1963) was a machine gunner In WW1, AIF, 59th Battalion in France and Belgium.  He met Christina Jane WALKER, while working at Woosang after the war on the farm of his mother's brother George F Leech, called "Leechfield ". They married 2-3-1929 and their children,

• Laura “Margaret” Muntz
• Isobel “Dorothy” Muntz
• Ina “Shirley” Muntz

5. William "Bill" George Muntz (1896-1960) was a farmer at Woodend and shire president and councilor.  He married to "Dollie" Cranny who lived to the age of 84 and died in 1985 but they had no children.  During the 1930's depression he and brother John worked at droving cattle between Woosang (in the Mallee) to Woodend and on the diggings of the new irrigation systems around the Murray River, at Yarrawonga When the depression was over he returned to the "Everleigh" farm.

6. "John" Leech Muntz (1898-1960) was a potato farmer at "Everleigh" , Woodend.  He joined his brother William droving and on the channels at Yarrawonga.  He joined up for WW2 serving In Australia.  After WW2 he married Lorna FLOOD in Nov 1945 , and worked for the shire council and they had three children,

• Geoffrey  Stanley Muntz b 12-8-1947  Is he married with any children??,
• I W Muntz b 1950  m. 1 ch
• L C Muntz1974,
• son  Muntz b 2007
• Joy Elizabeth Muntz  b 1956 m. 1981 -2 ch.

7.  "Stan"ley Gordon Muntz (1899-1950) unmarried, worked on the "Everleigh"  potato farm and as a foreman for the local council, lived also in Carlisle St Woodend .

8. Marguerite  "Dorothy" Muntz (1901-1978) born 1901 Woodend married Alfred Edward THOMPSONbrother of William Alfred and they had a factory making leather cricket balls "Kookaburra" brand,  and lived in the Brighton area.

2007 Kookaburra soft cricket ball for my 6 year old  great nephew Robert Konsatnty Nicholson fo Xmas!

They had four children:

1. Alfred John Thompson,  Alfred "John" Thompson is an architect and designed the St Andrews Presbyterian Hall at Woodend.
2. Bruce Muntz Thompson,
3. "Jim" James Edward Thompson, and
4. Amy " Grace" Thompson who grew up in the Brighton area.

Photograph taken c1920 at "Everleigh" Woodend of children and wife of William Thomas Muntz.
Standing L-R Jean, Joe(Joseph Thomas Jamison), Lizzie, John
Sitting L-R Bill(William George), F.Amy, Laura nee Leech, Stan, Dorothy
(probably taken just before the eldest son was sent to WW1)

Family picnic  Woodend  c 1905
Standing L-R John Muntz, Stan Muntz, Jean, Bill, Lizzie, X1, X2, Amy  Muntz
Sitting L-R Dorothy Muntz (b1901), "Aunt  Jane Leechn Muntz"  ? Susan STUART?  (nee Muntz), "Grandmother" Laura (nee Leech) Muntz, _ X3, X4  unkown "Aunt Jane's husbsand?", todler, 3 young ladies unknown, Joe (Thomas Jamison Muntz)
perhaps the old man is Geo. Fred. Leech?
"" names supplied by  late Bob Stockdale.[2007]

Photograph  taken  probably at Woodend on New Years Day c 1915?