Born County Down, Ireland and "from the time he left school until he was 24 he assisted his parents farming. In 1854 he came to Melbourne and worked a various jobs for two and half years . He farmed in the Kyneton district for some years with much success and went into business at Woodend as a general commission agent  and auctioneer; while in the latter place he was appointed justice of the peace.
"Eventually misfortune  befell him and he lost his all. He returned to Melbourne and was variously occupied fro four years and at last took a situation wit h Mr. J. T Molloy produce merchant at 120 Queens Street remaining there 2 years.
"He next started railway contracting but after 2 years returned to his former situation with Mr Molloy who died in 1886. Mr Muntz bought the business from the executors and is now carrying on a large trade in hay, corn and general produce, trading as Hugh Muntz and Co." [The Co. were his sons and others.]  from "The Metropolis: its providers and distributors." 1887.
Hugh Muntz died 1 December 1888 at Gipps Street Collingwood, Melbourne aged 59 years of "Hydatid Cyst of the liver and Bronchitis" buried by a Wesleyan Minister at Kew, Boroondara Cemetery, Melbourne. Plot number Wesleyan  531-3.

Hugh's  sons W.H., G.W., J.E., & A.T (in photo below c 1930) Muntz carried on his business for a few years until the financial crisis in Victoria in 1892 drove them to Far North Queensland wher they formed a company "Muntz Bros". Hugh's  widow and all the adult children went to live in Queensland. In 1896  they began  farming sugar at "Bie Brie" Mossman, far north Queensland.

When Hugh married in  1858 at Woodend,  to Annie Evans who was  widowed since 1856  daughter of Thoms Dunstan and Jane Rowe born Cornwall, England, with 2 children. Hugh was a farmer at Woodend 1860-1868. He was a coucillor in 1862, 1866-67 a a local magistrate.

• Susan 1857/8 - 12 -12 -1918 Bur Port Douglas cem Qld not married (NM)
• William  "Henry" Muntz 1858/9 - c 1944 Mareeba Qld (NM)
• Both these children are listed on the death certificate( Vic.Public Records) of Hugh Muntz but could be Annie's children from her first marriage.
The only  births registered  to these parents in Vic.Public Records are:
• Annie  Muntz b 5-11-1806 at Carlsruhe, Vic  d. 7-5-1956 Ayr Qld.m 1888  George NIELSON
• Emily  Muntz b 1861 Woodend d ???. Qld.  m 11-9-1886 Bris.Thomas William CRAWFORD
 

Emily [nee Muntz] Crawford

• John Edward Muntz b 15-3-1863 Woodend Vic.d. 22-21952 Qld m  1894 (Vic.Public Records) Ethel May BLACKBURN- 8  living males named MUNTZ 2001 see web page here 2005
  
  
  Edward Muntz 1902 a the Opening of the rail Port Douglas Shire Queensland.
  
  
  
• George Woodville Muntz (NM)
• Mary Harriet "Minnie"  Muntz b. 1866 Woodend Vic.d. c1947 Qld   N.I.  m J.K."Doug" LAWSON widower 
  
  Mary Harriet Muntz
  
  


         Mary Harriet Muntz and Doug Lawson passport photos 1928
 
• Alfred Thomas Muntz b.1868 Woodend Vic.d. 1950 Queensland (NM)

Hugh's widow Annie [Dunstan] Muntz, -black clothes- their adult children and their husbands: Neilson, Crawford and and wife Ethel May Blackburn and children. Mossman c1902






INDEX TO: "Northern Outpost" - John Kerr - 1979 - ISBN 0-9595779-0-4
Index compiled by David C. Leslie, Innisfail, Qld. Australia. 4860
http://www.users.bigpond.com/leslieslegends/index.htm

CRAWFORD Arthur Edward   so. T W                                 106

CRAWFORD Charles Muntz   so. T W                                 106

CRAWFORD Edith           da. T W  m. Harvey WATSON               106

CRAWFORD Robert          br. T W                                 105

CRAWFORD Thomas William  from Victoria to Brie Brie m.Emly MUNTZ 27,31,40,45,48,52-55,79,102,105,108,109,111

CRAWFORD W H             Canegrower Mossman 1941 so. T W         96,106,127,148

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Persons before Queensland Government Committees (1902-1920)
Muntz   George Woodville   Cane Farmer in Mossman   Pacific Islanders   1906/v.2   726-727
Muntz  George Woodville  Canegrower and Chairman of Directors of the Mossman Central Mill  Proposed Railway (Mount Molloy Extension)

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