Mrs Alfred Mundy
(1814-1874)

Born Jane Hindmarsh in 1814, her father was Rear-Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh (1785-1860), a naval officer who was later the first Governor of South Australia (1836-1838) and Governor of Heligoland (1840-1856).

Jane Hindmarsh married Alfred Miller Mundy (1809-1877) on 5 June 1841 at Trinity Church, Adelaide, South Australia.

The couple appear on the 1861 census living at Shipley Hall in Derbyshire. Mr Mundy described himself as a Landed Proprietor and Justice of the Peace, making no mention of the extensive and lucrative collieries on which his family’s fortune was based.

At the time of the census, Mrs Mundy was 47 years old, so she was born in or about 1814. She gave ‘Kent, near Rochester’ as her place of birth. Also present on the night of the census were two unmarried daughters, Maria Jane (19) and Nelly (17). Both girls were born in South Australia. In 1863 Maria Jane Mundy married Edmund Constantine Henry Phipps, later the British ambassador in Belgium. Nelly Mundy married the Honourable Charles John Addington in 1862.

The Mundy’s son, Alfred Edward Miller Mundy (1849-1920), was elsewhere the night of the census.

Mrs Mundy died at Shipley Hall on 8 May 1874, on her 60th birthday.