MUTTONS of Bathurst

[lemming23]

Good afternoon all,
So - it was the Elizabeth and it was Mary and not Margaret!

I am overwhelmed by all the help people on here are giving! A particular thank you to Judith! I'll definitely try to get hold of a copy of this book. My account with Bathurst FS has just been activated and so I will try there and also try the Cowra FS. I have taken your advice Cazay and emailed the owner of the tree you mentioned.
If you have the time and inclination to find out what you can from the Bathurst Library on my behalf I would be be very grateful Miss May.  There is no rush at all - except that I'm becoming increasingly interested in this branch of the family! I find their spirit of adventure amazing!
Lemming

[judb]

R'chatters on the Australia Board are very special and very happy to help as well as being meticulous researchers.

I am constantly amazed at the resilience and enterprise shown by our forebears who took such risks and left their homes to come 12000 miles.  My Irish family came with 2 small children when Melbourne was only 5 years settled.  I would have thought getting from Tipperary to Plymouth would have been enough of an undertaking.  My Northumberland family's mother had her first letter from them 4 years after they left - she had given them up for dead. 

Enough!  Do let us know how you get on!

Judith

[Miss May]

Hi Lemming

Bathurst library has a copy of "Out of Cornwall" available for reference only. If there is anything specific that you would like me to look up for you, make a list and post it here as I go to the library each week. Unfortunately, as Judith has mentioned, the book is now out of print. One of our local independent bookshops who often stocks local history books, is unable to find a copy anywhere, and there are no remainder copies with the printers. The lady author from Cowra has unfortunately passed away, but being a small town I have been given the contact details of one of her adult children who might be able to help in case the author saved some copies. I shall pm those details to you. There is also a 2nd author who I think is based in Sydney, but I really have no way of tracking him down. Modified: just checked his name against Ryerson and there's one there for 2002.

Having now seen this book, I would suggest that it would be invaluable for your family research, and wish I had such an extensive record of my family



MM

[Aussie1947]

The Sydney Herald Monday 6th August 1832 p4

Colonial Secretary's Office Sydney 30th July 1832.

Yearly Leases of Land

Mention of 1280 acres bounded on the north by the fish river etc..applied for by Richard Mutton.

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/12844983?searchTerm=%22Richard+Mutton%22

Gerry

[lemming23]

Thank you Gerry - seems like a lot of land to me - just 5 years after they arrived in Australia! He certainly couldn't have done this in Cornwall!
Miss May,
I can't think of any particular points for you to check in the book - except I would be interested in knowing if they kept in contact with the family left behind in Cornwall - or anything about William Mutton and Mary Parsons their grandfather -but, I have heard enough to know I want to see this book! I am waiting to hear from Bathurst FHS and also Cowra FHS and will try to contact the author's relative directly otherwise. Thank you so much for finding out contact details on my behalf.
Perhaps if it's not too much trouble you could look to see if the library has a copy of:
William and Ann Webb by Ken Mugglestone1990. I don't know the publishers - but this is about Richard's sister Ann who also seems to have been a formidable woman. Richard's brother, Robert Mutton, also emigrated to Wallaroo Mines about the same time - they must have been quite a family.
Lemming

[Miss May]

Hi Lemming

Got your pm - a pleasure to help and especially interesting since it's local, even though they're not my rellies

I shall look for the other book you mention in the local library.

For interest, the area is extremely pretty especially along the river. Mutton Falls does indeed still exist, and Mutton Falls Road is the main route into O'Connell. The countryside is very unspoilt and not at all built up. It is still possible to find gold and semi-precious stones around Oberon/Tarana/O'Connell, especially sapphires 

Most of the early settlers were involved in the goldrush as the Fish River between Bathurst and Oberon yielded it's first recorded gold finds in c1823.

MM

[lemming23]

I thought I'd share my excitement with you! Following leads given on here I am now awaiting  delivery of my own copy of Out of Cornwall! I would certainly not have been able to have tracked it down without all of your help- so- many thanks! I feel quite gleeful!
A very grateful Lemming!

[nlywhite]

Good Morning,

My great-great Grandmother is Mary Mutton of Cornwall born 1824 the daughter of William Mutton and Elizabeth Dunn.  Mary married William Pearn in 1843 and in 1846 moved to Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois. The author of the book, Out of Cornwall: The Richard and Mary Mutton Story, contacted my family in the late 1980's while writing the book. Our family tree contains the Mutton/Dunn/Burnard families.  We have been trying to locate a copy of the book since the author included ancestors in the book.  Would you be so kind to forward the booksellers information so that I might contact them about obtaining a copy of the book?

By the way, I live in the United States.

Thank you

[lemming23]

Hello Nlywhite,
I'll pm you,
Lemming