THE MUDDLE FAMILIESTHE LINEAGE & HISTORY OF THE MUDDLE FAMILIES OF THE WORLD INCLUDING VARIANTS MUDDEL, MUDDELL, MUDLE & MODDLE |
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Introduction
The following stories relating to different aspects and episodes of Muddle family history, either expand on, or give more of an overview, of the families' history than that recorded in the main family narratives, which are based on documenting the history of each individual of the family. Click on the titles to read the full stories.
Stories relating to the Buxted Muddles
Three Elizabethan Horse Thieves The story of the earliest confirmed member of the Buxted Muddles, John Muddle of Rotherfield, who was accused of horse theft in 1852. The result of his trial would not only determine if he would hang, but as it was five years before he married and had children, whether the whole Buxted Muddle Family would even come into being.
Joseph Muddle – A Dickensian Wicked Uncle? The story of the Muddle family’s land in the village of High Hurstwood from the late 17th century, and how it was finally lost, after several generations of ownership, in a complicated series of transactions that seem to implicate Joseph Muddle in attempting to cheat his two young nephews out of their rightful inheritance in the mid 19th century.
Bounty Migrants – Australia Bound The story of Isaac Muddle of High Hurstwood who, with his second wife and children, migrated to Australia in 1838. They settled in the recently opened up country in northern New South Wales and after early hardships prospered enough to form the largest family of Muddles in Australia, which after 150 years, rivaled, at least in numbers, the Muddles they had left behind in England.
The story of the involvement of Ernest and Maud Moddle’s family in one of Canada’s worst natural disasters, the forest fire, known as the Haileybury fire, that swept over about 2000 square miles of Ontario on 4 October 1922.
Stories relating to Other Muddles
Edward Muddle - A Sailor who Served at Trafalgar The story of the naval service of Edward Muddle who was serving on HMS Leviathan at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. It has not been possible to place Edward in one of the Muddle families as his origins are unknown.
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