George MUIR

Abt 1788 - 1834  (46 years)

• Name	George MUIR
  Birth	Abt 1788
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Jan 1834	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia   [1]
  Burial	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia   [2]
  Person ID	I3742	Davidson-Radford

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth CANTWELL,   b. 1789   d. 20 Nov 1877, Maitland, New South Wales, Australia (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	29 May 1811	Marylebone, Greater London, England
  Children	1. Mary Ann MUIR,   b. 1812, Kent, England d. 6 Apr 1837, Maitland, New South Wales, Australia (Age 25 years)  [Father: natural ]  [Mother: natural ]   2. Elizabeth MUIR,   b. Abt 1815   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural ]  [Mother: natural ]   3. Frances Sophia MUIR,   b. Abt 1819   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural ]  [Mother: natural ]   4. Priscilla MUIR,   b. Abt 1821   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural ]  [Mother: natural ]   5. James Richard MUIR,   b. Abt 1825   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural ]  [Mother: natural ]   6. Rebecca S. MUIR,   b. Abt 1827   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural ]  [Mother: natural ]
  Family ID	F968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 21 Jan 1834 - Maitland, New South Wales, Australia Burial - - Maitland, New South Wales, Australia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Died: At his residence Maitland on the 25th January, 1834 after a shor t and severe illness of four days Mr. Geo. Muir, a man universally res pected by all who knew him, leaving a wife and seven children to lamen t his loss. Death Notice in SMH George Muir, along with his wife Eliz abeth Muir, and their children arrived free in NSW in 1823 in the shi p "Jupiter". By 1828 he had become the Chief Constable at Newcastle. I that year he was forty and his wife thirty-eight. They now had two m ore children, a son and heir, James Richard, three and Rebeccah Sarah , ten months. To further eke out a living, George Muir had also cultiv ated 42 acres out of 100 acres and had 4 horses and 42 head of cattle . It is thought that this may have been land he had on Ironbark Creek , next to Mr. Platt's where be obtained permission in 1829 to depart h is own livestock on adjoining Crown land at two shillings and sixpenc e per annum per 100 acres. On the other hand, it may have been the 10 3 acres he had held for some years on the road to Morpeth. On his lan d in 1829, he built Muir's Inn, later to become the Union Inn. Elizabe th, his wife, became the proprietor of the new Union Inn. The Union In was built by Alexander McLEOD and stood on the present site of Eas t Maitland. The Sydney Gazette of 18 July commented on the opening o f this inn:- "Without the Proprietor the town of Maitland would be t o this day without a road, a bridge or an hotel". George Muir held th e licence of the Union Inn from 1829 to 1832. On 1 January, 1831, Geor ge Muir resigned his office as Chief Constable at Newcastle and on th e same day was appointed Postmaster at Maitland. After residing in th e Colony for 8 years as a free settler and an officer of the Crown, o 1 September 1831 George Muir was belatedly awarded a primary land gr ant for 640 acres. This was portion 95 on the eastern boundary of th e Stockrington Parish, located at Dog Hole, near Black Hill. Muir wa s also reported as having a farm between Hexham and Newcastle. Georg e Muir built an inn on the site of the present Maitland Girls' High Sc hool. The Green Hills road of that time passed close to the doors of t he inn, which was licensed on 26 June 1833 as Muir's Family Hotel. Geo ge Muir died in late 1833. (extract from a book (title?) on the Muirs . Maitland Library.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S55] NSW BDM , NSW BDM. V1833721 17/1833 . [S27] East Maitland Anglican Cemetery Inscriptions .