Publican
1859-1860 – Fedder Jensen
Location
Mudmelong
In the News
The Sydney Morning Herald in April 18591Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: 1842-1954), Monday 11 April 1859, p 1. advertised a ‘£10 REWARD.-Stolen, at Mudmelong Flat, on the morning of the 3rd instant, an old fashioned plain GOLD WATCH; winds up on face, makers’ name Joyce (or Joice), No. IIII. Also, 1 Gold Watch-Guard, made like a ship’s cable and anchor stock. … The watch and guard are supposed to be concealed somewhere on Mudmelong Flat. £5 REWARD will be given by the undersigned to any person finding the same and taking them to Mr. Fedder Jensen, Mudmelong Flat; or to Mr. B. H. M’CABE, Police Station, Araluen. W. C. FELL, solicitor, Braidwood’.
By October 1859 the Sydney Morning Herald2Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: 1842-1954), Thursday 13 October 1859, p 2. outlined a charge of ‘having at Araluen, about three months since, stolen a box containing four gold watches, thirty-six silver watches, seventeen gold guards, and a number of silver guards, with other articles, of the value in the whole of £378. … Abraham Freidman, travelling jeweller, deposed that …, he arrived at the Araluen diggings, and put up at a public-house kept by one Jensen‘. He deposited a box and a bag containing his stock in trade in a bedroom and checking that window was fastened from outside with nails. He then checked on the room frequently. ‘On one occasion he went in after an absence of not more than five minutes, when he found that the window had been opened and his box, containing gold and silver watches, chains, &c, of the value of £378, had been abstracted.‘
In reporting on the February 1860 flood the Empire3Empire (Sydney, NSW: 1850-1875), Monday 20 February 1860, p 3. stated ‘Mr. T. Atkinson, storekeeper, of Mudmelong, has arrived in town, [with] … the following additional information … He informs us that at Mudmelong all the stores and public-houses were flooded, particularly the store of Messrs. Eaton and Co., and the public-house of Mr. Fedder Jensen, both of which, although not swept away, were severely injured. On the flat below Jensen’s all the huts and tents are swept away‘. The Empire then added4Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1875), Tuesday 21 February 1860, p 3. ‘At Mudmelong, there is only one man missing; there were some two or three huts swept away, but from the peculiar situation of the main buildings in this place, the only mishap that occurred was the flow of the back water. Fedder Jensen had the water up to the top of the bar in the tap-room; but, I believe he suffered no loss with the exception of what damage the water did to beds and bedding‘.
In August 1863 the NSW Government Gazette5New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832-1900), Tuesday 4 August 1863 (No.151), p 1711. published details of the Insolvent Estate of Fedder Jensen, of Araluen, jeweller.
In January 1864 the front page of the Araluen Star showed an advertisement placed for Fedder Jensen, a working jeweller at Crown Flat.6Araluen Star and Miners’ Right (NSW : 1863-1864), Saturday 9 January 1864, p 1.