Frederick Augustus Munday was the 3rd son of William Munday and his wife Mary Anne or Ellen (Hayes). William Munday was a Crimean War veteran who retired as a Chelsea Pensioner and subsequently went to Western Australia with his wife and children as a guard on a convict ship, probably the 'Telegraph'. Frederick Augustus was was apprenticed in as a carpenter and joiner, a trade that he followed all his life. He is the reprobate of the Munday family. He left Western Australia and settled in Melbourne, where he married Emily Jane Bond in 1886 and married again, bigamously, Eliza Ann Waterworth in 1888. There were five surviving children of the troubled union of Frederick and Eliza: Ada Agnes, Olive Mabel, Frederick, Vera and Dorothy Nell. His son, Fred, volunteered in WWI and served in France. Frederick Augustus followed his son as a volunteer munitions worker and served two years, working at his trade as a carpenter in France and in England where he was briefly reunited with his son. Frederick Augustus was a gregarious, bibulous and belligerent man who was frequently in trouble with the law and a source of continuing embarrassment to his family. But his children, many of whom who shared his traits in milder form, remembered him with affection.