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When searching old newspapers on Trove the "poundkeeper" notices often come up. These are invaluable as a genealogical resource for finding those employed, either full time, or as a local service as "The Poundkeeper".
This person impounds stray animals, they advertise the beast as found, with a full description and a date where the animal no longer belongs to the owner.
What we have is a list of these gentlemen, and the district they served, usually lived in, and proof that they were alive and where they were living and the names/descriptions of those areas, some names do not exist now. Also as in the town Truro, it is now evident that it was a mining town named by Cornish - 'Truro, near wheal Barton mine."
1846
- Theburton - William Archer Deacon poundkeeper (arrived on the Africaine 1836) - article of court proceedings, South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839-1900), Saturday 5 September 1846, page 4
1852
- MARDEN near Paynham – George Bowker
- ANGUS PARK– John S Plush
- TRURO near Wheal Barton Mine – Alexander Mcleod
- Section 87 District B – Philip Wheaton
- SALISBURY – Samuel Chard
- NORLUNGA– W King
- MOUNT TORRENS – John Godlee
1859
- Meadows - James Potter
- Lyndoch Valley - E D Satchwell
- Mount Crawford - Robert Mitchell
- Langhorne Creek - Robert Clifford
- Upper Wakefield - Robert Hawkins
- Mintaro - George Faulkner
- Auburn - Charles Ansell
- Kuringa, Burra Burra - D Macnamara
- Appleton - James Hemmings
- Tunkillo - Job Hobbs
- Kanmantoo - Patrick O'Neil
- Smiths Creek - William Crettenden
- Truro - Hugh McDonald
- Victoria near Kapunda - Richard Rowett
- Yankalilla - Charles White
- Riverton - Henry Sanders
- Gilbert - Thomas William Hollings
- Hamilton - William Gluyas
- Ashwell - J Barrow
- Mount Torrens - Christopher Bolt
- Melrose - John Mooney
- Sheoak Log - Samuel Smith
- Section 92 district B - Whilip Wheaton
- Angus Park - John S Plush
- Noth Rhine - C Dansie
- Mount Pleasant - Edward Brice
1861
- POLTALLOCK, Section 957, Leonard Lovegrove, Pound keeper
- STOCKPORT, Thomas H. Ayliffe, Pound keeper
- TUNGKILLO, Section 192, Job Hobbs, Poundkeeper
- MYPONGA, Section 621, Alexander Cameron, Pound keeper
- MAIDSTONE, Chain of Ponds, William Carman, Pound keeper
- MOOUUNDEE. William Nott, Pound keeper
- LEASINGHAM, Upper Wakefield, Robert Hawkins, Pound keeper
- MINTARO, George Faulkner, Pound keeper
- GLEN OSMOND George C Holton, Pound keeper
- MUNNO PARA WEST, Section 4260, Wm Mitchell, Pound keeper
- STRATHALBYN, Wm Noye, Pound keeper
- TRURO (Township of), near the Wheal Barton Mine, Hugh McDonald, Pound keeper
- KING’S BELT, near the Sheaoak Log, Samuel Smith, Pound keeper
- MAGILL, Joseph Mercer, Pound keeper
- CITY OF ADELAIDE, Benjamin Gurr, Pound keeper
- RED BANKS, Grace Plains, Section 69, Wm. H. Marsh, Pound keeper
- KANMANTOO TOWNSHIP, Thomas Patterson, Pound keeper
- BETHANY (near Tanunda, Section 4, Moorooroo), Robert Hamdorf, Pound keeper
- KAPUNDA (in the Hundred of), on Section 260, near Bagot’s Well, James Nicholls, Pound keeper
- VICTORIA (Township of), near Kapunda mine, Richard Rowett, Pound keeper
- APOINGA (Hundied of), Section No 10, Robert Parr, Pound keeper
- HUNDRED OF HANSON, Section 2208, near the Cross Roads Inn, Samuel Boyle, Pound keeper
- WILLOCHRA, Alfred Ragless, Pound keeper
- SPRINGS Mount Gambier, James Stein, Pound keeper
- MIDDLETON, W Field, Pound keeper
- GAWLER TOWN, Samuel Serle, Pound keeper
1887
- H. Richardson to be pound keeper at Mil Lel.
- Resignation — C. Williamson as pound keeper and salesman at Hundred of Bendleby.
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