Hundred. of Goyder, South Australia, Australia



 

Notes:
To assist with the regulation and administration of land transactions in South Australia [that

is, for cadastral purposes - Ed], counties and hundreds were established. Under the principle

of concentration, new hundreds were usually proclaimed adjoining existing ones. Land could

only be purchased in proclaimed areas, so as the demand for land grew, new hundreds were

declared. Within each hundred the land was surveyed into sections which were then offered

for sale.

The first hundreds were proclaimed in 1846. In 1853 the Hundred of Murray was proclaimed.

The boundaries extended two miles each side of the Murray River and included land around

Lakes Alexandrina and Albert. In 1860 this hundred was annulled and many new hundreds

were proclaimed covering a wider area around the River. The name Murray was re-used for

one of these.

In 1870 four of the previously proclaimed hundreds, Murray, Randell, Cooper and Giles, were

"cancelled and annulled". These areas were later incorporated into other new hundreds. Three

of these names were later re-used; in 1888 Murray in County Robinson, in 1890 Giles in

County Kintore and in 1895 Randell in County York.

The other major change was the re-naming in January 1918 of ten hundreds whose names

had German association (see article: German place names). The Hundreds of North Rhine and

South Rhine became Jellicoe and Jutland. The hundred named for the first director of the

Adelaide Zoo, Richard Moritz Schomburgk, was re-named Maude. Other hundreds, which

originally had been named for members of parliament who happened to be of German

heritage, were given names of British World War I leaders.

Up to the present day, only the south eastern portion of South Australia has been divided into

counties, the area being less than one third of the state.

Counties & Hundreds of South Australia http://www.adelaideco-op.familyhistorysa.info/hundreds.html

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Latitude: -34.0236973790697, Longitude: 138.25408173026517



Birth

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID 
1 Underwood, Eric Clem  29 Jul 1916Hundred. of Goyder, South Australia, Australia I0333
2 Underwood, Marjorie Mary  12 Aug 1913Hundred. of Goyder, South Australia, Australia I0332
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