Individual Details
Amelia Johanne Caroline Frederike Willhelmine POUNDT
( - 17 Oct 1931)
Lindsay's notes:
Amelia`s father worked for a Mr. Staffe as a handyman , Mr. Staffe was Queen Victoria`s private footman.
Mr. Staffe and his wife and daughter Helena lived in an out house of the castle,, Helena was a very sick child , at the age of five she lost her mother. She was very lonely so Mr. Staffe asked Dad if he would let me go and stay with her for company, which he did . We both went to school at the castle with the Queen`s children Alice and Elizabeth was a little older that us . We all got on well together Louis was the younger one , we all liked our governess . On Helena`s eight birthday she became very ill and was put in hospital , I went and sat with her read books and talked, within a fortnight she died . We had just finished our pin cushions she gave me her cushion to keep for her ( a green one ) . After Helena died I went back home this was all the schooling I ever had, I treasure these cushions in the memory of a wonderful friend.
10 June 2000 ......After meeting with Bill Clayton & Merle Power the following is some of the stories that they told me about Amelia, Merle & Bill are grandchildren of Amelia Love I asked them if they could remember Amelia and they said yes, they were told their grandfather Stephen was a drover and he at times would be away from the family for 8 to 9 months at a time during the year. Amelia spoke of the times she was left to look after the two children living by a creek in the New England area, at times she said she was worried about the local Aboriginals . It appears that Amelia liked to have a drink and she carried a bottle of Gin around with her, also I was told that she would always have a nip of Brandy before bed every night , Amelia said she was born in England and came to Australia when she was around six years of age , she said her parents were born in Poland.
This is a story I have heard before many years ago ,and Merle mentioned it again, It seems that Stephen and Amelia made the trip from the New England area to Queensland by a horse drawn dray, keeping in mind the reference Amelia made to looking after two children in the New England area, the journey met with a terrible event, it seems that they lost one of their children to some Aborigines never to be seen again not knowing if the child was killed or not.
There was another event with Aborigines while Stephen and Amelia were living at Loganlea , it is said that an Aboriginal friend of theirs was sheltering in their home , he was being pursued by a rival tribal member who wanted to kill his children. Eventually the little aboriginal children were taken away and apparently killed, this was met with a terrible form of revenge, the fatherless Aboriginal took the children of the man who murdered his and did the same to his children . Merle asked her Mother how did she ever cope with this sort of thing happening , but there was nothing they could do and they had to accept the ways of the local people.
Amelia spent the closing years of her life living in a one room house on the Waterford - Tamborine Rd, Waterford almost across the road from the Waterford School this house only being pulled down at the begining of this year 2000. During this time of her life she travelled around staying about a month at a time at the homes of her adult children , each time moving onto the next for another month and so on.
The small house at Waterford did not have a stove inside so Amelia did all her cooking outside, there was a large half of an old tin water tank with the wood stove sitting inside this tank , this is where Amelia did all her cooking , she was also good at preserving fruits.
Two of Amelia`s grandchildren Albert and Ray had a trick that they liked to play on her, sometimes during dinner when they were all sitting down to a meal the two boys would lift the table just slightly off the floor and make it move , this would scare Amelia and she would wave her hands in the air and say Lordy Lordy.
One of Amelia`s stories that she liked to tell was when one time she can remember that sometimes the weather became so hot that the birds would fall out of the trees.
Amelia`s father worked for a Mr. Staffe as a handyman , Mr. Staffe was Queen Victoria`s private footman.
Mr. Staffe and his wife and daughter Helena lived in an out house of the castle,, Helena was a very sick child , at the age of five she lost her mother. She was very lonely so Mr. Staffe asked Dad if he would let me go and stay with her for company, which he did . We both went to school at the castle with the Queen`s children Alice and Elizabeth was a little older that us . We all got on well together Louis was the younger one , we all liked our governess . On Helena`s eight birthday she became very ill and was put in hospital , I went and sat with her read books and talked, within a fortnight she died . We had just finished our pin cushions she gave me her cushion to keep for her ( a green one ) . After Helena died I went back home this was all the schooling I ever had, I treasure these cushions in the memory of a wonderful friend.
10 June 2000 ......After meeting with Bill Clayton & Merle Power the following is some of the stories that they told me about Amelia, Merle & Bill are grandchildren of Amelia Love I asked them if they could remember Amelia and they said yes, they were told their grandfather Stephen was a drover and he at times would be away from the family for 8 to 9 months at a time during the year. Amelia spoke of the times she was left to look after the two children living by a creek in the New England area, at times she said she was worried about the local Aboriginals . It appears that Amelia liked to have a drink and she carried a bottle of Gin around with her, also I was told that she would always have a nip of Brandy before bed every night , Amelia said she was born in England and came to Australia when she was around six years of age , she said her parents were born in Poland.
This is a story I have heard before many years ago ,and Merle mentioned it again, It seems that Stephen and Amelia made the trip from the New England area to Queensland by a horse drawn dray, keeping in mind the reference Amelia made to looking after two children in the New England area, the journey met with a terrible event, it seems that they lost one of their children to some Aborigines never to be seen again not knowing if the child was killed or not.
There was another event with Aborigines while Stephen and Amelia were living at Loganlea , it is said that an Aboriginal friend of theirs was sheltering in their home , he was being pursued by a rival tribal member who wanted to kill his children. Eventually the little aboriginal children were taken away and apparently killed, this was met with a terrible form of revenge, the fatherless Aboriginal took the children of the man who murdered his and did the same to his children . Merle asked her Mother how did she ever cope with this sort of thing happening , but there was nothing they could do and they had to accept the ways of the local people.
Amelia spent the closing years of her life living in a one room house on the Waterford - Tamborine Rd, Waterford almost across the road from the Waterford School this house only being pulled down at the begining of this year 2000. During this time of her life she travelled around staying about a month at a time at the homes of her adult children , each time moving onto the next for another month and so on.
The small house at Waterford did not have a stove inside so Amelia did all her cooking outside, there was a large half of an old tin water tank with the wood stove sitting inside this tank , this is where Amelia did all her cooking , she was also good at preserving fruits.
Two of Amelia`s grandchildren Albert and Ray had a trick that they liked to play on her, sometimes during dinner when they were all sitting down to a meal the two boys would lift the table just slightly off the floor and make it move , this would scare Amelia and she would wave her hands in the air and say Lordy Lordy.
One of Amelia`s stories that she liked to tell was when one time she can remember that sometimes the weather became so hot that the birds would fall out of the trees.
Events
| Marriage | 12 Sep 1863 | Walkes, New South Wales, Australia - Stephen George Albert LOVE | |||
| Death | 17 Oct 1931 | Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia |
Families
| Spouse | Stephen George Albert LOVE (1832 - 1911) |
| Child | Thomas LOVE (1861 - 1935) |
| Child | Fanny Amelia LOVE (1866 - ) |
| Child | Helena LOVE (1868 - ) |
| Child | Henry Charles Logan LOVE (1871 - ) |
| Child | David LOVE (1873 - 1877) |
| Child | Clara LOVE (1875 - 1955) |
| Child | Steven Paul LOVE (1877 - 1955) |
| Child | Grace LOVE (1879 - 1955) |
| Child | Rhoda LOVE (1882 - 1962) |
| Child | Edith May LOVE (1884 - 1962) |
| Child | Albert LOVE (1886 - 1962) |
| Child | Victor LOVE (1889 - 1915) |