Birth : POLKINGHORNE Family Tree; Parish Register.
Death : POLKINGHORNE Family Tree; Headstone; 'Family Histories – Willunga District'; SA Biograph Dir.
[Family Histories – Willunga District] Arrived in SA with four children on 'Pakenham' in 1849. Exhibited best collection of pigs at local show in 1866. Buried under name POLKINHORNE. [Cornish Journal, Feb 1853: Willunga Courthouse] A LETTER FROM THE DIGGINGS A Cornishman, William Chenoweth, writes to his brother. “I am happy to inform you that we have been successful at the gold diggings. I left here [Willunga] with David Oliver, F. Martin, Richard Sleep and Richard Polkinghorn (from the west of Cornwall). We were wanting from here about 19 weeks. We were 10 weeks and 4 days at the diggings. We worked very hard for the first 7 weeks, and made about 1 and 1/2 oz of gold each, the other 3 weeks and 4 days we made about £4,500, making it £900 each. We are truly thankful for our success, for although we hav done this we are one party out of a thousand to do so well. 11 February 1853.