Nanteos Book
GAMEKEEPERS at Nanteos
Below is a list of Gamekeepers that worked on the vast 31,000 acre estate.
It is not a complete list, there would have been many many more. Some names lost in history and some yet to be discovered.
Thomas Arch Gamekeeper of Nanteos
1778 Morgan Jones £8.0.0 per annum (Nanteos Papers)
1784 William Bradley 1 year’s wage £17.17.0 (A4 NLW)
1800 1832 Edward Bonsall, aged 60 living at Pen-y-Bont on the Nanteos Estate (Census 1841)
1809 Thomas Petit Accidently killed in 1809, aged 39. Buried at Llanbadarn Fawr Church 1809. (Nanteos papers)
1815 Thomas Cart (Pen y Bont) (NLW A5)
1821 Richard Bennett
1821 Robert Oliver
1826 William Buttery
1826 James Tamlyn
1842 James Loviett
1851 George M Larsh Head born 1828 in Stanstead, Manchester
1851 Luke Shayler born 1823
1854 – 1865 Thomas Arch Gamekeeper Thomas Arch born 1832 in Orton, Northamptonshire came to work on the Nanteos Estate in 1854, lived in the Lodge and later in 1873 went to work on the Strata Florida Estate (part of the Nanteos Estate). Thomas Arch’s family still live and run the Strata Florida Abbey Farm to this day.
1859 John Humphreys aged 25 Llain, Moriah
1862 – 1880s William Edward Humphreys aged 23 Llain, Moriah
1864 – 1891 James Jones Pant y Garlleg aged 58 born Penbryn (Census 1891)
1864 – 1891 William Roberts Gamekeeper
1864 Mr. Burwell Gamekeeper (Photograph NLW)
1864 William Humphreys aged 31 living at Pen-y-Bont in 1871 (Nanteos Papers & Census 1871)
1865 Robert Joplis (Woodhall)
1870 Walter Simmons
1870 Evan Roberts
1871 Thomas Dance (Under keeper)
1871 Ebenezer Evans (Keeper Blwch Heble)
1871 Samuel Feetman
1871 Evan Roberts (Tregaron Keeper)
1871 David Rees (Tregaron Keeper)
1875 -8 George Young
1875-8 William Culling
1875-8 George Jackson (Under Keeper)
1875-8 George Evans (Under Keeper)
1878 James Yells (Pen Quarrel)
1878 James Jones (Under Keeper)
1901 – 10 James Baigent (Bryn Du)
1923- 25 David Jones
