Licensees
1860 – 1863. Edward Powell with his license number given as 471 NRS 14403 [7/1512]; Reel 1241 in 1860
1864 – Henry H. Pritchard.
Location.
Mudmelong, Lower Araluen, moving to Crown Flat in August 1860
In the News.
Edward Powell is detailed as the licensee of The Miners Home, in Majors Creek, from 1856 to 1858. 1Museum of History New South Wales. https://mhnsw.au/indexes/publicans-hoteliers-innkeepers/publicans-licenses-index. Accessed 14 February 2023
Edward Powell placed an advertisement dated 8 March 1860 in the Braidwood Observer 2Braidwood Observer and Miner’s Advocate (NSW: 1859 – 1862), Saturday 17 March 1860, page 3 to inform that ‘the following persons herein named…who left the house…during the middle of the night, and taking with them some blankets, also an axe, with six or seven pounds owing for food; if they do not send some return they may fully expect to hear more about the transaction… [Signed] Miners’ Home, Mudmelong, Lower Araluen, March 8th, 1860’.
By August 1860, the centre of attraction at Araluen was Crown Flat3Barry McGowan. The Golden South. A History of the Araluen, Bells Creek and Majors Creek Goldfields. Capital Fine Print, Canberra. 2000. p 58 with the ‘Old House at Home’ relocated to Crown Flat. In October 1860, the Braidwood Observer 4Braidwood Observer and Miner’s Advocate (NSW: 1859 – 1862), Saturday 6 October 1860, page 2 reported ‘Mr. Powell is moving the Old House at Home, to Crown Flat. ’
On 28 April 1863, the NSW Government Gazette published the death of Edward Powell5New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832-1900), Tuesday 28 April 1863 (No.72), p 974 late of Araluen, with his estate to be granted to Jane Powell, of Araluen.
The Araluen Star reporting on License Transfers6Araluen Star and Miners Right (1863-1964), Saturday April 1864, p 2, states that the licence for the Old House at Home, Crown Flat, was transferred from Mrs Powell, to Henry H. Pritchard. Advertisements were placed in April 1864 7Araluen Star and Miners Right (1863-1964), Saturday April 1864, p 5, by Henry H. Pritchard, Cordial Manufacturer, in relation to considerable losses sustained in his cordial manufacture, through parties purchasing his lemonade bottles from children (‘Caution’ article on right refers).
The List of Licensed Publicans in Police District Araluen, dated 1 January 1864, and updated, 8Accumulated resources and research notes on parishes and churches of the Archdiocese collected by ‘Father Brian Maher’, Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Series CG1021: Braidwood File 1 / Item 11/1 notes the closure of the Old House at Home, on 30 June 1864.
In reporting on the Araluen Races in November 1865, the Goulburn Herald notes 9Goulburn Herald and Chronicle (NSW: 1864 – 1881), Wednesday 22 November 1865, page 3 ‘The lemonade manufacturers, Messrs. Armstrong [Peace and Plenty] and Pritchard are making great preparations for the supply of their customers, and expect an enormous consumption of their palatable fluids.’