Background
She was born Caroline Elam and a descendent of Yorkshire Quakers, the daughter of Lieutenant Joseph Elam (d 1829). The couple"s eldest son, Joseph Elam Pounds, was born in 1838 at Moathill, County Waterford.
She was born Caroline Elam and a descendent of Yorkshire Quakers, the daughter of Lieutenant Joseph Elam (d 1829). The couple"s eldest son, Joseph Elam Pounds, was born in 1838 at Moathill, County Waterford.
She produced studies of plants and birds of New Guinea and Australia. There is little known about Caroline Pounds. The family had emigrated to Sydney around 1846, as they appear to have been backrupted by the Irish Famine.
Doctor Pounds" obituary stated that he initially worked in Ballarat, Victoria.
Having lost a large amount of money on imported mining machinery he intended to sell, he worked as the medical officer at Her Majesty Prison Pentridge until 1862. He was then appointed the corner for the Sandhurst (Bendigo) district, retiring in 1877.
Most of Pounds" work is undated, but that which is marked 1846. Bocking believes that Pounds did not live in Australia continuously, rather she spent a period of time there 1846 before returning to Ireland where she died in 1898.
Their elder son Joseph, who was a widower with two children, married Lilias Ibbotson of Geelong in 1874.
Pounds" drawings were discovered in the Ibbotson"s family home, The Heights, by the Victoria National Trust in the 1980s and they remain there on display.