Thomas Paynter

Stub entry filled from primary sources, 24 Aug 2026. See Sources below.

Lifespan

Born: 22 December 1859 — Talunga / Ward Farm, near Kersbrook, South Australia
Died: 11 May 1946 (aged 86) — Peterborough, South Australia
Buried: Peterborough Cemetery, SA

Family

• Father: Richard Paynter (1838–1869) — school teacher at St Kitt's Creek
• Mother: Jean Telfer (1840–1892)
• Spouse: Elizabeth Jane Liebich (1859–1919) — m. 1 December 1881, Tarcowie, SA
• Children: Richard William John (1882–1960), Lillian Ellen Jayne (→Hatchard), Gustav Francis George, Ethel Emily Elizabeth (→Flavel), Dinah Alice Mary (→Mundy), Agnes Letitia May Rose (→Hucks), Thomas Frederick Edward (1903–1940), Helena Florence Daisy (→Hill)

Life Summary

Thomas was the eldest child of Richard Paynter and Jean Telfer, born at Ward Farm near Kersbrook in the Adelaide Hills in 1859. He farmed at Ward Farm (Kersbrook) and later at Arden Vale in the Quorn/Peterborough region of South Australia. He married Elizabeth Jane Liebich at Tarcowie on 1 December 1881. He died on 11 May 1946, aged 86, at Peterborough and is buried in Peterborough Cemetery. (Family details per Find A Grave headstone and the family history "From the Borders to the Bush").

Family Stories

🖊️ Anecdote — as told in A Telfer Family Tree (Supplement 2008), pp.72–90:

Thomas Paynter, first child of Jean and Richard, was born at Ward Farm, Chain of Ponds in 1859 and married Elizabeth Liebich at Tarcowie in 1881. The family settled around Quorn, where their nine children married into the Liebich, Alcock, Mayo, Hatchard, Bennett and Hill families of the district.

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