Rate Assessment Books
Volunteers are preparing PDF transcriptions from the YDHS digital photographs of Rate Assessment books in the region.​
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Our thanks go to our transcribers: Trevor Chilman, Lynette Gibson, Merilyn McLaren, Julie-Anne Coates and Margaret Morgan. If you are interested in joining this team please email us. You will be made most welcome.
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This is an ongoing project, and extra books will be added as they are transcribed.
To search for a particular Section or Owner:
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1. Click on the Rate Assessment Book for the year in which you are interested, e.g.
Yankalilla 1862. A PDF file displays on screen.
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2. Press the CTRL and F keys on your keyboard. A search box displays. Enter your keyword into the search box.
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The photographs can sometimes be difficult to decipher, and so if the transcriber is not sure of a word or number it is highlighted in red, or the word “illegible” is inserted.
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If you are unsure whether a transcription is correct, you can come into the Yankalilla Library on a Wednesday morning to view the photographs, or you can look at the original books, which are held at State Records, Gepps Cross.​​
Illegible records
Myponga District Council 1873 – 1888
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Myponga was originally part of the District Council of Yankalilla but became a District Council in its own right in 1856. The very first rate assessment book of the Yankalilla Council included Myponga (see Yankalilla & Myponga 1856 in the Yankalilla section). Myponga was amalgamated back into the District Council of Yankalilla in 1888. After that, it became a ward of the District Council of Yankalilla. The early books of the Myponga District Council have been lost, and the surviving ones start at 1873.
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Myponga 1888​
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Rapid Bay District Council 1876 -1932
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Rapid Bay became a District Council in its own right in 1856, and the district had three wards: Second Valley, Bullaparinga and Cape Jervis. The early Rapid Bay assessment books are missing as are the books 1898 to 1914. The surviving books start at 1876, and end in 1932 (after which Rapid Bay became part of the District Council of Yankalilla).
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Yankalilla District Council 1856 – 1931
Yankalilla became a District Council in 1856. At first the district was treated as a whole, but in 1868 it was divided into wards, which were Bald Hills, Carrickalinga, Inman Valley, Normanville, and Yankalilla. When Myponga was amalgamated back into the District Council of Yankalilla Myponga became a ward of the Yankalilla district. The rate assessment books for the years after 1931 are held at State Records and can be viewed there.
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Yankalilla & Myponga
Yankalilla 1856 - 1868
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Yankalilla 1860, supplement Myponga
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Yankalilla 1868 - 1931 (all wards)
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Yankalilla, Bald Hills Ward​
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Yankalilla, Myponga Ward