Dear Jennifer, Estate owners liked to employ gamekeepers who had no connection with their estates. This was because they were afraid a local born gamekeeper would not be willing to deal with poachers etc who they had known for a long time. I was investigating the family history of Thomas Williams Jones, a gamekeeper who was born in Llanrrwst, Denbighshire and ended up on an estate of the Duke of .Northumberland. In the Family Tree Magazine of April 2000 page 4 was an article by Wyn Chalker whose family had lived in Norththumberland for generations. An uncle of one of her ancestors became a gamekeeper on the Llanrwst Estate of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn in same period as Thomas Williams Jones moved to Northumberland. The Duke of Northumberland and Sir Watkin William Wyn were brothers-in-law! Shirley Martin