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Not especially helpful, but in 1881 on the same page as some of their neighbours in 1891: Peter and Ellen Forster; Josiah and Elizabeth Birchall; Joseph and Margaret Boyers and James and Elizabeth Broadbent, there are three properties recorded as 'uninhabited'. 

I think that the 'U' written there only means that the house was empty on census night, so possibly one of the three was the Ashcroft house, but the family were away for some reason.

Do you know of any relatives they might have been with? Or perhaps they were travelling, and not recorded at all.

Thanks Comberton .  Didn't see what they'd done with it.

After the Married Women's Property Act was passed in 1882, a married woman had a right to her own property, so whatever your relative possessed when she died in 1935 absolutely belonged to her, and was not automatically her husband's, either before or after she died.

She may have accumulated savings, inherited from another family member or worked at a job  that wasn't a full time occupation. (After she married, census records state that my grandmother's occupation was "home duties".  I know for a fact that she earned money from sewing.)

Solomon Richards
marital status - unrecorded
s/o Henry Richards
Mary Ann Allen - marital status - unrecorded
d/o Stephen Chenhalls

10 May 1858  Christ Church North Adelaide

I don't see a baptism for Thomas at the moment, but he and Ann also had:

Elizabeth bap. 2 April 1743
Ann bap. 2 April 1744

at Somersham.