This is odd.........Solomon Richards and wife Mary Ann had a burglary at their premises in Currie St Adelaide in 1863.......https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50178972Essie
...Robert John Waldon/Waldron/Walden RICHARDS brn 1852 ...From the Trove I have found 3 court articles and it seems that Solomon kept Robert with him for a while before leaving him with a Mr David Hope around the end of 1856 promising to pay for the boys keep. Mr Hope it seems couldn't afford to keep him and wanted him entered into the asylum. The court at first wouldn't do this. The 3 articles make for some sad reading.Adelaide Times 3rd March 1857Adelaide Observer 7 March 1857Adelaide Times 17 MarchHe was eventually entered into the asylum....
According to the index to the Register of cases of destitution (GRG 28/4), a child, Robert RICHARDS, entered the Destitute Asylum in 1857. According to the index to the Nominal list of orphan and deserted children taken out of the Destitute Asylum (GRS 3822), a Robert RICHARDS, aged 8 1/4, left the Asylum on 10 October 1860 and was placed with a Mrs Kilworth in Roper Street Adelaide.
This death of a child of the RICHARDS/PARKER marriage in 1886 suggests Annie was using the surname PLUMB1886 C1902 Annie Waldon Rookley PARKERParents John Harry Rookley PARKER & Annie RICHARDS ** late PLUMB Sue
I would dearly love to find these children in the asylum (my own proof) and what became of them as they are my link to my family (via their mother) but can fin no trace of them apart from Hannah/Anna whom i believe married a William Price then a Henry Rookley Parker (or maybe John Henry Rookley Parker). I cannot find her death though. She was living Maryborough and Millchester in Queensland at some point.Any help much appreciated
It seems about 1 month (possibly) after arriving in Adelaide Eliza gave birth to a daughter, Eliza.Another researcher has it that the mother Eliza died 3 weeks after giving birth. I haven't been able to find anything on this death from here in England.