Dear Wivenhoe,
This is the newspaper report which has the vital information - I have edited it as the report is too extensive for this site:
POLICE COURT.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5.
[Before Mr. H. E. Bright, M.P., and T. O.
Jones, J. P.]
WIFE DESERTION.—Henry Munday was charged with deserting his wife.
Emma Munday, said — I am the wife of defendant. He deserted me six weeks before
Christmas. He said he would send for me. I went to Port Lincoln three months ago, and
heard my husband was there.......my confinement he would give me an order to go to the Destitute. I then took out a summons against my husband. I came to Port Lincoln to Larkin's, and you wrote to me to take a house for a fortnight you could come down. I heard you were ...... miles away I did not come to you because my arm was bad, and I met my step-father on the road, and he said I
had better go on to Adelaide. I then went on in the mail to Streaky Bay, and went in a
vessel to Adelaide. I did not go with two men, only my step-father. His brother was
with him in the mail, and a lot more; but I only went with my step-father. By the Court
— Where I went to was 100 miles farther away from Adelaide. My step-father paid my
passage. My own father is in the Destitute. His name is Parker. Mr. Stanley, my step-
father, is married to my mother, who was never married to my own father.
Emma Mundy (Munday) married a second time to a William Gamble in 1885. She died in NSW in 1908 and her father is registered as "George" and mother "Fanny".
Cheers and thank you for your interest and assistance.
