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Australia / Re: Destitute Asylum Adelaide -
« on: Sunday 21 June 20 18:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi Melia,
Its great to hear from you! 170 years later and Waldron descendants meet up back in the UK!
I hope you are keeping well in these troubling times.
I guess this means we are related on the Waldron side? Poor Eliza Waldron Richards, her life was cut short in a terrible way on arriving in Australia. Annie and her father (Solomon) at least seem to have lived very full (and dramatic) lives. I do not have any photos of Hannah/Anna/Annie, but I do have a photo of one of her daughters with William Price (as an aside, my father was quite close to one of Annie's children who knew of her and that she had another family in Charters Towers). Despite being in an orphanage, I believe they kept in touch and he also knew his siblings who she had taken with her to the next marriage. I imagine they must have also known of Annie's father (Solomon Richards) who lived in the Maryborough area and had a large additional family with his third wife.
I would love to share what I do have. I also have family trees for Annie's 5 children with William Price (and their descendants) and subsequent 9 children with Harry Parker (I believe she had her last child when she was circa 50 years of age - Vietta - which seems remarkable, if that is indeed possible!).
I do not know what happened to Annie's siblings and whether they also left Adelaide. My email address is:

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Australia / Re: Destitute Asylum Adelaide -
« on: Friday 01 May 20 12:38 BST (UK)  »
Hi Melia, I may be able to shed light on the PRICE/PLUMB side of the Annie Richards saga. Annie was my Great, Great Grandmother (through her first marriage to William Price). Annie did indeed marry a PARKER after my Great, Great Grandfather (William Price) died at a relatively young age due to an accident. The children of the first marriage were put into an orphanage and Annie then married a PARKER and moved to Charters Towers (she came back to retrieve the youngest child) and had a number of other children with Mr PARKER. My Great Grandfather was one of the children left behind in the orphanage. The PLUMB name has always been a mystery in the family as we were aware that Annie used the name (rather than PRICE). We have never been able to establish why. Annie is definitely the same woman. We think that there may have been something to do with Annie's first husband (my Great, Great Grandfather) 'jumping ship' (a common occurrence) when he arrived in Australia in around 1866 on the Golden South (at the port of Maryborough in Queensland). As I see that Solomon Richards eventually died in Maryborough, it seems as though Annie was based there at the time that my Great, Great Grandfather arrived. Perhaps her father had moved there after his various marriages and some of the children from his first marriage followed him there from Adelaide.
I am Australian but have lived in London for the past 27 years and would love to reach out separately to discuss the family tree further as we are related through this interesting/messy side of the family. PS Annie had a lot of children in total and her children all had large families - there are many, many, many descendants of the Richards in Australia.

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