Person:Eleanor Richards (4)

1914 - Recorded in Australian Electoral Roll as Eleanor BROWN, Lovett, Tasmania, domestic duties [with husband].

1919-37 - Recorded in Australian Electoral Roll as Eleanor BROWN, Cygnet, Tasmania, domestic/home duties [with husband].

Eleanor and her husband had the Cygnet Bakery which is where a famous alternative cafe called the Red Velvet Lounge is now located. They were bakers but also did the meat deliveries on their horse and cart. Eleanor also took in lodgers and was quite a seamstress. She worked very hard. Each year she made her children a new outfit for best. Her husband died in his sleep next to a fire while waiting for his yeast to do its work. He made his own yeast out of bananas. Some of her daughters (Ivy and Grace Brown) didn't marry but travelled around Australia working on outback stations. Grace and Ivy also worked at Royal Derwent Hospital which was a lunatic asylum at New Norfolk in Tas. Ivy worked as an orderly/cleaner at a hospital in Sydney until she was in her 70's (she lied about her age) and Grace had a dress shop for years in Cygnet called the Violet Rosette (I think). It was opposite the family bakery and apparently she wheeled her piano and carried all her stuff over the road when she moved out of the bakery and into her own place.