No birth located for James Henry RICHARDS circa 1859 in Sandhurst (Bendigo) Victoria.

No marriage record located for James to Elizabeth Ada DEVEREAUX in Tasmania circa 1885.

May I ask where you obtained James birth and marriage
details from?

Hi Tonkin

I found James birth on the My Heritage Website. We know that James was born in Sandhurst Vic and Elizabeth was Born Port Cygnet Tas. But we don’t know how they came or where to have met. They could have been married in in Victoria? We know she died in West Wyalong in 1935 and James in 1927. But that’s all we have on them.

I found Elizabeth Ada Devereaux born in Port Cygnet on the 16 June 1864 to Peter Devereaux (died 1886 age 68)and Mary Lowe (died 1883 age 60). There is also a marriage in 1881 to Malcolm DAVIS. So, if this is your Elizabeth Ada Devereaux, she might have married Richards using the name Davis.

James Henry Richards Born in Ballarat in 1859 Perhaps the son of James Richards and Sarah Jeffrey. Died at West Wyalong on the 4 August 1927. This is his obituary
The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette.
Friday 5 August 1927.
MR. J. RICHARDS
An old and highly respected resident of the Temora and Wyalong
districts, in the person of Mr. James Richards, died in the District
Hospital yesterday. Deceased had been share-farming and bush contracting in both districts for the major portion of his life.
The remains were interred in the Presbyterian portion of the local cemetery this afternoon, The Rev. A. Crowley officiating at the graveside.
The funeral arrangements were conducted by Mr. E. Mills.
Deceased leaves a widow, one son (James) and three married daughters
one of whom is Mrs. W. Young, junr,. of West Wyalong.

West Wyalong Cemetery
Address Lot 7300 Clear Ridge Rd
Details, contact Wyalong District Family History Group, P.O.Box 73 Wyalong 2671. SSAE and $10.00 (This is years old and I don't know if it is still their address but they had a CD of the cemetery records. Write and ask before you send money)

OLD DISUSED CEMETERY, Brighton Tasmania

By the way Sarah Richards, nee Jeffrey died at Ballarat in 1936 age 102, after this article which was written 28 February 1936. If it is the right RICHARDS there is quite a bit of history here.
BALLARAT CENTENARIAN.
Mrs. S. Richards at 102.
BY M. McC.
LOOKING forward to holding happy
court to a stream of relatives and
friends on Tuesday is Mrs. Sarah
Richards, Ballarat's only centenarian at
the moment, who will reach the age of
102 years on that day. Mrs. Richards
has not enjoyed good health latterly, and
has been under observation by Dr.
H. H. Appleby for some weeks past. For
a long time she has resided with her
daughter, Mrs. W. E. Wlllaton, at 428
Dawson-street, Ballarat South.
Born at Illogan, Cornwall, Mrs.
Richards proudly cherishes a certificate
of her marrlnge at the age of 19 years
and 11 months. Two years later she
sailed for Australia with her husband,
who had been a miner in Cornwall, and
who followed up the same career at the
Burra mines in South Australia, and at
various Victorian rushes between Stawell
and Ballarat, where the couple finally
settled.Mrs. Richards has vivid memo
ries of the journey from Adelaide to
Stawell. They came by road, utilising the
then popular method — because It was
almost the only practicable way — using a
bullock-drawn waggon, a team of twelve
providing the traction. They were held
up en route by a horde of Chinese,
whose sudden appearance in such num
bers somewhat startled the travellers,
but the Orientals, jabbering in chorus
"Chou chou," were merely expressing
their dearest wish that they be supplied
with food and tobacco. They were ac
commodated In light rations.
The philosophy of Mrs. Rlchards's life
has largely been her happiness at being
privileged to enjoy close communion with
her' Ballarat son and daughters and their
children, she having been, widowed about
40 years ago. Her second surviving
daughter Is Mrs. R. Goodson, of 403
Sebastopol-street. Much of her dally
routine revolves round the almost con
stant employment of knitting and sewing
needles, although in the past few months
she has been obliged to curtail her in
dustry in that way.
The veteran has not latterlv felt like
some folk of extreme age who feel so
many years young." She admits that in
her best mood she cannot feel other
than her age. Locomotion to her has
long been a difficult matter, although she
looks well in the face. Hard work in
plenty has been her portion in the days
when she had to carry the responsi
bility or home management, and the
milder the temperature in those days the
better she liked it.
Mrs. Richards takes a generous view
of the inclinations of the young folk to
gaiety, and while she admits that there
were some lively spirits in the early
days of her 80 years of colonial life, she
thinks that the world of the young dears
Is getting rather extreme. She does not
approve of their devotion to the cigar
ette, but as regards their trend to fewer
and fewer garments, when the tempera
ture is high, she is not a critic.
Mrs. Richards has five surviving sons
and daughter, and her grandchildren and
great grandchildren are nearing the half
century in the aggregate, and are about
evenly divided.