I don't know why Alice was claiming to be a widpw in 1871,maybe they married too young and it did not last.Unless records of who lived where back in the late 1800's are available and I win the lotto so that we can come back tp the Island again and spend time searching all the records I will never know.
It does not seem such along time ago but a part of my family history is so impossible to find.
Even my fathers first wife who died,I think,between 1928 and 1938 ,I can find no record of her death even though I do know she lived in Barracks Street at least some of that time,her name was Helena Pretoria Canepa nee Starkey.
Cheers Doug