This is the story of Nappy King, from the Asylum at New Norfolk:
In 1849 Nappy King was tried with sister Katy for killing and stealing a sheep, both were convicted and transported to Hobart on the "Australasia" accompanied by their children. When they left Dublin Nappy's son Izod Darcy was 9 months and blind from infancy.
Nappy was placed as a servant six times, each time she was returned to a Female Factory for absconding or disorderly conduct. Izod was admitted to the Queen's Orphanage aged 3 years and remained in care as a pauper until 1890 when he was discharged from New Norfolk Insane Asylum.
Nappy had three more children - an illegitimate son Andrew King born April 1853, John Pow was born in 1855 and a daughter Elizabeth in 1857.
She received a conditional pardon in 1854, and married William Pow in 1868.
By 1882 Nappy was not living with her husband and admitted to the New Norfolk Insane Asylum as a pauper "of unsound mind for eight years". Medical notes indicated that she had "hallucinations and delusions, states that Queen Anne is her grandmother and the Crown belongs to her. Filthy in body and apparel".
She died at New Norfolk Insane Asylum in 1890, aged 67 years.