She married Dr James Baker Pounds, Protestant apothecary and entrepreneur, of New Ross, County Wexford (d.
Having lost a large amount of money on imported mining machinery he intended to sell, he worked as the medical officer at HM Prison Pentridge until 1862.
[1] More recent research into their son Charles, indicates that the couple separated when he was 6 years old in 1846, that he was raised solely by his father and that he emigrated to Australia alone.
[5] Bocking believes that Pounds did not live in Australia continuously, rather she spent a period of time there in 1846 before returning to Ireland where she died in 1898.
[1] Pounds' drawings were discovered in the Ibbotson's family home, The Heights, by the Victoria National Trust in the 1980s and they remain there on display.