Person:Eliza Brown (50)

Eliza Brown was born on 1st April 1868 at Bungaree in Victoria, Australia. She was the daughter of Alice Brown, formerly Ormiston, and her husband Alfred Brown, a farmer. Bungaree is a small town lying about nine miles (14km) east of the regional centre of Ballarat. At the time Bungaree was also the name of the shire surrounding that small town.

By 1895 Eliza had moved to Warrenheip in the Ballarat district. She was married there on 1st May 1895, aged 27, to Alfred Nicholls, a miner. He was originally from England, but at the time of their marriage he was living at Stieglitz, a gold-mining town about thirty miles (50km) south of Ballarat. After their marriage, Eliza and Alfred initially lived in Stieglitz, having their first child there in 1896. They then moved 87 miles (140km) north to Dunolly, where their second child was born in 1899.

By 1901 Eliza and Alfred had moved about 410 miles (656km) north of Dunolly to Broken Hill in New South Wales, an isolated silver mining town in the outback. There they had a further four children between 1901 and 1907.

Alfred died in 1910, aged 44. Eliza continued living at Broken Hill for some time after his death, appearing there in the 1913 electoral register living on Iodide Street.

By 1927, Eliza had moved again, travelling about 300 miles (482km) south-west to Adelaide in South Australia (which had better rail connections to Broken Hill, despite being in a different state). Here she married again in 1927 to a James Locke. Two of her daughters married in the Adelaide suburb of Norwood in 1927 and 1929.

Eliza died on 16th November 1940 in Adelaide, aged 72.

1. ↑ Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922.

   b. Eliza BROWN, 1868, Bungaree, Victoria, father Alfred Brown, mother Alice Ormiston, No. 7741

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981.

   ch. 1 Jun 1874, Victoria: Eliza daughter of Alfred & Alice Brown, born 1 Apr 1868

3.   Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980.

   1913: New South Wales: Willyama - Oxide Street Polling Place
   Nicholls, Eliza / F / Iodide-street / domestic duties

4. ↑ South Australia, Death Index (www.genealogysa.org.au).

   d. 1940, Adelaide: Eliza LOCKE, relative James LOCKE (H), Reg: 630/5211

5. ↑ Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159929623).

   d. Eliza Locke, 16 Nov 1940, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia