The Family Project - The Murder of Eliza Neilson 1847
Eliza Neilson Birth, 1821 Kilmore Down Ireland, Death 29 Dec 1847 Clarence Town, New South Wales, Australia An inquest in the death of Eliza Neilson carried out by the coroner J S Parker at Clarence Town Hotel. A man named Patrick Bryan was discharged from the service on Mr Arthur Neilson, Eliza’s husband. As a consequence of fighting with another man Mr Neilson had struck Patrick Bryan while parting the men. Bryan at the time had told him “He would revenge him or his if it was for 50 years to come. Bryan came to Mr Neilson’s house several times but always in his absence and on one or two occasions when Mrs Neilson was in Clarence Town, Bryan would accompany her homewards Mrs Neilson disappeared after being seen in Clarence Town on 28 nd Dec 1847. Her body was found with a fractured skull on the side of the road on the 30 th Dec 1847 ...