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From: "Valerie/Rowan Henshaw" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Dame Nellie Melba
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 20:38:04 +1000
References: <006e01c23ae7$50b21660$0100a8c0@mshome.net>


Quote from "Historic Homes of Western Victoria" by Nan Chapman (1965) :

Nellie Melba's father, David Mitchell, arrived in Australia with one pound
in his pocket and enough Scottish determination to make him a wealthy
landowner and contractor. When holidaying in Queensland with her father,
Nellie met the son of an Irish baronet, Charles Nesbitt Armstrong, whom she
married. They had one son, George, but her marriage was not a success.
Nellie Melba was born in May, 1861, and died at Lilydale on February 23,
1931.

Valerie Henshaw
Melbourne

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