May Emma NEILSON

May Emma NEILSON

Female 1902 - 1930  (27 years)


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  • Name May Emma NEILSON 
    Birth 24 Aug 1902  Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Queensland historical index: 1902/C008931
      Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name May Emma Neilson Birth Date 24 Aug 1902 Birth Place Queensland Registration Year 1902 Registration Place Queensland, Australia Father James Neilson Mother May Emma Nunn Page number 19023 Registration Number 008931

    Gender Female 
    Death 17 Jan 1930  Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about May Emma Donnelly Name: May Emma Donnelly Death Date: 17 Jan 1930 Death Place: Queensland
      Father's name: James Neilson Mother's name: May Emma Nunn Registration Year: 1930 Registration Place: Queensland Registration Number: B010179 Page Number: 428

    Notes 
    • Had death-bed marriage to Wm Donnelly after poisoning event. No further media reports to suggest the incident was deliberate. Newspaper report of the incident gave her surname as Donnelly, so she seemingly had been living as his common law wife.
    Person ID I349  Warren Nunn's family tree
    Last Modified 1 Oct 2012 

    Father James NEILSON,   b. 8 May 1873, Ross, Wesland, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Nov 1946, Frederick Town, Riverview, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Mother May Emma NUNN,   b. 6 Nov 1876, Waterfield, Dinmore, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Oct 1931, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Marriage 22 Feb 1895  St Paul's Church, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • NELSON*-NUNN.-On the 22nd February, at St. Paul's Church, Ipswich, by the Rev. E. Meeres, James, third son of William Nelson, of Riverview, to Mary# Emma, second daughter of David and Rachel Nunn, of Dinmore.
      *Should be Neilson
      #Should be May


      Queensland historical index: 1895/C000956
    Family ID F82  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William Patrick DONNELLY,   b. Abt 1900   d. UNKNOWN 
    Marriage 17 Jan 1930  Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about William Patrick Donnelly Name: William Patrick Donnelly Spouse Name: May Emma Neilson Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1930 Registration Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1930 Registration Number: B007773 Page Number: 679
      *NOTE: Must have been a death-bed marriage as she died the same day from having been poisoned.

    Family ID F2322  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 May 2025 

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