Eliza Mitchell 'Mitty'

Eliza Mitchell 1846-1923 Eliza never married; she was just 22 when her mother died. With her widowed father and his seven surviving children she moved into his newly built mansion Etham House, overlooking Darling Harbour and for the next 25 years she helped to raise her siblings. She eventually moved to England and died a spinster in London aged 77. She lived in Flat 15, 169 Queen's Gate and her sister Edith was the executor of her Will when she left £1,600 (£97,000 in 2020 values). She was buried in the churchyard at St Mary the Virgin in the village of Hutton, Somerset. Hutton Court was where her sister Edith lived with her husband Thomas Bisdee