Eliza Amelia EVANS [11439]

  General Notes:

Birth date from baptism entry:
Eliza Amelia Evans born 2 Nov 1845 Baptised 4 Jul 1852 son of George Edwards & Sarah Evans builder of Show Hill.
Ref: St Sepulchre Holborn 1852 LON

Article no. 13588589/4 [Sydney Morning Herald no. 14,706.]
SMH, Thurs. 14 May 1885, p.1
Family Notices
Marriages
Long-Evans. April 9, at St Andrew's Cathedral, by the Revs. C. H. Gibson and J. Barnier, Alfred Parry Long, solicitor, to Eliza Amelia Evans.

Ref: Marriages 619/1885.
NSW BDM www.bdm.nsw.gov/familyHistory/searchHistoricalRecords

Fate Thwarted Mothers Plans.
I Wanted Daughter To Be Richest Woman in Australia.
Wrapped in the history of Grantham, the uninhabited castle at Potts Point offered for sale last week, is the strange story of how a woman's ambition for her daughter was thwarted by Fate.
Grantham, at one time the town mansion of the well known pioneer family, the Dangars, of Singleton, has not been lived in for several years. A few years before her death in 1935 it was purchased by Mrs. Parry Long, wealthy Sydney woman, and is part of her estate, which is valued at £151,130. The list of property owned by Mrs. Parry Long at the time of her death Included Roslyn Hall, Darlinghurst, another old family mansion where she lived for many years, Orwell, in Orwell Street, several lovely old houses In Roslyn Avenue, No. 10 Challis Avenue, land in Bathurst Street, Campbell Street and Cathedral Street, several different properties in Newtown, Merton Lodge in Stanmore Road, and land at Petersham and Picton. At one time Mrs. Parry Long owned Cheverells, in Elizabeth Bay Road, where the Wentworth family once lived. It is rumored that all this property was acquired with one object, to make her daughter, Miss Eliza Ina Parry Long, the wealthiest woman in Australia. This desire was cruelly thwarted when the beloved only daughter died in 1930, five years before her mother. Roslyn Hall, in which Mrs. Parry Long lived for over thirty years, was bought by her and her husband, Mr. Alfred Parry Long, at one time Registrar-General, at the beginning of the century. This mansion had belonged to Major Chauvel, and had been the scene of many wonderful parties. It was reputed to have the biggest drawing-room in Sydney, with a wonderful ceiling painted pale blue with gold stars to resemble the sky. Another feature of the house when the Parry Longs purchased it was its unique stone-flagged entrance-hall. It was Mrs. Parry Long's habit to attend sales of shops in the near suburbs and to purchase them, stock and all, and at one time she was reputed to be in possession of one hundred pairs of spoonbill corsets acquired through her purchase of a drapery shop! Mrs. Parry Long never gave up her practice of driving round in a pony drawn victoria, a pathetic reminder of this being the wooden shelter in the grounds of Grantham, which she built after her purchase of the house, to give her pony fresh grazing ground. Mrs. Parry Long eventually died intestate, and after the sale of her property the estate will be divided among several claimants.
Ref: Trove; The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) Saturday 5 September 1936

Estate Worth L151,130
Six People to Share.
In May last year, Eliza Amelia Long of Darlinghurst, died, leaving property valued at L151,130, but no will.
In the Equity Court on Friday the Chief Judge (Mr Justice Long-Innes) was asked to determine who were the person entitled to benefit from the estate. To help the Court information from the Mitchell Library concerning immigrants who reached Sydney in 1852 was tendered. This showed that in that year one, George Evans, arrived with his family. It was generally accepted that Evans was a brother of the Eliza Long who had married.
His Honor held that the four children of the late George Evans and the two children of his sister were entitled to the estate in equal parts.
Ref: Trove; Singleton Argus (NSW: 1880-1954) Monday 6 July 1936, p. 4:

  Research Notes:

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EVANS V. BRIERLEY.
Jury: Messrs. J. A. Goodin, John Duguid, W. H. Richardson and James Milne.
Mr. Darley, Q.C., and Mr. Pilcher (instructed by Mr. Colyer) appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Davis (instructed by Messrs. Allen and Allen) appeared for the defendant.
This was an action brought by Eliza Amelia Evans to recover damages from James Brierley, for wrongfully and without the leave of the plaintiff digging up the yard of a dwelling-house, the property of the plaintiff, though occupied by a tenant, and opening up the drains in the yard, and altering and making connections with the sewerage pipes, the property of the plaintiff, in the yard : and for discharging sewerage from certain of the defendant's houses through the drains of the plaintiff, so as permanently to injure the plaintiff's reversion in the premises. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and leave and license.
The plaintiff's case was that before 1873 the defendant had owned a block of land extending from Woolloomooloo street to St. Kilda-lane, in Woolloomooloo. In 1873 he sold the Woolloomooloo-street frontage and two houses which he had erected thereon, to Mr. Bach, who in 1874 sold to the plaintiff. The defendant after that built some houses on his property fronting St. Kilda Lane, and connected the drains with those of the houses of the plaintiff; to find out the position of the drains the defendant's work- men had to dig up portion of the plaintiff's yards, which was done without the plaintiff's leave. After the drains had been so connected, the yards became flooded, and the drains had to be examined, when it was discovered that the defendant had connected his drains, which he afterwards disconnected on complaint made.
The jury had a view of the premises. . . . . .
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages £5.
Ref: C Chevalier - The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 22 May 1880

Eliza married Alfred Parry LONG [11440] [MRIN: 3831] on 9 Apr 1885 in St Andrew Cathedral Sydney. (Alfred Parry LONG [11440] was born about 1848 and died on 27 Sep 1898 in Sydney NSW Australia.). The cause of his death was suicide.