Elizabeth Daly Holliday 856-926

Elizabeth Daly,James' wife,
was born in 1856, England,
she was the daughter of
Daniel Daly and his wife,
Margaret Collins Daly.
Daniel was Irish and he and his brother Patrick, both married the Collins sisters Margaret and Mary. It seems that the two brothers worked or owned a Distillery in Ireland. Patrick moved together with Mary, to London were he intended to open a subsidiary of the Company.
Those marriages were never accepted by neither families, due probably to religious issues. When Patrick was living in England with Mary, he suddenly died. His death was shortly followed by Mary's who apparently couldn't stand living without her beloved husband.
Consequently their children, Mary Ann (later called Pauline), Jeremiah, and Patrick Jr., went back to Ireland to live with their cousins, and consequently, when Daniel decided to move to Brazil, they came along.
Daniel and Margaret had five children, Elizabeth was the second, preceded by Mary Ann in 1854, Daniel in 1855, and followed by Jeremiah in 1857(there's still a doubt about Jeremiah being a son or a nephew), and Margaret in 1873. Aunt Meg as she was later known, was the only one born in Brazil in 1873.
Elizabeth met her future- husband James Frederick Holliday in Rio de Janeiro. They were probably introduced to each other by friends of the British society of Rio, which is known as a very close one.
They lived in Brocoio Island, in the Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, where the City Improvements Company provided them a house, and where they raised the 6 children they had. Is said that Elizabeth's cousin, Mary Ann, also known as Pauline, lived there in Brocoio Island too, later she would marry a certain Mr. Vedey, and got one son , named John. There's no record about Mary Ann's brother and sister.
This property would be later, in the 1920's purchased by the Guinle family, and transformed into a Normand style mansion. Now days it's a summer house for Rio de Janeiro's Governor.
Elizabeth died of heart complications in 1926,
She was 70 years old.