Eliza Nash and Ezra Turner

Eliza Nash

(1843 - 1885)

and her husband Ezra Emanuel Turner

Farmers of Brodies Plain near Inverell NSW

Eliza Nash was the youngest daughter of George Nash and Mary Lees. She was born in 1845 at her parents' farm in Londonderry Parish north-east of Castlereagh NSW, and relocated with them to the Windsor district in the late-1840's, then to Hartley in the mid-1850's, and then to Inverell in the mid-1860's. Eliza apparently settled there with her parents on her brother John's selections at Brodies Plains.

In 1868 Maria married her Brodies Plain neighbour Ezra Emmanuel Turner. No children were born to their marriage, the cause of their infertility possibly resulting from a rare chromosomal imbalance that has been traced back to Ezra's brother.

Ezra Emanuel Turner (1846-1905) was the son of Edmund Turner and his wife Ann Goddard of Watereaton in Buckinghamshire, England. The Turners travelled to NSW on board the Emporer in 1848 and had settled in Windsor by 1853. Ezra's father selected land in Brodie's Plains in 1866 next to the land previously selected by John Nash. However he was unhappy with the selection and abandoned it shortly afterwards, with John Nash taking over the selection in 1869. Ezra himself selected land on the northern bank of the McIntyre River near John Nash's property, where he apparently remained for the next few decades.

Ezra died in 1905 and Eliza in 1911 at Brodie's Plains. Both were buried in the Wesleyan-Methodist cemetery in Inverell having maintained an interest in the Wesleyan faith passed on from Eliza's grandfather, John Lees.

This is a brief summary of the chapter relating to Eliza Nash and Ezra Emanuel Turner published in Nash: First Fleeters and Founding Families - A Three Generational Biographical History.

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