Nellie Evelyn Nicoll was born in Forest Gate, Essex on 20 March 1895. Her parents were Sarah (nee Lamplugh) and Eugene Nicoll (see
B5.8). She spent her early years in Forest Gate with a brother and two sisters, one of whom, Katie Mabel, was her twin (see
B6.8). Her father, a director of Baiss Brothers, manufacturing chemists, retired to live in Coventry in 1930, and afterwards she lived at Cannon Hill with her sister Katie and her husband, together with their widowed mother. She did not marry and died 27 January 1979. Hers is a simple stone, in Stoneleigh churchyard.