Nellie Cameron was born Ellen Katherine Kelly 1910 Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia. to Colin Kelly & Lillian Ruddock.
She First married married gangster Guido Caletti (1900-1939) they would divorce and she would marry again in 1940 to a gangster Charles Francis Bourke (1909-1964).
Guido Caletti
Charles Francis Bourke
Nellie as she was called was a part of the gangster underworld a known prostitute with the nickname of "The Kiss of Death Girl" she was a part of "The Razor Gang Wars". In 1926 at age 15 she started her criminal career. During her criminal career she was kidnapped, beaten, stabbed, razor slashed, and shot numerous times. Most of her husbands and boyfriends were murdered.
She had a adopted daughter named Janice.
Her parents divorced her mother claimed abandonment. I found him in prison for embezzlement.
Her mother remarried to Robert George Cameron (1889-1904), Nellie took his last name.
Nellie had two brothers that died young, she was the youngest child.
Lionel O Kelly
1907–1907
William C Kelly
1908–1910
Nellie had received 73 criminal convictions in her lifetime.
She died 8 Nov 1953 in Darlinghurst, NSW and over 700 people attended her funeral.
Here is a link to a YouTube video about the Gang.
What women and what a story, what a life she had good, bad and exciting and sad.
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