Eva Mylott Explained

Eva Mylott
Background:solo_singer
Birth Name:Eva Theresa Mylott
Birth Date:1875 9, df=y
Birth Place:Tuross Head, New South Wales, Australia
Death Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genre:Opera
Occupation:Singer
Associated Acts:Nellie Melba

Eva Theresa Mylott (27 February 1875 – 20 March 1920) was an Australian contralto opera singer.[1]

Early life

Eva Mylott was born in Tuross Head, New South Wales, Australia.[2] Her parents, Patrick Mylott (1838-1899), an importer of wine and spirits and Mary Heffernan (1839-1931) (the daughter of Edmund and Honora Heffernan), were Irish Roman Catholics who settled in the Colony of New South Wales.[3] Patrick was born 1838 in County Mayo, the son of Patrick Mylott and Mary McDermott. He arrived in 1861 aboard the John Masterman.[4] Mylott became a protégé of Dame Nellie Melba and in 1902, she went to England with her to pursue an opera career outside Australia.

Personal life

On 17 June 1917 in New York City, she married American businessman John Hutton Gibson (died ca. 1933); they had two sons: Hutton Gibson in 1918 and Alexis Mylott Gibson.

Mylott died in 1920, aged 45, in Chicago, after slipping in the shower and injuring her neck,[5] leaving two-year-old Hutton and infant Alexis in the care of her husband, who died seventeen years later.[6]

Legacy

Mylott is the paternal grandmother of actor and film director Mel Gibson.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Lewis . Jan . March 2004 . Eva Mylott's Home Tour . Journal of the Moruya & District Historical Society Inc. . 9pp.
  2. Web site: Eva Mylott . 2023-06-26 . Monument Australia.
  3. Web site: THE MYLOTT FAMILY FROM THE MORUYA PIONEER DIRECTORY. 1 May 2022.
  4. Web site: THE MYLOTT FAMILY FROM THE MORUYA PIONEER DIRECTORY. 1 May 2022.
  5. Web site: Is the Pope Catholic?. Wendy Grossman. Dallas Observer. 20 September 2007.
  6. Web site: Keeping the Faith: Face to Face With Mel Gibson. Peggy Noonan. Reader's Digest. 20 September 2007. 9 November 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071109095647/http://www.rd.com/content/mel-gibson/. dead.