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Biography
Eliza was born in autumn 1846. Her father Charles was a German bookbinder plying his trade in the Caribbean. Eliza was born when the family lived in Grenada, but the group subsequently moved to Bermuda where her father initially worked as a tutor, teacher and assistant schoolmaster. In 1858 Charles had taken work in administration at the naval hospital.[1]

At age 15 in summer 1862, Eliza married a colleague of her father's, 24-year-old Dr. George Bellamy:

MARRIED, at St. James' Church, Somerset, on the 10th inst., by the Revd. George Jackson, Chaplain of the Royal Naval Yard, assisted by the Revd C. P. K. Coombe, Rector of Sandys and Southampton, George Bellamy, Esqr., Assist. Surgeon, R. N., to Eliza Jane, second daughter of Charles Thiele, Esq., of Royal Naval Hospital.[2]

Eliza and George's first two children, George Wiliam and Edith were born while the family remained in Bermuda. A transfer to Sheerness, Kent in spring 1865 preceded the arrival of son Arthur that autumn. In spring 1866 husband George was attached to HMS Sutlej and assigned duties at the naval hospital at Esquimalt, Vancouver Island. At Esquimalt four more children were added to the family: Hugh, Gertrude Helen, Alice and Francis. Son Francis was born after husband George returned to England to take work at the dockyards at Portsmouth. George died there in 1875.

The 1881 Canada census found Eliza and her children living together, including son Edward (see notes).[3] The 1891 census also included Edward, and along with son Francis, four addition children: Katherine Demaris, Herman, Ethel and Irene.[4] The family home was just inside the Victoria, BC, city limits on Burnside Road.[5]

The 1901 Canada census found Eliza and several of her children still at Burnside Road, along with daughter-in-law Susannah Clare.[6]

At age 59 in spring 1906, Eliza married 38-year-old James Herbert Willis.[7] The pair lived on a farm at Colville Road in Esquimalt.[8]

Eliza Jane Willis passed away in 1916:[9]

The death of an old pioneer of the city occurred on Saturday evening in the passing away at St. Joseph's hospital of Mrs. Eliza Jane Willis, wife of James H. Willis of this city. The deceased lady, who was [69] years of age, and a native of Grenada, West Indies, had been in Victoria for about 50 years, and was very well known and highly esteemed by a wide circle of old residents and new-comers alike. She belonged latterly to none of the organizations associated with public or social work, but to the last preserved a keen interest in all matters of this kind.[10]

Research Notes
A number of children born to Eliza (after George returned to England, and before she married James Willis, and named Katherine, Herman, Ethel, Irene) were given the surname Bellamy, despite the impossibility of Dr. George Bellamy being their father. The only borderline case is son Edward born in summer 1873, which would have required a meeting between George and Eliza around autumn 1872. Evidently the family separation took a deeper turn in 1874, when George published a disclaimer, absolving himself from debts incurred by Eliza.[11]

Update 1 February 2026
Recent research has proven that Eliza Jane’s first seven children (George, Edith Winnifred, Arthur, Hugh Gerald Seymour, Gertrude Ellen Wilhemina, Alice Mary, Francis Karl) were fathered by George Bellamy, while her five youngest children (Edward William, Katherine Demaris, Herman, Ethel, Irene) were fathered by Kenneth McKenzie IV of Craigflower Farm. Despite this, all five of these younger children used the Bellamy surname throughout their lives, and their true paternity appears not to have been openly discussed within the family.

Notably, although Edward William was christened Bellamy, the four youngest children were christened McKenzie on the same day—20 February 1893—at St. Mark’s Church. None of them subsequently used the McKenzie surname and instead continued to go by Bellamy.

George Bellamy had returned to Portsmouth in 1871 to take up another post with the Royal Navy at His Majesty’s Dockyard, where he died and was buried in 1875.

Kenneth McKenzie never married Eliza Jane and died in 1906. Later that same year, on 11 April 1906, Eliza married James Herbert Willis, who was twenty-one years her junior. Given his age, James Willis cannot, of course, have been the father of any of the five younger children.

Sources
1. "Mr. Charles [.] Thiele, who has been an established clerk at the Royal Naval Hospital, Ireland Island, since June, 1858, has been placed on the retired list...", Royal Bermuda Gazette, March 30, 1880, page 2
2. Bermuda Royal Gazette, July 22, 1862
3. Canada Census 1881, British Columbia, District No. 190, S. District D Victoria City, page 7, lines 9-17, http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=census&id=18317371&lang=eng
4. Census of Canada, 1891, British Columbia, District No. 4 Victoria, Polling District No. 10, page 9, lines 1-7, http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=census&id=23970168&lang=eng
5. Henderson's BC Gazetteer and Directory, 1891, page 601, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1891/Henderson%27s_BC_Gazetteer_and_Directory/jpeg/0593_Victoria_-_Names_Page_026.jpeg
6. Fourth Census of Canada, 1901, British Columbia, District No. 4 Victoria, S. District No. D, Polling sub-division No. 18, Victoria City. page 2, lines 42-48, http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=census&id=33488266&lang=eng
7. Province of British Columbia, Marriage Record, reg. no. 1906-09-014679, https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/1dc073ea-61c6-444f-b975-c90e61fb7bb6
8. City of Victoria and Suburban Directory, 1908, page 454, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1908/City_of_Victoria_and_Suburban_Directory/jpeg/0185_Names_A-Z_Page_270.jpeg
9. Province of British Columbia, Death Record, reg. no. 1916-09-033724
10. (with minor corrections) "Lived Here 50 Years", Victoria Daily Times, February 28, 1916, page 13, https://archive.org/details/victoriadailytimes19160228/page/n12/mode/1up
11. (NOTICE, e.g.) Daily British Colonist, March 25, 1874, page 2, https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist18740325uvic/page/n1/mode/1up