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Name	Ellen Katherine Cameron
Alternative Names	Nellie Bourke Nellie Calletti Nellie Kelly
Born	1910 Waterloo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	8 November, 1953 (aged ~ 43) Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	suicide
Occupation or Descriptor *	prostitute (1922-1950) New South Wales, Australia underworld figure (1922-1950) New South Wales, Australia
Groups *	Sydney underworld, 1920s (prostitute and lover of many murdered gangland figures)

* Dates are approximate

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