Daughter of (William) Bloomfield Douglas, she grew up in Pt Adelaide and the Grange. Her father was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory in 1870, and her life in the Territory is described in Digging, Squatting... She married in Adelaide on 23 Oct, 1871 Dominick Daniel Daly, surveyor and mine manager, nephew of, and for a time aide-de-camp to, the Governor, Sir Dominick Daly, and one of the officers in Goyder's expedition of 1870. The couple lived at Naracoorte, then returned to the Territory in 1873, staking a claim on the goldfields. They remained for three years, and their daughter was born there. They then returned to live in Adelaide. A son, Dominic Douglas, was born in 1874.
