Miss A. Heelis
(1839-1904)
27 June 1862

Volume 8, page 133, sitting number 10,150.

Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Miss A. Heelis,' the sitter visited Silvy's studio with her elder sister Ann Elizabeth in the summer of 1862. Their older brothers John and Arthur had sat for their portraits by Silvy two days earlier. 

Miss Arabella Heelis was the younger daughter of the solicitor and attorney Stephen Heelis of Salford. 

Born in 1839 at Salford, she appears on the 1861 census, aged 21, living at 10 Eccles Road in Salford with her widowed father Stephen and her six siblings, aged between 27 and 15. 

On 16 February 1865 in the parish church at Eccles she married Crimean veteran Captain Alexander Bruce Tulloch of the 96th Regiment, second son of Lieutenant-Colonel James Dundas Greogorie Tulluch. Their marriage produced five sons and at least one daughter. Her husband was later Major-General Sir Alexander Bruce Tulloch, created KCB in 1902. In 1904 he was an Attaché with the Second Japanese Army and The Times war correspondent in Manchuria. He died in 1920. 

Lady Tulloch died, aged 64, on 18 January 1904 at Woolston Lodge, Bradons Hill Road, Torquay, Devon. According to the abstract of her will, he usual address was 'Llangattock, Crickhowell, County of Brecon.'