David Dunlop

Sixteen years after being replaced in his government position as magistrate (on 1 January 1847), ED 's husband David died at their house, Mulla Villa at Wollombi, New South Wales.

The widowed Eliza Law was married at Portpatrick in Scotland to David Dunlop , a lawyer who was also born in Northern Ireland and was two years older than she was.

ED 's husband was transferred from Penrith in New South Wales to become the first magistrate and Protector of the Aborigines at Wollombi in the Hunter Valley.

After more than a decade of marriage, ED and her second husband, David , emigrated to Australia, landing from the ship Superb at Port Jackson (now the harbour of Sydney in New South Wales)).

ED 's husband was appointed Police Magistrate at Penrith in New South Wales (now a satellite town of Sydney), where they stayed for seventeen months.

The poem is consciously political, implicitly enlisted in support of the new Governor, Sir George Gipps , who strove to make treatment of Aboriginals less inhumane, and those who worked with him, including David Dunlop