Eva Mylott
Eva Theresa Mylott was an Australian contralto opera singer.
Early life
Eva Mylott was born in Tuross Head, New South Wales. Her parents, Patrick Mylott, an importer of wine and spirits and Mary Heffernan , were Irish Roman Catholics who settled in the Colony of New South Wales. Patrick was born 1838 in County Mayo, the son of Patrick Mylott and Mary McDermott. He arrived in 1861 aboard the John Masterman. Mylott became a protégé of Dame Nellie Melba and in 1902, she went to England with her to pursue an opera career outside Australia.Personal life
On 17 June 1917 in New York City, she married American businessman John Hutton Gibson ; they had two sons: Hutton Gibson in 1918 and Alexis Mylott Gibson. Mylott is the paternal grandmother of actor and film director Mel Gibson and his 10 siblings, including Donal Gibson. Through Mel, she is the great-grandmother of actor Milo Gibson.Mylott died in 1920, aged 45, in Chicago, after slipping in the shower and injuring her neck, leaving two-year-old Hutton and infant Alexis in the care of her husband, who died seventeen years later.