 Neild was born in Bristol on 4 January 1846 to Maria Greenwood and John Cash Neild , a surgeon . He was named after his father . In 1853 the family moved to Taranaki in New Zealand , evacuating to Sydney in 1860 to escape the First Taranaki War . On 29 October 1868 Neild married Clara Matilda Gertrude Agnew , whose father Philip founded the New South Wales Free Church of England . Clara died in 1879 , three years after the death of the only child of the marriage ; Neild remarried on 19 February 1880 at St Paul 's Anglican Church in Redfern , to Georgine Marie Louise Uhr , daughter of a former New South Wales sheriff . 
