Early Life
Louis Edward Nolan (also known as Lewis or Ludwig) was born in Upper Canada, now Ontario, the third, but second surviving son of Captain John Babington Nolan, 70th Regiment of Foot, and his wife Eliza Harleston Hartley. They had met and married in Perth, Scotland in 1813. It was Eliza's third marriage, and she already had two sons living from her previous marriages to Andrew Macfarlane and Charles Macfarlane.
The family returned to Edinburgh, Scotland in 1819, to an apartment in 79 Queen Street. Babington Nolan left the 70th Foot in 1820 and retired on half-pay. Little is known of the years which followed, but by 1829, when Louis was eleven, the family was living in Piacenza, Italy, and shortly after moved on to Milan, then within the Austrian Empire. In 1832 his father obtained an unsalaried position as British Consular Agent and Vice-Consul there.
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