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==Early life== Born on February 5, 1868, to Thomas Dermot, a sea captain and Adelaide Hill Dermot,<ref name=Cyclopaedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZToOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA87 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=XIV |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=87β88 |year=1910 |access-date=December 14, 2020 |via=Google Books}}</ref> she had a younger sister, actress [[Gertrude Elliott]] and at least two brothers, one of whom, a sailor, was lost at sea in the Indian Ocean.{{When|date=January 2018}}{{sfn|Forbes-Robertson|1964|pp=277β278}} By age 15 in 1883, Jessie had been seduced and made pregnant by a 25-year-old man whom she may have married underage, according to the biography by [[Diana Forbes-Robertson]], her niece. She either miscarried or lost the baby. This incident left a psychological wound on her for the rest of her life.{{Cn|date=February 2023}} Eliott later developed a relationship with a man from a rich local family, Arthur Hall. When suspicions of her pregnancy developed and when her relationship with Hall was eventually exposed, she and her father left for South America. In her later years she would make bitter remarks about the separation between her and Hall.{{sfn|Lovell|2016|loc=Chapter 1}}
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