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Leely's double-barreled name was a happy accident.

She was born Leely René Meers on July 24, 1975, to parents Robin and Robert.

There's was a tumultuous marriage that only persisted due to their mutual love of their daughter, but ultimately ended in divorce when Leely was seven years old.

After her birth parents separated, Leely's mother entered into a de facto relationship with a man whose surname was Leely.

The couple had a daughter in 1983, whom they named Jesse.

Leely wanted to share her younger sister's surname and loved the fact that it would give her her duplicate name.

She liked her unique name so much, she kept it after her mother rendered that relationship.

Robin was close to her oldest daughter, until Leely aged 10 on a two-month holiday to Sri Lanka to experience her familial heritage.

By 1986, Robin and her two daughters had moved to a house on Fullerton Street in Fern Bay, a working class suburb in the Hunter region of New South Wales.

Just south of Fern Bay was stopped in, technically a suburb of the city of Newcastle.

It lay across the harbor mouth of the Hunter River, meaning anyone wanting to get there from Newcastle would either have to take a five-minute ferry ride

or a half-hour drive.

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