Nickname for Eleanor (6)
(Other definitions for nellie that I've seen before include "Elephant in a song" , "Girl" , "'There's an old mill by the stream, . . . . . . Dean'" , "See 6" , "Dame -- Melba, singer" .)
(Other definitions for nell that I've seen before include "Dickensian heroine" , "little Miss Trent?" , "Little -, (Dickens char.)" , "Orphan girl" , "-- Gwyn, mistress of Charles II" .)