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Hi it's Daniel hope you're well,

Just a quick one if anyone can enlighten me on this thought... I've been doing work on my ancestors that lived in the Wensleydale area in the 1800s/early 1900s and I've noticed that most of some of my ancestors who lived in the High Abbotside area we're Illegitimate but yet they still lived with their biological familes... it's not just one branch of the family there's quite a few which are in the same position.... my point I'm making is that wouldn't it have been like a taboo thing? I mean I've watched episodes from long lost family and other family history episodes and they were given up for adoption or another family took them in?.... but it doesn't seem the case in this scenario? can anyone please shed any light and put my mind at rest? Thanks

Have you looked into Charles Donahue?  Maybe his paperwork would show whether their were children from that marriage.  Her parents wills / estate files might show other information as well.

I can't find anything on Charles Donahue after their Marriage in 1942.... Nellie's mother died in 1936 when Nellie was 14 and her father Henry was off the scene and started a new family and died in Windsor in 1956 at his sisters house

I have done the following with no results:
Masters Portal
Zimbabwe / South African records on familysearch
Eggsa tombstones
The archives - under Jackson, Dawson as well as just Nellie Louisa

Makes me think that she did not die in South Africa.

True
I just don't know where else to look?

She would not have a South African Identity number of she was in Rhodesia.

Her sister moved from Rhodesia to South Africa when Rhodesia changed to Zimbabwe

According to familysearch she married a Charles Donahue on 4/12/1942 in Repton, Derbyshire.  Is this the same person?

Yes but then she emigrated to Southern Rhodesia