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| **Thomas Murray Prior/Thomas Prior, 1 August 1790-July 1864** | **Thomas Murray Prior/Thomas Prior, 1 August 1790 - 16 July 1864** |
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| {{:col_mp_cropped.jpg?direct&200|}} This photo is from TLM-P’s photo album and labelled by him as ‘Colonel Murray-Prior’. It was taken by Symonds Photographer who operated from the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth, near where this 2nd Thomas Murray Prior lived.((Provenance: J. Godden))\\ | {{:col_mp_cropped.jpg?direct&200|}} This photo is from TLM-P’s photo album and labelled by him as ‘Colonel Murray-Prior’. It was taken by Symonds Photographer who operated from the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth, near where this 2nd Thomas Murray Prior lived.((Provenance: J. Godden))\\ |
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| Thomas and his second wife Eliza were buried at Southsea cemetery.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Their son TLM-P visited their refurbished grave in 1882 and described it as 'a plain but very neat stone sarcophagus of good grained sandstone'((TLM-P, Diary, 7 August 1882, ML.)) The family's claim to gentry status rested on their Irish estates, so Thomas was described on the grave as of Rathdowney. Thomas died on 16 July 1864 and his burial plot, with room for other family members, was bought on 21 July 1864.((Solicitor's letter to Louisa Prior, 26 September 1893, in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/39)) His death notice, presumably sent by his family, was published in several newspapers, most of which give the 16th, his correct date of death, e.g. //Sheffield Daily Telegraph//, 20 July 1864, p.3 and the //London Evening Standard//, 20 July 1864, p.7. Others such as the //Hampshire Telegraph//, 23 July 1864 gives it as the 12th; other sources give 17th. To add to the confusion, his grandson Thomas Bertram M-P recorded that he died on 19 July.((//Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d. p.5.)) The inscription on the grave confirms that it was the 16th. Thomas Prior's death was registered in the Portsea district in September 1864.((online Death Register; TLM-P, genealogical notes in John & John B. Burke, A// Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland: M to Z//, London: Henry Colburn Publisher, 1846)) TLM-P, the focus of this history, was his elder son. His step-sister wrote to him informing him of his father's death but it took (as was usual) two months to reach him.((TLM-P diary, 13 September 1864)).\\ | Thomas and his second wife Eliza were buried at Southsea cemetery.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Their son TLM-P visited their refurbished grave in 1882 and described it as 'a plain but very neat stone sarcophagus of good grained sandstone'((TLM-P, Diary, 7 August 1882, ML.)) The family's claim to gentry status rested on their Irish estates, so Thomas was described on the grave as of Rathdowney. \\ |
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| | Thomas died on 16 July 1864 and his burial plot, with room for other family members, was bought on 21 July 1864.((Solicitor's letter to Louisa Prior, 26 September 1893, in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/39)) His death notice, presumably sent by his family, was published in several newspapers, most of which give the 16th, his correct date of death, e.g. //Sheffield Daily Telegraph//, 20 July 1864, p.3 and the //London Evening Standard//, 20 July 1864, p.7. Others such as the //Hampshire Telegraph//, 23 July 1864 gives it as the 12th; other sources give 17th. To add to the confusion, his grandson Thomas Bertram M-P recorded that he died on 19 July.((//Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d. p.5.)) Thomas Prior's death was registered in the Portsea district in September 1864.((online Death Register; TLM-P, genealogical notes in John & John B. Burke, A// Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland: M to Z//, London: Henry Colburn Publisher, 1846)) TLM-P, the focus of this history, was his elder son. His stepsister wrote to him informing him of his father's death but it took (as was usual) two months to reach him.((TLM-P diary, 13 September 1864)).\\ |
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| {{:t_prior_grave_resize_again.jpg?200|}} A contemporary sketch of Thomas Prior's grave((M-P papers NLA Ms 7801, Box 20/1.)) Click twice to realign. Inscription reads: Sacred to the Memory of Colonel Thomas Murray Prior of Rathdowney Queens County Dublin who died July 16th 1864 aged 73 years. On the reverse side: Sacred to the Memory of Elizabeth Catherine second wife of Colonel Thomas Murray Prior who died Nov 18th Aged 60 years. On one small side is engraved Waterloo; on the other side Peninsula. | {{:t_prior_grave_resize_again.jpg?200|}} A contemporary sketch of Thomas Prior's grave((M-P papers NLA Ms 7801, Box 20/1.)) Click twice to realign. Inscription reads: Sacred to the Memory of Colonel Thomas Murray Prior of Rathdowney Queens County Dublin who died July 16th 1864 aged 73 years. On the reverse side: Sacred to the Memory of Elizabeth Catherine second wife of Colonel Thomas Murray Prior who died Nov 18th Aged 60 years. On one small side is engraved Waterloo; on the other side Peninsula. |