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 {{:shafston_conrad_martens147574607_4026658964020994_1684939499504175106_n.jpg?400|}} A sketch of Shafston (then Ravenscott) by Conrad Martens in 1851, Facebook post by the State Library Of Queensland, 10 February 2021.((thanks to Madonna Grehan for this reference)). \\
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-//Shafston House// was built in 1851 close to the Brisbane River in [[wp>Kangaroo_Point,_Queensland|Kangaroo Point]].The house was previously called //Ravenscott// but renamed by its then owner Henry Russell in 1852. Its heritage listing states it was owned by grazier and sugar-grower Louis Hope from October 1859, and then rented to Gilbert Eliot, Speaker of the Queensland Parliament and, from 1874-78, (Matilda's brother-in-law) William Barker of //Telemon// Station. There is no mention of a period of tenancy by TLM-P.(([[https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=600241|Shafston House]])) An article in //The Queenslander//, 25 September 1930, p.7 states that the house was demolished in c.1881 and a more imposing one built.((see also Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.108.)) The new house continued to attract occupiers in the Murray-Prior family circle. In the early 1900s, it was owned by Mary (Madge) McConnel, the widow of J.H. McConnel, the family that Thomas de M M-P's daughter Phyllis married into.((F. Lord,//The Queenslander//, 25 September 1930, p.7; [[https://cressbrookstation.com.au/the-mcconnel-family-cressbrook-today]]/))\\
+//Shafston House// was built in 1851 close to the Brisbane River in [[wp>Kangaroo_Point,_Queensland|Kangaroo Point]].The house was previously called //Ravenscott// but renamed by its then owner Henry Russell in 1852. Its heritage listing states it was owned by grazier and sugar-grower Louis Hope from October 1859, and then rented to Gilbert Eliot, Speaker of the Queensland Parliament and, from 1874-78, (Matilda's brother-in-law) William Barker of //Telemon// Station. There is no mention of a period of tenancy by TLM-P.(([[https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=600241|Shafston House]])) The original Shafston House was demolished in c.1881 and a more imposing one built.((//The Queenslander//, 25 September 1930, p.7; Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.108.)) The new house continued to attract occupiers in the Murray-Prior family circle. In the early 1900s, it was owned by Mary (Madge) McConnel, the widow of J.H. McConnel, the family that Thomas de M M-P's daughter Phyllis married into.((F. Lord,//The Queenslander//, 25 September 1930, p.7; [[https://cressbrookstation.com.au/the-mcconnel-family-cressbrook-today]]/))\\
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 === 1 Hodgson's Terrace ===