https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/ 2026-10-24T09:52:02+00:00 https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/ https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/lib/tpl/bootstrap3/images/favicon.ico text/html 2026-08-14T16:53:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=4th_generation_descendants_of_thomas_and_nora_m-p&rev=1786690427&do=diff 4th generation descendants of Thomas and Nora M-P Hobbs descendants The trail gets murky for Meta Hobbs' and for Eileen Hickson's descendents. We'd love to hear from them and know more! 1. Edwin Murray Barton (Barty) Hobbs' children: No evidence has been found of any children of the marriage of Meta's son Edwin Murray Barton (Barty) Hobbs to Alice Michod in 1938. His earlier marriage in New Zealand to Isabel Devereaux resulted in a son Anthony (Tony) Barton Prior Hobbs (1930-79). text/html 2020-08-10T17:04:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=5th_australian_generation_and_beyond&rev=1597043061&do=diff Tom and Lillian's descendants Tom and Lillian had four children, of whom two survived infancy. These two sons represent the 5th Australian generation of TLM-P's descendants, now too large and too scattered to include all. Tom Though we try to avoid biographies of living M-Ps, there are two photographs which are in the public domain. One, from the National Archives of Australia, is a photo of Thomas M-P c.1960. It is captioned 'Singapore student, Manoharan Ponnusamy, in special Cuban dress, p… text/html 2025-01-25T10:22:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=5th_generation_descendants_of_thomas_and_matilda_m-p&rev=1737760969&do=diff 5th generation descendants of Thomas and Matilda M-P Thomas Lodge (Tom) and Lillian's descendants Tom and Lillian had four children, of whom two survived infancy: 1. Thomas - fortunately very much alive and so is not detailed here; and 2. Richard John text/html 2025-01-24T22:44:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=5th_generation_descendants_of_thomas_and_nora_m-p&rev=1737719053&do=diff 5th generation descendants of Thomas and Nora M-P text/html 2019-04-28T07:58:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=1888&rev=1556402303&do=diff Extract from J. Godden 'Glimpses of 1888 - The Diary of T.L.Murray-Prior', Australia 1888, no. 4, May 1980 pp.61-65: text/html 2024-11-26T10:35:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=a_stray&rev=1732577729&do=diff A Stray: Mary Prior Saving ‘fallen women'(prostitutes, incest and rape victims, and single mothers) was a key concern for philanthropic women in the late 18th and 19th century, but help often came at a heavy price for the women concerned: incarceration in a ‘Magdalen’ asylum and a heavy diet of punitive religiosity, penitence and deprivation. A book (bound together with Burke’s text/html 2025-05-02T21:08:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=a_tramp_to_the_blackalls&rev=1746184104&do=diff A Tramp to the Blackalls Ruth and Dorothea were always very close as sisters. In c.1910-1911, Ruth wrote a 14pp description of a walk they took in Queensland, from Caboolture Railway Station to the farm belonging to their youngest stepbrother Egerton and his wife Gracie at Nambour. They could have taken a train all the way, but decided instead to walk part the way. Ruth described how they wore old clothes (Ruth's inexpertly dyed by herself), took a billy for water for making tea, and a knapsack… text/html 2022-06-12T21:30:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=abbreviations_money&rev=1655033414&do=diff Abbreviations Used BDM NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, <https://www.nsw.gov.au/births-deaths-marriages>b. bornc. circa (approximate date)d. diedm. marriedM-P Murray-PriorML Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, SydneyNLA National Library of Australia, Canberra text/html 2021-03-17T11:17:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=abbreviations_used&rev=1615940263&do=diff Abbreviations Used text/html 2021-01-10T10:39:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=aberfoyle&rev=1610235558&do=diff Aberfoyle text/html 2025-01-25T15:24:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=air_force_experiences&rev=1737779081&do=diff Air Force Experiences Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior Air force experience 05/01/1941 Joined the Australian Air Force Trained in Australia, Navigator Observer 04/09/1941 Posted overseas, at sea 25/10/1941 to 21/09/1943 Egypt,60 Squadron SAAF Marylands, Baltimores. Mosquitos text/html 2022-09-29T21:29:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=andrew_murray_prior&rev=1664450991&do=diff Andrew Murray Prior and Frances Morres Andrew Murray Prior Esq. of Rathdowney was John and Mary Murray Prior's eldest son. Initially Andrew Murray, he became Andrew Murray Prior after Tom Prior stipulated that Andrew's parents, John and Mary Murray, should text/html 2021-09-15T10:52:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=andrew_murray-prior&rev=1631667143&do=diff Andrew Murray Prior and Frances Morres Andrew Murray Prior Esq. of Rathdowney was John and Mary Murray Prior's eldest son. Initially Andrew Murray, he became Andrew Murray Prior after Tom Prior stipulated that Andrew's parents, John and Mary Murray, should text/html 2022-09-29T21:34:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=andrew_redmond_murray_prior&rev=1664451291&do=diff Andrew Redmond Murray Prior (9 February 1783 -1860) was Andrew Murray Prior’s younger son. He was appointed Accountant General of the Irish Post Office on 8 May 1809. On 17 March 1814, he married Catherine, daughter of Sir John Call of Cornwall and widow of Major-General text/html 2021-03-29T17:55:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=andrew_redmond_murray-prior&rev=1617000952&do=diff Andrew Redmond Murray-Prior (1786-1860) was Andrew Murray-Prior’s younger son. He was appointed Accountant General of the Irish Post Office on 8 May 1809. On 17 March 1814, he married Catherine, daughter of Sir John Call of Cornwall and widow of Major-General text/html 2025-07-24T20:49:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=army_gear&rev=1753354155&do=diff Army gear These photos are of a Mameluke sword and scabbard recently bought by T.A. M-P who then had them restored by Hayden Vesty. T.A. M-P understands that it is the only one of its type in Australia and hence as certain as you can get to being Thomas Murray-Prior's. Thomas B. M-P donated the family sword in 16 May 1934 text/html 2025-05-08T14:39:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=back_to_england_c.1803-38&rev=1746679159&do=diff Back to England Thomas Murray Prior/Thomas Prior, 1 August 1790 - 16 July 1864 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. text/html 2020-05-18T18:17:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=bishop&rev=1589789824&do=diff John Skynner Egerton Bishop Just what was TLM-P's relationship with John Bishop is unclear, though likely to be a cousin on his mother's side as later in his diary TLM-P refers to 'my Aunt Bishop'(13 July 1882). TLM-P recorded that John (b. 1816) had married Emily Davenport Hunter, daughter of Christopher Hunter MD (as usual, there is no mention of the mother). They had 7 children and their addresses in 1882 says much about the purpose served by the British Empire to employ ambitious sons. The … text/html 2022-06-13T17:22:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=books&rev=1655104921&do=diff Thomas Prior's surviving books Click on images for clearer view. * The Code of Health and Longevity… 4th ed., by Sir John Sinclair, published in 1818. Thomas has written his name in it - ‘Thomas Prior Esq’. * Poems on Several Occasions by text/html 2025-04-28T17:38:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=brisbane_art_gallery&rev=1745825908&do=diff Brisbane Art Gallery At time of writing, the Brisbane Art Gallery states that: 'The European collection was established with a bequest of 17th century Dutch paintings to the state of Queensland in 1892 by pastoralist and legislative councillor Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior.' text/html 2026-02-01T15:18:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=brisbane_properties_and_other_land_dealings&rev=1769919483&do=diff Brisbane Homes The gentry ideal was to have a home in town and a country estate. TLM-P achieved this when he took up his position as Postmaster-General in 1862, necessitating a more permanent base for him and his family in Brisbane. Eskgrove TLM-P first known home in Brisbane was text/html 2020-08-12T12:49:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=busted&rev=1597200543&do=diff Busted! My mother was quite a conventional, church-going woman but one story indicated that she was not always so well-behaved. Her story was that her best friend at school was an only child of a wealthy (Jewish, if that's relevant) family: I think her name was Ida. Mum's story was that Ida was quite neglected, so when she decided to tell the family's chauffeur to collect her early one afternoon and drive her to the pictures and back, no-one in her family knew. Ida persuaded Mum to play truan… text/html 2021-03-17T11:20:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=butler_morres_and_lodge_families&rev=1615940445&do=diff Butler, Morres and Lodge families text/html 2025-02-18T21:04:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=can_you_help_identify_these_photos&rev=1739873042&do=diff Mystery photos One of the benefits of doing this family history is pooling our knowledge about our extended family. We all have photos which have been handed down without captions, of people and places that are now unknown. Do you recognise any of these? text/html 2019-12-13T12:27:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=canoe&rev=1576200420&do=diff A 300km Canoe Trip when aged 13 or 14 In 1925-1926, Tom L2 and a friend were 13 or 14 years old and both attended Leura State School. Whilst on holidays they decided to build their own canoe. When they had finished building it they took it to the Leura Public Pool to see if it would actually float. It did and with no leaks! It was also surprisingly very stable. Perfect! What next? text/html 2025-05-02T21:06:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=captain_thomas_prior&rev=1746183980&do=diff Captain Thomas Prior and Elizabeth Fairfax Captain Prior was sent to Ireland in 1636 with his regiment, part of a military response to Irish resistance to English rule. The first thought is that he was part of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army who fought in Ireland. They were given land under the benign sounding Act of Settlement in 1652 and 1657; land forfeited from Irish owners after the rebellion of 1641. But the New Model Army was not formed until 1645 and, by then, Captain Prior had been in… text/html 2020-05-18T21:21:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=certificates&rev=1589800897&do=diff Certificates The following is the double-sided marriage certificate of Robert and Stella M-P. Stella M-P's birth certificate: text/html 2022-06-12T22:34:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=changed_coat_of_arms&rev=1655037245&do=diff The Prior and Murray-Prior coat of arms Families with the status of gentry and above, were entitled to their own coat of arms. The photo far left is a faded painting of the Prior crest. The next is a drawing of the Prior crest with an explanation This drawing of the crest is by TLM-P. text/html 2018-05-25T22:24:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=character_and_art&rev=1527251072&do=diff Character, Possessions and Actions TLM-P's actions, possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section is just some additional titbits. Character TLM-P's son Robert, who was only 11 when his father died, described him as being 'justly renowned for his courtly bearing and usage of words. He was veritably an aristocratic statesmen of old and could smile through the harshest of Parliamentary insults' The only thing that cause him to lose his temper was any insu… text/html 2019-02-25T16:38:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=character_possessions_photos_death&rev=1551073118&do=diff Character, Possessions, Photos, Death TLM-P's actions and possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section gives additional hints about what he was like. Character The view of Australia's Representative Men was that TLM-P had a 'most courteous manner and kindness of feeling'. Further, 'all classes can approach him and be received without ostentation'. His private character matched his public image, with his 'family and acquaintances' holding him 'in great … text/html 2019-02-25T16:37:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=character_possessions_photos&rev=1551073075&do=diff Character, Possessions, Photos, Death TLM-P's actions and possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section gives additional hints about what he was like. Character The view of Australia's Representative Men was that TLM-P had a 'most courteous manner and kindness of feeling'. Further, 'all classes can approach him and be received without ostentation'. His private character matched his public image, with his 'family and acquaintances' holding him 'in great … text/html 2018-08-03T18:07:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=character_possessions&rev=1533283623&do=diff Character, Possessions, Photos TLM-P's actions and possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section gives additional hints about what he was like. Character The view of Australia's Representative Men was that TLM-P had a 'most courteous manner and kindness of feeling'. Further, 'all classes can approach him and be received without ostentation'. His private character matched his public image, with his 'family and acquaintances' holding him 'in great esteem'… text/html 2017-08-16T17:10:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=charles_harpur&rev=1502867431&do=diff Charles Harpur Early life Harpur was born on 23 January 1813 at Windsor, New South Wales, the third child of Joseph Harpur — originally from Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, parish clerk and master of the Windsor district school — and Sarah, née Chidley (from Somerset; both had been transported.) Harpur received his elementary education in Windsor. This was probably largely supplemented by private study; he was an eager reader of text/html 2017-09-07T09:56:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=click&rev=1504742174&do=diff Thomas Prior's Service during the Napoleonic Wars * 3 May 1811: ‘sailed for Portugal … under Lt. General Sir H.J. Cumming, Colonel of the 12th Lancers’. * 25 September 1811: in the Battle of El Bodon, Portugal. * 22 July 1812: awarded the 'War medal with clasp’ for service during the 1812 text/html 2020-03-21T18:06:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=colonel_thomas_prior&rev=1584774411&do=diff Colonel Thomas Prior; wife unidentified Colonel Thomas Prior, the elder son of Captain Thomas Prior and Elizabeth Prior, inherited his father’s Irish estates. He raised a militia corps, commanding them as Colonel. Such a militia was needed as there was fierce resistance by the dispossessed Irish led by guerrillas known as text/html 2026-01-24T22:26:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=darnell_list&rev=1769254014&do=diff Chinese identured labourers employed by TLM-P Source: Maxine Darnell, ) Note that I have edited this list slightly from the original to make it consistent with the other pages and added other comments in square brackets. Date |Name of Employee | Locality | Notes text/html 2025-01-24T22:40:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=descendants_of_thomas_and_nora_murray-prior&rev=1737718804&do=diff Descendents of Thomas and Nora Murray-Prior text/html 2020-06-25T13:20:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=dorothy_photos&rev=1593055213&do=diff Dorothy photos/drawing Dorothy with her youngest sister Ruth. Provenance: Jill Fleming. Dorthy aged 6 years 7 months Dorothy when she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Sydney. This sketch of 53-year old Dorothy was done in 1929 by her cousin text/html 2019-02-19T18:13:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=dr_hugh&rev=1550560409&do=diff Dr Hugh M-P Portrait of Officers of 128th Australian General Hospital, Port Moresby, Papua, in 1944. Captain Hugh Murray-Prior is in the middle row, 4th from right. An undated photo of Hugh M-P as a dashing young man. The next photo is from 1952, when Hugh was Medical Superintendent at Crown Street Women's Hospital (Surry Hills, Sydney). He is in the middle of the front row, with Pathologist J. Murray Moyes third from the left and resident medical officers. text/html 2025-01-18T20:47:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=edward_i_butler_morres_and_lodge_families&rev=1737193646&do=diff 'Air castles': Royalty and the Butler, Morres and Lodge families Most families have their ‘castles in the air’, stories embellished with dreams of what might have been. This section deals with the main 'castles in the air' of past family historians. Aspects of these stories regularly pop up in online searches, and we include them here so you know why we don't think they are the most relevant aspect of our family history. text/html 2025-04-27T13:45:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=egerton_s_poetry&rev=1745725545&do=diff Egerton's Poems Click on each image for a clearer view: Three other poems were published in an unidentified newspaper, two when he was at Killarney Station, the other when he was at Simla, Rocklea in South Brisbane. The poem 'A Breath of War' accurately reflects the idealisation of war with the last verse text/html 2026-06-03T22:11:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=eliza_skynner&rev=1780488701&do=diff Elizabeth (Eliza) Catherine Prior, nee Skynner Thomas and Elizabeth (Eliza) Catherine Skynner (1795 -1863) were married at Cookham, Berkshire, England by Cookham's long-term Anglican vicar, the Rev. Richard Whately, on 31 December 1818. Eliza had grown up in Cookham, at her family's home text/html 2020-03-22T21:01:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=elizabeth_eliza_catherine_skynner&rev=1584871293&do=diff Eliza Prior Her parents were Charles and Mary Skynner of , Cookham, Berkshire, England. Her mother was née Orlebar, of Henwick House, Bedfordshire. When recalling his emigration to Australia, TLM-P acknowledged his mother's self-sacrificial support, writing that: 'Mother … [gave me all the money] she could possibly spare from their modest allowance and made me take the few sovereigns which would diminish home comforts for the quarter [til next payday].' text/html 2018-07-06T13:24:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=ellen_and_catherine&rev=1530847455&do=diff Ellen and Catherine M-P They were both educated in Paris and both died young in 1824 or 1825 - suggesting that they both caught one of the then-lethal infectious diseases of childhood. They were, TLM-P stated, 'born and no doubt baptised at Rathdowney'. text/html 2026-08-10T21:26:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=employees_stores&rev=1786361213&do=diff Employees, Stores There is a wealth of information about employees, the buying and selling of stores, and other aspects of life in the ledgers from various properties. Like the diaries and other material, the ledgers are in the Mitchell Library. For more about them, see Judith Godden, ‘The Cinderella of Primary Sources’, text/html 2025-01-18T17:11:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=eulogy&rev=1737180674&do=diff We are here today to celebrate the life of Edgar Sterling Murray-Prior, known as Dad, Sterling, P’Pop, Grandpa, Da. He was born nearly 99 years ago, on 16 May 1911 into a different world: when the population of Australia was less than 4.5 million, approximately that of metropolitan Sydney today. A month before he was born a plane flew, for the first time, non-stop between London-Paris; and when he was 4 months old, suffragettes stormed the British parliament demanding the vote. In the most p… text/html 2026-07-27T12:11:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=family_burial_site_toowong_cemetery_brisbane&rev=1785118296&do=diff Family Burial Site, Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane The Murray-Prior family burial site, shown in this photo, is in the [Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane] (Corner Frederick Street and Mt Coot-tha Road), Toowong, Brisbane, Portion 13 Section 72 (with Morres in section 75). The cemetery itself is near the text/html 2020-01-31T22:19:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=family_tree&rev=1580469548&do=diff Family Trees The family trees are available on request to family members. One is for the descendents of TLM-P (1819-92) from his 1st marriage to Matilda Harpur (1827-68); another for the descendents of his second marriage to Nora Clarina Barton (1846-1931). text/html 2023-07-28T20:22:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=feedback_page&rev=1690539774&do=diff Feedback Any feedback is very welcome and, if used to alter the entry, will be acknowledged (unless you request otherwise). So please send us: * comments * corrections (with source of evidence) * confirmation of facts/interpretations (with source of evidence) text/html 2018-08-21T18:22:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=feedback&rev=1534839771&do=diff text/html 2026-05-03T13:00:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=first_nations_australians&rev=1777777230&do=diff First Nations Australians Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this section contains images and names of deceased persons. We have information about TLM-P's interactions with First Nations Australians, and his comments about general conditions in mid-19th century rural Australia, chiefly because his daughter Rosa Praed asked him to record his experiences. The result was a 59pp document now in the Rosa Praed papers, Box 3, 8370, packet 3/1/1, Oxley Library. All re… text/html 2019-02-07T17:03:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=five_children&rev=1549519437&do=diff Robert and Estella M-P Children 1. Nora Estella (1909 - 1984). Like her sisters, she went to school at [SCEGGS]. She was active in youth groups including the Crusaders and the Brownies, the latter as a member and, when adult, leader. She trained as a nurse at Royal North Shore Hospital during 1936-37, reputedly too late to be accepted in general nurse training, but able to train as a children's nurse. She then worked at the War Memorial Hospital in Cas text/html 2025-12-11T13:48:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=florette_herring_mabel_ethel_butler_phyllis_mcconnel_m-p&rev=1765421312&do=diff Florette, Mabel, Ethel and Phyllis M-P The children of Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P were: 1. Florence (known as Florette) Elizabeth, was born at Bowen, Queensland on 1 January 1879 and baptised there by the Rev. M. Ross. It is likely that, to ensure greater safety with her first birth, she was visiting her mother and stepfather there rather than living there. Florette died in Sydney on 12 July 1956. text/html 2019-02-25T16:06:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=florette_mabel_ethel_and_phyllis_m-p_and_descendents&rev=1551071197&do=diff Florette, Mabel, Ethel and Phyllis M-P The children of Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P were: 1. Florence (known as Florette) Elizabeth, was born at Bowen, Queensland on 1 January 1879 and baptised there by the Rev. M. Ross; she died in Sydney on 12 July 1956. text/html 2019-02-25T13:03:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=florette_mabel_ethel_and_phyllis_m-p_and_their_families&rev=1551060214&do=diff Florette, Mabel, Ethel and Phyllis M-P The children of Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P were: 1. Florence (known as Florette) Elizabeth, was born at Bowen, Queensland on 1 January 1879 and baptised there by the Rev. M. Ross; she died in Sydney on 12 July 1956. text/html 2019-02-26T11:57:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=florette_mabel_ethel_and_phyllis_m-p_descendents&rev=1551142631&do=diff Florette, Mabel, Ethel and Phyllis M-P The children of Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P were: 1. Florence (known as Florette) Elizabeth, was born at Bowen, Queensland on 1 January 1879 and baptised there by the Rev. M. Ross; she died in Sydney on 12 July 1956. text/html 2019-03-11T11:35:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=florette_mabel_ethel_and_phyllis&rev=1552264529&do=diff Florette, Mabel, Ethel and Phyllis M-P 1. Florence (known as Florette) Elizabeth, was born at Bowen, Queensland on 1 January 1879 and baptised there by the Rev. M. Ross; she died in Sydney on 12 July 1956. On 28 October 1896, the poet/novelist James Brunton Stephens wrote to her encouraging her to persevere with her poetry, but advising she defer publication. text/html 2019-02-27T21:49:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=florette_mabel_ethel_phyllis_m-p_descendents&rev=1551264562&do=diff Florette, Mabel, Ethel and Phyllis M-P The children of Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P were: 1. Florence (known as Florette) Elizabeth, was born at Bowen, Queensland on 1 January 1879 and baptised there by the Rev. M. Ross; she died in Sydney on 12 July 1956. text/html 2022-07-15T21:09:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=florette&rev=1657883396&do=diff More photos of Florette This photo is from TLM-P's album. This photo is in a locket - it looks like Florette, but may be one of her sisters or, as boys were traditionally dressed in sailor suits, her brother Thomas Bertram M-P. Photos from Florette's album during World War I. The first includes ones of her and her young daughter in Cairo 1915. text/html 2017-08-20T14:31:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=frances_butler&rev=1503203497&do=diff Hervey Morres and Frances Butler Hervey Morres of Castle Morres, county Kilkenny married (as his third wife) Frances Butler, elder daughter of the Hon. Colonel Piers Butler. The Morres had been a Catholic family, but Hervey Morres secured his and his family’s future by not only converting to Protestantism but joining Cromwell’s Puritan, anti-Catholic army. He was well rewarded for doing so: in 1684 he was granted property, presumably confiscated from its previous owners, which was renamed Cast… text/html 2018-04-23T12:05:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=frances_morres&rev=1524449109&do=diff Frances Morres Redmond and Elizabeth Morres’s daughter, Frances Morres, was born in Dublin and married Andrew Murray-Prior. Thomas Bertram M-P proudly describes her as 'descendant of the Kings of England, Emperor Charlemagne, and other Royalty' - for an explanation, see text/html 2021-09-25T12:36:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=francis_morres&rev=1632537391&do=diff Francis Morres and Catherine Evans Frances and Hervey’s only (surviving?) son was Francis Morres. His wife Catherine Evans was the heiress and daughter of Sir William Evans of Kilkcreene, Kilkenny. She was born in 1689 in Kilkenny and died at Castlemorris, Kilkenny, both in Ireland. text/html 2026-04-03T12:19:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=gaining_colonial_experience_early_properties&rev=1775179167&do=diff Gaining Colonial Experience When TLM-P wrote his memoir about his voyage to Australia, he commented that he was too ill to work outside, 'almost the first time after sixty years of robust health'. That 60 years of good health, his enjoyment of hard physical activity text/html 2017-12-11T15:49:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=gallery_notice&rev=1512967757&do=diff text/html 2018-04-30T11:38:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=generations_of_murray-priors_in_ireland&rev=1525052288&do=diff Murray-Priors in Ireland John Murray/Murray-Prior (1720-81). Tom Prior’s cousin and heir. m (1) Mary O’Neil (1720-61) Andrew Murray-Prior (c.1747-95) m 29 April 1772 Frances Morres (b. c.1751) [Thomas Murray-Prior]] (1773 - 5 November 1854) m. 1799 Catherine Palmer (d. 1802) m. (2) or de facto? Mary Ann Thompson and other possible liaisons producing children. This Thomas Murray-Prior was the first of a continuing, unbroken line of Thomas Murray-Prior. text/html 2022-01-02T14:37:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hawkwood_photos&rev=1641094645&do=diff Hawkwood photographs by Roy M-P gate going into Hawkwood. Hawkwood yards. Sign to Hawkwood. Hawkwood Road Old Hawkwood homestead, most likely built after TLM-P left but in the style of colonial rural homes with its rooms facing onto the fronting verandah. text/html 2017-11-17T16:15:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=heiress&rev=1510895707&do=diff Heiress Being an heiress or a wealthy widow could be hazardous. Women could have money settled on them, but generally once married their husbands owned all their property and money. In the famous words of English judge William Blackstone, under common law husband and wife were one, and that one was the husband. text/html 2025-12-16T14:54:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=helen&rev=1765857267&do=diff Helen photos 6-year-old Helen with her sister, 28 April 1953. Helen at a similar age with her siblings outside their Hydes Creek home. Christmas 1959 at the farm: (1) Helen and her parents (2) Helen with the family cat (3) Helen with her sister text/html 2025-05-02T21:24:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=here&rev=1746185086&do=diff Thomas (Murray) Prior's army career Date Rank Regiment Notes6 August 1803 Cornet [11th Light Dragoons] 22 August 1805 or in 1806Lieutenant11th Light Dragoons30 September 1813 Lieutenant[1st of Foot, Royal Scots] An exchange with Lt. T.B. Wall. His daughter Jemima stated that he exchanged into this regiment but never served with them. text/html 2020-05-19T14:25:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=herring_butler_mcconnel_children&rev=1589862328&do=diff Herring, Butler & McConnel children Sydney and Florette Herring's child Syd and Florette's only child, a talented singer, was christened Florette Ruth Diana but always known as Diana (23 October 1911- 5 November 1993). In 1947, Diana married, secondly, Brian Fleming. They had two girls and a son Robert Brian Edgar Fleming (2 February 1951 - 5 June 2012). Brian Fleming documented his wife's family history; photos and documents from his collection have been used in this history. text/html 2017-08-24T14:05:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hervey_morres_1625-1724&rev=1503547526&do=diff Hervey Morres and Frances Butler Hervey Morres of Castle Morres, county Kilkenny married Frances Butler, elder daughter of the Hon. Colonel Piers Butler. The Morres had been a Catholic family, but Hervey Morres secured his and his family’s future by not only converting to Protestantism but joining text/html 2022-07-30T12:25:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hervey_morres&rev=1659147944&do=diff Hervey Morres M-P He was baptised at Rathdowney and married Mary Shipden in 1832, believed to be in London. Mary's father was a banker in Deal, Kent. Hervey was employed by the Ordnance Department (which dealt with military supplies) as a clerk at the Tower of London. He and Mary died at 6 Blanford Square, [Marylebone] London respectively on 14 January 1873 and 12 February 1874; they were both buried at Kensal Green cemetery in London. text/html 2026-05-30T20:42:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hervey&rev=1780137742&do=diff Hervey Morres and Margaret M-P By the time he was a student at St Paul's College at the University of Sydney, Hervey was a troubled soul. His letters to Nora, his stepmother but only 10 years older than he, appear manipulative. They strongly suggest that his problems with money and alcohol had already started. He told Nora that he had blown his chances of doing well in his exams, but only because he had been sick. He was thinking of breaking off his engagement to Maggie, but only because h… text/html 2019-02-27T20:50:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hickson_children&rev=1551261054&do=diff Children of Alienora (Eileen) and Rowan Hickson 1. Robert (Bob) Rowan Barton Hickson (11 October 1903 - 1994) married Edna Cox and had two sons. He was a Lieutenant Colonel and author of The Historic Family Tree of Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, Sydney: R. Hickson, 1980. text/html 2019-02-27T20:53:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hobbs_butler_robert_m-p_s_children&rev=1551261227&do=diff Meta Hobbs', Eileen Butler's & Robert M-P's children The same pattern of drastically reduced child-bearing is seen in TLM-P's second marriage as in his first. He and Nora had eight children, of whom only three (Meta, Eileen and Robert) had children of their own. All three had grandchildren. text/html 2025-01-19T11:49:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hobbs_hickson_murray-prior_children&rev=1737247792&do=diff Hobbs, Hickson & Murray-Prior children Much to Nora's dismay, she and TLM-P she had 8 children. Unlike Matilda, Nora gave birth in urban settings with help at hand. She also remained healthy, so her babies were not so vulnerable: only one (Emmeline) died in infancy. Her children's choices when they grew up were firmly against marriage. Only 2 of her 4 surviving daughters married; only 1 of her 3 sons did so. While there was a dip in marriage rates at the time, and heterosexuality cannot be assu… text/html 2019-02-27T21:04:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hobbs_hickson_robert_m-p_s_children&rev=1551261854&do=diff Meta Hobbs', Eileen Hickson's & Robert M-P's children The same pattern of drastically reduced child-bearing is seen in TLM-P's second marriage as in his first. He and Nora had eight children, of whom only three (Meta, Eileen and Robert) had children of their own. All three had grandchildren. text/html 2020-08-13T13:58:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hobbs_robinson_hickson_wilson_cullen-ward_m-p_children&rev=1597291094&do=diff Hobbs, Robinson, Hickson, Cullen-Ward, Wilson, & M-P children Hobbs and Robinson children The trail gets murky for Meta Hobbs' (nee M-P) descendants - and for Eileen Hickson's as shown below - though we'd love to hear from them and know more! For others, the people are still living, so details are minimal. text/html 2021-03-19T10:47:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hornet_bank_massacre&rev=1616111221&do=diff Hornet Bank Massacre text/html 2018-10-05T13:04:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hornet_bank&rev=1538708687&do=diff Memory of the Hornet Bank massacre and its aftermath text/html 2025-04-06T08:51:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=hugh&rev=1743893468&do=diff Hugh M-P Some of the photos labelled as Hugh in his step-mother's album. The hand-coloured one with Hugh (far right) and friends in fancy dress was taken in 'Hobart Town', probably while he was at school there. Another photo in his father's album shows just Hugh in his fancy dress. text/html 2026-03-17T20:59:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=indigenous_australians&rev=1773741580&do=diff Indigenous Australians Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this section contains images and names of deceased persons. Please also see cautions in second paragraph below. We have more and franker information than usual about TLM-P's interactions with, and attitude to, First Nations Australians because his daughter Rosa Praed asked him about his experiences which she then used in her books. He dictated to Nora what he knew (or thought he knew) - and, on occasion, N… text/html 2022-06-12T21:54:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=irish_context&rev=1655034846&do=diff Irish context It is necessary to know something of the sad history of imperialism to understand M-P history. Ireland was a prime example of a colonised land whose purpose was to fund and keep the colonising country secure. To achieve those ends, the English tried to crush Irish nationalism and reduced the mass of the Irish to grinding poverty. The religious element was equally important – the text/html 2025-10-15T18:01:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=jardines&rev=1760511671&do=diff Lizzie and John Jardine Lizzie's stepmother Nora wrote in a clear-eyed way to her friend and step-daughter Rosa about her step-children and children. Here is what she had to say about Lizzie in 1884: Lizzie is more virtuously & meritoriously cheerful now that the world pipes to her tune. She thinks babies the greatest blessing, sent by God, & sure to be cared for by a watchful Providence – is quite prepared for 13 – (as you were when Maud was born) & cannot understand anyone being discontent… text/html 2025-05-08T13:47:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=jemima_dickson&rev=1746676068&do=diff Jemima Prior Thomas Prior married (1) Jemima Dickson at Millbrook, Southampton, England on 28 November 1812. Jemima's father was presumably also in the military forces as he was Captain Dickson Esq. of Prospect House, Southampton. As her family home indicates, her family were comfortably off. Her brother reinforces this assumption as, when he died in the 1870s, he left bequests of several thousands of pounds. text/html 2025-05-08T17:44:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=jemima_william_amhurst_louisa&rev=1746690291&do=diff Jemima, William Amhurst, Louisa Thomas and Jemima had three children just over three years: 1. Jemima Frances Sophia born on 15 September 1813 in the Southampton suburb of Shirley and died 29 May 1891 at Howden Lodge, Clarendon Road, Southsea, Hampshire. text/html 2018-05-27T21:16:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=jemina_and_louisa&rev=1527419806&do=diff Jemina and Louisa Murray-Prior Thomas and Jemina had at least three children over three years: 1. Jemina Frances Sophia M-P (born on 15 September 1814 or 15 September 1813 in the Southampton suburb of Shirley, d. 1899); 2. Louisa Elizabeth Catherine M-P (26 December 1816–24 July 1891); and 3. In 1814 or 1815 they had a son, William Amherst M-P, who died in London in 1815 'in infancy'. text/html 2018-05-27T21:33:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=jemina_dickson&rev=1527420839&do=diff Jemima Prior Thomas Prior married (1) Jemima Dickson at Millbrook, Southampton, England on 28 November 1812. Jemima's father was presumably also in the military forces as he was Captain Dickson Esq. of [Prospect House, Southampton]. She had been married for a nearly five years when, on 4 November 1817, she died. text/html 2017-08-30T18:19:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=jemina_frances_sophia&rev=1504081185&do=diff Jemina Prior These photos above are also studio ones from TLM-P’s album. They are labelled ‘Aunt J.’ and ‘Aunt Jeminia M.P’. The former has a signature on the back dated 1872; the signature ends with Prior, and is possibly JMPrior - Jemina Murray Prior? text/html 2021-09-15T11:13:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=john_murray_murray_prior&rev=1631668385&do=diff John Murray/Murray Prior and Mary O'Neil John Murray was the son of Mary Prior and the Rev. Thomas Murray. John Murray inherited his cousin's Tom Prior's estate on the condition that he added Prior to his surname. John Murray/Murray Prior's first wife Mary was the daughter of Colonel O’Neil of County Down. Sources differ as to whether John and Mary had any surviving children. In the following, I follow Burke's Landed Gentry which states they had two sons: 1. Andrew Murray/Murray Prior, and 2. … text/html 2021-09-15T11:47:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=john_murray_murray-prior&rev=1631670475&do=diff John Murray/Murray Prior and Mary O'Neil John Murray was the son of Mary Prior and the Rev. Thomas Murray. John Murray inherited his cousin's Tom Prior's estate on the condition that he added Prior to his surname. John Murray/Murray Prior's first wife Mary was the daughter of Colonel O’Neil of County Down. Sources differ as to whether John and Mary had any surviving children. In the following, I follow Burke's Landed Gentry which states they had two sons: text/html 2023-11-10T11:01:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=john_murray_prior_bertram_murray&rev=1699574516&do=diff John Murray Prior/Bertram Murray If you enter 'John Murray Prior' into the NLA's wonderful search engine, Trove, you will get numerous references to various court cases. A few references call him John Murray-Prior but mostly the hyphen is omitted. His death certificate names John de M.[Montmorency?] Murray-Prior as his father; his mother as Nina J. Murray-Prior. text/html 2025-06-02T14:07:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=landscapes&rev=1748837221&do=diff Landscapes The initial paintings on this page are by George Hart-Taylor. For the definitive article about him, see Dianne Byrne, 'George Hart-Taylor: rediscovering an important Queensland landscape painter', Australiania, February 2025, 47:1, pp.8-27. text/html 2024-01-09T16:52:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=leichhardt&rev=1704779554&do=diff Ludwig Leichhardt TLM-P struck up a friendship with the Prussian explorer,[Ludwig Leichhardt.] Leichhardt, 'a brilliant intellectual and man of science' was six years older than TLM-P, and arrived in Sydney three years after TLM-P, in 1842. In September that year Leichhardt visited Dalwood where TLM-P was working, and in June 1843 the two travelled to text/html 2020-05-17T12:13:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=letter&rev=1589681596&do=diff Letter from Morres to Dorothy M-P, 29 September 1897 Morres, as much as his father, believed in women as morally superior, civilising influences on men. In his last letter to his step-sister Dorothy, he described himself as 'a lonely old beggar ... I have not seen a text/html 2025-02-28T18:19:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=lightoller&rev=1740727185&do=diff Lightoller Photographs The next photo is from Nora M-P's album and labelled 'Mrs Lightoller, 9 September 1879'. Maria Theresa (Minnie) Haly (1854-1911) married Dr Harry Martin Lightoller that year. Minnie Haly was Matilda M-P's niece and Thomas B. M-P's aunt as well as future mother-in-law. text/html 2026-07-15T17:45:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=lizzie_jardine_s_children&rev=1784101511&do=diff Jardine children with known direct descendants Matilda and Thomas had 12 children, of whom only five had children of their own; of these five, only Thomas de M. M-P and Lizzie Jardine had any grandchildren. Lizzie and Robert Jardine's children Lizzie and Robert had 4 children, one of whom (John) died without known descendants. For his entry see above in public section of this website. text/html 2018-07-06T20:21:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=lodge_morres_m-p&rev=1530872478&do=diff Lodge Morres M-P text/html 2017-11-03T17:39:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=lodge_morres_murray-prior&rev=1509691175&do=diff Lodge Morres Murray-Prior He was b. 3 April 1797, son of Thomas and Catherine Murray-Prior, and became a Captain in the 12th Royal Lancers, a cavalry unit. text/html 2023-08-19T15:07:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=lodge_morres&rev=1692421673&do=diff Lodge Morres Murray Prior and Hervey Morres Murray Prior Lodge Morres M-P, b. 3 April 1797, was Thomas and Catherine M-P’s second son and TLM-P's uncle. He became a Captain in a cavalry regiment, the 12th_Royal_Lancers. He was baptised at Rathdowney, and later lived - and died - at 52 Brunswick Square, Brighton on 5 November 1868. He was buried in a churchyard at Hove, Brighton. text/html 2017-08-30T18:41:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=louisa_elizabeth_catherine&rev=1504082471&do=diff Louisa Prior These three photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album, labelled ‘Aunt Louisa’ and 'Aunt Louisa M.P’. The second photo has the inscription on the back ‘For Morres[?] with Aunt Louisa's Love’. Judging from Louisa's large Crinoline, the photos were taken in the mid-nineteenth century. text/html 2025-04-28T17:55:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=madonna&rev=1745826935&do=diff Madonna and child with flowers, and three Thomas M-Ps. Another view of the painting (in 2025): text/html 2026-05-10T20:54:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=magazine&rev=1778410451&do=diff The Marroon Magazine contents page: . No III, August 1866. The Marroon Magazine was no light undertaking - this issue was 159 pages long, with numerous contributions by M.M.P (Matilda) and her daughter Rosa, the future novelist. Some note of contents: text/html 2026-05-30T18:14:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=maroon_and_rathdowney&rev=1780128847&do=diff Maroon With income from his position as Postmaster-General, TLM-P was able once again to afford a grazing property. The earliest mention found is 20 September 1864 when he recorded a muster of cattle there (as well as on Coohin and Head of Logan - indicating the lack of fences and intermingling of branded cattle). text/html 2023-10-20T21:41:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=maroon&rev=1697798498&do=diff Maroon With income from his position as Postmaster-General, TLM-P was able once again to afford a grazing property. In November 1864, after selling other property/properties, he acquired the 20,000-acre Melcombe property, close to his old property of Bromelton. With its new name Maroon, it would become home to four generations of Murray-Priors. text/html 2020-05-14T21:22:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=martins&rev=1589455344&do=diff Henry and Georgie Martin TLM-P visited his sister-in-law and her disgraced husband Henry in Birmingham, England in July 1882. He described her and the children in detail, presumably for the benefit of his wife. There was: 1. Willie, about 2 months younger than 9 year-old Meta, and not so stout and strong as his siblings; text/html 2017-08-25T14:33:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=mary_prior&rev=1503635610&do=diff Mary Prior m. Rev. Thomas Murray text/html 2026-07-15T21:34:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=matilda_m-p&rev=1784115253&do=diff Matilda Murray Prior nee Harpur Matilda (1827-68) was TLM-P's first wife and the second daughter of Thomas Harpur of Cecil Hills near Liverpool (now western Sydney) and his first wife Rosa. The only known photo of Matilda. Matilda's family came from Northern Ireland. She was born 'in the parish of Desertcreat, near Tullyhogue, south of Cookstown, a Protestant plantation town in the northern Irish county of Tyrone.' Her mother, Rosa (nee Adams) died in 1835 when she was 32 years old. text/html 2025-01-24T20:22:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=matilda_s_children&rev=1737710569&do=diff Matilda's children Thomas de Montmorenci Murray-Prior Thomas de Montmorenci Murray-Prior (1848-1902) was the 4th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior. He was TLM-P and Matilda M-P's eldest son, born 27 January 1848 at his father's property Bromelton, on the Logan River. Young 'Tommy' de Montmorenci M-P with his brother Morres, from his father's album. text/html 2025-01-24T20:42:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=matilda_s_eldest_grandson&rev=1737711759&do=diff Matilda's eldest grandson Thomas Bertram and Lizzie M-P Thomas B. M-P taken by professional photographer in Brisbane. Thomas Bertram (4 February 1883 - 25 August 1946) was Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P's third child and only son. He was the 5th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior. His mother unsuccessfully tried to subvert the tradition of calling the first-born son Thomas - she called him Bertie, though the rest of the family stuck with Tom. TLM-P and his aunt Rosa Praed were godpare… text/html 2025-01-24T21:02:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=matilda_s_eldest_son&rev=1737712934&do=diff Matilda's eldest son Thomas de Montmorenci Murray-Prior Thomas de Montmorenci Murray-Prior (1848-1902) was the 4th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior. He was TLM-P and Matilda M-P's eldest son, born 27 January 1848 at his father's property Bromelton, on the Logan River. Young 'Tommy' de Montmorenci M-P with his brother Morres, from his father's album. text/html 2026-09-03T21:22:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=matilda_s_other_children_-_william_rosa_praed_morres_lizzie_jardine_hervey_redmond_weeta_hugh_lodge_matilda_egerton_m-p&rev=1788434579&do=diff Matilda's other children - William, Rosa (Praed), Morres, Lizzie (Jardine), Hervey, Redmond, Weeta, Hugh, Lodge, Matilda, Egerton M-P This page details Matilda and TLM-P's 11 younger children. Four (William, Weeta, Lodge and Matilda) died when babies. Of the 6 sons who survived, only the eldest (Thomas) led a relatively untroubled life. Hervey and Hugh were probably both alcoholics and died in their 30s; Morres died lonely and depressed when he was 44. Redmond and Egerton also struggled. As sug… text/html 2026-07-15T13:11:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=matilda_s_other_grandchildren_-_praed_jardine_murray-prior&rev=1784085115&do=diff Matilda's other grandchildren - Praed, Jardine, Murray-Prior It says something about the troubled lives of Matilda and Thomas's 8 surviving children, that only five had children of their own; of these five, only Thomas de M. M-P and Lizzie Jardine had any grandchildren. text/html 2025-01-24T20:54:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=matilda_s_other_grandchildren&rev=1737712463&do=diff Matilda's other grandchildren Matilda and Thomas had 12 children, of whom only five had children; of these five, only Thomas de M. M-P and Lizzie Jardine had any grandchildren. The children of Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P were: 1. Florence (known as text/html 2026-05-30T17:38:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=matilda_s_sons_education&rev=1780126718&do=diff Boys' and girls' education The girls Typically of the nineteenth century, the girls were educated at home. We know that the elder siblings and mother/stepmother acted as teachers as well as an unknown number of governesses and other specialist teaches at different times. In March 1866 Miss Medley was paid £4.6.8 'for tuition'. It is possible that one of Matilda's family also taught them as there is an entry in November 1867 of Tom de M. M-P paying R. Harpur £4 'salary'. text/html 2025-01-25T15:26:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=medals&rev=1737779209&do=diff Medals Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior's war medals: DFC Distinguished Flying Cross 1939 – 1945 Star Africa Star with North Africa clasp Pacific star Italy Star 1939-1945 War Medal 1939-1945 Australia Service Medal text/html 2025-01-18T16:05:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=meta_hobbs_eileen_hickson_s_robert_m-p_s_children_without_known_direct_descendants&rev=1737176747&do=diff Nora and TLM-P's children Much to Nora's dismay, she and TLM-P she had 8 children. Unlike Matilda, Nora gave birth in urban settings with help at hand. She also remained healthy, so her babies were not so vulnerable: only one (Emmeline) died in infancy. Her children's choices when they grew up were firmly against marriage. Only 2 of her 4 surviving daughters married; only 1 of her 3 sons did so. While there was a dip in marriage rates at the time, and heterosexuality cannot be assumed, it is ha… text/html 2021-03-18T14:02:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=meta_hobbs_eileen_hickson_s_robert_m-p_s_children&rev=1616036573&do=diff Meta Hobbs', Eileen Hickson's & Robert M-P's children with direct descendants The same pattern of drastically reduced child-bearing is seen in TLM-P's second marriage as in his first. He and Nora had eight children, of whom only three (Meta, Eileen and Robert) had children of their own. All three had grandchildren. text/html 2025-01-15T11:15:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=meta_hobbs_emmeline_dorothy_eileen_hickson_frederic_robert_julius_ruth_m-p&rev=1736900134&do=diff Nora and TLM-P's children Much to Nora's dismay, she and TLM-P she had 8 children. Unlike Matilda, Nora gave birth in urban settings with help at hand. She also remained healthy, so her babies were not so vulnerable: only one (Emmeline) died in infancy. Her children's choices when they grew up were firmly against marriage. Only 2 of her 4 surviving daughters married; only 1 of her 3 sons did so. While there was a dip in marriage rates at the time, and heterosexuality cannot be assumed, it is ha… text/html 2020-06-25T13:34:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=meta_photos&rev=1593056058&do=diff Meta photos The first photo below, from TLM-P's album, is of Meta at 6 months old; next two of Meta are from her mother's album. This next photo is of Meta when she was 3 years and 10 months old. text/html 2025-05-08T17:46:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=miscellaneous_properties&rev=1746690377&do=diff Miscellaneous Properties From the number of properties, it would appear that TLM-P attempted to provide rural properties to any of his sons who wished to live on the land and, in Lizzie's case, to buy into a property with a son-in-law for the same reason. text/html 2020-03-22T11:10:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=mlphoto&rev=1584835806&do=diff ML Photo This miniature was donated to the Mitchell Library by Colin Roderick with the wide-ranging comment that it was of TLM-P - or possibly his father - or uncle ... The first possibility is incorrect, and probably the second one too. It is possible it was TLM-P's uncle Lodge but it is clear from Roderick's note that his identification was just a guess. From the hat and other clothes, and that the photo is a text/html 2025-04-24T11:53:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=more_deb_stenzel_photos&rev=1745459637&do=diff More Deb Stenzel Photos The descriptions are all by Deb Stenzel: This photo attached shows Mt Barney (two peaks on the left) and the MacPherson range. The highest area towards the right is Mt Ballow. [{{:img_6069_mt_barney_mt_ballow_from_adams_creek.jpg?400|] This photo is from the “Range” that was the boundary between the old Coochin Coochin and Maroon pastoral runs. Mt Maroon on the left, Mt Lindesay (often called text/html 2020-06-12T14:45:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=more_thomas_m-ps&rev=1591937132&do=diff Thomas and Lillian's sons Tom and Lillian had four children, of whom two survived infancy. Tom Though we try to avoid biographies of living M-Ps, there are two photographs which are in the public domain. One, from the National Archives of Australia, is a photo of Thomas A. M-P c.1960. It is captioned 'Singapore student, Manoharan Ponnusamy, in special Cuban dress, plays the bongo drums watched by medical students George Wells, left, and Tom Murray-Prior at Queensland University', click on text/html 2020-06-12T14:48:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=more&rev=1591937304&do=diff 5th Generation and beyond Tom and Lillian had four children, of whom two survived infancy. These two sons represent the 5th Australian generation. Tom Though we try to avoid biographies of living M-Ps, there are two photographs which are in the public domain. One, from the National Archives of Australia, is a photo of Thomas A. M-P c.1960. It is captioned 'Singapore student, Manoharan Ponnusamy, in special Cuban dress, plays the bongo drums watched by medical students George Wells, left, and… text/html 2018-10-07T09:40:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=morres&rev=1538865607&do=diff More on Morres Morres' headstone. Two photocopies of Morres' bush grave were sent to me by the Museum of Mapping and Surveying, Queensland, in 1989, after I had sent them photographs of Morres. The original photo of the first is shown here but the original of the second photocopy could not be found in August 2018. text/html 2021-03-18T16:27:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=murray_prior_range&rev=1616045242&do=diff Murray Prior Range This range of mountains, along with Mount Murray Prior, is in north Queensland near Cairns and the Indigenous community of Yarrabah. It was named after TLM-P. The following photo of the view towards the Murray Prior range was taken by Peter M-P in January 2020 from the Kuranda Range: text/html 2022-09-29T21:36:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=murray-priors_in_ireland&rev=1664451369&do=diff Murray-Priors in Ireland John Murray/Murray Prior (1720-81). Tom Prior’s cousin and heir. m (1) Mary O’Neil (1720-61) Andrew Murray Prior (c.1747-95) m 29 April 1772 Frances Morres (1751-1806) Thomas Murray Prior (29 April 1773 - 5 November 1854) m. 1799 Catherine Palmer (d. 1802) m. (2) or de facto? Mary Ann Thompson and other possible liaisons producing children. This Thomas Murray Prior was the first of a continuing, unbroken line of Thomas Priors/Murray Priors/Murray-Prior. text/html 2022-06-13T17:19:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=mystery_images&rev=1655104795&do=diff Mystery Images This miniature was donated to the Mitchell Library by Colin Roderick with the wide-ranging comment that it was of TLM-P - or possibly his father - or uncle ... The first possibility is incorrect, and probably the second one too. It is possible it was TLM-P's uncle Lodge but it is clear from Roderick's note that his identification was just a guess. From the hat and other clothes, and that the photo is a text/html 2018-10-03T08:55:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=national_and_social_context&rev=1538520911&do=diff Irish context It is necessary to know something of the sad history of imperialism to understand M-P history. Ireland was a prime example of a colonised land whose purpose was to fund and keep the colonising country secure. To achieve those ends, the English tried to crush Irish nationalism and reduced the mass of the Irish to grinding poverty. The religious element was equally important – the text/html 2025-01-18T21:19:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=nora_boyd_photos&rev=1737195594&do=diff Nora Boyd (nee M-P) Photographs Two photos of Nora when young: and another photo which had been made into a postcard. Young Nora with her baby brother Sterling, c.1911. The photo had been made into a postcard. Nora with her father: The next photo indicates why the photographer, Judith Fletcher, was such a success with her North Shore Photographic Studio text/html 2026-07-09T18:28:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=nora_m-p&rev=1783585722&do=diff Nora M-P nee Barton All photos, unless otherwise stated, are from Nora's photo album. On 18 December 1872, a little over four years after Matilda died, the widowed TLM-P married again. His second wife was Nora Clarina Barton (3 December 1846-12 May 1931). Her unusual second name was due to one of her godmothers. According to her mother's Barton family bible, Nora was baptised on 10 February 1847 with her godparents listed in the bible as her uncle and aunt Nathaniel and Honoria Barton, and h… text/html 2018-05-17T10:25:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=nora_photos&rev=1526516705&do=diff Nora Photos These are all from TLM-P's album. The two first ones are labelled Nora Barton, both taken in Sydney before her marriage: . The next photo, of a rather self-conscious Nora, was taken in Brisbane after her marriage: text/html 2026-08-14T18:34:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=nora_s_children_-_meta_hobbs_emmeline_dorothy_eileen_hickson_frederic_robert_julius_ruth_m-p&rev=1786696488&do=diff Nora's children - Meta (Hobbs), Emmeline, Dorothy, Eileen (Hickson), Frederic, Robert, Julius, Ruth M-P Much to Nora's dismay, she and TLM-P she had 8 children. Unlike Matilda, Nora gave birth in urban settings with help at hand. She also remained healthy, so her babies were not so vulnerable: only one (Emmeline) died in infancy. Her children's choices when they grew up were firmly against marriage. Only 2 of her 4 surviving daughters married; only 1 of her 3 sons did so. While there was a dip … text/html 2026-08-14T18:33:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=nora_s_grandchildren_-_hobbs_hickson_murray-prior&rev=1786696380&do=diff Nora's grandchildren - Hobbs, Hickson, Murray-Prior Only 3 of Nora's 8 children married and had children. As well, she stood as grandchildren to her stepchildren's children, with Rosa Praed's children all calling her “Grandmama Nora” Matilda (Meta) and Arthur Hobbs' children text/html 2018-10-27T13:54:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=nursing_with_royal_far_west&rev=1540608886&do=diff Nursing with Royal Far West Two photos from Nora Boyd's album: children being treated by the Royal Far West (then called Far West Children’s Health Scheme): The following are from the Royal Far West's Annual Reports: 1945: The 1946 Annual Report text/html 2025-12-11T13:43:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=other_4th_generation_descendants_of_thomas_and_matilda_m-p&rev=1765420999&do=diff Other 4th generation descendants of Thomas and Matilda M-P Sydney and Florette Herring Syd and Florette's only child was christened Florette Ruth Diana, but always known as Diana (23 October 1911- 5 November 1993). Like her grandmother Florence Murray-Prior, Diana was a talented singer. In 1947, Diana married, secondly, Brian Fleming. They had two daughters and one son Robert Brian Edgar Fleming (2 February 1951 - 5 June 2012). Brian Fleming documented his wife's family history; photos and doc… text/html 2019-02-19T18:10:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=other_children&rev=1550560243&do=diff Minnie, Standish and Hugh M-P The three siblings of the 2nd Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (b. 1912, see separate entry) all enlisted during World War II; Violet in 1942 in the Australian Women's Land Army; Standish in the 1st Anti-Aircraft Regiment in 1940 text/html 2018-06-23T20:07:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=oz_visit&rev=1529748427&do=diff Thomas Prior in Australia? Robert M-P wrote that his grandfather Thomas visited Queensland ‘briefly’, but gives no evidence. Rosa Campbell Praed, Thomas Prior's granddaughter, wrote that she recalled one of her grandmother's trunks with the information on its side, 'that Colonel Thomas Murray-Prior had taken passage in the text/html 2025-08-15T17:12:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=painting_photos_florence&rev=1755241969&do=diff Painting, photos of Florence M-P Beautiful Florence M-P from TLM-P's album. The copy held by Tom M-P has written on the back, that it was taken in September 1878. Contrary to the impression given by this photo, in other photos she is dark haired. text/html 2017-12-11T15:59:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=paintings_detail&rev=1512968348&do=diff text/html 2025-11-18T17:12:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=pastoral_life&rev=1763446365&do=diff Pastoral Life When TLM-P wrote his memoir about his voyage to Australia, he commented that he was too ill to work outside, 'almost the first time after sixty years of robust health'. That desire for physical activity, backed by sound health, would be a major determinant of the direction his life, and success, took in Australia. text/html 2019-09-27T20:14:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=photos&rev=1569579284&do=diff Tom L2 in the RAAF The following from documents and photos held by his son, are from Tom L2's time in the RAAF during World War II. The photographs of the planes date from near the end of the war when Tom L2 was stationed first in Dalby, Queensland then Darwin. text/html 2017-11-06T15:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=political_career&rev=1509942640&do=diff TLM-Ps Political and Postal Career When Queensland separated from the colony of NSW in 1859, TLM-P and other squatters were determined to consolidate their interests. The idea of mass democracy was still a radical idea and property owners were generally firm in their conviction that they alone had the right to rule - even if it did mean a few women managed to vote before legislation was amended to exclude them. TLM-P stood for the first election in 1860, but failed to win the seat of East Moret… text/html 2019-02-24T22:18:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=politics_and_the_post_office&rev=1551007100&do=diff TLM-P's Career in Politics and the Post Office TLM-P was active in community affairs before Queensland existed as a separate colony. By 1851 he was a Justice of the Peace (JP) and a committee member of the Moreton Bay and Northern Districts Separation Association, which worked to create what is now known as Queensland as a separate colony. text/html 2026-07-15T21:23:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=politics_the_post_office&rev=1784114609&do=diff TLM-P's Career in Politics and the Post Office TLM-P was active in community affairs from the early 1850s. In 1851 his status was recognised when he was one of the newly appointed Justice of the Peace (JP). In later years he was one of the magistrates appointed under the 'new Commission of the Peace' for Queensland. text/html 2022-06-13T17:15:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=portraits_thomas_prior&rev=1655104506&do=diff Other Portraits of Col. Thomas Prior This portrait is of him in middle age.. The next portrait was photographed at the late E.S. & B.I. M-P's home. Its current whereabouts is unknown. There is possibly another portrait of Thomas Prior as Rosa Praed left a 'small portrait' of her grandfather in uniform to Bertram M-P. text/html 2025-01-24T20:55:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=praed_jardine_murray-prior_children&rev=1737712528&do=diff Praed, Jardine, Murray-Prior children Matilda and Thomas had 12 children, of whom only five had children. Rosa and Campbell Praed's children All four of Rosa's children predeceased her. The life of her only daughter, Maud, was especially tragic. It is no wonder that Rosa took to the popular fad of her era, spiritualism. text/html 2021-09-15T12:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=priors_in_england_13th_to_17th_century&rev=1631671856&do=diff Fluctuating fortunes of the Priors, England, 1218-1644 To thrive, it helped if families kept on the winning side of royal politics: as the Priors found, this was not always easy and could depend on luck as well as religious inclinations. This brief account of the Prior/Priorur/Priour family in England during these turbulent centuries is taken from TLM-P's Family Bibles and other publications, with the common source appearing to be John & John B. Burke's text/html 2019-02-24T18:26:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=priors_in_england&rev=1550993197&do=diff Fluctuating fortunes of the Priors, England, 1218-1644 To thrive, it helped if families kept on the winning side of royal politics: as the Priors found, this was not always easy and could depend on luck as well as religious inclinations. This brief account of the Prior/Priorur/Priour family in England during these turbulent centuries is taken from TLM-P's Family Bibles and other publications, with the common source appearing to be John & John B. Burke's text/html 2022-09-29T21:23:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=priors_in_ireland_1636-c.1803&rev=1664450602&do=diff Ireland, 17th to 19th centuries The Irish connection started with Captain Thomas Prior (initially his name was spelt Pryor, but by the time he died, it was Prior. For the sake of clarity, we’ll use Prior) being granted land in Queen's County (now County Laois). Laois is inland, south-west of Dublin: on the below map it is light blue. The photo shows an idyllic view of County Laois text/html 2018-08-14T21:55:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=prize_cups&rev=1534247727&do=diff Horses Thomas de M. M-P's passion for horses included racing them. The following photos are views of one of his prizes. The horse's name reflects the language of the era. (to see the second photo in more detail, you will need to click on it, then click again on smaller file name in link. Why? One of life's mysteries!) text/html 2019-02-24T17:23:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=reddie&rev=1550989438&do=diff Redmond (Reddie) M-P Photos of Redmond from, respectively, Nora and TLM-P's albums. text/html 2021-09-25T12:28:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=redmond_morres&rev=1632536927&do=diff Redmond Morres and Elizabeth Lodge Francis and Catherine Morres' son, Redmond Morres Esq. (1711-84) was a barrister and Member of Parliament for Dublin during 1761-68 and 1773-76. His wife Elizabeth (1713-1806) was another heiress, the only (surviving?) daughter of Francis Lodge of Dublin. They married in Dublin on 27 March 1740. They had a daughter Frances (1744-?) and two sons. The youngest was Rev Reymond Morres. text/html 2020-05-18T21:02:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rev._maurice_and_family&rev=1589799755&do=diff Maurice family Nora maintained a close relationship with the Rev. Maurice and his family. Among Nora's books are The Ground and Object of Hope for Mankind. Four Sermons by the Rev. F. D. Maurice (London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1868), inscribed to 'Nora Barton With her Uncle's kind love, July 1868', and text/html 2025-05-02T21:36:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=richard_prior&rev=1746185778&do=diff Richard Prior Richard Prior, Captain Thomas Prior’s eldest son with estates at Rathdowney, Ely and, after his sister Isabella's death, Derbyshire. In 1685, the Catholic James II succeeded his more pragmatic brother Charles II and in 1689 passed an Act of Attainder. This Act not only reversed the Irish land grants to Protestants such as the Priors, but condemned over 2,000 of them to defend themselves from the charge of high treason. Richard Prior and other Protestants choose to flee, forfeit… text/html 2025-01-18T20:52:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=robert_m-p&rev=1737193938&do=diff Robert Sterling Murray-Prior The family has numerous photos of Robert M-P. Robert Sterling M-P. Robert M-P is far right. It appears to be a press photo of an important legal event. This photo of Robert M-P is undated though is believed to be taken at his or his sisters' home in Hunters Hill. text/html 2021-03-18T14:13:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rosa_morres_elizabeth_hervey_redmond_weeta_hugh_lodge_matilda_egerton_m-p&rev=1616037219&do=diff Matilda and TLM-P's children text/html 2021-03-18T13:38:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rosa_praed_hervey_egerton_m-p_s_children_without_known_direct_descendants&rev=1616035097&do=diff 2. John Lodge Murray Jardine (1 September 1888 - 29 July 1916). When he joined the army, John gave his occupation as station manager. His photo (shown below) was published in The Queenslander Pictorial, 26 February 1916, p.23. In July that year, just 5 months later, he was killed in action at Pozières, France. text/html 2025-01-18T16:05:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rosa_praed_lizzie_jardine_hervey_egerton_m-p_s_children_without_known_direct_descendants&rev=1737176718&do=diff Rosa Praed's, Lizzie Jardine's, Hervey & Egerton M-P's children Matilda and Thomas had 12 children, of whom only five had children; of these five, only Thomas de M. M-P and Lizzie Jardine had any grandchildren. Due to privacy concerns, only those children without known direct descendants are given here. If anyone wishes information about others, please contact the family or use the Feedback page of this website. text/html 2021-03-18T13:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rosa_praed_s_hervey_egerton_m-p_s_children_without_known_direct_descendants&rev=1616033856&do=diff Rosa Praed's, Hervey & Egerton M-P's children without known direct descendants Matilda and Thomas had 12 children, of whom only five had children of their own; of these five, only Thomas de M. M-P and Lizzie Jardine had any grandchildren. Due to privacy concerns, only those children without known direct descendants are given here. If anyone wishes information about others, please contact the family or use the Feedback page of this website. text/html 2021-03-18T18:43:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rosa_praed_s_lizzie_jardine_s_hervey_egerton_m-p_s_children_without_known_direct_descendants&rev=1616053388&do=diff Rosa Praed's, Hervey & Egerton M-P's children without known direct descendants Matilda and Thomas had 12 children, of whom only five had children of their own; of these five, only Thomas de M. M-P and Lizzie Jardine had any grandchildren. Due to privacy concerns, only those children without known direct descendants are given here. If anyone wishes information about others, please contact the family or use the Feedback page of this website. text/html 2025-11-16T12:03:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rosa_praed&rev=1763254985&do=diff Rosa Caroline Praed, nee M-P Rosa (or Rosie as she was called by her family) as a young adult. Rosa c1870 in Brisbane . Rosa in 1888. The State Library of NSW has this portrait of Rosa Praed painted by Emily Praed in 1884; it may be a copy of one painted by J.M. Jopling that year. At time of writing (2023), it is in the Library's portrait gallery on open access: text/html 2026-05-10T13:10:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=roxburgh_castle_memoir&rev=1778382627&do=diff 'Roxburgh Castle' memoir TLM-P wrote his 'Draft memoirs of a voyage from London to Sydney on the Roxburgh Castle', c.1879 for his daughter Rosa Praed to use in her planned 'sketch of colonial life'. He wrote it, he explained, while suffering from lumbago (lower back pain) which left him unable to do physical work. He was relying on his memory of events over 40 years ago, so this evidence must be treated with caution. As well, as with most memoirs, he highlights the aspect of his youthful self … text/html 2021-03-18T18:19:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rural_life_and_tragedy&rev=1616051966&do=diff Rural Life and Tragedy When TLM-P wrote his memoir about his voyage to Australia, he commented that he was too ill to work outside, 'almost the first time after sixty years of robust health'. That good health until he was 60 years old, and his need for physical activity outside, was a major influence on his life in Australia. The timing of his arrival in the colony was one of mixed blessings. On one hand, a drought during 1838-39 contributed to a severe economic depression in the 1840s. TLM-P's… text/html 2021-03-18T16:20:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rural_life_tragedy&rev=1616044812&do=diff Rural Life and Tragedy When TLM-P wrote his memoir about his voyage to Australia, he commented that he was too ill to work outside, 'almost the first time after sixty years of robust health'. That 60 years of good health, his enjoyment of hard physical activity text/html 2021-03-18T15:02:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=rural_life&rev=1616040141&do=diff Maroon For information about Maroon, a Murray-Prior family home for 54 years, see sidebar. Rathdowney From 1865, the year after TLM-P acquired Maroon, he bought freehold land to the east of Maroon, on the northern bank of the Logan River, which he combined and named Rathdowney after his ancestors' Irish estate. text/html 2025-07-15T20:54:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=ruth_during_wwi&rev=1752576877&do=diff Ruth M-P during World War I Ruth (on left) with her cousin Max Barton when he was in London recovering from being wounded at Gallipoli. The other woman is a Mrs Harrison. During World War I, Ruth worked in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). Initially her letters were enthusiastic about the 'wonderful' English, 'such bravery & such spirits', but the war work she and Dorothy did, along with caring for their invalid mother, left them - even in December 1914 - feeling old and worn out. Inste… text/html 2025-02-04T09:34:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=ruth_s_autograph_book&rev=1738622074&do=diff Ruth's autograph book Emma and Fiona Cullen-Ward have a battered album that we would call an autograph book. It is 11 x 14.5cm and contains signatures and sketches both on its pages and as loose additions. There are also loose photos tucked into the album. I have put the names of those who signed in bold for easier identification. text/html 2020-05-20T15:04:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=s_b&rev=1589951055&do=diff Brenda and Sterling M-P photos Sterling From left: Sterling and Brenda with their good friends, Lorna and Bill Mobbs(provenance: J. Godden) Brenda & Sterling again; Sterling & Brenda in Sydney in 1935 The next photo was taken by Sterling of friends at Mona Vale beach in 1937. Brenda is on the far right; note the speakers providing the music! text/html 2017-11-27T16:41:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=scandal&rev=1511761313&do=diff A stray and scandal: John Murray Prior? Bertram Murray? If you enter 'John Murray Prior' into The National Library of Australia's wonderful search engine, Trove, you will get numerous references to various court cases. A few references call him John Murray-Prior but mostly the hyphen is omitted. His death certificate names John de M.[Montmorency?] Murray-Prior as his father; his mother as Nina J. Murray-Prior. text/html 2024-01-11T16:20:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=sept-oct_1858&rev=1704950453&do=diff Private Journal of TLM-P These pages were typed by Brenda I. Murray-Prior, but need checking with the originals in the Mitchell Library. There are bits missing bits from pp.5-6. For more one of the employees mentioned, Ernest Davies, see E.C. Davies 'Some Reminiscences of Early Queensland', text/html 2026-03-18T17:42:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=sidebar&rev=1773816121&do=diff Home: why a M-P history? Abbreviations/Money Irish context "Air castles" Priors in England, 13th to 17th century Priors in Ireland, 1636-c.1803 Thomas Prior, M-P family founder Changed coat of arms Murray-Priors in Ireland A Stray Back to England: Thomas Prior & family Thomas Prior's album **See below for 1st M-P Australian generation** TLM-P 1819-38 TLM-P to Australia Family tree Gaining Colonial Experience & Early Properties Miscellaneous Properties Brisban… text/html 2023-07-21T18:21:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=sketches&rev=1689927683&do=diff Sketches of Maroon These peaceful scenes are said to be of Maroon.. They are on a loose piece of paper with no clue to who drew them. The next 3 paintings are by unknown person. E.S. M-P has written on the back that they are of Maroon Station, an identification supported by the view of the distinctive mountains and given they are a matched set of paintings. text/html 2019-01-22T21:15:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=stan&rev=1548152136&do=diff Photos of Stan and Betty M-P Click on any to enlarge. Stan's enlistment photo, c.1940. Group portrait of B Section, 1st Australian Anti-Aircraft Regiment when training at Ingleburn, 1941. Cpl Standish Haly Murray-Prior is in front row, 4th from right. text/html 2025-11-16T15:56:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=start&rev=1763269009&do=diff Why a Murray-Prior history? In December 1838, TLM-P travelled to Gravesend, at the mouth of the Thames River, and boarded the Roxburgh Castle to sail from England to Australia. He had turned 19 only a month previously and, not unusually, the trip involved a lethal outbreak of disease and a near shipwreck. It took five months to arrive in New South Wales, a penal colony where the land was being brutally wrested from its Aboriginal inhabitants. TLM-P had limited money; no family in the colony; an… text/html 2020-05-18T21:10:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=sterling&rev=1589800213&do=diff Sterling John Sterling was a Scottish author and collaborator of the Rev. F. D. Maurice's who married into the Barton family. Sterling was the second name not just for Robert, but for his older son Edgar Sterling M-P and the latter's only son, as well as other members of the Barton and Murray-Prior families. text/html 2021-07-02T19:48:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=successful_blended_family&rev=1625219335&do=diff Successful blended family The evidence that Eliza created successfully created a loving blended family largely lies in the warm relationship between TLM-P and his step-sisters. This evidence includes: * most crucially, in 1846 Louisa lent TLM-P £400 and Jemima lent him £200 to help him acquire text/html 2018-11-28T16:13:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=test&rev=1543381993&do=diff Thomas and Florence had five children: 1. Florence (Florette) Elizabeth, born at Bowen, Queensland on 1 January 1879 and baptised there by the Rev. M. Ross; she died in Sydney on 12 July 1956. On 28 October 1896, the poet/novelist James Brunton Stephens wrote to her encouraging her to persevere with her poetry, but advising she defer publication. text/html 2020-07-25T15:08:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=the_butler_family&rev=1595653683&do=diff An Aristocratic ‘Air Castle’: the Butlers and the lost baby A select few families in Ireland wielded a huge amount of power and it is understandable that others dreamt of being part of their network. One of the most eminent families in Ireland was the text/html 2020-05-18T22:08:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_b._lizzie&rev=1589803711&do=diff More photos of Thomas B. & Lizzie Kate M-P The following photo from TLM-P's album was labelled 'Bertie Murray-Prior'. Thomas B. M-P. was called Bertie, presumably to avoid confusion with other Tom M-P's. Is this next photo in a locket one of his sisters or is it Bertie? text/html 2023-08-15T20:37:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_bertram_and_lizzie_m-p&rev=1692095856&do=diff Thomas Bertram and Lizzie M-P Thomas Bertram, the 5th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior, was born on 4 February 1883 at Moonbago Station, South Kennedy, Bully Creek, a station owned by his grandfather TLM-P. He was Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P's third child and only son. text/html 2023-09-06T14:15:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_bertram_lizzie_m-p&rev=1693973744&do=diff Thomas Bertram and Lizzie M-P Thomas B. M-P taken by professional photographer in Brisbane. Thomas Bertram (4 February 1883 - 25 August 1946) was Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P's third child and only son. He was the 5th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior. His mother unsuccessfully tried to subvert the tradition of calling the first-born son Thomas - she called him Bertie, though the rest of the family stuck with Tom. TLM-P and his aunt Rosa Praed were godparents. text/html 2026-05-30T21:22:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_bertram_murray-prior_and_his_siblings&rev=1780140124&do=diff Thomas Bertram Murray-Prior and his siblings Matilda and Thomas had 12 children, of whom only five had children and only two had any grandchildren. In her notebook Rosa wrote about Tom and Florence's children, probably summarising Nora, that: 'The children are good & with a great deal of beauty amongst them, but I think they have to [sic] much work & too little play. They all look delicate & are wonderfully clever.' text/html 2025-01-24T21:05:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_bertram_murray-prior&rev=1737713148&do=diff Thomas Bertram Murray-Prior Thomas B. M-P taken by professional photographer in Brisbane. Thomas Bertram (4 February 1883 - 25 August 1946) was Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P's third child and only son. He was the 5th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior. His mother unsuccessfully tried to subvert the tradition of calling the first-born son Thomas - she called him Bertie, though the rest of the family stuck with Tom. TLM-P and his aunt Rosa Praed were godparents. text/html 2017-10-27T12:19:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_bertram&rev=1509067169&do=diff Thomas Bertram M-P text/html 2025-10-12T13:05:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_de_m._m-p_photos&rev=1760234755&do=diff Thomas de M. M-P photos The following 5 photos are some of the numerous ones of Tom from his stepmother's and father's albums. The first is of Tom with his younger brother Morres. The next photo is also in the John Oxley Library, Brisbane mislabelled 'J. Murray-Prior' and dated 1878. text/html 2026-07-07T21:22:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_de_montmorenci_florence_mary_m-p&rev=1783423355&do=diff Thomas de Montmorenci, Florence and Mary M-P Thomas de Montmorenci Murray-Prior (1848-1902) was the 4th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior. He was TLM-P and Matilda M-P's eldest son, born 27 January 1848 at his father's property Bromelton, on the Logan River. Young 'Tommy' de Montmorenci M-P with his brother Morres, from his father's album. text/html 2026-07-12T20:33:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_de_montmorenci_murray-prior&rev=1783852409&do=diff Thomas de Montmorenci Murray-Prior Thomas de Montmorenci Murray-Prior (1848-1902) was the 4th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior. He was TLM-P and Matilda M-P's eldest son, born 27 January 1848 at his father's property Bromelton, on the Logan River. As an adult, he was known as Tom. text/html 2017-10-11T16:16:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_de_montmorency_florence_m-p&rev=1507699005&do=diff Thomas de Montmorenci and Florence M-P This Thomas was TLM-P and Matilda M-P's eldest son, born 27 January 1848. He died on 11 December 1902. He and Florence married on 18 March 1878. text/html 2019-04-10T22:01:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_lillian&rev=1554897670&do=diff Thomas L. and Lillian M-P family photos These photos are a tentative selection from the collection of T.A. & M.T. M-P: Thomas L. M-P (back row, rd from right?) with other members of his aircrew. Thomas L. M-P (3rd from left) at the Hotel Francis Drake in San Francisco shortly before returning to Australia at the end of World War II. The next was taken shortly after his return, with his young son Thomas. text/html 2019-02-25T21:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_lodge_and_lillian_m-p&rev=1551090648&do=diff Thomas Lodge and Lillian Murray-Prior This Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (23 March 1912 - 26 October 2000) was the 6th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior, and the 2nd Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior. He was born in Brisbane to Thomas Bertram and Lizzie M-P. text/html 2021-03-18T18:13:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_lodge_lillian_m-p&rev=1616051617&do=diff Thomas Lodge and Lillian Murray-Prior This Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (23 March 1912 - 26 October 2000) was the 6th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior. As he was the 2nd Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, he is referred to in the following as Tom L2. He was born in Brisbane to Thomas Bertram and Lizzie M-P. text/html 2026-03-14T21:16:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_lodge_murray-prior_and_his_siblings&rev=1773483375&do=diff Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior and his siblings Thomas B. and Lizzie M-P had four children. 1. Thomas (Tom) Lodge Murray-Prior (23 March 1912 - 26 October 2000) was the 6th consecutive Thomas Murray-Prior and the 2nd Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior. He was born in Brisbane. Tom lived at the only one of the family's family cattle properties left, text/html 2025-01-24T20:59:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_montmorenci_m-p&rev=1737712773&do=diff Thomas Montmorenci M-P text/html 2025-04-26T12:07:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_murray_prior&rev=1745633248&do=diff Thomas and Catherine Murray Prior Andrew and Frances Murray Prior’s elder son Thomas Murray Prior Esq of Rathdowney m. Catherine Palmer. He was born at Rathdowney in 1773, and 'no doubt' baptised there. He was the 7th generation of the family to own Rathdowney, and the last. text/html 2020-03-22T10:44:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_murray-prior&rev=1584834291&do=diff Thomas and Catherine Murray-Prior Andrew and Frances Murray-Prior’s elder son Thomas Murray-Prior Esq of Rathdowney m. Catherine Palmer. He was born at Rathdowney in 1773, and 'no doubt' baptised there. Thomas M-P was High Sherriff of Queen’s County from 1799, and a Member of the Irish Parliament for Lesburne and text/html 2025-09-17T17:32:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_prior_m-p_family_founder&rev=1758094351&do=diff Thomas (Tom) Prior M.A. Thomas (Tom) Prior, (1679-21 October 1751) was Colonel Thomas Prior's second son and is the star of the family. Nothing is known about his mother, not even her name. He never married and had no known children. When he died, Ireland mourned a public benefactor. The inscription on his grave reads: text/html 2025-02-28T10:02:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_prior_s_album&rev=1740697377&do=diff Thomas Prior's album Fiona and Emma Cullen-Ward have shared with us a marvellous sketchbook with the owner's name inside 'Captain Prior 1845'. It appears to be a compilation of sketches and paintings by family members, initially many by his son William Prior (1821-44)-see text/html 2018-09-17T21:33:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_tom_prior&rev=1537184028&do=diff Thomas (Tom) Prior MA When Tom Prior died, Ireland lost a public benefactor. The inscription on his grave read: 'Sacred to the memory of Thomas Prior Esq., who spent a long life in unwearied endeavours to promote the welfare of his country. Every manufacturer, every branch of husbandry, will declare this truth. Every useful institution will lament its Friend and Benefactor. He died alas! too soon for Ireland. October the 21st, 1751. Aged 70.' text/html 2025-07-28T16:20:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=tlm-p_character_possessions_photos_death&rev=1753683654&do=diff Character, Possessions, Photos, Death TLM-P's actions and possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section gives additional hints about what he was like. To put his attitudes in historical context, see Hogg, Robert. 'The Most Manly Class that Exists': British Gentlemen on the Queensland Frontier. Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 13, 2011: 65-84. cited 02 Jun 20. text/html 2025-04-26T11:23:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=tlm-p_initial_decades_in_australia&rev=1745630580&do=diff TLM-P: initial decades in Australia TLM-P was only just 19 years old when, on 29 December 1838, he boarded a ship for Australia. His memoir of his trip is descriptive but not introspective: there is nothing on why or on why Australia - nor on how he spent that last Christmas with his family, just four days before he sailed. His ship was the text/html 2020-05-16T15:15:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=tlm-p_photographs&rev=1589606158&do=diff TLM-P Photographs This image of TLM-P is c. 1859 Another photo which he had taken while in Melbourne. Photo from TLM-P's album. TLM-P in NLA MS7801, folder 43. text/html 2025-05-08T18:19:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=tlm-p_s_childhood&rev=1746692385&do=diff TLM-P's childhood TLM-P, Thomas and Eliza Prior's elder son, is the focus of this history & was the 3rd Thomas Murray Prior in an unbroken line. In 1834 he left his home and family to emigrate to Australia. What was he like, and what drove him to leave his family for a penal colony some five months away by sailing ship? We have a huge amount of evidence, but that requires sifting and appreciating the different perspectives of the writers. He appears to be an energetic man with a driving need to… text/html 2025-11-16T16:14:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=tlm-p_s_diaries&rev=1763270094&do=diff TLM-P's Diaries Diaries were written for a variety of purposes in the 19th century, with only some meant to be private. TLM-P's diaries appear to be primarily written as aide memoires. The ones written when he is at Maroon or other properties are the documents of a working farmer. One modern reader complains of the boredom of reading, day after day, 'Morning Fine', concluding that, overall, 'his diaries are a study in dullness'. text/html 2019-07-26T18:44:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=vi_photos&rev=1564130665&do=diff More Photos of Vi M-P All photos from T.A. & M.T. M-P. This first one is Vi with her brother Stan at the family property Maroon. Photos then were usually taken only on special occasions, hence they are in their good clothes. The next is Vi with her dog Sniffy. text/html 2019-02-25T21:24:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=vi_stan_and_hugh_m-p_and_their_descendents&rev=1551090281&do=diff Vi, Standish and Hugh M-P Siblings Hugh, Thomas L., Standish and Violet M-P The three siblings of the 2nd Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (b. 1912, see separate entry) all enlisted during World War II; Violet in 1942 in the Australian Women's Land Army text/html 2019-02-25T12:40:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=vi_stan_and_hugh_m-p_and_their_families&rev=1551058848&do=diff Minnie, Standish and Hugh M-P The three siblings of the 2nd Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (b. 1912, see separate entry) all enlisted during World War II; Violet in 1942 in the Australian Women's Land Army; Standish in the 1st Anti-Aircraft Regiment in 1940 text/html 2023-11-06T16:05:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=vi_stan_hugh_m-p_descendants&rev=1699247134&do=diff Vi, Standish and Hugh M-P Vi, Stan and Hugh, along with their eldest brother the 2nd Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (b. 1912, see separate sidebar entry), were the children of Thomas B. and Lizzie M-P. Siblings Hugh, Thomas L., Standish and Violet M-P: all served during World War II. text/html 2020-08-12T14:20:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=vi_stan_hugh_m-p_descendents&rev=1597206044&do=diff Vi, Standish and Hugh M-P Vi, Stan and Hugh, along with their eldest brother the 2nd Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (b. 1912, see separate sidebar entry), were the children of Thomas B. and Lizzie M-P. Siblings Hugh, Thomas L., Standish and Violet M-P: all served during World War II. text/html 2023-01-06T17:58:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=wait_there_s_more&rev=1672988322&do=diff Wait, there's more! In the much lampooned ad, this refrain of 'wait, there's more' went on to offer steak knives. No extra knives here, but a possibility of TLM-P having had children outside marriage. The existence of these children was believed, and documented by, a son and grandson of TLM-P. text/html 2025-01-25T15:10:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=war_stories&rev=1737778250&do=diff War Stories as recalled by his son Tom Dad’s 1939-45 War Stories Thomas Lodge M-P -1912/2000 (Dad) was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.) medal in 1943 for his actions during the war. Dad rarely ever spoke about what happened to him during the war, as was the case for many decorated war veterans. However, he did speak to me briefly on several occasions at night when there were just the two of us having a few rum and ginger-ales over an open fire at the back of his Bogangar home. text/html 2019-07-08T12:18:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=whiskey&rev=1562552304&do=diff Whiskey In very early 1950 at Currigee, South Stradbroke Island, whilst the children were sliding down the very large sand dunes that then existed on the surfside, two bottles of vintage Irish Whiskey were uncovered in the sand. They dated back to some of the cargo hidden in the dunes to avoid customs, after the shipwreck of the Scottish Prince which had run aground on the Southport Bar in 1887. text/html 2019-07-03T16:04:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=whisky&rev=1562133882&do=diff Whiskey In very early 1950 at Currigee, South Stradbroke Island, whilst the children were sliding down the very large sand dunes that then existed on the surfside, two bottles of vintage Irish Whiskey were uncovered in the sand. They dated back to some of the cargo hidden in the dunes to avoid customs, after the shipwreck of the text/html 2018-10-12T21:35:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=william_augustus_murray_prior&rev=1539340542&do=diff William Augustus Murray Prior William was baptised at Bray in Berkshire on 19 January 1825. His baptism as a three-year old is further confirmation that his parents were evangelical Anglicans. William M-P became an ensign in the 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. His regiment is confirmed by some loose blank pages, originally part of a book, with the inscription ‘W.A. Murray Prior. 59th Regt.' He died at Portsmouth from a gunshot wound on 5 February 1844 – presumably an accident w… text/html 2024-10-31T22:31:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=william_rosa_praed_morres_lizzie_jardine_hervey_redmond_weeta_hugh_lodge_matilda_egerton_m-p&rev=1730374268&do=diff Matilda and TLM-P's children Matilda and TLM-P had 12 children. Four (William, Weeta, Lodge and Matilda) died when babies. Of the 6 sons who survived, only the eldest (Thomas) led a relatively untroubled life. Hervey and Hugh were probably both alcoholics and died in their 30s; Morres died lonely and depressed when he was 44. Redmond and Egerton also struggled. As suggested below, their schooling might provide an explanation, but so too was their aspiration to make a living on isolated rural pr… text/html 2024-11-26T12:53:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=william_s_sketchbook&rev=1732586024&do=diff William's sketchbook Fiona and Emma Cullen-Ward have shared with us a marvellous sketchbook which belonged to the talented artist-soldier William Prior (1821-44)-see William Augustus Murray Prior. When William died, the sketchbook went to his father who has written his name inside 'Captain Prior 1845'. The sketchbook is rather battered and a little larger than an A4 paper and around 4cm thick. The following reproductions (in the order they appear in the book) show why it was so treasured. To en… text/html 2026-05-25T17:31:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=william&rev=1779694304&do=diff William Augustus Murray Prior Two portraits of William M-P. The first was identified as William by Minnie Violet (Vi) M-P. E. Sterling M-P understood that the second portrait shown here was also a self-portrait by William. As there was no known discussion about these paintings by these two (and it is not known if they even knew each other), it is highly likely that their separate identification of the paintings is correct. For other presumed self-portraits, see text/html 2025-04-07T13:29:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=with_the_sultan_through_spicer_s_gap._a_round_trip_from_brisbane_to_warwick_and_back&rev=1743996577&do=diff Transcript of 'With the Sultan through Spicer's Gap. A Round Trip from Brisbane to Warwick and Back' NB Meta's grammar is imperfect. Its is always written as it’s and she uses lots of commas. Capitals are a bit haphazard (and it's not always clear if they are capitals) and punctuation marks vary. Any spelling mistakes are reproduced as they appear.