| Hervey didn't break off his engagement, marring Margaret (Maggie) Murray McDonald at St Mary's Church of England, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane on 17 August 1881.((QBDM, Reg. number 1881/B/7394, her surname is given in the index as MacDonald))\\ | Hervey didn't break off his engagement, marring Margaret (Maggie) Murray McDonald at St Mary's Church of England, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane on 17 August 1881.((QBDM, Reg. number 1881/B/7394, her surname is given in the index as MacDonald))\\ |
| The next photo is of her as a bride. Her dress is in the latest fashion with its close fitting bodice and bustle.((//The Courier-Mail//, [c.July/August 1979?] p.16.)) {{:margaret_mp_enhanced.jpeg?300|}}((Provenance: Tom A. & M. Therese M-P; there is a copy in the QJO Library.)) Maggie, photo in M-P papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 7: {{:mrs_hervey_mp.jpg?300|}} \\ | The next photo is of her as a bride. Her dress is in the latest fashion with its close fitting bodice and bustle.((//The Courier-Mail//, [c.July/August 1979?] p.16.)) {{:margaret_mp_enhanced.jpeg?300|}}((Provenance: Tom A. & M. Therese M-P; there is a copy in the QJO Library.))\\ |
| Her father was Alexander McDonald (or Macdonald) of Brisbane, previously of the Argyleshire Highlanders and a customs officer, who died 26 October 1872.((this compares with belief she was daughter of neighbouring property Dugandan - to check)) He had been born in Clare, Ireland. Her mother was Mary nee McGilchrist of [[wp>Coatbridge|Courtbridge]], Scotland; Mary's father had iron works in that industrial town.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Margaret was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 12 September 1857 and baptised there by the Rev. Dr Tait.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d. p.10.)) Apparently TLM-P objected to Hervey' marriage, but more likely because of concerns about Hervey's alcoholism rather than doubts about her.((M-P Family papers, NLA MS 7801, special set 12, folder 8, 12/62.)) It was not a happy marriage, and at some stage she left him as Hervey wrote to Nora that he would not file for divorce as her desertion was not long enough for him to have legal grounds to do so.((M-P Family papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 1, folder 22.)) It is not surprising she returned: a mother with a baby to support had little options in this age of minimal state assistance.\\ | Her father was Alexander McDonald (or Macdonald) of Brisbane, previously of the Argyleshire Highlanders and a customs officer, who died 26 October 1872.((this compares with belief she was daughter of neighbouring property Dugandan - to check)) He had been born in Clare, Ireland. Her mother was Mary nee McGilchrist of [[wp>Coatbridge|Courtbridge]], Scotland; Mary's father had iron works in that industrial town.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Margaret was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 12 September 1857 and baptised there by the Rev. Dr Tait.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d. p.10.)) Apparently TLM-P objected to Hervey' marriage, but more likely because of concerns about Hervey's alcoholism rather than doubts about her.((M-P Family papers, NLA MS 7801, special set 12, folder 8, 12/62.)) It was not a happy marriage, and at some stage she left him as Hervey wrote to Nora that he would not file for divorce as her desertion was not long enough for him to have legal grounds to do so.((M-P Family papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 1, folder 22.)) It is not surprising she returned: a mother with a baby to support had little options in this age of minimal state assistance.\\ |