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- | 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 step-mother but only 10-years older than he, appear manipulative and 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 he thought he'd acted dishonourably to her all through their relationship. He thanked Nora for sending him money as he'd gone through all his allowance, having given his last sixpence to a blind old beggar.((M-P family papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 1, folder 22, Hervey to Nora, 13 May 1877, 5 October 1877.)) | + | 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 step-mother but only 10-years older than he, appear manipulative and 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 he thought he'd acted dishonourably to her all through their relationship. He thanked Nora for sending him money as he'd gone through all his allowance, having given his last sixpence to a blind old beggar.((M-P family papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 1, folder 22, Hervey to Nora, 13 May 1877, 5 October 1877.))\\ |
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+ | There is an entry in Find My Past under Hervey' | ||
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, | 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, | ||
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Like others in his family, Hervey was buried in [[family_burial_site_toowong_cemetery_brisbane|Toowong Cemetery]].((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry: TLM-P referred to it as 'South Brisbane cemetery' | Like others in his family, Hervey was buried in [[family_burial_site_toowong_cemetery_brisbane|Toowong Cemetery]].((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry: TLM-P referred to it as 'South Brisbane cemetery' | ||
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- | ===== Hervey Morres MacDonald Murray-Prior ===== | + | |
- | Hervey Morres Macdonald M-P was born on 25 April 1883, the only son of Hervey and Maggie M-P.((QBDM, registration number 1883/ | + | |
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