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 ====== Thomas de Montmorenci, Florence and Mary M-P ======
-[[wp>Thomas_de_Montmorency_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. \\
+[[wp>Thomas_de_Montmorency_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. \\
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 {{:tom_morres.jpg?200|}} Young 'Tommy' de Montmorenci M-P with his brother Morres, from his father's album.\\
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 Thomas de Montmorenci M-P and Florence Claudia Moore((or Moor)) (c.1861-1901)((Queensland death certificate, 1901/C1766)) married on 18 March 1878 at the Holy Trinity Church of England in the far north Queensland town of [[wp>Bowen,_Queensland|Bowen]].((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Like her father Henry ((Florence's Queensland death certificate, 1901/C1766 probably incorrectly gives his name as John)) Moore (or Moor), Florence was born in London. Her mother, with the wonderful name of Georgiana Boadicea Maria Leathant, was the daughter of Charles Leathant; she and Henry married at St Pancras Church on 22 July 1857. They lived in the London suburb of [[wp>Highgate|Highgate]]. Henry died on 11 February 1861 and was buried in the famous {{https://highgatecemetery.org/|Highgate cemetery}}.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.))
-Florence and her mother appear to have emigrated to Australia in 1862, the year after Florence's father died.((Queensland death certificate, 1901/C1766)) It is probable that Florence's mother had already re-married, to Henry J. Jones who, at the time of Florence's marriage, worked for a bank in Bowen, Queensland.((//Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser//, 27 April 1878, p.2.)) For that reason, Florence is sometimes referred to as Florence Jones.((Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, 1901-05, p.14, NLA; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d.,p.7, NLA; Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//, Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, pp.49-50.)) TLM-P and Nora both found Florence difficult. Nora was always discerning about people, and she wrote to Rosa that Florence easily took offence, imagining that people were slighting her and referring to her mother having been a forewoman in a shop. While Brisbane society was snobbish, the colonies were a place where people could rapidly ascend the social scale and Nora was probably correct in saying that no-one else cared. Nevertheless, Nora told Rosa, Florence was haunted by her mother's unladylike past. She had also snubbed anyone she thought of an inferior class, so consequently had few friends. Florence's saving grace, in Nora's eyes, was that she was a devoted wife and mother. ((Nora to Rosa, 3 December 1883)).\\
+Florence and her mother appear to have emigrated to Australia in 1862, the year after Florence's father died.((Queensland death certificate, 1901/C1766)) It is probable that Florence's mother had already re-married, to Henry J. Jones who, at the time of Florence's marriage, worked for a bank in Bowen, Queensland.((//Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser//, 27 April 1878, p.2.)) For that reason, Florence is sometimes referred to as Florence Jones.((Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, 1901-05, p.14, NLA; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d.,p.7, NLA; Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//, Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, pp.49-50.)) TLM-P and Nora both found Florence difficult. Nora was always discerning about people, and she wrote to Rosa that Florence easily took offence, imagining that people were slighting her and referring to her mother having been a forewoman in a shop. While Brisbane society was snobbish, the colonies were a place where people could rapidly ascend the social scale and Nora was probably correct in saying that no-one else cared. Nevertheless, Nora told Rosa, Florence was haunted by her mother's unladylike past. She had also snubbed anyone she thought of an inferior class, so consequently had few friends. Florence's saving grace, in Nora's eyes, was that she was a devoted wife and mother. ((Nora to Rosa, 3 December 1883))\\
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-Florence and Thomas de M. had the M-P fertility. She was 18 years old when she married, her husband 30, and she conceived almost immediately, going on to have 5 children in 8 years. She died aged 40 in 1901 suffering from the endocrine disorder, [[wp>Addison%27s_disease|Addison's disease]].((Queensland death certificate 1901/C1766.)) She was buried at Maroon but in 1920, after the property was sold, was re-interred in the family plot at [[family_burial_site_toowong_cemetery_brisbane|Toowong cemetery]].\\
+Florence was 18 years old when she married, her husband 30, and she conceived almost immediately, going on to have five children in 8 years. Their roving life (and possibly a reason for Florence's few friends) is indicated by their five children having four different birth places.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda to the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Florence died aged 40 in 1901 suffering from the endocrine disorder, [[wp>Addison%27s_disease|Addison's disease]].((Queensland death certificate 1901/C1766.)) She was buried at Maroon but in 1920, after the property was sold, was re-interred in the family plot at [[family_burial_site_toowong_cemetery_brisbane|Toowong cemetery]].\\
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 {{:florence_enhanced.jpg?300|}} **For other photos of the beautiful Florence and her possessions, click [[painting, photos Florence]]**\\
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  **Children**
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-Thomas and Florence had four daughters and one son.((Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//, Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, pp.49-50; Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, p.14, NLA; [Thomas A. M-P], Murray-Prior Family, booklet, October 2014; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d.,p.7, NLA.)) See the sidebar entry for **Thomas Bertram M-P** and his sisters **Florette, Mabel, Ethel and Phyllis M-P**. They ranged in age from 16 to 24 years old when their father died.((Queensland Death certificate 1902/C1918.))\\
+Thomas and Florence had four daughters and one son.((Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//, Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, pp.49-50; Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, p.14, NLA; [Thomas A. M-P], Murray-Prior Family, booklet, October 2014; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d.,p.7, NLA.)) See the sidebar entry for **Thomas Bertram M-P** and his sisters **Florette, Mabel, Ethel and Phyllis M-P**.((Queensland Death certificate 1902/C1918.))\\
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  **Thomas de Montmorenci M-P and Mary Bundock**
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 On 30 August 1902, the year after Florence died, Thomas married 57-year-old Mary Bundock (1845-1924).((BDM, marriage registration no. 5779/1902)) Thomas' young step-brother Robert was reportedly his best man at the wedding.((N.C. Hewitt, 'Early History Recalled', //Northern Star// [Lismore], 9 January 1940.)) The Bundocks and M-Ps were on visiting terms at least from 1880,((Praed papers, Nora M-P to Rosa Praed, 1880, OM64-1, 4/2/1-4)) and Thomas de M. M-P had a connection to the area where Mary Bundock's family had a property, Wyangarie, on the Richmond River in northern NSW. Isabel McBryde states that Mary's father owned a property called Kooralbyn near Beaudesert (and thus Maroon) and also owned Bulliwallah, south of Charters Towers, which appears also as a M-P property. One bond between Thomas de M. and Mary was their love of horses. Mary was known as 'a fearless horsewoman, and would ride for miles to set a broken limb or succour a settler in distress in that then sparsely settled district'.((Sydney Morning Herald, 23April 1924,p.10)) Oral history recollections are frequently not-quite-right, and the former description particularly fitted her sister Alice,((Praed papers, Nora M-P to Rosa Praed, 1880, OM64-1, 4/2/1-4)) but perhaps both sisters were that way inclined. Another recollection of Mary described her as 'the Florence Nightingale of the Upper Richmond, of whom all the early settlers still speak with affectionate regard. She was a wonderful woman, admired and remembered by all with gratitude.'((N.C. Hewitt, 'Early History Recalled', //Northern Star// [Lismore], 9 January 1940.)) \\
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-The family story((T.A. M-P, pers comm.)) is that it was a marriage based on friendship and trust, to enable Mary to look after Thomas de M.'s soon-to-be orphaned children and Maroon. Thomas de M. was already suffering from the stomach cancer that would kill him 4 months after the wedding.((Queensland Death certificate 1902/C1918.)) Maroon was struggling due to the prolonged drought, and Thomas B. was only 19 years old, too young to effectively take on such a challenge. His four sisters ranged in age from 23 to 16 years old. Three months after he married Mary, Thomas de M. was described as an 'invalid'; his sister Lizzie and brother Egerton came to Maroon to say goodbye.((//The Telegraph//, 29 November 1902, p.13.)) A month later, on 11 December 1902, he died there.((//SMH// death notice, 16 December 1902; //The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser//, 17 December 1902, p.1614; Queensland Death certificate 1902/C1918.)) Like Florence, he was buried at Maroon but on 25 June 1920, re-interred in the family plot at [[family_burial_site_toowong_cemetery_brisbane|Toowong cemetery]].((Queensland Death certificate 1902/C1918.))\\
+The family story((T.A. M-P, pers comm.)) is that it was a marriage based on friendship and trust, to enable Mary to look after Thomas de M.'s soon-to-be orphaned children and Maroon. Thomas de M. was already suffering from the stomach cancer that would kill him four months after the wedding.((Queensland Death certificate 1902/C1918.)) Maroon was struggling due to the prolonged drought, and Thomas B. was only 19 years old, too young to effectively take on such a challenge. His four sisters ranged in age from 23 to 16 years old. Three months after he married Mary, Thomas de M. was described as an 'invalid'; his sister Lizzie and brother Egerton came to Maroon to say goodbye.((//The Telegraph//, 29 November 1902, p.13.)) A month later, on 11 December 1902, he died there.((//SMH// death notice, 16 December 1902; //The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser//, 17 December 1902, p.1614; Queensland Death certificate 1902/C1918.)) Like Florence, he was buried at Maroon but on 25 June 1920, re-interred in the family plot at [[family_burial_site_toowong_cemetery_brisbane|Toowong cemetery]].((Queensland Death certificate 1902/C1918.))\\
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 {{:maroon_t_bm-p_unknown_woman_cropped.jpeg?400|}} The man is reputedly Thomas B. M-P: is the woman Mary Bundock?((Provenance T.A. & M.T. M-P))\\
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-The newly-wed, newly-widowed Mary stayed at Maroon running the property for some time. In the Wise Directory of 1907 she was listed as 'station owner' of Maroon and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugandan,_Queensland|Dugandan]].((accessed through Ancestry.com.au))
+The newly-wed, newly-widowed Mary stayed at Maroon running the property for some time. In the Wise Directory of 1907 she was listed as 'station owner' of Maroon and another nearby property[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugandan,_Queensland|Dugandan]].((accessed through Ancestry.com.au))
 Today Mary Bundock is renowned for her significant contribution to European knowledge of Aboriginal arts and crafts through her work as an artist and anthropologist-collector. During 1885-92, she collated two ethnographic collections, one which she gave to {{https://volkenkunde.nl/|Rijkmuseurn voor Volkenkunde, Leiden in the Netherlands}} where it was valued; the other to the Australian Museum in Sydney. The latter collection was first displayed in 1895 as a fund-raising exhibition for the Women's College at the University of Sydney. Archaeologist Isabel McBryde judged the collection in Leiden, the only one which survived, to be 'large, comprehensive and meticulously documented' in a highly professional manner. What remains unexplained was how Mary Bundock had the skills to do this despite 'few opportunities for scientific contacts and indeed little formal schooling'.((Isabel McBryde, 'A remarkable life - Mary Ellen Murray-Prior and her contribution to Australian ethnography', //Richmond River Historical Society Bulletin//, 16 March 1997, p.3.))\\