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 ====== Thomas and Catherine Murray-Prior ======
-Andrew and Frances Murray-Prior’s elder son **Thomas Murray-Prior Esq** of Rathdowney  m. Catherine Palmer. Thomas M-P was High Sherriff of Queen’s County from 1799, and a Member of the Irish Parliament for Lesburne and {{http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/B/Bannow-Bargy-Wexford.php|Bannow}} (remembering that this is still a time when only the wealthier male landowners voted in parliament and they could control multiple seats). Presumably because he died there, he was buried at [[wp>Newry|Newry]], County Down (now in Northern Ireland). His wife  Catherine was the elder daughter of Joseph Palmer Esq. of Cuffsborough, Queen’s County; he commanded a militia corps as a Colonel.((John & John B. Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland: M to Z, London: Henry Colburn Publisher, 1846, p.1076; Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//,Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, p.49; Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, ms written 1901-05, p.12, NLA; Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d. p.5, NLA.))
+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.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Thomas M-P was High Sherriff of Queen’s County from 1799, and a Member of the Irish Parliament for Lesburne and {{http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/B/Bannow-Bargy-Wexford.php|Bannow}} (remembering that this is still a time when only the wealthier male landowners voted in parliament and they could control multiple seats). He was buried at [[wp>Newry|Newry]], County Down (now in Northern Ireland) under the name of Murray on 5 November 1854.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) His wife  Catherine was the elder daughter of Joseph Palmer Esq. of Cuffsborough, Queen’s County; he commanded a militia corps as a Colonel.((John & John B. Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland: M to Z//, London: Henry Colburn Publisher, 1846, p.1076; Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//, Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, p.49; Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, ms written 1901-05, p.12, NLA; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d. p.5, NLA.))
-Robert and Thomas Bertram M-P believed that Catherine and Thomas married when young, doing so by eloping to the famous town in Scotland for runaway marriages, [[wp>Gretna_Green|Gretna Green]]. Presumably to quash gossip, the couple had a later, conventional marriage ceremony in Donnybrook, Dublin.((Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.12, NLA; Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d., p.5, NLA.)) They had five children: two daughters who died young, [[Ellen and Catherine]]; and three sons ([[thomas_murray-prior|Thomas]], [[Lodge Morres]], and [[Hervey Morres]]).((Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.12, NLA.))
+Catherine and Thomas married when young, doing so by eloping to the famous town in Scotland for runaway marriages, [[wp>Gretna_Green|Gretna Green]]. Presumably to quash gossip, the couple had a later, conventional marriage ceremony in Donnybrook, Dublin.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry;Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, p.12, NLA; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.5, NLA.)) They had five children: two daughters who died young, [[Ellen and Catherine]]; and three sons ([[thomas_murray-prior|Thomas]], [[Lodge Morres]], and [[Hervey Morres]]).((Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.12, NLA.)) Their mother Catherine died in Dublin and was buried there in approximately 1802, when her youngest son (Hervey) was three years old.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House , London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.))
-This Thomas Murray-Prior was the last to be able to describe himself as 'Esq. of Rathdowney'. Rosa Praed stated that the estates were 'bankrupt'((Rosa Praed, My Australian Girlhood, p. ADD )) and certainly they appear to have been sold.
+This Thomas Murray-Prior was the last to be able to describe himself as 'Esq. of Rathdowney'. Rosa Praed stated that the estates were 'bankrupt'((Rosa Praed, //My Australian Girlhood//, p. ADD )) and certainly they appear to have been sold.
 ==== Mary Ann Thompson ====