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| ==== Mary Ann Thompson ==== | ==== Mary Ann Thompson ==== |
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| After his wife Catherine's early death, Thomas M-P had a liaison with a working class woman, Mary Ann Thompson who lived in King's County. Robert M-P((The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.32, NLA.)) states that Thomas and Mary Ann were ‘possibly’ married; Thomas Bertram M-P refers to their marriage as a 'rumour'.((Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d. p.6, NLA.)) Mary Ann Thompson later married, ‘perhaps bigamously’, William Lynch. Thomas and Mary Ann’s daughter Honoria adopted the surname Lynch and married Michael (often called Edward) Hankard. | After his wife Catherine's early death, Thomas M-P had a liaison with a working class woman, Mary Ann Thompson who lived in King's County. Robert M-P((The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.32, NLA.)) states that Thomas and Mary Ann were ‘possibly’ married; Thomas Bertram M-P refers to their marriage as a 'rumour'.((Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d. p.6, NLA.)) Mary Ann Thompson later married William Lynch - , ‘perhaps bigamously’, if she was married to Thomas M-P. Thomas and Mary Ann’s daughter Honoria adopted the surname Lynch and married Michael (often called Edward) Hankard. |
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| Honoria and Michael Hankard's elder son, also called Michael, emigrated to NSW in 1881 with his wife Mary (nee Connelly) and their three daughters: presumably today they have numerous descendants in Australia. Robert M-P believed that another of Honoria and Michael’s sons, Thomas Hankard, threatened to add ‘Murray-Prior’ to his surname ‘but was dissuaded from this course’.((Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.34, NLA.)) Effective blackmail? \\ | Honoria and Michael Hankard's elder son, also called Michael, emigrated to NSW in 1881 with his wife Mary (nee Connelly) and their three daughters: presumably today they have numerous descendants in Australia.((The more recent generations feature in Rita Young, //From Royalty to us//, unpublished booklet, 1984.)) Robert M-P believed that another of Honoria and Michael’s sons, Thomas Hankard, threatened to add ‘Murray-Prior’ to his surname ‘but was dissuaded from this course’.((Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.34, NLA.)) Effective blackmail? \\ |
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| ==== Four more children? ==== | ==== Four more children? ==== |