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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 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. | 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they have numerous descendants in Australia.((the more recent family features in Rita Young, //From Royalty to us//, unpublished booklet, 1984.))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? \\ | 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have numerous descendants in Australia.((The more recent generations feature in Rita Young, //From Royalty to us//, unpublished booklet, 1984.))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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