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| 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.)) | 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.)) |
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| Catherine and Thomas married when young, doing so by eloping to [wp>Gretna_Green|Gretna Green]], the famous town in Scotland for runaways who could marry under the more lenient Scottish marriage law. 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.)) 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.))\\ | Catherine and Thomas married when young, doing so by eloping to [[wp>Gretna_Green|Gretna Green]], the famous town in Scotland for runaways who could marry under the more lenient Scottish marriage law. 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.)) 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.))\\ |
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| Catherine and Thomas had five children:\\ two daughters, Ellen and Catherine who were educated in Paris and died young in 1824 or 1825, suggesting that they both caught one of the then-lethal infectious diseases of childhood. They were, TLM-P stated, 'born and no doubt baptised at Rathdowney'.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda [possibly answers to Burke's questions for his Colonial Gentry?]));\\ 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 had five children:\\ two daughters, Ellen and Catherine who were educated in Paris and died young in 1824 or 1825, suggesting that they both caught one of the then-lethal infectious diseases of childhood. They were, TLM-P stated, 'born and no doubt baptised at Rathdowney'.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda [possibly answers to Burke's questions for his Colonial Gentry?]));\\ 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.)) \\ |