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 For an overview of Rosa's life see her entry in either {{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/praed-rosa-caroline-8095|The Australian Dictionary of Biography}} or Wikipedia [[wp>Rosa_Campbell_Praed|Rosa Praed]] or the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For a definitive biography, see Patricia Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist//, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. There are many articles about Rosa Praed and her writing: a search in the database AustLit yields 393 hits.((https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/search/page?query=Rosa+Praed&scope=all&facetSampleSize=0&facetValuesSize=0&blendMax=y&count=50)) Most anthologies of 19th and early 20th century Australian writers include her, especially those on female authors. She was extensively reported in the newspapers of her day; when she died leading Australian newspapers acknowledged her as, for example, 'The first Australian-born novelist of any importance.'((//SMH//, 20 November 1936)) and 'the first Australian-born novelist worthy of consideration in Australian literature'.((//The Courier-Mail//, 27 April 1935.)) More recently her writings have been explored for the impact of indigenous dispossession. ((McKay, Belinda. 'A Lovely Land ... by Shadows Dark Untainted'?: Whiteness and Early Queensland Women's Writing [online]. In: Moreton-Robinson, Aileen (Editor). Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004: 148-163. Availability: <https://search-informit-com-au.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/documentSummary;dn=413912230742820;res=IELIND> ISBN: 0855754656; Jennifer Rutherford, 'Melancholy Secrets: Rosa Praed’s Encrypted Father', Double Dialogues, no. 8, summer 2007-06. Both accessed September 2018; Patrica Grimshaw and Julie Evans, 'Colonial women on intercultural frontiers: Rosa Campbell Praed, Mary Bundock and Katie Langloh Parker', //Australian Historical Studies//, 27:106, April 1996.pp.79-96.)) \\
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-**For more on Rosa and Campbell Praed and their children, click on [[Rosa Praed]].**\\
+**For more on Rosa and Campbell Praed, click on [[Rosa Praed]].** For their children, see the next generation on the sidebar.\\
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 Morres was apparently a surveyor. Darbyshire notes that he was at a Survey Camp Eton Vale in February 1876, and on 30 March 1878 he qualified as a licensed surveyor - 'exhibited evidence of competence as surveyor and licensed to survey under land Act 1876 and real Property Act 1861.In march 1881, he was at Jundah to lay out a township when locals were hoping for an extension of the telegraph from Isisford.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, pp.82-83.)) Gambling debts apparently meant that he did not continue with a career as a surveyor.\\
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-In April 1880, TLM-P registered a mortgage on Morres' property at Cleveland, Brisbane. ((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, p.122.)) In the late 1880s/early 1890s, like his brother Hugh, Morres was living on Aberfoyle Station, jointly owned by his father and his brother-in-law, John Jardine.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) His step-mother considered that one 'cannot help loving him - his heart & impulses are so good', but that 'Morres, poor handsome, weak fellow, is a constantly recurring disappointment & heartbreak.... [he causes his father] bitter trouble'.((Nora to Rosa, 14 March 1883 and 3 December 1883)) Nora's letters to Rosa make numerous references to Morres' debts incurred through gambling: in 1880, he was contacted to do fencing for two years to help pay off a £957 debt (around $154,098 in 2019 values).((Nora to Rosa, 29 August 1880))\\
+In April 1880, TLM-P registered a mortgage on Morres' property at Cleveland, Brisbane.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, p.122.)) In the late 1880s/early 1890s, like his brother Hugh, Morres was living on Aberfoyle Station, jointly owned by his father and his brother-in-law, John Jardine.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) His step-mother considered that one 'cannot help loving him - his heart & impulses are so good', but that 'Morres, poor handsome, weak fellow, is a constantly recurring disappointment & heartbreak.... [he causes his father] bitter trouble'.((Nora to Rosa, 14 March 1883 and 3 December 1883)) Nora's letters to Rosa make numerous references to Morres' debts incurred through gambling: in 1880, he was contacted to do fencing for two years to help pay off a £957 debt (around $154,098 in 2019 values).((Nora to Rosa, 29 August 1880))\\
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 Morres died, lonely and depressed, when he was 45 years old. As historian Janet McCalman outlines, it was not an unusual fate for people in an emigrant society.((Janet McCalman, 'To Die without Friends: Solitaries, Drifters and Failures in a New World Society', //Body and Mind: Historical Essays in Honour of F. B. Smith//, eds. G. Davison et al, Melbourne University Press, 2009, pp.173-194. <https://search-informit-com-au.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/documentSummary;dn=212683401745250;res=IELHSS> ISBN: 9780522857177. [cited 10 Aug 18].))   When he died, Morres had been living for at least two years at Bulliwallah Station in the Clermont District, some 920 km northwest of Brisbane. He wrote a sadly revealing letter to his step-sister Dorothy a month before he died. **For more click on [[Letter]].**\\
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 {{:reddie_and_hugh_enhanced.jpg?250|}} The photo is of Hugh (right) with his older brother Redmond.((Like the one above, the photo is from TLM-P's album. Provenance: J. Godden)) Hugh was born at Cleveland and baptised at Brisbane by the Rev. John Bliss.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) He is believed to have attended Hobart High School in 1874-79.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.89.))
-In 1882, his step-mother wrote to TLM-P that 21-year Hugh was 'breaking out again', probably referring to his drinking or over-spending his allowance. TLM-P immediately wrote to him, hoping 'it will have some effect upon him.'((TLM-P, Diary, 16 August 1882)) After TLM-P returned, Hugh ran away - initially, it was thought he had joined a travelling theatre group. His venture into independence was not a success and finally Hugh, via his brother Hervey, obtained money from his father to return home.((Nora to Rosa, feb? date? 1883)) Nora considered he had returned 'so manly & self reliant & so much improved in every way'. His brother Tom wanted Hugh to be a bushman, but Nora did not think his talents lay that way.((Nora to Rosa, 3 December 1883)) She was probably correct.\\
+In 1882, when TLM-P was away in England, his family became very worried about Hugh. He was apparently working for the law firm Little & Brown but was seen as lazy, over-weight and succumbing to the 'frightful yearning for drink'. His family, including TLM-P, wrote to him, hoping 'it will have some effect upon him.'((TLM-P, Diary, 16 August 1882)) and his eldest brother Tom offered him a home where he hoped work 'in the healthy rough bush would do him good'. One of Tom's letter implies that Hugh was guilty of the 'despicable' crimes of 'drunkenness and theft'; he attributed Hugh and Morres' poor character as due to being too young when they went to school as well as the 'want of principle among the Tasmanian boys'.((T de M. M-P letters to Nora, 13 & 27 August & 3 September 1882, NLA, Box4?, MS 7801.))  After TLM-P returned, Hugh again ran away - initially, it was thought he had joined a travelling theatre group. His venture into independence was not a success and finally Hugh, via his brother Hervey, obtained money from his father to return home.((Nora to Rosa, feb? date? 1883)) Nora considered he had returned 'so manly & self reliant & so much improved in every way'. His brother Tom wanted Hugh to be a bushman, but Nora did not think his talents lay that way.((Nora to Rosa, 3 December 1883)) She was probably correct.\\
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 By the late 1880s or early 1890s Hugh, like his brother Morres, was living on Aberfoyle Station, jointly owned by his father and his brother-in-law, John Jardine.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Isobel Hannah wrote that he died 'from sunstroke on a lonely track between Annie Vale and Doongmabulla', in central Queensland.((Isobel Hannah, 'The Royal Descent of the First Postmaster-General of Queensland', Queensland Geographical Journal, vol. LV, 1953-54, p.12.)) He never married but possibly had two children.\\
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 . **Egerton** (5 October 1866((Qld Births registration no. B6322; TLM-P, genealogical notes in 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.))- 1 September 1936). Egerton was born at Maroon((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) and was only 2 years-old when his mother died. 'Egerton' appears to be a family name through TLM-P's mother. Significantly for TLM-P, it had aristocratic connections as the [[wp>Egerton_family|family name]] of the Dukes of Bridgewater and Sutherland, as well as of various earls. In 1882, TLM-P stayed with John Skynner Egerton Bishop who lived at Brighton.((TLM-P, Diary 27 June 1882)) **For more, click on [[Bishop]].** \\
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-Egerton inherited his grandfather's (and mother's?) love of poetry, publishing his //Poems// (Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co. Printers) in 1893.((This 16pp booklet was selected for digitalisation by the John Oxley Library in 2016, but it doesn't appear to have happened yet.)) Poetry was a skill likely to have been nurtured by his step-mother. Egerton was 6 years old when Nora married his father, and she agreed to help educate him home at Maroon until he was nearly 14, when he was sent to school.((Woolcock, Helen, M. John Thearle, Kay Saunders, '"My beloved chloroform'. Attitudes to Childbearing in Colonial Queensland: a case study', //Social History of Medicine//, 1997, p.441; Nora to Rosa, Praed papers, 25 July 1880, JOL.))He went to school in Brisbane, boarding nearby. When he was older, with his brother Hugh, he lived with his brother Hervey((Nora to Rosa, Praed papers, 14 March 1883)). In 1883, his step-mother described Egerton as 'growing very handsome, is steady & affectionate, & tho he has not set the Brisbane river on fire, has made himself a great favourite with his masters. He was 17 last Oct. & I do not think when he comes home this time, that he will go back to school again.'((Nora to Rosa, 3 December 1883)) \\
+Egerton inherited his grandfather's (and mother's?) love of poetry, publishing his //Poems// (Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co. Printers) in 1893.((This 16pp booklet was selected for digitalisation by the John Oxley Library in 2016, but it doesn't appear to have happened yet.)) Poetry was a skill likely to have been nurtured by his step-mother. Egerton was 6 years old when Nora married his father, and she agreed to help educate him home at Maroon.((Woolcock, Helen, M. John Thearle, Kay Saunders, '"My beloved chloroform'. Attitudes to Childbearing in Colonial Queensland: a case study', //Social History of Medicine//, 1997, p.441; Nora to Rosa, Praed papers, 25 July 1880, JOL.)) He went to school (at least May 1878) at the High School, Hobart((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.90.)) and at some stage school in Brisbane, boarding nearby, perhaps with his brother Hugh at his brother Hervey's place.((Nora to Rosa, Praed papers, 14 March 1883)). In 1883, his step-mother described Egerton as 'growing very handsome, is steady & affectionate, & tho he has not set the Brisbane river on fire, has made himself a great favourite with his masters. He was 17 last Oct. & I do not think when he comes home this time, that he will go back to school again.'((Nora to Rosa, 3 December 1883)) In around 1888, he appears to have tried working on Bulli station with his brother Tom de M M-P, but he did not think he was suited to managing a station.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.90.))\\
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 {{:egerton_poetry.jpg?300|}} Cover of Egerton's poems, ML A821/P658.2/1A1. **For more, click on [[Egerton's poetry]].**\\
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 Egerton and Sara Arbuthnot Crawford (b. St James' Park, London) married on 30 April 1894 at St Andrew's Church of England, Lutwyche in Brisbane.((This church has since been replaced, see {{http://www.lutwycheanglican.org.au/about-us/history}})) They appeared to lead a somewhat nomadic rural life in south-west Queensland. In 1895, they lived on a station called Killarney at [[wp>Augathella|Augathella]].(( //The Queenslander//, 11 May 1895, p.909.)) When TLM-P filled in family details for Burke's //Colonial Gentry//, they lived at Moorlands, Malvern Hills, [[wp>Blackall,_Queensland|Blackall]].((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) By 1900, their address was Hoganthulla Downs in the Darling Downs; Sara's sisters lived at Eton, the Church of England school at Nundah.((//The Queenslander//, 7 April 1900, p.670.))\\
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-Sara died, aged 38, in a Toowoomba private hospital in 1903.((//The Brisbane Courier//, 21 January 1903, p.4; Qld death registration C1358)) He became a diary farmer at [[wp>Nambour,_Queensland|Nambour]] in Queensland, but went bankrupt.((M-P family papers, NLA MS 7801, special set 15/83)) In a codicil to his will just before he died in December 1892, TLM-P provided for Egerton's £3,000 legacy being paid to him before his father's death; presumably to protect the money from creditors, he also stipulated that no income be paid to Egerton (or his younger brothers) while bankrupt, although it could be paid to any wife or children.((codicil, copy with J. Godden.)) Sara and Egerton had one son. For more information click on [[Rosa Praed's, Lizzie Jardine's, Hervey & Egerton M-P's children without known direct descendants]] \\
+Sara died, aged 38, in a Toowoomba private hospital in 1903.((//The Brisbane Courier//, 21 January 1903, p.4; Qld death registration C1358)) He was a diary farmer at [[wp>Nambour,_Queensland|Nambour]] in Queensland, but went bankrupt((M-P family papers, NLA MS 7801, special set 15/83))in 1904. Egerton paid his creditors 16 shillings in the £(20 shillings).((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.90.))  In a codicil to his will just before he died in December 1892, TLM-P provided for Egerton's £3,000 legacy being paid to him before his father's death; presumably to protect the money from creditors, he also stipulated that no income be paid to Egerton (or his younger brothers) while bankrupt, although it could be paid to any wife or children.((codicil, copy with J. Godden.)) Sara and Egerton had one son. For more information click on [[Rosa Praed's, Lizzie Jardine's, Hervey & Egerton M-P's children without known direct descendants]] \\
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 In 1905, Egerton married again, to Annie Grace (known as Grace) Crawford, his late wife's sister.((Qld marriage registration C2010; Annie was born in 1879, daughter of Fergus and Agnes Crawford, Birth registration number B24396)) Marriage with a deceased wife's sister was common but still fiercely opposed by sections of the church.((Charlotte Frew, Marriage to a Deceased Wife's Sister in England and Australia 1835-1907, PhD, Macquarie University, 2012.)) In 1908, Egerton and Grace reportedly still lived at Nambour.((//The Queenslander//, 19 September 1908, p.12.)) In August 1911, Ruth M-P wrote to Rosa Praed that she had seen Egerton and Grace - he was looking prosperous and had just bought his neighbour's farm but, she added, Egerton's 'swans are often geese'.((M-P family papers, NLA MS 7801, folder 25.)) In 1912, still at Nambour, he was one of a large group of people fined 5 shillings for 'Omission to furnish sugar cane producer's return; Omission to cut beer duty stamp' thereby contravening the Excise Act.((//Commonwealth of Australia Gazette//, 6 July 1912 [Issue No.45], p.1239.))\\
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-Some time after Egerton retired from farming, he and Grace left Nambour. By 1924, they were reported as living in Melbourne.((//The Week//, 24 October 1924, p.26.)) He was living at 'Moorlands', Palm Avenue, Harbord, Sydney when he died on 1 September 1936.((//The Courier-Mail//, 10 October 1936, p.4.)) He and his son are buried in the family plot at Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane. Grace M-P lived until November 1950, dying at her home in another Sydney beach suburb, Bondi.((//The Sydney Morning Herald//, 28 November 1950, p.22.)) \\
+Some time after Egerton retired from farming, he and Grace left Nambour. By 1924, they were reported as living in Melbourne.((//The Week//, 24 October 1924, p.26.)) He was living at 'Moorlands' (also the name of his home in the 1890s), Palm Avenue, Harbord, Sydney when he died on 1 September 1936.((//The Courier-Mail//, 10 October 1936, p.4.)) He and his son are buried in the family plot at Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane. Grace M-P lived to receive her share (£1,300) of TLM-P's estate when it was wound up in 1945.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.90.)) Grace died in November 1950 at her home in another Sydney beach suburb, Bondi.((//The Sydney Morning Herald//, 28 November 1950, p.22.)) \\
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