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| TLM-P and his family lived in //Shafston House// from at least September 1861 to 1866, mostly covering the period of his first period in office as Postmaster-General.((Allan Morrison, 'Some Queensland Postmasters-General", Brisbane, Post Office Historical Society, 1953, p.5, copy J. Godden; Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia.Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p42; TLM-P diary entry January 1862; Kerry Heckenberg,'A taste for art in colonial Queensland: The Queensland Art Gallery Foundational Bequest of Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior', //Queensland Review//, 25:1, June 2018, pp.119-136 states it was on George Street)) The 1861 date comes from two advertisements in September that year: 'Mrs Barker' (presumably Matilda's sister) advertised for two servants, requesting they apply to her at //Shafston//, Kangaroo Point. The very next ad was for an experienced nurse, with applicants to apply to Mrs Murray Prior at //Shafston//. The nurse was presumably to look after baby Hugh.((//The Courier//, 11 September 1861, p.3.)) \\ | TLM-P and his family lived in //Shafston House// from at least September 1861 to 1866, mostly covering the period of his first period in office as Postmaster-General.((Allan Morrison, 'Some Queensland Postmasters-General", Brisbane, Post Office Historical Society, 1953, p.5, copy J. Godden; Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia.Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p42; TLM-P diary entry January 1862; Kerry Heckenberg,'A taste for art in colonial Queensland: The Queensland Art Gallery Foundational Bequest of Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior', //Queensland Review//, 25:1, June 2018, pp.119-136 states it was on George Street)) The 1861 date comes from two advertisements in September that year: 'Mrs Barker' (presumably Matilda's sister) advertised for two servants, requesting they apply to her at //Shafston//, Kangaroo Point. The very next ad was for an experienced nurse, with applicants to apply to Mrs Murray Prior at //Shafston//. The nurse was presumably to look after baby Hugh.((//The Courier//, 11 September 1861, p.3.)) \\ |
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| {{:shafston_conrad_martens147574607_4026658964020994_1684939499504175106_n.jpg?400|}} A sketch of Shafston (then Ravenscott) by Conrad Martens in 1851, Facebook post by the State Library Of Queensland, 10 February 2021. ((thanks to Madonna Grehan for this reference)). For other photos of //Shafston//, see //The Queenslander//, 25 September 1930, p.41.\\ | {{:shafston_conrad_martens147574607_4026658964020994_1684939499504175106_n.jpg?400|}} A sketch of Shafston (then Ravenscott) by Conrad Martens in 1851, Facebook post by the State Library Of Queensland, 10 February 2021.((thanks to Madonna Grehan for this reference)). \\ |
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| //Shafston House// was built in 1851 close to the Brisbane River in [[wp>Kangaroo_Point,_Queensland|Kangaroo Point]].The house was previously called //Ravenscott// but renamed by its then owner Henry Russell in 1852. Little or nothing of the original Shafston House remains.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.108.)) Shafton House's heritage listing states it was owned by grazier and sugar-grower Louis Hope from October 1859, and then rented to Gilbert Eliot, Speaker of the Queensland Parliament and, from 1874-78, (Matilda's brother-in-law) William Barker of Telemon Station. There is no mention of a period of tenancy by TLM-P.(([[https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=600241|Shafston House]])) Around the early 1900s, //Shafston// was owned by Mary (Madge) McConnel, the wife of J.H. McConnel, the family that Thomas de M M-P's daughter Phyllis married into.((F. Lord,//The Queenslander//, 25 September 1930, p.7; [[https://cressbrookstation.com.au/the-mcconnel-family-cressbrook-today]]/))\\ | //Shafston House// was built in 1851 close to the Brisbane River in [[wp>Kangaroo_Point,_Queensland|Kangaroo Point]].The house was previously called //Ravenscott// but renamed by its then owner Henry Russell in 1852. Its heritage listing states it was owned by grazier and sugar-grower Louis Hope from October 1859, and then rented to Gilbert Eliot, Speaker of the Queensland Parliament and, from 1874-78, (Matilda's brother-in-law) William Barker of //Telemon// Station. There is no mention of a period of tenancy by TLM-P.(([[https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=600241|Shafston House]])) The original Shafston House was demolished in c.1881 and a more imposing one built.((//The Queenslander//, 25 September 1930, p.7; Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.108.)) The new house continued to attract occupiers in the Murray-Prior family circle. In the early 1900s, it was owned by Mary (Madge) McConnel, the widow of J.H. McConnel, the family that Thomas de M M-P's daughter Phyllis married into.((F. Lord,//The Queenslander//, 25 September 1930, p.7; [[https://cressbrookstation.com.au/the-mcconnel-family-cressbrook-today]]/))\\ |
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| === 1 Hodgson's Terrace === | === 1 Hodgson's Terrace === |