| Thomas Prior married (1) Jemima Dickson at Millbrook, Southampton, England on 28 November 1812.((QJO, Praed papers, 10/12/50; Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, ms written 1901-05 NLA Nq929.2M984, p.12-13 and Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.5 has that they married on 27 November not the 28th; TLM-P has 29th in ((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Jemima's father was presumably also in the military forces as he was Captain Dickson Esq. of Prospect House, Southampton. As her family home indicates, her family were comfortably off. Her brother reinforces this assumption as, when he died in the 1870s, he left bequests of several thousands of pounds.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//.)) Jemima had been married for a nearly five years when, on 5 November 1817, aged 26, she died, and was buried at, Dover.((‘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.13 and Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.5))\\ | Thomas Prior married (1) Jemima Dickson at Millbrook, Southampton, England on 28 November 1812.((certified copy of marriage certificate, 8 December 1876 in Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, MSOM64-01, Box 10/12/50; Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, ms written 1901-05 NLA Nq929.2M984, p.12-13 and Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.5 incorrectly states they married on 27 November; TLM-P is also mistaken in stating it was the 29th in ((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Jemima's father was presumably also in the military forces as he was Captain Dickson Esq. of Prospect House, Southampton. As her family home indicates, her family were comfortably off. Her brother reinforces this assumption as, when he died in the 1870s, he left bequests of several thousands of pounds.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//.)) Jemima had been married for a nearly five years when, on 5 November 1817, aged 26, she died, and was buried at, Dover.((‘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.13 and Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.5))\\ |
| Jemima and Thomas had three children: Jemima Frances Sophia; William Amherst born in London in 1814 or 15 and dying when still a baby; and Louisa Elizabeth Catherine.((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; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d. p.5.))\\ | Jemima and Thomas had three children: Jemima Frances Sophia; William Amherst born in London in 1814 or 15 and dying when still a baby; and Louisa Elizabeth Catherine.((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; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d. p.5.))\\ |