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| Thomas and Jemima had three children just over three years:\\ | Thomas and Jemima had three children just over three years:\\ |
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| 1. **Jemima Frances Sophia** born on 15 September 1813 in the Southampton suburb of Shirley((Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d, p.5 has 1814; 'Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) and died 29 May 1891 at Howden Lodge, Clarendon Road, Southsea, Hampshire.((death notice in //Hampshire Advertiser//, 6 June 1891; Probate Valuation in Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/42)) The valuation of her belongings for probate purposes was £191/7/0.((Probate Valuation in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/33 and 42)) Another indication of her wealth is that she employed at least two servants, leaving Ada and Mary Hodge £10 each as well as one month's wages (respectively £1/10/0 and £1/1/8), ((Inland revenue receipts for probate duty in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/14-27))\\ | 1. **Jemima Frances Sophia** born on 15 September 1813 in the Southampton suburb of Shirley((Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d, p.5 has 1814; 'Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) and died 29 May 1891 at Howden Lodge, Clarendon Road, Southsea, Hampshire.((death notice in //Hampshire Advertiser//, 6 June 1891; Probate Valuation in Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/42)) The valuation of her belongings for probate purposes was £191/7/0.((Probate Valuation in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/33 and 42)) Another indication of her wealth is that her will reveals that she employed at least two servants; she left Ada and Mary Hodge £10 each as well as one month's wages (respectively £1/10/0 and £1/1/8), ((Inland revenue receipts for probate duty in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/14-27))\\ |
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| Legal documents detailing Jemima's estate reveal that Jemima was far from insular in her (at least, financial) outlook, with her financial dealings encompassing the British Empire and beyond. Part of Jemima's and her sister's wealth came from a successful court case (decided in 1873) to establish they were entitled to a share of the estate of their maternal uncle Francis Dickson who died in India in 1822 (another uncle, William Dickson, was in the Bengal Military Service and died in Bengal in 1828.((Petition to Chancery by Jemima and Louisa Prior, 26 May 1876, in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/52)) The valuation of her belongings for probate purposes was £191/7/0.((Probate Valuation in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/33 and 42)) She had also invested in various overseas bonds - Egyptian (£600), Russian (£1,000), Honduras (£200), Turkish (£300), Costa Rica (£300) and shares in other overseas ventures in USA and Brazil.((Inland Revenue Succession Duties, 28 August 1891, in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/42)) The valuation of her belongings for probate purposes was £191/7/0.((Probate Valuation in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/33)) \\ | Legal documents detailing Jemima's estate reveal that Jemima was far from insular in her (at least, financial) outlook, with her financial dealings encompassing the British Empire and beyond. Part of Jemima's and her sister's wealth came from a successful court case (decided in 1873) to establish they were entitled to a share of the estate of their maternal uncle Francis Dickson who died in India in 1822 (another uncle, William Dickson, was in the Bengal Military Service and died in Bengal in 1828.((Petition to Chancery by Jemima and Louisa Prior, 26 May 1876, in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/52)) The valuation of her belongings for probate purposes was £191/7/0.((Probate Valuation in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/33 and 42)) She had also invested in various overseas bonds - Egyptian (£600), Russian (£1,000), Honduras (£200), Turkish (£300), Costa Rica (£300) and shares in other overseas ventures in USA and Brazil.((Inland Revenue Succession Duties, 28 August 1891, in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/42)) The valuation of her belongings for probate purposes was £191/7/0.((Probate Valuation in Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM64-01, Box 10/12/33)) \\ |