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| Matilda's sisters Rosa and Elizabeth Harpur visited her after her marriage and they too married Queensland squatters. These relatives were especially important given the small (white) settler population - Queensland only had around 30,000 settlers in 1861, and about two-thirds were men.((D. Waterson and M. French, //From the Frontier. A Pictorial History of Queensland to 1920//, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1987, pp.3,8.)) Elizabeth Harpur married William Barker of //Tamrookum// station on 8 July 1847: TLM-P was one of the witnesses.((Elizabeth Harpur, Queensland marriage certificate, 1847, BM54.)) They had six sons and two daughters.((Brisbane paper, //The Week//, 13 July 1900, p.17.)) In the late 1860s, the well-known poet and novelist, [[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stephens-james-brunton-4642|James Brunton Stephens]], was employed as their tutor at //Tamrookum//. TLM-P's ledger for Bugrooperia indicates that he had business dealings with William Barker and //Tamrookum//((MLMSS3117, box 6/item 5)). A Hawkwood ledger c.1856 lists 'Mr J. B. Stephens' buying stores including books costing £4.5.6.(MLMSS3117, box7X, p.44))\\ | Matilda's sisters Rosa and Elizabeth Harpur visited her after her marriage and they too married Queensland squatters. These relatives were especially important given the small (white) settler population - Queensland only had around 30,000 settlers in 1861, and about two-thirds were men.((D. Waterson and M. French, //From the Frontier. A Pictorial History of Queensland to 1920//, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1987, pp.3,8.)) Elizabeth Harpur married William Barker of //Tamrookum// station on 8 July 1847: TLM-P was one of the witnesses.((Elizabeth Harpur, Queensland marriage certificate, 1847, BM54.)) They had six sons and two daughters.((Brisbane paper, //The Week//, 13 July 1900, p.17.)) In the late 1860s, the well-known poet and novelist, [[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stephens-james-brunton-4642|James Brunton Stephens]], was employed as their tutor at //Tamrookum//. TLM-P's ledger for Bugrooperia indicates that he had business dealings with William Barker and //Tamrookum//((MLMSS3117, box 6/item 5)). A Hawkwood ledger c.1856 lists 'Mr J. B. Stephens' buying stores including books costing £4.5.6.(MLMSS3117, box7X, p.44))\\ |
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| Six years later, on 3 September 1853, Rosa Harpur married [[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/haly-charles-robert-3699|Charles Robert Haly (1816-92)]]. Again TLM-P was one of the witnesses who signed the marriage register.((Queensland Marriage registration, 1854/BMA/41)) Rosa and Charles Haly lived at //Taabinga// Station in the Burnett district until he was forced to sell it due to 'diseases in his sheep and the rapid spread of speargrass'. In 1882 he became police magistrate at Dalby where, from 1891, he was also clerk of Petty Sessions. He died the following year, reportedly survived by 11 of his 14 children.(([[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/haly-charles-robert-3699]] I can only find 9 children under the Queensland birth registrations. See also Elizabeth Caffery & George Groves, //The Gathering of the Waters. A short history of the Nanango Shire//,Nanango Shire Council, 2007; Rosa Harpur, Queensland marriage certificate, 1854, BM227.)) In 1881, Nora M-P considered possible people who could help her stepdaughter Lizzie look after the children at //Maroon// while Nora had her baby in Brisbane. She mentioned Rosie Haly as a possibility, 'in default of anyone more interesting'.((Nora M-P to Rosa Praed, Praed papers, 3 April 1881, QJO)) Rosie (Rosa Jane) Haly was then 19 years old.((born 09/09/1861, Registration details: 1861/C/342)) In 1882 TLM-P visited Captain O. G. Haly when he saw the name on an office in the army's Intelligence office, where he was visiting one of his second wife's relatives. Captain Haly had been close to Charles Haly's brother William. The brothers had migrated together to Queensland, with Captain Haly commenting that 'all the sons of the family are in Australia'.((TLM-P, Diary 18 July 1882)).\\ | Six years later, on 3 September 1853, Rosa Harpur married [[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/haly-charles-robert-3699|Charles Robert Haly (1816-92)]]. Again TLM-P was one of the witnesses who signed the marriage register.((Queensland Marriage registration, 1854/BMA/41)) Rosa and Charles Haly lived at //Taabinga// Station in the Burnett district until he was forced to sell it due to 'diseases in his sheep and the rapid spread of speargrass'. In 1882 he became police magistrate at Dalby where, from 1891, he was also clerk of Petty Sessions. He died the following year, reportedly survived by 11 of his 14 children.(([[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/haly-charles-robert-3699]] I can only find 9 children under the Queensland birth registrations. See also Elizabeth Caffery & George Groves, //The Gathering of the Waters. A short history of the Nanango Shire//,Nanango Shire Council, 2007; Rosa Harpur, Queensland marriage certificate, 1854, BM227.)) In 1881, Nora M-P considered possible people who could help her stepdaughter Lizzie look after the children at //Maroon// while Nora had her baby in Brisbane. She mentioned Rosie Haly as a possibility, 'in default of anyone more interesting'.((Nora M-P to Rosa Praed, Praed papers, 3 April 1881, QJO)) Rosa Jane (Rosie) Haly was then 19 years old.((born 09/09/1861, Registration details: 1861/C/342. She died in 1905.)) In 1882 TLM-P visited Captain O. G. Haly when he saw the name on an office in the army's Intelligence office, where he was visiting one of his second wife's relatives. Captain Haly had been close to Charles Haly's brother William. The brothers had migrated together to Queensland, with Captain Haly commenting that 'all the sons of the family are in Australia'.((TLM-P, Diary 18 July 1882)).\\ |
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| The three Harpur sisters and their families were close, and the small European population promoted everyday interactions.((Introduction to Praed papers, JOLQ, p.5.)) TLM-P's diaries indicate that the relationship between the families remained close after Matilda died and he remarried. TLM-P also had business dealings with his brother-in-law Charles Haly including lending him money to mortgage land.((HALY, Charles Robert (Mortgagor) and PRIOR, Thomas Lodge Murray (Mortgagee), 21-30 October 1863, Queensland archives, ID ITM1959373)) A note in TLM-P's 1864 diary refers to him paying interest, and that TLM-P offered to sell him some land.((TLM-P, diary, 17 May 1864.)) As well, Haly also occupied TLM-P's property //Creallagh// in 1863. TLM-P's ledger entry for 5 May 1867 has a heading Chas R. Haly Esq and the explanation that 33 acres of land at Indooroopilly occupied by Mr Pitman had been originally sold to A. V. Drury Esq. then the mortgage transferred to (his brother) Ed. Drury (the sons of TLM-P childhood teacher in Brussels, the Rev. William Drury) and afterwards to C.R. Haly. TLM-P paid £330 and three interest payments at 10 per cent. By January 1868 he had paid the capital and interest totally £360.14.9. ((Ledger, MLMSS CHECK WHICH BOX ETC)) \\ | The three Harpur sisters and their families were close, and the small European population promoted everyday interactions.((Introduction to Praed papers, JOLQ, p.5.)) TLM-P's diaries indicate that the relationship between the families remained close after Matilda died and he remarried. TLM-P also had business dealings with his brother-in-law Charles Haly including lending him money to mortgage land.((HALY, Charles Robert (Mortgagor) and PRIOR, Thomas Lodge Murray (Mortgagee), 21-30 October 1863, Queensland archives, ID ITM1959373)) A note in TLM-P's 1864 diary refers to him paying interest, and that TLM-P offered to sell him some land.((TLM-P, diary, 17 May 1864.)) As well, Haly also occupied TLM-P's property //Creallagh// in 1863. TLM-P's ledger entry for 5 May 1867 has a heading Chas R. Haly Esq and the explanation that 33 acres of land at Indooroopilly occupied by Mr Pitman had been originally sold to A. V. Drury Esq. then the mortgage transferred to (his brother) Ed. Drury (the sons of TLM-P childhood teacher in Brussels, the Rev. William Drury) and afterwards to C.R. Haly. TLM-P paid £330 and three interest payments at 10 per cent. By January 1868 he had paid the capital and interest totally £360.14.9. ((Ledger, MLMSS CHECK WHICH BOX ETC)) \\ |