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====== Family Burial Site, Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane ======

{{:20250422_114513.jpg?400|}}The Murray-Prior family burial site, shown in this photo,((in Murray-Prior file, Rathdowney Visitor Information Centre and Historical Museum)) is in the {{https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/parks-venues/cemeteries/toowong-cemetery|Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane}} (Corner Frederick Street and Mt Coot-tha Road), Toowong, Brisbane, Portion 13 Section 72 (with Morres in section 75). The cemetery itself is near the [[wp>Brisbane_Botanic_Gardens,_Mount_Coot-tha]]  - always worth a visit. The Brisbane City Council's excellent website for the cemetery (given above) can help you find particular graves. See also the following two maps with portion 13 is marked with a x on the first map: \\
{{:toowong_cemetery_20250422_115100.jpg?350|}} {{:more_detail_toowong_cemetery_20250422_115124.jpg?400|}}((Murray-Prior file, Rathdowney Visitor Information Centre and Historical Museum)) \\
T.A. & M.T. M-P ensured that the graves, which had fallen into disrepair, were restored. ((Provenance of following photos: T.A. & M.T. M-P.)) {{:murray-prior_grave.jpeg?400| }} 
The next two photos shows Matilda's memorial. {{:matilda_s_grave.jpeg?250|}}  {{:grave_mp_site.jpeg?300|}}\\
Grave inscriptions: {{:inscription_on_front_of_grave_enhanced.jpeg?300|}} {{:tlmp_grave.jpeg?300|}}  {{:close_up_matilda_grave_resized.jpg?300|}}\\
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Florence and Thomas M-P's memorial is also in the Toowong Cemetery. They were originally buried next to each other in a private garden at Maroon.((//Fassifern Guardian//, 28 November 1962)) Rosa Praed was given this photo of her brother Tom's grave when it looks quite new: {{:tom_s_grave_20250416_113338.jpg?350|}}  In 1920, Tom and Florence were reburied in the family plot at Toowong Cemetery.((Patricia Clarke to T.A & M.T. M-P, 19 November 2001.)) Only remnants of the original headstones remained to be used in the restoration.((T.A & M.T. M-P, pers. comm.)) {{ :thomas_de_monmorenci.jpeg?300}} {{ :florence_s_monument.jpeg?300|}}