====== Successful blended family ======
The evidence that Eliza created successfully created a loving blended family largely lies in the warm relationship between TLM-P and his step-sisters. This evidence includes:
  * most crucially, in 1846 Louisa lent TLM-P £400 and Jemima lent him £200 to help him acquire [[rural_life_and_tragedy|Bromelton]] in Queensland.(([[https://brisbanehistorywest.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/08-a-fair-slice-of-st-lucia-thomas-lodge-murray-prior.pdf|Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia]] p.62))\\
  * Louisa named her last home, {{https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/23+Fernlea+Rd,+London+SW12,+UK/@51.4427884,-0.1507562,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x487605ce47b8f97f:0x76cb15a29ef08287!8m2!3d51.4427884!4d-0.1485675|23 Fernlea Road, Balham, London}} after TLM-P's station, Maroon.((address in TLM-P's 1878 Ledger, MLMSS.)) Louisa moved into the London 'Maroon' by October 1892.(([[https://brisbanehistorywest.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/08-a-fair-slice-of-st-lucia-thomas-lodge-murray-prior.pdf|Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia]] p.60))\\
  *  TLM-P's daughter Rosa Praed was named as executor to both Jemima and Louisa's estate, was present at Louisa’s death and a beneficiary of their estates.((QJO, Praed papers, 10/12/4,6,10,14)) 
  * There is a beautifully made photo album inscribed ‘The Hon[oura]ble Thomas Murray Prior from L.M Prior June 18th 1878’, that is from Louisa.\\
  *  The next year, Jemima gave TLM-P another handsomely bound book, a large Family Bible. As the next photo shows, it was a present for TLM-P's 60th birthday. {{:family_bible_glenn_list.jpg?300|}}((Provenance: Glenn M-P))\\
  *  Seven years later, Jemima gave him a beautifully illustrated and boxed Book of Common Prayer. It has the inscription ‘Tho[ma]s L. Murray-Prior. The gift of his Sister Jemima. Southsea. 13 Nov[ember]r 1886’.((Provenance of all 3 books: J. Godden))\\
  * Louisa gave T. de M. M-P another Family Bible in April 1888, with the inscription (as shown) 'Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help - whose Hope is in the Lord His God.' {{:dedication_enhanced.jpg?300|}}
  * TLM-P also refers affectionately to Jemima and Louisa in his diaries - see [[tlm-p_s_diaries|TLM-P diaries]].\\
  * In his will of 5 May 1892, TLM-P left his sister Louisa £100. In a codicil of 21 December 1892, he stated that she had recently given him £1000 sterling. He directed that the same amount be invested in a bank and the interest paid to Louisa; on her death it should be paid to his daughter Elizabeth Jardine.((TLM-P, Last will and testament, 1892, J. Godden's copy))
  * On her death in 1899, Jemima Prior left TLM-P £1,000 (roughly around $163,698 in 2015 values) as well as her ‘music box’ and various items to TLM-P’s family.((QJO, Praed papers, 10/12/14.)) Given TLM-P had died seven years previously, it is not known where these items ended up.