Jemima Prior

Thomas Prior married (1) Jemima Dickson at Millbrook, Southampton, England on 28 November 1812.1) Jemima's father was presumably also in the military forces as he was Captain Dickson Esq. of Prospect House, Southampton. She had been married for a nearly five years when, on 4 November 1817, she died.2) She was buried in Dover.

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.3)

As her family home Prospect House, indicates, Jemima Prior's family were comfortably off. Her brother reinforces this assumption as, when he died in the 1870s, he left bequests of several thousands of pounds.4)
Jemima Prior5).

This is a larger (920 x 640cm) version of the one above.6) This one was damaged by removalists in c.1960s, and has since incurred further damage. There doesn’t seem any reason why TLM-P would ship a photo of his father’s first wife to Australia unless, as Therese M-P suggests, the family paintings were all bundled up and shipped off together.

1)
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.
2)
Again, 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 is a day different, claiming she died on 5 November.
3)
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.
4)
Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia
5)
Provenance: Tom A. & Therese M-P
6)
Provenance: From ESM-P to Geoffrey M-P who generously gave it and another to be reunited with the other family paintings.