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Family Burial Site, Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane

The Murray-Prior family burial site is in the Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane (Corner Frederick Street and Mt Coot-tha Road), Toowong, Brisbane, Portion 13 Section 72 (with Morres in section 75). The site is near the Brisbane_Botanic_Gardens,_Mount_Coot-tha - always worth a visit. These two maps will help you find the graves (portion 13 is marked with a x on the first map):
1)
T.A. & M.T. M-P ensured that the graves, which had fallen into disrepair, were restored. 2)  The next two photos shows Matilda's memorial.
Grave inscriptions:

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.3) In 1920 they were reburied in the family plot at Toowong Cemetery.4) Only remnants of the original headstones remained to be used in the restoration.5) thomas_de_monmorenci.jpeg


1)
Murray-Prior file, Rathdowney Visitor Information Centre and Historical Museum
2)
Provenance of following photos: T.A. & M.T. M-P.
3)
Fassifern Guardian, 28 November 1962
4)
Patricia Clarke to T.A & M.T. M-P, 19 November 2001.
5)
T.A & M.T. M-P, pers. comm.
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