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 Contrary to what is stated, Thomas M-P did not respond with his son's alcoholism so that he was 'out of sight, out of mind'. Rather the ideology of the time encouraged a belief in the healing qualities of country life, the life the boys had been brought up to revere. It is only with modern understanding that we can see that the isolation would have been a cruel extra burden for a man struggling with alcoholism - and perhaps also with traumatic memories of his schooling?\\  Contrary to what is stated, Thomas M-P did not respond with his son's alcoholism so that he was 'out of sight, out of mind'. Rather the ideology of the time encouraged a belief in the healing qualities of country life, the life the boys had been brought up to revere. It is only with modern understanding that we can see that the isolation would have been a cruel extra burden for a man struggling with alcoholism - and perhaps also with traumatic memories of his schooling?\\ 
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-Robert and Thomas Bertram M-P believed that Hugh had two illegitimate children: Alice Maud Cooke by Jane Cooke on 27 March 1890, and William Henry Cooke on 28 November 1892 by Jane's sister Elizabeth Cooke. The two sisters were thought to be nieces of Clara van Zuethen who, Robert and Thomas Bertram claim, had an illegitimate baby with TLM-P.((Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, ms written 1901-05 NLA Nq929.2M984; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.12.)) The Queensland birth register confirms children were born on those days to those mothers, with father listed.((registration 1890/C/10825 and 1893/C/10416))+Robert and Thomas Bertram M-P believed that Hugh had two illegitimate children: Alice Maud Cooke by Jane Cooke on 27 March 1890, and William Henry Cooke on 28 November 1892 by Jane's sister Elizabeth Cooke. The two sisters were thought to be nieces of Clara van Zuethen who, Robert and Thomas Bertram claim, had an illegitimate baby with TLM-P.((Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, ms written 1901-05 NLA Nq929.2M984; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.12.)) The Queensland birth register confirms children were born on those days to those mothers, with no father listed.((registration 1890/C/10825 and 1893/C/10416))
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