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Lizzie and John Jardine

This photo, from Nora M-P's album, is a rather indistinct one of Lizzie as a child. The next 5 are from her father's album. As they are labelled Lizzie Murray-Prior, they are presumably all before her marriage. The first is definitely so, as she too young to have her hair up, a rite of passage indicating the girl had become a woman.
1)
Her father labelled the next photo 'Mrs Jardine':

This photo of Lizzie was taken on 4 June 1878; the original is in QJO.2)

The NLA holds numerous photos of Lizzie and her later home, Aberfoyle Station.3)

Is this unidentified photo also Lizzie?4)

Lizzie Jardine died 10 (other sources say 19th) December 1940 at Surfers Paradise of unspecified causes.5)

There can be confusion with 'Lizzie Jardine' - it is not a common name, but it was also the maiden name of Lizzie's sister-in-law. Jill Fleming points out the government's police boat cutter at Somerset, the 'Lizzie Jardine', was named after the original Lizzie nee Jardine, and not Lizzie nee M-P. That first Lizzie Jardine was 'noted for her beauty [and] married Colonel Wilbraham',6) actually Colonel Arthur Bootle-Wilbraham. The marriage took place at the fashionable church for weddings in London - St. George Hanover Square - on 19 July 1875.7) From his diary entry when TLM-P met up with Lizzie Bootle-Wilbraham at his daughter Rosie's home, at some stage he had asked her to marry him. After commenting on her 'same sweet smile', he wrote that 'Whilst she was talking I was thinking of the old days and what a difference it would gave made in both our lives if she had. [Wisely, given his wife would probably read his diary, he added] Hope she is as satisfied with her lot as I am.' Perhaps she was thinking the same or he became more cautious in his diary entries, as the next day Lizzie again visited Rosie but, while again displaying her 'nice smile', TLM-P found her 'thin and subdued looking'.8)

Lizzie and John Robert Jardine had three children.9) For more, click on the entry in the sidebar for the 3rd generation.


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Provenance of last photo: T.A. & M.T. M-P
3)
M-P family papers, NLA, MS7801, Box 7, folders 43, 46.
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Provenance: T.A. & M.T. M-P
6)
Cairns Post, 5 December 1940
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TLM-P, Diary 18-19 July 1882
9)
Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d. p.9, NLA; Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.16, NLA.
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