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--- jemima_and_louisa [2018/05/14 21:05] – judith
+++ jemima_and_louisa [2023/08/19 15:17] – [Louisa Prior/Murray Prior] judith
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-====== Jemima and Louisa Murray-Prior  ======
+====== Jemima and Louisa Prior/Murray-Prior  ======
+Thomas and Jemima had three children just over three years:\\
-Thomas and Jemima had at least three children over three years:\\
+. **Jemima Frances Sophia** (born on 15 September 1813 in the Southampton suburb of Shirley((Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d, p.5 has 1814; 'Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) and died 29 May 1891 at Howden Lodge, Southsea, Hampshire.((death notice in //Hampshire Advertiser//, 6 June 1891; Death registration index 1891 in //Ancestry.com//));\\
-. Jemima Frances Sophia M-P (born on 15 September 1814 or 15 September 1813 in the Southampton suburb of Shirley((Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d, p.5.)), d. 1899.((cf. death notice in //Hampshire Advertiser//, 6 June 1891 that she died aged 77 on 29 May 1891 at Howden Lodge, Southsea: to check));\\
+. **William Amherst** (1814-15), who was born and died in London when he was about 6 weeks old; he was buried at St. Paul's, London.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry; 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. See also QJO, Praed papers, 10/12/51.)) and\\
-. Louisa Elizabeth Catherine M-P (26 December 1816–24 July 1891); and\\
+. **Louisa Elizabeth Catherine** (26 December 1816–24 July 1899). She was born at Boulogne, France and died at 23 Fernlea Road, Balham, Surrey, a suburb of London. Rosa Praed was the executor of her estate valued at £4,807.35((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry; England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1899 and England & Wales, National Probate calendar, 1899, accessed through//Ancestry.com//.))
-. William Amherst M-P, who died in London in 1815 'in infancy'.((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. See also QJO, Praed papers, 10/12/51.))\\
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+Given the resemblance to the portraits thought to be Eliza Prior, and to the ones below, this miniature and its copy is likely to show the young Jemima or Louisa.((Professor Colin Roderick obtained numerous material from the Murray-Prior family when he was writing the biography of Rosa Praed. He donated these miniatures to the Mitchell Library (MIN 335), with a note that he thought they were two of the Darvell sisters, one of whom was the grandmother of TLM-P's wife Nora. A keener eye for women’s clothes and jewellery reveals that one painting is a copy of the other. Given the family resemblance they are highly likely to Jemima or Louisa Prior, not Emily Darvall or her sister.))\\
-{{:unfinished_sketch.jpg?direct&200|}}This unfinished sketch was from a collection most likely drawn by William M-P. Given the age of the woman and that it was kept by the family, it is perhaps one of his step-sisters, Jemima or Louisa.((Provenance: From E.S. M-P to J. Godden))\\
-===== Jemima Murray-Prior =====
-{{:aunt_j.jpg?direct&200|}}  {{:aunt_jemina.jpg?direct&200|}} These photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album.((Provenance: From E.S. M-P to J. Godden)) They are labelled ‘Aunt J.’ and ‘Aunt Jemima M.P’. The former has a signature on the back dated 1872; the signature ends with Prior, and is possibly JMPrior - Jemima Murray Prior?\\
-Jemima, like her sister Louisa, remained single. She was wealthy, pious and generous enough to leave £200 to set up a charity, ‘The Prior Gift’. This Gift contributed to the salary of the verger at the Holy Trinity Church, Shirley, Southampton, as well for an annual distribution of food tokens to 36 ‘deserving poor’.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8. Faced with large scale poverty, philanthropists in the Victorian age tended to be obsessed with restricting aid to those who were ‘deserving’, that is, poor through no fault of their own and living blameless lives. The latter requirement alone substantially reduced the call on the philanthropists’ purses!))
-to get from T&T: Insert photo taken by Andrew Darbyshire at Southampton church, Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8. pp.59,60. https://brisbanehistorywest.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/08-a-fair-slice-of-st-lucia-thomas-lodge-murray-prior.pdf\\
-====== Louisa Murray-Prior ======
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-These three photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album, labelled ‘Aunt Louisa’ and 'Aunt Louisa M.P’.((Provenance: From E.S. M-P to J. Godden)) The second photo has the inscription on the back ‘For Morres[?] with Aunt Louisa's Love’. Judging from Louisa's large [[wp>Crinoline]], the photos were taken in the mid-nineteenth century.\\
+ ===== Jemima Prior/Murray Prior =====
+{{:aunt_j.jpg?direct&200|}}  {{:aunt_jemina.jpg?direct&200|}} These photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album.((Provenance: J. Godden)) They are labelled ‘Aunt J.’ and ‘Aunt Jemima M.P’. The former has a signature on the back dated 1872; the signature ends with Prior, and is possibly JMPrior - Jemima Murray Prior?\\
-Louisa was christened on 22 January 1817 by the Forces chaplain: this fits in with Thomas Bertram M-P's belief that she was born in [[wp>Boulogne-sur-Mer|Boulogne, France.]]((Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d., p.6.)) She was again baptised two years later at Wells cathedral.((QJO, Praed papers, 10/12/50))\\
+Jemima, like her sister Louisa, remained single. She was pious and both wealthy and generous enough to leave £200 to set up a charity, ‘The Prior Gift’. This Gift contributed to the salary of the verger at the Holy Trinity Church, Shirley, Southampton, as well for an annual distribution of food tokens to 36 ‘deserving poor’.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8, p.104.)) Faced with large scale poverty, philanthropists in the Victorian age normally restricted aid to those considered ‘deserving’, that is, poor through no fault of their own and living blameless lives. The latter requirement alone substantially reduced the call on philanthropists’ purses!\\
+See photo taken by Andrew Darbyshire at Southampton church, Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8. pp.59,60. https://brisbanehistorywest.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/08-a-fair-slice-of-st-lucia-thomas-lodge-murray-prior.pdf\\
-In 1863, Louisa lived at 18 Oxford Terrace, St Peters, Islington, London. In the 1890s, she lived with her sister Jemima at Howden Lodge, 14 Clarendon Road, Southsea.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8.))