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Jemima Murray-Prior Thomas Murray-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 5 November 1817, aged 26, she died. She died at, and was buried at, Dover.2)

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)

Portraits of Jemima Prior5).

The next portrait 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 have a photo of his father’s first wife to Australia unless, as M. Therese M-P suggests, the family paintings were all bundled up and shipped off together. Kerry Heckenberg7) suggests that the family portraits were brought to Australia when TLM-P's parents visited him in the early 1850s.

jemima damaged photo - probably need to take again to fix orientation.


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; TLM-P has 29th in ((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.
2)
‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry; 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
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: Geoffrey M-P to Tom A. M-P.
7)
'A taste for art in colonial Queensland: The Queensland Art Gallery Foundational Bequest of Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior', Queensland Review, 25:1, June 2018, pp.119-136
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