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| {{:aunt_j.jpg?direct&200|}} {{:aunt_jemina.jpg?direct&200|}} These photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album.((Courtesy author)) They are labelled ‘Aunt J.’ and ‘Aunt Jeminia [**check; my mistake?]** M.P’. The former has a signature on the back dated 1872; the signature ends with Prior, and is possibly JMPrior - Jemina Murray Prior?\\ | {{:aunt_j.jpg?direct&200|}} {{:aunt_jemina.jpg?direct&200|}} These photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album.((Provenance: From Nora M-P to her son Robert or daughters Dorothy & Ruth M-P, to E.S.M-P, to J. Godden.)) They are labelled ‘Aunt J.’ and ‘Aunt Jeminia [**check; my mistake?]** M.P’. The former has a signature on the back dated 1872; the signature ends with Prior, and is possibly JMPrior - Jemina Murray Prior?\\ |
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| Jemina, 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!)) | Jemina, 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!)) |
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| These three photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album, labelled ‘Aunt Louisa’ and 'Aunt Louisa M.P’.((Courtesy author)) 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.\\ | These three photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album, labelled ‘Aunt Louisa’ and 'Aunt Louisa M.P’.((Provenance: From Nora M-P to her son Robert or daughters Dorothy & Ruth M-P, to 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.\\ |
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| 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))\\ | 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))\\ |
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| In 1863, Louisa lived at 18 Oxford Terrace, St Peters, Islington, London. In the 1890s, she lived with her sister Jemina at Howden Lodge, 14 Clarendon Road, Southsea.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8.)) | In 1863, Louisa lived at 18 Oxford Terrace, St Peters, Islington, London. In the 1890s, she lived with her sister Jemina at Howden Lodge, 14 Clarendon Road, Southsea.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8.)) |
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