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Jemina Prior
Thomas Prior married (1) Jemina Dickson at Millbrook, Southampton, England on 28 November 1812.1) Jemina's father was also in the military forces as he was Captain Dickson Esq. of Prospect House, Southampton. She died after five years of marriage on 4 November 1817.2) She was buried in Dover. She and Thomas had three children: Jemina Frances Sophia; William Amherst; and Louisa Elizabeth Catherine.3)
As her family home Prospect House, indicates, Jemina 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)
[TO INSERT PHOTO OF PAINTING - TO GET FROM t&t] Jemina Prior.
This is a large painting (920 x 640cm) and is a version of the one above. It belonged to Geoffrey M-P who generously gave it to me for this project. This one was damaged by removalists when being transported to Geoffrey's father, and has since incurred further damage. There doesn’t seem any reason why TLM-P would ship a photo of his father’s first wife to Australia unless, as Therese M-P suggests, the family paintings were all bundled up and shipped off together.