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| Another witness to Charles Haly and Rosa Harpur's marriage was Charles' brother William O'Grady Haly. ((Queensland B,D & M, 1866 registration number C153.)) He also illustrates the close-knit nature of Queensland society. 'Mr O'Grady Haly' had been superintendent at //Maroon// to an earlier owner of that property.((Angela Collyer, The Process of Settlement. Land Occupation and Usage in Boonah 1842-1870s, MA (Local History), University of Queensland, 1991, p.63.)) When he (or a namesake died), TLM-P was a co-trustee/executor.((//The Courier//, 10 August 1861, p.1; A collection of Newfoundland Wills, entry for William O'Grady Haly, probate 1906.)) Similarly, the small circles in which they moved is illustrated by the experience of Matilda's other sister Elizabeth. When her husband William Barker retired from //Tamrookum//, they purchased //Nunnington//, a house at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. It was sold to them by Frederick Orme Darvell, then Registrar-General of Queensland, and Nora M-P's uncle. [[wp>Nunnington|Nunnington]] was named after a Darvall family home in Yorkshire.((Brisbane paper, //The Week//, 13 July 1900, p.17.))\\ | Another witness to Charles Haly and Rosa Harpur's marriage was Charles' brother William O'Grady Haly. ((Queensland B,D & M, 1866 registration number C153.)) He also illustrates the close-knit nature of Queensland society. 'Mr O'Grady Haly' had been superintendent at //Maroon// to an earlier owner of that property.((Angela Collyer, The Process of Settlement. Land Occupation and Usage in Boonah 1842-1870s, MA (Local History), University of Queensland, 1991, p.63.)) When he (or a namesake died), TLM-P was a co-trustee/executor.((//The Courier//, 10 August 1861, p.1; A collection of Newfoundland Wills, entry for William O'Grady Haly, probate 1906.)) Similarly, the small circles in which they moved is illustrated by the experience of Matilda's other sister Elizabeth. When her husband William Barker retired from //Tamrookum//, they purchased //Nunnington//, a house at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. It was sold to them by Frederick Orme Darvell, then Registrar-General of Queensland, and Nora M-P's uncle. [[wp>Nunnington|Nunnington]] was named after a Darvall family home in Yorkshire.((Brisbane paper, //The Week//, 13 July 1900, p.17.))\\ |
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| Evidence of the literary bent of Matilda and her children survive in few copies of a hand-written family magazine that they produced at Maroon and called Maroon Magazine. The children's cousins, the Barkers, and James Brunton Stephens also contributed.((Patrica Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa!//p.23.)) Three issues are in Rosa Praed's papers in the John Oxley Library. **For more click on [[**Magazine**]]**. In the early years at Maroon, the family's literary activities were likely to have been briefly enhanced by the appointment of a new manager on 3 July 1865((TLM-P, diary entry.)) of {{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/traill-william-henry-4744|William Traill}}. It appears, however, that he only lasted three months as he kept selling the prime steers.((J. Gooden undated note re discussion with Prof Duncan Waterson)) He later become a well-known journalist.\\ | Evidence of the literary bent of Matilda and her children survive in few copies of a hand-written family magazine that they produced at Maroon and called Maroon Magazine. The children's cousins, the Barkers, and James Brunton Stephens also contributed.((Patrica Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa!//p.23.)) Three issues are in Rosa Praed's papers in the John Oxley Library. **For more click on [[**Magazine**]]**. In the early years at Maroon, the family's literary activities were likely to have been briefly enhanced by the appointment of a new manager on 3 July 1865((TLM-P, diary entry.)) of {{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/traill-william-henry-4744|William Traill}}. It appears, however, that he only lasted three months as he kept selling the prime steers.((J. Godden undated note re discussion with Prof Duncan Waterson)) He later become a well-known journalist.\\ |
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| European women living in what is now Queensland had a higher number of children than their sisters in the south, a phenomenon that was strongly supported by TLM-P and other politicians, 'spurred by fears of being engulfed, both numerically and culturally by foreign invaders'.((Kay Saunders and Katie Spearritt, 'Is there life after birth? Childbirth, death and danger for settler women in colonial Queensland', //Journal of Australian Studies//, 29, June 1991, pp.64-79.)) Matilda was exemplary in this regard: she had 12 children during her 22 years of marriage. It is likely that her fecundity contributed to her early death aged 41. Additionally, each time she gave birth there was a real possibility of dying in the process: in 1878, for example, a pregnant woman in Queensland had 'one chance in 21 of dying in childbirth'.((Kay Saunders and Katie Spearritt, 'Is there life after birth? Childbirth, death and danger for settler women in colonial Queensland', //Journal of Australian Studies//, 29, June 1991, pp.64-79. Note that Aboriginal women were generally excluded from the statistics, though John Theale has argued that traditional Aboriginal maternal mortality was low.)) In addition, Queensland's death rate was higher than that of other Australian colonies.((D. Waterson and M. French, //From the Frontier. A Pictorial History of Queensland to 1920//, St Lucia: University of Queensland Pr | European women living in what is now Queensland had a higher number of children than their sisters in the south, a phenomenon that was strongly supported by TLM-P and other politicians, 'spurred by fears of being engulfed, both numerically and culturally by foreign invaders'.((Kay Saunders and Katie Spearritt, 'Is there life after birth? Childbirth, death and danger for settler women in colonial Queensland', //Journal of Australian Studies//, 29, June 1991, pp.64-79.)) Matilda was exemplary in this regard: she had 12 children during her 22 years of marriage. It is likely that her fecundity contributed to her early death aged 41. Additionally, each time she gave birth there was a real possibility of dying in the process: in 1878, for example, a pregnant woman in Queensland had 'one chance in 21 of dying in childbirth'.((Kay Saunders and Katie Spearritt, 'Is there life after birth? Childbirth, death and danger for settler women in colonial Queensland', //Journal of Australian Studies//, 29, June 1991, pp.64-79. Note that Aboriginal women were generally excluded from the statistics, though John Theale has argued that traditional Aboriginal maternal mortality was low.)) In addition, Queensland's death rate was higher than that of other Australian colonies.((D. Waterson and M. French, //From the Frontier. A Pictorial History of Queensland to 1920//, St Lucia: University of Queensland Pr |
| 12. **Egerton**, 5 October 1866((Qld Births registration no. B6322; 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.)) - 1 September 1936.\\ | 12. **Egerton**, 5 October 1866((Qld Births registration no. B6322; 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.)) - 1 September 1936.\\ |
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| **For more details see sidebar entries for Thomas de M. M-P and his siblings.** | **For more details see sidebar entries for Thomas de M. M-P and his siblings.** For the children's, mainly the boys', education see [[matilda_s_sons_education|Boys' and girls' education]]. |