Miscellaneous Properties

From the number of properties, it would appear that TLM-P attempted to provide rural properties to any of his sons who wished to live on the land and, in Lizzie's case, to buy into a property with a son-in-law for the same reason.

See John and Lizzie Jardine.

There are records re this property in TLM-P's papers at the State Library of NSW. See:

MLMSS 3117/Box 8: includes Ledger and accounts for Tununbah Station, 1867-1868 and cattle and horse records of Tununbah Station, 1867-1868.

MLMSS 3117/Box 9: Ledger and accounts for Tununbah Station, 1865 and cattle and horse records Tununbah Station, 1865-1866

MLMSS 3117/Box 10/Item 1: Ledger and accounts for Tununbah Station ca. 1883.

This was possibly Bulliwallah Station associated with Thomas de M. Murray-Prior. It was near Charters Towers. In 1885, 'Mr Murray-Prior' of that station had a saddle stolen by a 'bushranger'.¹⁾ Or was it a property at Bulli Creek neat Toowoomba? On 5 May 1885, the Sandgate Municipal Council reported a good humoured letter by T de M. Murray-Prior 'of Bulli Creek' re whether Herefords or Shorthorns were the best breed of cattle, that he proposed to settle at the next Charters Towers show.²⁾

According to Fox, Moorlands was a 40,000 acre property which was owned by 'the Messrs. Murray-Prior' and sold 'without stock and only partially improved' to the Moffatt brothers in 1892, the year TLM-P died.³⁾ It is located in central-west Queensland, in the Blackall-Tambo_Region.

This photo is of the property in 2020⁴⁾ When TLM-P completed a genealogical questionnaire for inclusion in Burke's Colonial Gentry in c.1888, he gave Moorlands as the address of his son Egerton.⁵⁾

TLM-P also owned Moonbago Station, South Kennedy, Bully Creek. His grandson, Thomas Bertram M-P, was born there in 1883.⁶⁾

TLM-P's granddaughter was born at Ipswich in 1881, possibly on this station which is described as “Pullen, Moreton, Ipswich” and owned, in 1880 at least, by TLM-P.⁷⁾