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-====== Rosa Praed's, Lizzie Jardine's, Hervey & Egerton M-P's children without known direct descendants ======
+====== Rosa Praed's, Hervey & Egerton M-P's children without known direct descendants ======
+Matilda and Thomas had 12 children, of whom only five had children of their own; of these five, only Thomas de M. M-P and Lizzie Jardine had any grandchildren.
 Due to privacy concerns, only those children without known direct descendants are given here. If anyone wishes information about others, please contact the family or use the Feedback page of this website.
-===== ===== Rosa and Campbell Praed's children ===== =====
+ ===== Rosa and Campbell Praed's children =====
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 . **Geoffrey Praed** (1879-1925), born in England, 19 December 1879. According to Roderick, he was the black sheep of the family. He ran away and enlisted to fight the Boers in South Africa; the family subsequently brought him home, provided him with an army commission and sent him 'to India to learn to be a soldier and a gentleman'. It is not sure if they succeeded, but he did prove to be a talented linguist so, against his will, was retained in India during the First World War until repatriated to England when he became ill. After the war, with a Major's pension, he returned to South Africa with the aim of becoming a big game hunter. He died in Rhodesia in September 1925 after a rhinoceroses, not appreciating that Geoffrey was the hunter and not the prey, charged and fatally wounded him.((Roderick, //In Mortal Bondage//, pp.172-73; Patricia Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist//, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999, p.197-98.))\\\\
+===== Hervey and Maggie Murray-Prior's child =====
+**Hervey Morres Macdonald M-P** was born on 25 April 1883, the only son of Hervey and Maggie M-P.((QBDM, registration number 1883/B/30531)) His parents followed family tradition and had him baptised at All Saints Church of England, Brisbane.((Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//, Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, p.50; 'Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) Virtually nothing is know of his life other than his birth and death. He died at his mother's home in Stanley Street, South Brisbane on 19 August 1918, aged 35, after 'after a long and painful illness'.((//SMH// death notice, 28 August 1918, p.10.)) His death certificate reveals that he had tuberculosis, dying of tubercular broncho-pneumonia and heart failure. Again following family practice, he was buried at Toowong cemetery, Brisbane.((Historical Death Image, 1918/B27764, copy with J. Godden.)) He had no known children.\\
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+==== Egerton and Sara M-P's child ====
+Egerton and Sara's only child, **Egerton Thomas Crawford M-P**, was born in Brisbane in November 1895,((//The Brisbane Courier//, 3 December 1895, p.4; //The Queenslander//, 11 January 1896, p.57.)) but died just before Christmas that year, less than a month old. A bible that belonged to baby Egerton's father records the sad facts: born 28 November 1895; died 23 December 1895.((See also Queensland death registration 1895/B/28362)) Egerton added the biblical text that comforted so many bereaved parents: 'Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven'.((Provenance: J. Godden.)) Baby Egerton was buried in the family plot at Toowong cemetery - the later plaque has his first name misspelt.\\
+{{:baby_egertons_grave.jpg?200|}} {{:baby_egerton_grave_2.jpg?200|}}(([[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190805836/egerton-thomas_crawford-murray-prior]]))