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-====== Test Thomas de Montmorenci, Florence and Mary M-P ======
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 Thomas and Florence had five children:((Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//, Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, pp.49-50; Robert M-P, //The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors//, p.14, NLA; [Thomas A. M-P], Murray-Prior Family, booklet, October 2014; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d.,p.7, NLA.))
 . Florence (**Florette**) Elizabeth, born at Bowen, Queensland on 1 January 1879((QBDM ref C105)) and baptised there by the Rev. M. Ross((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)); she died in Sydney on 12 July 1956.((NSWBDM registration 21403/1957)) On 28 October 1896, the poet/novelist [[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stephens-james-brunton-4642|James Brunton Stephens]] wrote to her encouraging her to persevere with her poetry, but advising she defer publication.((Provenance: Jill Fleming.)) Prominent feminist Rose Scott also wrote to Florette encouraging her artistic talents.((reference? just brief note found so far.)) In the end, Florence decided on music, with the press announcing in 1907 that she planned to go to Paris for further study.
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 There is a letter dated 19 January 1915 [or is this a mistake for 1914?] from Ruth M-P to Rosa, saying that Mabel was engaged: if so, it was unofficial as another family member thought she was 'only fooling', and had booked to go to Japan, 'sans the man'.((M-P family papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 4, folder 26)) All her family appeared to have viewed Mabel as a charming eccentric: her aunt Rosa Praed, for example, wrote to Ruth M-P after Mabel qualified as a physician: 'I suppose from Mabel's point of view it is a good thing, but I can't help feeling sorry for her patients. No doubt, however, the soldiers will adore her and she may put her best self into their ills.'((M-P family papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 1, folder 2.)) Nevertheless, the extended family remained close and when Mabel wrote to Nora M-P, her father's step-mother, it was to 'My dear Grandmother Nora'.((M-P papers, NLA, MS 7801, Box 1, folder 2.))\\
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-Mabel's cousin Dorothy (Dorothea M-P) wrote that Mabel visited Australia around 1921 for a visit: 'After that she travelled for some years before settling down to country life in England and in Ireland.	She was a keen sportswoman and took great pleasure in hunting and in breeding dogs. In 1931 she was taking a course in gynaecology in Dublin. We saw her in Ireland before we left for Australia. She was then in poor health after a bad fall. Subsequently pneumonia set in and although news was cabled that she was recovering, there was a sudden relapse. She died in hospital. She was a brave, vivacious and warm-hearted woman, and we have found very many friends who mourn her passing.'((//Magazine of the Women's College//,1932, p.6.)) The //Daily Telegraph//, when reporting her death, described her as 'a lady of brilliant intellect and vivid personality and had a good [medical] practice and a large circle of friends'.((//Daily Telegraph//, 21 January 1932, p.15)) To her family, she had a reputation for eccentricity.((pers.comm E.Sterling M-P and B.I. M-P; Praed papers, Box 10, QJO.)) Mabel's support for the British Empire is evident by her 1924 Certificate of Fellowship of the [[wp>British_Empire_Exhibition|British Empire Exhibition]].((Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//, Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, p.50.))
+Mabel's cousin Dorothy (Dorothea M-P) wrote that Mabel visited Australia around 1921 for a visit: 'After that she travelled for some years before settling down to country life in England and in Ireland.
+She was a keen sportswoman and took great pleasure in hunting and in breeding dogs. In 1931 she was taking a course in gynaecology in Dublin. We saw her in Ireland before we left for Australia. She was then in poor health after a bad fall. Subsequently pneumonia set in and although news was cabled that she was recovering, there was a sudden relapse. She died in hospital. She was a brave, vivacious and warm-hearted woman, and we have found very many friends who mourn her passing.'((//Magazine of the Women's College//,1932, p.6.)) The //Daily Telegraph//, when reporting her death, described her as 'a lady of brilliant intellect and vivid personality and had a good [medical] practice and a large circle of friends'.((//Daily Telegraph//, 21 January 1932, p.15)) To her family, she had a reputation for eccentricity.((pers.comm E.Sterling M-P and B.I. M-P; Praed papers, Box 10, QJO.)) Mabel's support for the British Empire is evident by her 1924 Certificate of Fellowship of the [[wp>British_Empire_Exhibition|British Empire Exhibition]].((Bernard Burke, //A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry//, Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, p.50.))
 . **Thomas Bertram**, b. 4 February 1883. See sidebar for separate entry. \\
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 {{:phyllis_ethel_mp.jpeg?250|}} The two sisters.((Provenance T.A. & M.T. M-P))\\
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-. **Phyllis** Claudia 23 July 1886 - 1957. She was born at Maroon Station and baptised at All Saints Church of England, Brisbane by the Rev. M Robinson.(('Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry)). She and Edgar Cannon McConnel married in 1909((Qld marriage registration C892)) and lived for most of their marriage on the McConnel family property [[http://cressbrookstation.com.au/history/|Cressbrook]], near [[wp>/Toogoolawah|Toogoolawah]] in south-west Queensland. Edgar McConnel was an outstanding horseman and helped train the Australian Light Horsemen during World War I.(([[http://cressbrookstation.com.au/the-mcconnel-family-cressbrook-today/]])) Noted anthropologist, [[wiki>Ursula_McConnel|Ursula McConnel]], was Edgar McConnel's sister, and thus became Mary M-P's (Thomas de M. M-P's 2nd wife, as outlined below) step-niece: different generations of anthropologists of Aboriginal life connected to the one family.\\
+. **Phyllis** Claudia 23 July 1886 - 1957. She was born at Maroon Station and baptised at All Saints Church of England, Brisbane by the Rev. M Robinson.(('Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry)). She and Edgar Cannon McConnel married in 1909((Qld marriage registration C892)) and lived for most of their marriage on the McConnel family property 99http://cressbrookstation.com.au/history/|Cressbrook99, near [[wp>/Toogoolawah|Toogoolawah]] in south-west Queensland. Edgar McConnel was an outstanding horseman and helped train the Australian Light Horsemen during World War I.(([[http://cressbrookstation.com.au/the-mcconnel-family-cressbrook-today/]])) Noted anthropologist, [[wiki>Ursula_McConnel|Ursula McConnel]], was Edgar McConnel's sister, and thus became Mary M-P's (Thomas de M. M-P's 2nd wife, as outlined below) step-niece: different generations of anthropologists of Aboriginal life connected to the one family.\\
 Phyllis and Edgar had 4 children: Duncan, Elizabeth, Margaret and Helen (later Cook) McConnel. Duncan had three children and Helen Cook two. \\
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-==== Thomas de Montmorenci and Mary Bundock ====
-On 30 August 1902, the year after Florence died, Thomas married 57-year-old Mary Bundock (1845-1924).((BDM, marriage registration no. 5779/1902)) Thomas' young step-brother Robert was reportedly his best man at the wedding.((N.C. Hewitt, 'Early History Recalled', //Northern Star// [Lismore], 9 January 1940.)) Four months later, on 11 December 1902, Thomas de M. M-P died.((//SMH// death notice, 16 December 1902)) Mary stayed at Maroon running the property for some time. The Bundocks and M-Ps were on visiting terms at least from 1880,((Praed papers, Nora M-P to Rosa Praed, 1880, OM64-1, 4/2/1-4)) and Thomas de M. M-P had a connection to the area where Mary Bundock's family had a property, Wyangarie, on the Richmond River in northern NSW. Isabel McBryde states that Mary's father owned a property called Kooralbyn near Beaudesert (and thus Maroon) and also owned Bulliwallah, south of Charters Towers, which appears also as a M-P property.(( Isabel McBryde, 'Miss Mary, Ethnography and the Inheritance of Concern: Mary Ellen Murray-Prior', in Julie Marcus (ed), __First in their Field__)) According to Isobel McBryde, Mary was known as 'a fearless horsewoman, and would ride for miles to set a broken limb or succour a settler in distress in that then sparsely settled district'. Oral history recollections are frequently not-quite-right, and the former description particularly fitted her sister Alice,((Praed papers, Nora M-P to Rosa Praed, 1880, OM64-1, 4/2/1-4)) but perhaps both sisters were that way inclined. Another recollection of Mary described her as 'the Florence Nightingale of the Upper Richmond, of whom all the early settlers still speak with affectionate regard. She was a wonderful woman, admired and remembered by all with gratitude.'((N.C. Hewitt, 'Early History Recalled', //Northern Star// [Lismore], 9 January 1940.)) \\
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-{{:maroon_t_bm-p_unknown_woman_cropped.jpeg?400|}} The man is reputedly Thomas B. M-P: is the woman Mary Bundock?((Provenance T.A. & M.T. M-P))\\
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-Mary Bundock's claim to fame is her significant contribution to European knowledge of Aboriginal arts and crafts through her work as an artist and anthropologist-collector. Before her marriage, during 1885-92, she collated two ethnographic collections, one which she gave to {{https://volkenkunde.nl/|Rijkmuseurn voor Volkenkunde, Leiden in the Netherlands}} where it was valued; the other to the {{https://australianmuseum.net.au/|Australian Museum in Sydney}}. The latter collection was first displayed in 1895 as a fund-raising exhibition for the Women's College at the University of Sydney. Renowned archaeologist Isabel McBryde judged the collection in Leiden, the only one which survived, to be 'large, comprehensive and meticulously documented' in a highly professional manner. What remains unexplained was how Mary Bundock had the skills to do this despite 'few opportunities for scientific contacts and indeed little formal schooling'.((Isabel McBryde, 'A remarkable life - Mary Ellen Murray-Prior and her contribution to Australian ethnography', //Richmond River Historical Society Bulletin//, 16 March 1997, p.3.)) \\
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-Mary Bundock also wrote two works of great value: 'Notes on the Richmond River Blacks', and an untitled history of early European settlement in the Richmond Rive valley, both now held at the ML: neither was published during her lifetime.((Isabel McBryde (ed.), //Records of Time Past//, Canberra: Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies, 1978; Isabel McBryde, 'Miss Mary, Ethnography and the Inheritance of Concern', in //First in their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology// ed. Julie Marcus, Melbourne University Press: 1993, pp.15-45.)) The significance of Mary Bundock's work was enhanced by her close bonds with, and her knowledge of the Bandjalang dialect spoken by, Aboriginal people in the Richmond River district.((Billy Griffiths, //Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia//, Carlton (Vic): Black Inc, 2018, ch.2.)) It meant that her ethnographic collections were 'made in close collaboration with members of the local Wyangarie Aboriginal community'.((Isabel McBryde, 'A remarkable life - Mary Ellen Murray-Prior and her contribution to Australian ethnography', //Richmond River Historical Society Bulletin//, 16 March 1997, p3.))\\
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-Mary M-P died on 9 April 1923. She left ₤2,000 each to St Paul’s College and to the Women’s College at the University of Sydney, to establish respectively the W.C. Bundock Scholarship and the Ellen Bundock Scholarship, in memory of her parents.((//Sydney Morning Herald//, 2 June 1924, p.10; {{http://www.stpauls.edu.au/home/contribute/benefactors/founders-of-scholarships-and-prizes}}; a copy of her will is in (her brother's) Francis Forbes Bundock papers, 1902-1928, MLMSS A5396. **to see**)) She left an annuity to the widowed Lizzie Jardine, one of her husband's sisters: the reason is now forgotten.((//First in their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology// ed. Julie Marcus, Melbourne University Press: 1993.))\\
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-{{:mp28.jpg?500|}} These are Indian tabar axes.((Provenance:T.A. & M.T. M-P and thanks for identification by a generous stranger, Damien Fegan, via Facebook.)) Damien Fegan has identified them (from a photo) as more likely to be used as dervish axes than as combat weapons and thinks they probably date from no earlier than the mid-19th century. The dating suggests they were bought by Thomas de M. M-P when he travelled to India. The handle of the 'weapon' doubles as a sword. One of the axes has an elephant on it; the blades originally had engraving on them, which also appears to suggest they were ceremonial arms rather than weapons designed for use in war.((T.A. & M.T. M-P, pers. comm., 2017.))