Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior papers, 1843-1889, together with miscellaneous family papers, 1837, 1893

MLMSS 3117

fonds

1837-1893

932279

Partially Microfilmed : Refer to contents for location numbers

0.70 metres of textual material including outsize material (2 volumes, 9 boxes) - manuscript, printed, photocopies

Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, pastoralist and politician, was born on 13 November 1819. at Wells, Somerset, England. On 24 May 1839, he left for Sydney, N.S.W. with the intention of becoming a pastoralist. He later travelled to Queensland, having purchased Rosewood Station, near Laidley, and from August 1844 to 1850 he held Bromelton Station on the Logan River in partnership with Hugh Henry Robertson Aikman. On September 1846 Prior married Matilda Harpur at Cecil Hills near Liverpool, N.S.W. In September 1853, Prior sold Bromelton Station and in the following year bought Hawkwood Station in the Burnett region, Queensland. In 1858 he sold out and took up a banana plantation at Ormiston, near Cleveland. In November 1864 he bought Maroon Station in the Beaudesert district, Queensland. Prior was appointed Postal Inspector on 6 November 1861 and first Postmaster-General of Queensland on 1 January 1862. When that office was transferred to the political sphere, Prior was nominated to the Legislative Council on 10 April 1866. He was reappointed Postmaster-General in July by the Herbert Ministry, and served in that office also under Mackenzie, 1867-68, and Palmer 1870-74. In 1889 he was appointed Chairman of Committees in the Legislative Council, a position he held until his death on 31 December 1892. Matilda Murray-Prior had died in 1868. Prior married Nora Clarissa Barton in 1872. One of Prior's daughters by his first marriage was Rosa Caroline. She married Arthur Praed and became prominent as a novelist.

SERIES 01
Diaries, 1863-1865, 1881, 1882, 1888-January 1889, with miscellaneous material, ca. 1862-1865

MLMSS 3117/Vol. 1
Detailed contents list compiled in the Mitchell Library, 3 pages (Request microfilm: CY 1247)

MLMSS 3117/Box 2
Diary, 1 January-14 February 1863, kept while Postmaster-General with miscellaneous material, ca. 1862-1865 (Request microfilm: CY 1247, frames 1-209)

MLMSS 3117/Box 3
Private journal Postmaster-General 1863 No. 3, being a daily account of the Postmaster-General 's activities, 16 January-4 October 1863 (Request microfilm: CY 1247, frames 1-209)

MLMSS 3117/Vol. 4
Private journal Postmaster-General 1864 No. 4, being a daily account of the Postmaster-General 's activities, 4 October 1863-31 December 1864, financial records, 1863-64 and letters received, 1864-1865. Includes photocopies of all original material in volume 4 (Request microfilm: CY 495, frames 1-479)

MLMSS 3117/Box 5
Private journal Postmaster-General 1865 No. 5, being a daily account of the Postmaster-General 's activities, 4 October 1863-31 December 1864, financial records, 1863-65 letters received, 1865 and references to Maroon Station, 1865. Includes index to selective entries in the private journals Nos. 1-3 (Request microfilm: CY 1247, frames 210-473)

MLMSS 3117/Box 6/Item 1
1881 Maroon 1st June day book, being a diary kept at Maroon Station, Beaudesert, Queensland, 1881 2 June-30 September 1881 (Request microfilm: CY 1248, frames 1-69)

MLMSS 3117/Box 6/Item 2
Personal diary kept on a holiday in England, 22 May-30 August 1882 (Request microfilm: CY 1248, frames 70-213)

MLMSS 3117/Box 6/Item 3
Diary of a passage from England to Melbourne, Australia, on board the Victoria,
3 May-3 January 1889, with printed material and references to Maroon Station, 1888 (Request microfilm: CY 1248, frames 214-316)

SERIES 02
Financial papers, 1843-1889, together with miscellaneous material, 1858-1893

MLMSS 3117/Box 6/Item 4
Account book for Rosewood Station, Laidley, Queensland, 24 June 1843-1844 (Request microfilm: CY 1248, frames 317-381)

MLMSS 3117/Box 6/Item 5
Ledger for Bugrooperia station, Logan River, Queensland, May 1848-1849 (Request microfilm: CY 1248, frames 317-381)

MLMSS 3117/Box 7X
Ledger for Bromelton station, Logan River, Queensland, 1850-1851 and Hawkwood station, Hawkwood, Queensland, 1854-1858. Volume also used to record private journal, 1858-1860 (Request microfilm: CY 1248, frames 382-745)

MLMSS 3117/Box 8
Ledger and accounts for Maroon Station, Beaudesert, Queensland, 1864-1871, Head of the Logan station, 1864, and Tununbah Station, 1867-1868. Includes cattle and horse records of Maroon Station, 1864-1871, Head of the Logan station, 1864-1865, and Tununbah Station, 1867-1868.

MLMSS 3117/Box 9
Ledger and accounts for Maroon Station, Beaudesert, Queensland, 1865-1872, Tununbah Station, 1865 and Cleveland station, Queensland, 1865. Volume includes inventory of paintings, n.d., letter book of William Henry Traill, 1865, cattle and horse records Maroon Station, 1865-1872, Tununbah Station, 1865-1866 and Cleveland station, 1865

MLMSS 3117/Box 10/Item 1
Ledger and accounts for Maroon Station, 1878-1888, Rathdowney station, 1878-1885, Tununbah Station ca. 1883 and Aberfoyle station, Mitchell region, Queensland, 1881-1888. Includes cattle records, 1878-1888, description of Aberfoyle station, 1888, legal agreements and copies of letters by Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, 1885-1888

MLMSS 3117/Box 10/Item 2
Material extracted from inside cover of MLMSS 3117/Box 10/Item 1

MLMSS 3117/Box 10/Item 3
Ledger, 1886-1893, including memorandum of agreements, 1886 and an inventory of furniture, Whytecliffe, 1893

MLMSS 3117/Box 10/Item 4
Balance sheet for Aberfoyle Station, Mitchell District, Queensland, 1888

SERIES 03
Miscellaneous family papers, 1837, n. d.

MLMSS 3117/Box 11/Item 1
Manuscript volume by ' W. H. Prior. March 13th 1837' regarding the functions of the different parts of the brain (Request microfilm: CY 4336, frames 1-151)

MLMSS 3117/Box 11/Item 2
b. Rosa Caroline Praed, undated
Typescript extract of a diary of Miss Emily Darvall (afterwards Mrs Robert Johnstone Barton) kept during the voyage of the 'Alfred' from England to Australia in 1839 (Request microfilm: CY 4336, frames 1-151)

This collection includes pictorial material. For location and description of this see Pic.Acc.5314 in Pic.Source file

Reproduction Restricted: Reproduction restricted

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-726 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Do not issue Vol. 4. Issue copy at CY MLMSS 3117/4 (2 volumes)
Keyword subjects:
Cattle ranches -- Queensland
Queensland -- Officials and employees