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Lucy Pierce Murray and her children

Lucy Caroline Pierce was a descendant of a First Fleet convict, Phillip Devine. In 1907 she married grazier John Murray, who was the grandson of an original squatter, and the two classes in pioneer Australia came together. After only 12 years of marriage, John died and Lucy raised her children who are pictured with her: James Murray, Ivy Eileen Murray, Frances Anne Murray, Julia Lucy Murray, Eunice Jessie Murray and Daphne Pierce Murray. All the children were born in Bundaberg but after their father's death the family moved to Brisbane. Daphne is the only surviving member of this nuclear family, though there are some 80 living descendants (2005). [Photo courtesy Eunice Jessie Down]

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