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Lucy Murray (nee Pierce) and her 6 children

In 1907, Lucy Pierce, "a Lady's Companion" at "Grevillia", Murray's Creek married John Murray, a grazier at Wolca Siding near Mount Perry, in Christ Church Bundaberg. They were married for only 11 years before John died. However, there were six children born. L-R: James, Eunice, Frances, Daphne, Ivy, and Julia. Lucy Pierce was born at Yandilla and is a descendant of First Fleet convict Thomas Hilton Tennant, who preferred to be known as Phillip Devine. So this marriage brought together squattocracy and convict lines from early Australian grazing history. Their children married as follows: James Murray m Margaret Barnes; Frances m1 Arthur Forrest who died in early marriage, then she had a partner Eric Rush, and later m2 Fred Stewart; Ivy m Percival Waite; Julia m Arthur Gilbert; Daphne has never married; Eunice m Ray Down.

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