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  • Brisbane Telegraph Newspaper Archives

    Tuesday, March 07, 1911 - Page 17


    BUGGY FATAL ACCIDENT. Death of Mrs. Ruxton. Mrs. Kate Mary Frances Ruxton, who lived at the corner of Victoria and Water streets, Valley, "arid" (sic) who on Saturday was injured by being knocked down by a buggy, died in the "General Hospital at 2 p.m; yesterday A friend of the deceased' lady writes to state that Mrs. Ruxton was not an old age pensioner, as stated in yesterday's "Telegraph." She was of independent means and had property in Kangaroo Point, Upper Roma street, and Red Hill. Mrs. Ruxton arrived in Queensland in 1872, being one of a number of postulates brought out from Ireland by the late Bishop O'Quinn, and two months after her arrival she was married to Mr. Thomas Faulkner, a well known and highly respected resident of Brisbane who died some years ago. Her second husband was Mr. Robert Gould Ruxton, who survives her. He at present resides in Sydney.

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    • Originally posted by miss marple View Post
      Maybea,

      The story about Princess Mary is unveriable gossip, and does not fit the facts. Garbled stories, romanticising ancestors get handed down as if they
      were set in stone, but they are embroidered with each generation....

      When she was 18 the family came back to England and settled at White Lodge, where she acted as social secretary to her mother.
      When she was 24 she became engaged to Prince Albert Victor of Clarence,he died shortly after. A year later she became engaged to his brother George, who became George V.
      Mary had known both boys since a child. She had a strong sense of duty as a Queen, and was a loyal wife, their's was regarded as a love match. Mary had great popular appeal.
      Miss Marple
      Theirs was regarded as a love match but grandmother Elsie Searle said Mary wasn't at all keen on the marriage and was "locked up" at White Lodge until "she came to her senses".

      The MJW/Elsie Searle descendant remembers reading that someone, perhaps Prince Edward, was quoted about the marriage and what he said included details that confirmed the story that was handed down in the family.

      There was definite hesitancy. https://books.google.ca/books?id=m8M...itancy&f=false
      Last edited by Trapperologist; 01-08-2020, 06:49 AM.

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      • Originally posted by miss marple View Post
        The other story about Elsie being the Goddaughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, where is the evidence for that? Was anyone in her family in service to the Carnavon's ? That would create a bit of myth making. The Carnavon estate is at Highclere in Hampshire, which incidentally is used as Downton Abbey.

        Miss Marple
        This would make a great season if Downton Abby. The book on King Tut’s “London’s Curse” repeats the rumour of the young 5th Earl of Carnarvon having an affair with Mary Jane Kelly.

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