Mary Mayne
Matriarch and Colonial Businesswoman
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Mary Mayne, colonial businesswoman, gender discriminatory barriers, colonial societyAbstract
Mary Mayne was the mother of Mary Emelia and James Mayne, two of the most significant benefactors to The University of Queensland, and the impulse for their philanthropy can partly be traced directly to her. She was an extremely successful businesswoman in colonial Brisbane, yet her business achievements have been overlooked by assumptions that the family's wealth came only from the foundations laid by her husband, Patrick — even though it was her fortune, as well as his, which funded her children's final bequests to the university. By the time of Patrick's death in August 1865, Mary was experienced in business, which was unusual for married women during this era. Her experience and skills enabled her to take over the administration of his estate and, despite his debts, to preserve most of his property holdings. At the same time, she amassed her own fortune. Although she faced a number of hurdles, her success proves that widows with skills and assets were able to operate as effectively as men in the commercial world, and undermines simplistic assumptions about the impact of gender discriminatory barriers in colonial society.
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I would like to thank the many friends and colleagues who have helped me in this project. I am especially indebted to my colleague who so generously read each draft, provided me with advice and listened so patiently as I explored various ideas.
For the gifts made by James and Mary Emelia, see M. I. Thomis, 4 Place of Light and Learning (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985): 157–58, 231, 229. None of Mary's children married and, apart from Rosey's share in Patrick's estate, all of the family money devolved on James and Mary Emelia.
Bounty Index for the Champion, SRNSW, SR Reel 1343. One clue that Mary had raised her age is that her immigration papers show she was under the protection of a married couple for the voyage. Her death certificate states that on 4 September 1889, when she died, she was 63 years and 19 days old. It also gives her age at marriage as 23 years. A copy of her death certificate is held with the estate papers of her eldest son, Isaac. QSA, Supreme Court, Southern District, Ecclesiastical files, no. 294 of 1905, microfilm Z 1701 (hereafter referred to as Death certificate of Mary Mayne). Contrast this interpretation with Rosamond Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1997): 32, 129.
SLQ, NSW Registrar General, vol. 96, no. 151 of 1849, SRNSW, Reel 5038. I am indebted to Dr Jennifer Harrison for this reference. Death certificate of Mary Mayne. The name Rosey is used here as it is on the majority of her legal papers, although others referred to her as Rosie and Rose.
A copy of the death certificate of Patrick Mayne is held with the estate papers of Isaac Mayne, QSA, Supreme Court, Southern District Ecclesiastical files, no. 294 of 1905, microfilm Z 1701.
Bounty Index for the Percy, SRNSW SR Reel 1346 and MBC, 29 September 1849, p. 1 and Will and estate papers of Patrick Mayne, QSA, SCT/P7, Supreme Court, Southern District, Ecclesiastical files, no. 298 of 1865 (hereafter Estate papers of P. Mayne).
Brisbane City Council Archives (hereafter BCC Archives), Brisbane Municipal Council Minutes, 13 and 17 October 1859, 18 February 1861 and DB Text. Contrast this with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 99.
Cameron, John, ‘Reminiscences of an Auctioneer’, Telegraph, 13 March 1895: 6.
Brisbane Courier, 21 August 1865: 2 (hereafter BC).
Codicil to will, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Accounts and Schedule ‘C': Estate papers of P. Mayne. Contrast this with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 106.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne. In the estate accounts McAdam is referred to as Macadam. Siemon, in The Mayne Inheritance: 47, implies that Patrick purchased the hotel before his death. The licence for the premises was not granted until October 1865: see QSA, CPSI/AJ1, Court of Petty Sessions, Brisbane, Register of applications for liquor licences, 20 April 1858–11 June 1867.
Contrast this interpretation with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 106. Estate papers of P. Mayne. In 1868 the trustees placed the value of the estate at £10 000. Because of the severe economic downturn, this would have been a very a conservative figure. See QSA, SCT/U18, Supreme Court, Equity files, no. 119, Application of the trustees of the estate of P. Mayne (hereafter Equity case).
For example, see NSW Land Titles Office, Register of Deeds Book 47, f. 552; Book 46, f. 919; Book 39, f. 156; Book 33, f. 817. One of his largest sales was of ‘Dara’ to James Quinn, Bishop of Brisbane, see Qld Land Titles, Book 22, f. 245. ‘Dara’ is said to have been sold to the Bishop for £3000: D. W. Martin, The Foundation of the Catholic Church in Queensland (Virginia: Church Archivists’ Press, 1998): 156. This does not represent all of the sales made by Mayne.
Accounts and affidavit of M. Mayne, G. Raff and J. Darragh, April 1869, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Affidavit of M. Mayne, G. Raff and J. Darragh, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Application by P. Mayne for a writ of prohibition against W. Brown and others, QSA, SCCT/CV1, no. 2 and MBC, 28 August 1860, p. 2.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
She traded as ‘M. Mayne, Family and Carcase Butcher’, advertisement, Pugh's Almanac, 1968; BC, 12 January 1872, p. 4 and Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Affidavit of M. Mayne, G. Raff and J. Darragh, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Contrast this interpretation with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 99, 107. Affidavit of M. Mayne, G. Raff and J. Darragh, Estate papers of P. Mayne and P. H. Pettit, Equity and the Law of Trusts (London: Butterworths, 1966): 272–75. But, as Maw was an executor, she may not have been classified as a paid agent.
Equity case.
QSA, SCT/CO25, no. 18, J. Cairns v Maurice Charles O'Connell. Action was initiated in May 1867 but it was not until 1871 that the bank took its final action.
Qld Land Titles, vol. 49, f. 234 and vol. 18, f. 44; Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
QSA, SCT/DX10, Indexes to Registers of Judgements and Orders contains an entry, no. 182 for Michaelmas Term 1866 for the Bank of NSW v Mary Mayne. The papers associated with this have not yet been found.
Bank of NSW, Board Minutes, 14 May, 16 August and 1 November 1867. I am indebted to the Bank of NSW Museum for this information. It would appear that the estate paid £7441 but there is some confusion regarding £77 which was paid to the bank. The notation in the accounts states this was paid to the bank, but it is not shown as part of the Maynes’ overdrawn account. Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
There is confusion over the actual amount owed. Clause 1 of G. Raff's affidavit to the court says £2322/9/3 was owing. But in clause 16 it says that £3000 was owing, see Equity case. The report in the BC, 10 October 1868, p. 5 gives the first sum as the amount owed.
Equity case. An endorsement on these papers gives the date as 9 November but the decision was handed down on 4 November, see BC, 5 November 1868, p. 3 and Qld Land Titles, Book 35, no. 184. Compare this with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance Press: 108.
Contrast this with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 108.
For the saga of Markwell's financial troubles and how they affected others, see BC, 12 August 1868, p. 2, and 15 August 1868, p. 5.
Nor has any evidence been found in the Queensland Land Titles Office of a release date for the mortgage. The Bank of NSW does not have any record of this.
Queenslander, 11 June 1870: 2.
Qld Land Titles, Book 35, f. 155 and BC, 12 January 1872, p. 4.
Equity case and Qld Land Titles, Book 35, no. 184.
BC, 5 November 1868, p. 3. Because of this Mary had separate legal representation at the hearing.
Balance Books of the Brisbane Saw Mill, August 1874, Private Collection. I am indebted to E. Brown for this reference. Qld Land Titles, vol. 235, f. 19 and Application bundle 3841.
Queenslander, 11 June 1870, p. 2.
BC, 7 November 1872. I am indebted to E. Brown for this reference. As Mary was administering the accounts, her name is not unexpected in the Council records: see the various entries in QSA, WBD1/P1, Board of Waterworks, Brisbane, Journal, 11 April 1864–31 December 1869.
BCC Archives, Brisbane Municipal Council Minutes, 28 January 1861 and 4 February 1861.
QSA, SCT/DQ8, Bills of Sale, no. 138. The document indicates that Mary had purchased stock and lent money to Mooney before the Bill of Sale was drawn up. QSA, CPSI/AJ1, Court of Petty Sessions, Brisbane, Register of applications for liquor licences, 20 April 1858–11 June 1867.
QSA, SCT/DQ9, Bills of Sale, no. 267 and SCT/DQ10, no. 3.
For example see Mayne, M. v Stewart, W., Judgment files in civil cases, QSA, SCT/CO24, no 73, Hilary Term, 1867 and SCT/CO27, no. 35, Michaelmas Term 1868. Some of the writs which Mary took out during this period were on behalf of the estate for debts owed to Patrick. Others, such as the above, were for loans given by her.
QSA, LAN/AB9, microfilm Z 1533, Sale of Crown Lands at Auction, 1865.
QSA, LAN AB9, microfilm Z 1533, Sale of Crown Lands at Auction, 1865. Mary purchased allotments 267 and 268, county of Stanley, parish of Kedron, just over 21 acres for £127//10/11; QSA, TLS/O48, Journals of Conveyance, entries 11902 and 13785; Qld Land Titles, vol. 113, f. 44 and vol 99, ff. 227 and 228. No attempt has been made to trace all of Mary's land purchases.
QSA, TLS/O50, Journals of Conveyance January 1870–November 1873, p. 153, entry 30063.
Qld Land Titles, vol. 113, f. 44. This land was not sold until April 1928; her other land in the area was also unsold in the early 1920s. See Qld Land Titles, vol. 99, f. 227 and f. 228.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne and MBC, 9 August 1851, p. 1.
These can be traced through the various issues of the Government Gazette.
The legal papers relating to this dispute have not yet been found. Some of the details can be traced through the registers of the Colonial Secretary's Office: see QSA, COL/BIO, Colonial Secretary, Register of Letters, microfilm Z 4329 and COL/B11, microfilm Z 4393. An entry dated 3 September 1869 shows that Mary had lost the contract, see COL/B10, p. 242, letter no. 3363.
QSA, SCT/CG2, ‘In the matter of the claim of Mary Mayne and of the claims against the Government Act of 1866’, Supreme Court, miscellaneous documents filed on various matters, 29 August 1866–22 December 1869, no. 190.
The nominal defendant was Hugh Massie, the Under Colonial Secretary. Government Gazette, 11 December 1869, p. 1663.
Government Gazette, 30 January 1869, vol. X, no. 11, p. 139 and 5 February 1870, vol. XI, no. 12, p. 167.
BC, 19 February 1870, p. 4.
Government Gazette, 5 February 1870, vol. XI, no. 12, p. 167.
BC, 13 September, 1866, p. 1, and see for example QSA, SCT/CO19, Judgment files in civil cases, no. 72, Mayne and others v Flannery.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne. For rate costs see QSA, WBDl/P1, Brisbane Water Works, 11 April 1864–31 December 1869, pp. 32–33. In March 1867, Mary was paying water rates on 27 Queen Street (the butcher shop) and 31 Queen Street. By September 1867 the Café Nationale appears to have been rented, see p. 55.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne, QSA, TLS/O51, Journals of Conveyance, 28 November 1873–31 December 1875 and BC, 12 January 1872, p. 4.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne. The land at Milton was portions 210 and 215, parish of Enoggera. The land at Spring Hill was portions 234 and 232, parish of North Brisbane.
This can be traced through QSA, TLS/O51, Journals of Conveyance, 28 November 1873–31 December 1875 and TSL/O66, Journals of Conveyance, April 1891 to December 1892.
BC, 22 March 1864, and Balance Books of the Brisbane Saw Mill, August 1874. I am indebted to E. Brown for both references; Qld Land Titles, Application bundle 3841. After the flood, the licensee, William Alley, moved to The Duke of Cornwall at the corner of Margaret and Edward Streets, MBC, 6 April 1864, p. 3, and 21 April 1864, p. 2.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne and BC 12 October 1866, p. 2. Patrick owned houses in Adelaide St, William St, Leichhardt St, Creek St, at the slaughter yards, at Sandgate and on the Moggill land.
BC, 9 October 1866, p. 2 and Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne. The repairs were paid for in November 1866.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne. Contrast this with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 106, 93. It was the repairs from these fires, not the fire of December 1864, which were tabulated in the estate accounts. The section of Queen Street destroyed by fire in December 1864 was in the eastern block bounded by Albert and George Streets: BC, 2 December 1864, p. 2. All of Patrick's Queen Street holdings were in the section bounded by Edward and Albert Streets. If Patrick had lost property in the December 1864 fire, he would not have been selected as one of the jurors for the inquest into the cause of the fire, BC, 6 December 1864, p. 2.
BC, 9 October 1866, p. 2 and ‘Queen Street in 1865. What Brisbane was Like Nearly 70 Years Ago’, by an ‘Old Hand’, T. Welsby's cutting book, Royal Historical Society of Queensland. The item appeared in the BC, 8 July 1933, p. 18.
BC, 11 October 1866, p. 2.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Calthorpe, K. D. Capell, K., Brisbane on Fire: A History of Firefighting 1860–1925 (Brisbane: Ken Capell): 48; BC, 1 January 1869, p. 2. Mayne purchased the land and buildings in 1853, NSW Land Titles, Register of Deeds, Book 27, no. 383, Queenslander, 2 January 1869, p. 5 and BC, 1 January 1869, p. 2.
Pettit, Equity and the Law of Trusts: 291.
Qld Land Titles, Book 35, no. 155.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne and Qld Land Titles, Book 35, no. 184.
Calthorpe and Capell, Brisbane on Fire; BC, 2 September 1871, p. 6.
This was allotment 17, section 2, NSW Land Titles, Register of Town Purchases, no. 39, p. 80. Royal Historical Society of Queensland, photographic collection, P. 4565. In 1860 a coach house was erected on the opposite boundary. MBC, 20 March 1860, p. 2.
The adjacent block, allotment 16, section 2 was purchased from William Sheehan in 1854, Qld Land Titles, vol. 2. f. 495, NSW Land Titles Office, Register of Deeds, Book 18. f. 115, MBC 23 April 1853, p. 2 and Inventory of items auctioned by Mary Mayne, BC, 12 January 1872, p. 4.
BC, 12 January 1872, p. 4. It is unlikely that the goodwill was sold as no one subsequently traded under the name of Mayne, and by this time it would have been the name which was the valuable component if some one did not operate from the same premises Mary and Patrick had used. Compare this interpretation with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 110, 121.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne and Qld Land Titles, Book 35, no. 184.
QSA, SCT/EO2, Files relating to articled clerks 1856–1871, no. 59.
For example, see the indenture papers for Ernest Goertz whose father, William, was a wine and spirit merchant in Brisbane, QSA, SCT/EO3, Files relating to articled clerks, no. 64.
Rosey left All Hallows school at the end of 1868: John Oxley Library, All Hallows Mss, OM90-59. Mary's purchase of ‘Moorlands’ and when she began living there are detailed later.
Contrast this with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 47.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne. The lower rent paid by Mary is because she paid rent only on the butcher shop, not the family home above.
‘Bygone Brisbane. Recollection of the Early Seventies’, Royal Historical Society of Queensland Archives, Thomas Welsby's cutting book, vol. 3, p. 32.
BC, 10 June 1865, p. 8 and Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Publican's Act of 1863, 27 Vic., no. 16, s. 34 and Inventory of items auctioned by Mary Mayne, BC, 12 January 1872, p. 4. Contrast this with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 121, 176 and Rosamond Siemon, Postscript to The Mayne Inheritance (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999): 11.
The only indication of any modification is the £42 paid to Daly on 4 February 1872. Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Inventory of items auctioned by Mayne, Mary, BC, 12 January 1872, p. 4.
Stephenson, S., Annals of the Brisbane Grammar School 1869–1922 (Brisbane: Anthony James Gumming, 1923): 66, 216, 6. The early rolls have not survived and these dates have been compiled from other school sources: K. Willey, The First Hundred Years: The Story of Brisbane Grammar School 1868–1968 (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1968): 12. I am indebted to the Archivist, Brisbane Grammar School for the information about how long James remained at the school. BC, 2 January 1869, p. 1. For Isaac's schooling see QSA, SCT/EO2, Files relating to articled clerks 1856–1871, no. 59. The Collegiate school's fees were advertised in Pugh's Almanac, 1868. For William's attendance at the school, see BC, 10 October 1868, p. 3.
Book of Sundry Accounts for students, 1862–1874, p. 151, All Hallows School Archives. I am indebted to the Archivist for this reference.
Compare this interpretation with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 89–90.
Mahoney, J. M., Dieu et Devoir: The Story of All Hallows School, Brisbane (Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 1985): 15.
Mahoney, Dieu et Devoir: 12. JOL, All Hallows Mss, OM90-59 shows that in the early years of the school many girls only spent a few months or one or two years at high school. Rosey spent four years and nine months at high school, from 1864 to 1868.
Mahoney, Dieu et Devoir: 15.
Mahoney, Dieu et Devoir: 23–27.
BC, 26 February 1872, p. 2. Contrast this interpretation with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 117–18.
JOL, All Hallows Mss, OM 90-59. For All Hallows’ fees see Post Office Directory, 1868, p. 24, F. O'Donoghue, Beyond Our Dreams: A Century of the Works of Mercy in Queensland (Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1961): 80, 93, and Book of Sundry Accounts for students, 1862–1874, pp. 151, 337, All Hallows School Archives. I am indebted to the Archivist for this reference. The only extra curricular subjects shown in these accounts are for three months’ dancing and callisthenics. This may not reflect what she did, as it seems more likely that these items would have been collated against the school fees, not the costs incurred in having clothes made, buying mirrors, hair pins and additional text books.
Although Bunton paid Isaac a small salary, this would not initially have been sufficient for his upkeep. In his first year Isaac received 10 shillings a week and this rose incrementally to £2 a week in May 1875. Mary agreed to provide board, lodging and clothing for Isaac. QSA, SCT/EO2, Files relating to articled clerks, 1856 to 1871, no. 59.
QSA, SCT/CK13, Papers respecting admission of barristers, file of William Mcintosh Mayne
BC, 21 October 1926, p. 17.
Inventory of items auctioned by Mayne, Mary, BC, 12 January 1872, p. 4, and BC, 26 February 1872, p. 2 and 19 August 1872, p. 2. In the latter the male is given the initials of H.C., suggesting that this may not be Mary and one of her sons. A check of inbound passengers as listed in the newspaper until May 1873 does not suggest any other arrival time for Mary.
BC, 29 November 1878, p. 2.
Memorandum of Conveyance, 6 March 1878. I am indebted to the Cultural Heritage Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland, file no. 600052 for this information: Qld Land Titles, vol. 257, f. 133. Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 127–28 states that ‘Moorlands’ was purchased by the Maynes in 1881 and that Mary did not own any property in her own right. But in Postscript to The Mayne Inheritance: 12, Siemon states that ‘Moorlands’ was purchased by Mary.
It is possible that Mary rented ‘Moorlands’ from 1872, but there are no Post Office Directories between 1868 and 1874 which would confirm this. In the Post Office Directory for 1874 Mary is listed as Mrs Mein of Milton Rd (by the river) in the street directory. In 1876 she is also listed as Mrs Mein of Milton Rd. The name of Coronation Drive was initially listed as Milton Rd (by the river), later as Milton Rd and subsequently as River Rd and Toowong Rd. In the directory for 1883–84, and after, her name is spelt correctly as Mayne. That Mary was the Mrs Mein referred to and that she was living at ‘Moorlands’ is evident from the juxtaposition of her name next to that of Robert Cribb in all of the listings. There are a lot of anomalies in the early Post Office Directories: see R. Fisher, ‘Directories to People, Places and Patterns in Queensland since 1868’, Brisbane Archives and Approaches II, Brisbane: Brisbane History Group Papers, 7, 1988: 75—94. Contrast this with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 122. Qld Land Titles, vol. 257, ff. 133–34 and BC 1 November 1876. I am indebted to the Cultural Heritage Branch of the Department of Environment and Protection for the last reference from file no. 600052.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne and Qld Land Titles, Book 35, no. 184, and Book 46, no. 195.
In the accounts, the capital raised from this is shown only as a single, undated entry. The timing of the sales can be traced through government records which show that the largest land sales were in 1875–1876, with the initial sale being in September 1874: Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne and QSA, TLS/O51, Journals of Conveyance, 28 November 1873–31 December 1875 and QSA, TLS/O52, Journals of Conveyance, 3 January 1876–23 February 1878 and Qld Land Titles, Application Bundle 3841 and vol. 235, f. 19.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Watson, D. McKay, J., Queensland Architects of the Nineteenth Century (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1994): 73 (they have noted her as Mrs J. Mayne) and Queenslander, 11 June 1870: 2. This report states that the shops were built on land owned by Mary. The land had been purchased by Patrick on 19 July 1853 and 15 June 1854, see NSW Land Titles Office, Register of Deeds, Book 27, f. 383 and Book 33, f. 917.
Qld Land Titles, Book 35, no. 155 and Application bundles 7129 and 7130. Mary paid £1230 in rent from 2 May 1870 to 31 December 1879: Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne
Watson and McKay, Queensland Architects of the Nineteenth Century: 73. Reuben Oliver had moved to the new premises by 23 July 1870. An advertisement in the BC, 20 July 1870, p. 4 shows the firm was still having a clearing sale at premises on the corner of Queen and George Streets. The firm's advertisement on 23 July shows the location as Queen Street, suggesting the move had occurred, BC, 23 July 1870, p. 2. The rental value is based on the income generated by the estate's shops in Queen Street: see Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Megarry, R. E. Wade, H. W. R., The Law of Real Property, 3rd edn (London: Stevens & Sons, 1966): 715–16.
Qld Land Titles, vol. 257, f. 133 and Mortgage no. 67080. The principal was repaid on 1 September 1884.
Will of Mary Mayne, QSA, Supreme Court, Southern District, Ecclesiastical files, SCT/P181, no. 5884 of 1889 (hereafter Will of Mary Mayne).
Succession Duties Act of 1886, Queensland. The relevant rates were published in Pugh's Almanac.
MBC, 20 March 1852, p. 2. The brawl in the hotel occurred in November 1851: L. Connors, The ‘Birth of the Prison’ and the Death of Convictism: The Operation of the Law in Preseparation Queensland, 1939 to 1859, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Queensland: 162. Contrast this interpretation with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 38–39, 111.
Rosey's desire to enter the convent can be traced to at least March 1873: Byrne, N., Robert Dunne: Archbishop of Brisbane (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1991): 96 and footnote 261.
Mary Mayne to Reverend Mother Superior, 5 April 1875, Archives of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, Brisbane. I am indebted to the Congregation for this reference. Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
These sales can be traced through QSA, TLS/O51, Journals of Conveyance, 28 November 1873–31 December 1875 and TLS/O52, Journals of Conveyance 3 January 1876–23 February 1878.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne. Some indication of the cost of this can be gained from the account for a postulant's habit (£5/12/4) in the Book of Sundry Accounts for students, 1862–1874, p. 337, All Hallows School Archives. I am indebted to the Archivist for this reference. Other items were necessary but the total bill would not have been large.
John Oxley Library, All Hallows Mss, OM90-59; O'Donoghue, F., Beyond Our Dreams: A Century of the Works of Mercy in Queensland (Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1961): 93. N. Byrne, Robert Dunne 1830–1917: Archbishop of Brisbane (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1991): 90. Salaries for pupil teachers ranged from £20 for a first-year teacher to £40 for a fourth-year teacher: E. Clarke, Female Teachers in Queensland State Schools. A History 1860–1983 (Brisbane: Production and Publishing Services Branch, Department of Education, Queensland, 1985): 89. Whether Rosey was officially a pupil teacher at this period has not been positively identified as the register for females for this period is not extant. It is not certain where Rosey lived in Toowoomba, but she accompanied the early contingent of nuns there. In a letter to the Bishop in 1880, Mother Vincent mentioned that some pupil teachers boarded in some convents and contributed to the costs: Mercy Women Making History from the Pen of Mother Vincent Whitty (Ashgrove: Corporation of the Trustees of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy in Queensland, 2001): 105.
The premium for Isaac's article clerkship with Thomas Bunton was £75/15. The extra expense included stamp duty and legal fees. QSA, SCT/E02, Files relating to articled clerks, 1856–1871, no. 59 and Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne.
Rosey was born on 30 January 1850 and William was born on 17 May 1856: QSA Index to Births, Deaths and Marriage 1829 to 1889, p. 9442, entry no. 1854/BP 1595 and p. 9442, entry no. 1856/B000066. For Isaac's age, see QSA, SCT/EO2, Files relating to articled clerks, 1856–1871, no. 59.
Accounts, Estate papers of P. Mayne. Isaac was admitted as a solicitor on 15 September 1876, QSA, SCT/CK15, Roll of attorneys, solicitors and proctors, 1857–1953. He definitely had his own practice by 1881: see B. E. Turner, ‘Was Isaac Mayne an Insane Murderer?’, Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 18 (8) (November 2003): 359, footnote 65.
For the appointment of Isaac and William, see Qld Land Titles, Book 50, no. 275 and Application Bundle 7127; Estate papers of P. Mayne. The dating for when the estate was wound up and divided among the children can be traced in QSA, TLS/O106, Indexes to Journals of Conveyance, January 1892 to December 1892 and TLS/O66 Journals of Conveyance, April 1891 to June 1892. Compare this with Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance; 125.
Affidavit of Mayne, M., Raff, G. Darragh, J., April 1869; Accounts, Estate Papers of P. Mayne.
Release from Darragh, Joseph Mayne, Mary to Raff, George, 12 February 1870, Qld Land Titles, Book 35, no. 153.
QSA, SCT/CO25, Judgment files in civil cases, R. Bushnell and others v M. Mayne, no. 1, Easter Term 1867.
BC, 19 February 1870, p. 4.
QSA, SCT/CO25, Judgment files in civil cases, R. Bushnell and others v M. Mayne, no. 1, Easter Term 1867.
Mother Vincent to Sister M Carthage, 9 September 1889, Mercy Women Making History: 123. Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance: 127, 130 asserts that Mary remained a Protestant.
For example, see her evaluation of the characters of various nuns in her letter of 17 April 1863: Mercy Women Making History: 44–48.
Cameron, J., ‘Reminiscences of an Auctioneer’, Telegraph, 13 March 1895: 6.
‘Bygone Brisbane: The Paddington Cemetery’, Truth, 29 December 1907: 7.
Will of Mary Mayne.
For the trust established for his daughter, Julia Parker, see Qld Land Titles, Application bundle 6625.
