Howard Leopold Morry
Beside the Holdsworth Border Stone, ca 1965

 

This site describes the family history of the Morry family of Newfoundland, from its earliest known roots in Devon, England, to the present dispersal around the world. Please browse the site and contribute your ideas, additional information or corrections to:

cjmorry@ncf.ca

Last updated: January 29, 2026 at 13:57 pm

NEWS !!!

This month a new series of publications has begun with the first two volumes (Volume 1, Draft 1 and Volume 1, Draft 2 of William Sweetland’s History of Newfoundland.

To give the document series its proper name, Sweetland referred to this series as “Newfound Land from its discovery – Carefully collected and Compiled from the Most authentic documents and Records” or more simply put “Annals of Newfound Land”.

Although this was intended to be a 3 volume series, I am publishing Sweetland’s Volume 1 in its two existing forms, his Draft 1 and Draft 2. The former was written largely in Ferryland and the second in Bonavista, after he was appointed Magistrate there. Because almost two decades had passed in the intervening period, Sweetland had many second thoughts about his manner of presenting this material and especially the theories he espoused concerning the human pre-history of not only Newfoundland but all of the Americas. The two drafts together therefore make an interesting comparison of thoughts on this subject at that time.

At the time of this writing (January 29, 2026) only the two versions of Volume 1 have been completely transcribed, annotated and published on the Amazon Kindle Desktop Publishing platform, but it is hoped that Volume 2 and 3 will be published later this year.

For those interested, these two books can be purchased in paperback format on Amazon in any of its country-specific platforms. Here are the URLs for the two on the Canadian Amazon page:

https://a.co/d/ilD3RXA

and

https://a.co/d/bbbHMBg

A new collection of publications has been finalized today (January 4, 2024).

These are entitled “An Annotated Transcript of the Journals of Robert Carter of Ferryland, Newfoundland”.

They are being published by Amazon on all of its national websites. Here is the information on the Canadian Amazon website.

Search term “Robert Carter”.

 
An Annotated Transcript of the Journals of Robert Carter of Ferryland
 
 
An Annotated Transcript of the Journals of Robert Carter of Ferryland (20 book series)
Paperback Edition
 
Robert Carter, JP, a Magistrate in Ferryland in the British Colony of Newfoundland, wrote at least twenty journals or diaries during the years 1832 to 1852. There are gaps within this time frame that may or may be the result of volumes in the series of journals being lost over the years. Jean Carter Stirling, a third great granddaughter of Carter, was the first person to transcribe his journals in their entirety. The results of her labours, compiled in three volumes, including two volumes of transcripts and one volume of appendices, were donated by Jean Carter Stirling to the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2002 but have never previously been published.

This “Annotated Transcript” will divide Jean Carter Stirling’s original transcript of the Journals of Robert Carter to correspond with images of the pages in each of his surviving Journals forming a series of twenty published, annotated transcripts. Each volume in this series will replicate Jean Carter Stirling’s Appendix. The Appendix includes valuable indexes to the names of persons and vessels mentioned in the Journals. It will be replicated with revisions to reflect the actual pages on which these names are mentioned in this published, annotated version of her transcript.

 

Now completed! All 25 Volumes of Dad Morry’s Diaries are now Available as paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon. Just search for Howard Leopold Morry

UPDATE!!!

As of today (August 23, 2023), for those who wish to simply have access to a complete set of the images and plain text transcripts of the above diaries, they are now freely available on the Digital Archives Initiative at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Many thanks to Colleen Field and Don Walsh for making this a reality:

https://dai.mun.ca/digital/howardmorry/

Just Released: An anthology of Tom Morry’s poems taken from his collected works covering the period 1990 to 1996. Available in both paperback and eBook format on Amazon.ca and other Amazon national websites.

Now Available in Kindle and Paperback on Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US


When the Great Red Dawn is Shining vignette by James Langer
Available from the publisher, Breakwater Books or Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US

 

Now available in Kindle and Paperback on
Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US

 

 

 

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We hope that this site will serve as a link and a gathering place for the scattered remnants of the Morry Family, whose ancestor, Matthew Morry, came from Stoke Gabriel via Dartmouth Devon, England, to Newfoundland to make a living in the fishing trade some time before Sept. 1784. At that time we know he was granted land for a fishing room in Caplin Bay (now Calvert) near Ferryland, a tiny fishing village on Newfoundland’s Southern Shore that we, his descendants, think of as our family seat.

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