Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry




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Anna M. Hearn 
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     Birth Date: Cir 1909 - Bay Bulls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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1. *Laurence Vereker Cashin 806 
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Mary Hearn 
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AKA: Mary Hearn 5356, Mary McDonald
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1. *Joseph McDonald Sr. 5357 
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                5. William McDonald
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                8. Marie Therese McDonald
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Archibald Heath 
      Sex: M
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     Birth Date: Cir 1851 1035
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          Death: 30 Apr 1888 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 37) 1035
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220711 from Gloria Dawe Bruce's FTM page:

NFL ARCHIVES Micro Film C-1-2

March 4, 1888 to Oct. 16, 1888

THE EVENING TELEGRAM April 30, 1888 Monday

SERIOUS ACCIDENT

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Another accident, which, it is hoped, may not prove fatal, has occurred in the same place where one precisely similar took place about two years ago,- the unguarded trap-like area on the east side of the Custom House. Then, the victim hung between life and death for weeks; but eventually after some months, recovered. Whether the present case does or does not end as happily, certain it is that the friends of the injured man have a good cause of action against the Government, whose inspector of public buildings was warned in this paper of the dangerous character of the boundary in question, and was told to bring the wall up higher and make it secure against future occurrences of the kind. A railing on top would serve the same end. Had he attended to that suggestion, the present melancholy episode would not have occurred to blot the record. It appears that about eleven o'clock on Saturday night the victim, Archibald Heath, a carpenter by trade, was going up Custom House hill, when by some mischance he stumbled against the low coping of the wall in question and fell over and down into the area leading to the basement entrance of the Custom House. The accident was discovered soon afterward, and the man was lifted in a state of insensibility from a pool of blood and conveyed to the hospital. There Dr. Shea was promptly in attendance, and adopted the necessary means to allay suffering and restore the patient to consciousness. This, however, had not taken place to last evening. There are no external wounds on the body save a slight abrasion of the skin of the forehead, and the injuries are supposed to be internal. The only indication of bleeding was from the nose; whether there be any fracture of the skull was not known then. The place where the fall occurred is where the depth is greater. Thirty-five years is the age of the victim; he is a married man.

Reference: NFLD ARCHIVES Micro Film C-1-2

March 4, 1888 - Oct. 16, 1888

THE EVENING TELEGRAM May 1, 1888 Tuesday

DIED: Yesterday, Mr. Archibald Heath, aged 37 years, leaving a wife, seven children and an aged mother to mourn their sad loss. Funeral on to-morrow (Wednesday)May 2, 2:30 PM from his late residence 45 William Street, Monkstown, friends and acquaintances are asked to attend.

THE EVENING TELEGRAM May 2, 1888 Wednesday

THAT FATAL ACCIDENT

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Compression of the brain is the physician's explanation of the injury from which poor Heath, the victim of the Custom House trap-hole, died. He never regained consciousness after the accident. His family consists of eight persons - a wife and seven children. It is appalling to think that so much suffering should be brought on them by the neglect to place a simple prevention on the spot where the fatal event occurred. Government officials, those whose duty it is to take cognizance of and remove such sources of danger, pass daily up and down Queens Beach with the peril before their eyes, yet have observed a supreme indifference, shall we say a criminal indifference, towards doing their duty and erecting a safeguard, and indifference the more willful and notorious because the deadly character of the place was accentuated on a former occasion by a like occurrence. The responsibility for poor Heath's death must rest somewhere and on someone. If the premises were owned by a private individual, the onus would rest on him - the result of mercenary or niggardly motives in not building the wall high enough. The people look to the press to speak out on such matters and bring the guilt home to those upon whom it should rest. We have no coroner' juries here, and the result is no guarantee against the repetition of such accidents. But Government officials know that such open spaces in crowded cities are railed. Their neglect to place an iron railing on the coping of that wall is shameful.

THE EVENING TELEGRAM May 4, 1888 Friday

THAT FATAL ACCIDENT

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Culpable Neglect at the lockup

A FEW PERTINENT REFLECTIONS

During the past day or two we have received some additional information respecting that fatal accident near the Custom House on Saturday night last, from which it would seem that a very serious responsibility attaches somewhere. We do not wish to be unnecessarily severe in commenting on this un-fortunate occurrence. But in the face of the fact that it was entirely due to gross and culpable neglect on the part of the authorities, we fail to see why the press should be squeamish in criticizing their conduct.

Last year a similar accident happened at the very same death-trap. A citizen made a false step in the darkness and fell over the wall down on the stone pavement inside. We commented upon the matter at the time, and requested the Board of Works to place some protection around the dangerous place. But without avail. The Chairman didn't think it worth his while to attend to matters and Mr. Receiver General Donnelley - although a member of the Executive and passing that way two or three times every day when in a condition to get to Custom House - never gave the subject a moment's consideration. What care Mr. Chairman McKay and Mr. Receiver General Donnelley how many citizens are maimed or killed, so long as they receive large salaries, "enjoy life" and are well supplied with everything!

And as for the present Government - why, they seem to evince no interest in anybody or anything outside themselves and their own private concerns. They take precious good care to "mind number one," though. For example, they can find $1,200 to pay a steamer to call here for Mr. Donnelley - the truant, homesick Barcelons Commissioner - but they can't find either the means or the inclination to keep the streets of the city in a respectable condition or afford common protection to life and property.

Government organs may deny this as much and as long as they like but the truth remains, and the public know it, too, that their neglect has been the cause of poor Archibald Heath's death; and if the deceased's family could be induced to take action against the Board of Works for heavy damages, no twelve jurors in the country would hesitate to give the suffers a very substantial verdict. It is sad to think what sorrow and suffering sometimes result from the presence of unsteady, incompetent men in positions of trust and responsibility.

But there is another very important circumstance associated with this case, and it is right that the public should be acquainted with it. We refer to the inhuman manner in which the injured man was treated after his removal from the death - trap. Poor Heath fell about eleven o'clock and was immediately discovered. But instead of being removed to the hospital at once, he was, after much unpardonable delay, owing to the inability of those present to find a police officer, dragged to the lock-up, where they allowed him to remain, with the blood oozing from his wounds, until sometime the following afternoon. Then he was properly cared for, but it was too late - every chance of saving his life had in the meantime vanished.

The general opinion seems to be that if the injured man had been taken directly to the hospital and the usual remedies applied, he would today be alive and fairly on the way to recovery. But, as it is, he now rests beneath the snow in yonder cemetery, and an aged mother, a grief-strickened wife and seven young and helpless children mourn the loss of their dearest friend and only bread-winner.

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         Father: Archibald Heath 1035
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                1. Harry Shinner Heath
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                3. Madeline May Fuller Heath
                4. Brenda Heath

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