Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Catherine Hoyles

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1807 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴²⁴³ Christening: Death: 13 May 1850 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 43) ⁴²⁴³ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Death: Cir 1850.

Parents

Father: Newman Wright Hoyles Sr. ⁵ Mother: Lucretia Brown ²⁵⁶⁴ ^,2565

Spouses and Children

1. *William Dickson ²⁵⁶⁴ Marriage: Nov 1827 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴²⁴³
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Rev. W. M. Carrington, Nov 1827, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Sir Hugh William Hoyles

Sex: M
AKA: Hugh William Hoyles ⁵⁶³⁹
Individual Information

Birth Date: 17 Oct 1814 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷² Christening: Death: 1 Feb 1888 - Nova Scotia, Canada ( at age 73) ¹⁷² Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Arrival: From Halifax on GREYHOUND en route to St. John's (out 12 days), 30 Mar 1836, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Attorney and Barrister, 1837, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Occupation: Lawyer, 1837, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Called to bar of Newfoundland by Supreme Court, 7 Dec 1837, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. First Newfoundlander called to the bar.
• Election: House of Assembly, 1848, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Election: Premier of Newfoundland - the first native born, 1861-1865, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Chief Justice, After 1865, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Newman Wright Hoyles Sr. ⁵ Mother: Lucretia Brown ²⁵⁶⁴ ^,2565

Spouses and Children

1. *Jean Liddell ⁵ ^,172 Marriage: 1842 ¹⁷² Children: 1. Dr. Newman Wright Hoyles QC, LLD

Notes
General:

180616:

From Wikipedia:

Sir Hugh Hoyles (born October 17, 1814) was a politician and lawyer who served as the third premier of the Newfoundland Colony . Hoyles was the first premier of Newfoundland to have been born in the colony, and served from 1861 to 1865. Born in St. John's , he was the son of Newman Hoyles , the first leader of the Tory Party .
Educated in Nova Scotia Hoyles trained as a lawyer and returned to St John's in 1842, quickly establishing a large and lucrative legal practice. He was eminent in the Natives' Society and the Newfoundland Church Society. Hoyles was elected to the Assembly in 1848. He rapidly became the Conservative leader, opposing responsible government, on the grounds that the colony was not ready for it, and throwing his weight behind Bishop Feild's campaign to divide the Protestant educational grant and put Anglicans on the same footing as Catholics. This proposal alienated Methodists who thereupon voted for the Catholic Liberal Party so that, in the 1855 election, the first after responsible government, Hoyles found himself leader of the Opposition. Even though he dropped his support for Feild, and adopted a more pan-Protestant stance, he still unsuccessful in the election of 1859. In 1861, his chance came when he was hired as a lawyer by senior judges to fight Premier John Kent 's plans to reduce their salaries. When Kent accused the judges, the governor and the Conservatives of conspiracy the Governor fired Kent and appointed Hoyles as the new Premier. Hoyles' government was defeated in the legislature and had to fight an election in a highly charged sectarian atmosphere which resulted in riots when the Conservatives won the election.
During his term as premier, he tried to cool down sectarian tensions between Catholics and Protestants by inviting Catholics to join his administration and distributing all patronage fairly between religious groups. He also sent delegates to the Canadian Confederation Conference at Quebec in 1864. Newfoundland had not been invited to Charlottetown. Those delegates, Ambrose Shea for the opposition, and Frederick Carter , for the government, did not have the power to negotiate.
Hoyles decided to leave office in 1865, before the crucial 1869 election which decided the fate of Confederation with Canada. He was succeeded by Sir Frederick Carter . Hoyles was appointed Chief Justice of Newfoundland, a post which he filled with great distinction. He retired to Halifax in 1880 to live with his married daughter. He died on February 1, 1888. D.W. Prowse, the nineteenth century Newfoundland historian, comments that "we are all proud of Sir Hugh as the most distinguished Newfoundlander of our day".
Family[edit ]

Lady Jean Hoyles
Hoyles married Jean Liddell (1813-1886), daughter of John Liddell, in 1842. The couple had four children. Hoyles' wife died January l7th, 1886, and was buried at Halifax, Nova Scotia . Their son, N. W. Hoyles, Esquire, K.C., lived in Toronto, Ontario .[1]
References[edit ]
Jump up ^ Morgan, Henry James Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada : (Toronto, 1903) [1]
Jones, Frederick (1982). "Hoyles, Hugh William" . In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography . XI (1881-1890) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.

Lucretia Brown Hoyles

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 8 Jul 1804 - Dartmouth, Devon, England ²⁵⁶⁵ Christening: 24 May 1805 - St.Petrock's, Dartmouth, Devon Death: 15 Apr 1863 - Figueira, Aveiro, Portugal ( at age 58) ²⁵⁶⁵ Burial: After 15 Apr 1863 - Figueira, Aveiro, Portugal Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Newman Wright Hoyles Sr. ⁵ Mother: Lucretia Brown ²⁵⁶⁴ ^,2565

Spouses and Children

1. *Thomas Bulley Rendell ¹⁰ ^,425 Marriage: 15 Feb 1824 - Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal ²⁵⁶⁵

Notes
General:

220621 from Jean Carter Stirling's family tree file:

!PARENT:Newman Wright Hoyles. Brothers in Newfoundland Hon. Hugh Hoyle s, Rev.
W.J. Hoyles, husband of Eliza Carter, who was Lucretia's niece by marr iage.

Mary Langworthy Hoyles

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 17 Feb 1821 ²⁵⁶⁷ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Newman Wright Hoyles Sr. ⁵ Mother: Lucretia Brown ²⁵⁶⁴ ^,2565

Spouses and Children

1. Living
Marriage Events
• Witnesses: From Jean Carter Stirlings more complete transcript, 1 Jul 1845, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Witnesses: Hugh Hoyles, Robert H. Job, Eliza H. Carter, Lucretia Dickson, Thomas Row, James S. Clift, -Stuart.
.
• Witnesses: Thomas Bow and Lucretia Dickson, 1 Jul 1845, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes

210616 from NGB website:

July 1 1845 St. Johns George Harrison WILSON bach, merchant, St Johns Mary Langworthy HOYLES spin, St Johns Thomas Bow, Lucretia Dickson

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090621 from Jean Carter Stirling's transcript:

P. 111 #14 - HOYLES
1845 -1 July, - George Harrison Wilson, bachelor, Merchant of this town, and Mary Langworthy Hoyles, spinster of this town, were married in the church by me, Rev. William John Hoyles.
Witnesses: Hugh Hoyles, Robert H. Job, Eliza H. Carter, Lucretia Dickson, Thomas Row, James S. Clift, -Stuart.

Newman Wright Hoyles Jr.

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: After 21 Dec 1828 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Will: 21 Dec 1828, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Will of Newman Wright Hoyles
from Newfoundland will books vol 1 page 71 probate year 1829-1830

In re Newman W. Hoyles deceased

In the name of God Amen. I Newman Wright Hoyles Junr being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding, but mindful of my mortality and being about to leave the Island of Newfoundland on a voyage to England, do make this my last will and testament, that is to say I leave all my money and property of whatever nature and kind soever unto my brother-in-law William Dickson the husband of my sister Catherine Hoyles in trust to be disposed of as follows, that is to say, the whole to be converted into money and lodged either in the public funds in England or other good and sufficient security and the interest dividends &c. arising therefrom to be paid as they become due to my dear mother Lucretia Hoyles or in the event of her death happening before my dear father's then to be paid to him, and after their deaths the principal to be divided equally between my brothers & sisters who may be living at my death or the proportions of either to their respective children should either of my said brothers or sisters die and leave any issue lawfully begotten, & to my trustees William Dickson Esq. and Thomas B. Rendell Esq. I leave the sum of five pounds each, to purchase a ring, my legal debts, funeral expenses &c. being first paid, Witness my hand this 21st day of December, year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. All my books I leave to be equally divided between my brothers Hugh & William. Newman W. Hoyles [LS] Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Thos. Wills. Thos. Denning.

Certified correct D.M. Browning
Registrar.

Parents

Father: Newman Wright Hoyles Sr. ⁵ Mother: Lucretia Brown ²⁵⁶⁴ ^,2565

Notes
General:

Will of Newman Wright Hoyles
from Newfoundland will books vol 1 page 71 probate year 1829-1830
In re Newman W. Hoyles deceased
In the name of God Amen. I Newman Wright Hoyles Junr being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding, but mindful of my mortality and being about to leave the Island of Newfoundland on a voyage to England, do make this my last will and testament, that is to say I leave all my money and property of whatever nature and kind soever unto my brother-in-law William Dickson the husband of my sister Catherine Hoyles in trust to be disposed of as follows, that is to say, the whole to be converted into money and lodged either in the public funds in England or other good and sufficient security and the interest dividends &c. arising therefrom to be paid as they become due to my dear mother Lucretia Hoyles or in the event of her death happening before my dear father's then to be paid to him, and after their deaths the principal to be divided equally between my brothers & sisters who may be living at my death or the proportions of either to their respective children should either of my said brothers or sisters die and leave any issue lawfully begotten, & to my trustees William Dickson Esq. and Thomas B. Rendell Esq. I leave the sum of five pounds each, to purchase a ring, my legal debts, funeral expenses &c. being first paid, Witness my hand this 21^st day of December, year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. All my books I leave to be equally divided between my brothers Hugh & William. Newman W. Hoyles [LS] Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Thos. Wills. Thos. Denning.
Certified correct D.M. Browning
Registrar.

Dr. Newman Wright Hoyles QC, LLD

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 14 Mar 1844 - St. John's, Newfoundland ⁵⁹⁵ Christening: Death: 6 Nov 1927 - Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada ( at age 83) ⁵⁹⁵ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.
• Appointment: QC, 1889, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.
• Occupation: Head of Osgoode Hall Law School, 1894, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.
• Honors: Honorary LLD from Queen's University, 1902, Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada.

Parents

Father: Sir Hugh William Hoyles ⁵ Mother: Jean Liddell ⁵ ^,172

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Newman Wright Hoyles Sr.

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 30 Aug 1777 - Dartmouth, Devon, England ⁵⁶⁴⁰ Christening: Death: 29 Jan 1840 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 62) ⁴²⁴³ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: 1776, Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.
• Occupation: Merchant. Partner in Brown, Hoyles and Co. with brother-in-law Hugh William Brown, Between 1813 and 1830, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: First President of Bank of British North America in Newfoundland, 1823, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Colonial Treasurer/Secretary, Between 1833 and 1840, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage announcement of son in The Newfoundlander: "Monday October 9, 1845. Married Yesterday, at the Parish, Church of St. John, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, assisted by the Rev. the Vicar General, the Rev. WILLIAM JOHN HOYLES, Missionary at Fogo, and third son of the late NEWMAN W. HOYLES, Esq., formerly Colonial Treasurer of this Island, to JANET EMMA, only daughter of the late D. RENNIE, Esq., Merchant, Glasgow."
• Election: First leader of the Tory Party, 1833, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Death: Cir 1840, Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.

Parents

Father: Living Mother: Living

Spouses and Children

1. *Lucretia Brown ²⁵⁶⁴ ^,2565 Marriage: 29 Oct 1801 - Dartmouth, Devon, England ²⁵⁶⁶ Children: 1. Newman Wright Hoyles Jr. 2. Lucretia Brown Hoyles 3. Catherine Hoyles 4. Susan Hoyles 5. Sir Hugh William Hoyles 6. Rev. William John Hoyles 7. Anne Brown Hoyles 8. Mary Langworthy Hoyles

Notes
General:

210616 from NGB website:
At home with Mr. Hoyles
By
Bert Riggs,
(an archivist with the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at Memorial University),
whose column, A Backward Glance
appears in the Telegram each Tuesday.
Transcribed From the Telegram
By: Barbara McGrath

The Hoyles name is present in St. John's in number of localities: the Hoyles-Escasoni Seniors' Complex, Hoyles Avenue and Hoylestown. The family for which all three are named played a very prominent role in commercial, political, civic and philanthropic endeavours in Newfoundland during the 19th century.
The patriarch was Newman Wright Hoyles. He was born in Dartmouth, England on Aug. 30, 1777, the second son of William Hoyles and Anne Wright. William Hoyles was a medical doctor, which probably provided Newman with the opportunity for a good education.
Still, he went to sea at age 15, which was common for boys in a seafaring town like Dartmouth. He was involved in the trans-Atlantic trade, particularly between England, Newfoundland and the West Indies.
It may have been his familiarity with Newfoundland from his trading routes that led him to enter into a partnership with Thomas Follett, a Devonshire native who had long been involved in the Newfoundland trade. That partnership lasted only about five years, but its success helped to establish Hoyles as a leading player in the St. John's mercantile community.
A new venture
He began a new business venture in 1813 when he formed Brown, Hoyles and Co. in partnership with his brother-in-law, Hugh William Brown. With headquarters in St. John's and branches at Trepassey and in Conception Bay, it soon became a major supplier of foodstuffs and fishing supplies to Southern Shore and Conception Bay communities.
The company was also involved in the trans-Atlantic and Newfoundland-U.S. trade and had cod and salmon operations in several sites on the southern Labrador coast.
The business was a successful one, providing Hoyles with the means to become involved in various civic, social and charitable ventures. It continued to flourish until the late-1820s, when he began selling off the company's assets. By 1831, local papers carried notice that the company would cease operations on Sept. 30.
Hoyles was a longtime advocate of municipal government for St. John's and a local legislature for Newfoundland. He lobbied hard for the establishment of a civilian hospital, and the regulation and examination of pilots to reduce losses to ships and cargo entering St. John's harbour.
He established and served as captain of his own fire company, and worked for an overhaul of the court system and the creation of a police force.
He was a member of the Society of Merchants, which attempted to manage the affairs of St. John's in the absence of a municipal infrastructure, became vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce when it was formed in 1823, and stood along side William Carson and Patrick Morris in the fight for responsible government.
On the social welfare side, he worked to alleviate the plight of the poor, especially those who were faced with food shortages and lack of accommodations as a result of the devastatingly hard winters of 1816, 1817 and 1818. Much of the winter food supply and many houses were destroyed by two fires only weeks apart in November 1817.
At one point Brown, Hoyles and Co. were supplying up to 20 meals per day to needy residents. In 1822, he was again called upon to chair a committee for the relief of the poor.
He was very much involved with the Church of England parish, serving as church warden for many years. He was secretary of the local branch of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and helped found and was first treasurer of the St. John's Library Society.
Having played a lead role in the fight for a local legislature, it was a given that he should seek election when it was granted in 1832. He was elected to represent Fortune Bay.
First to speak
It is a measure of the esteem in which he was held by his fellow members that he was the first person to address the House of Assembly at its first session on Jan. 1, 1833, when he proposed John Bingley Garland as speaker.
In the House, he continued to fight for improvements in the civic life of St. John's and the quality of life of its residents. He introduced bills to establish quarantine regulations and build hospitals, provide for fire companies and the creation of fire breaks between buildings, regulate pilotage, and provide financial assistance to injured seamen and fishermen.
Many of his bills were enacted into law, but his attempt to bring municipal government to St. John's met with failure.
During his four-year-term in the House of Assembly, Hoyles served on the governor's council as colonial treasurer. This put him in charge of the public purse, which often caused him to be at odds with many of his colleagues in the House, who thought they should have control over public spending.
At that time, the government operated on a cash system. The money was all in coin and kept in a large chest at Hoyles's residence.
Hoyles did not run for election in 1836, but continued as colonial treasurer until his death on Feb. 29, 1840.
Hoyles married Lucretia Brown, a daughter of the doctor at the military garrison at Placentia, in 1801. They were the parents of nine children, including Sir Hugh Hoyles (1814-1888), the first native-born prime minister and chief justice of Newfoundland.
Bert Riggs is an archivist with the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at Memorial University. A Backward Glance returns next Tuesday. ...

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140119 From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

HOYLES, NEWMAN WRIGHT, ship's captain, businessman, politician, office holder, and jp; b. 30 Aug. 1777 in Dartmouth, England, second son of William Hoyles, doctor, and Anne Wright; m. there in 1801 Lucretia Brown, and they had three sons and six daughters; d. 29 Feb. 1840 in St John's.

Born in a south Devon seaport traditionally associated with the Newfoundland migratory fishery, Newman Wright Hoyles went to sea at 15. Captain of a brig at 21, he sailed the North Atlantic trading routes, calling at West Indian, European, and Newfoundland ports. By 1806 he had formed a mercantile partnership with Thomas Follett, member of a long-established Newfoundland firm of Devonshire origin. Hoyles's marriage in 1801 to the daughter of the doctor attached to the military garrison at Placentia, Nfld, strengthened his ties to the island. He became a permanent resident of St John's no later than 1810, when he was one of 36 merchants and planters who met to determine the price of fish and cod oil for the season. In 1812 he became the agent of the Marine Insurance Society, established by the merchants of St John's; by 1815 he was conducting his own insurance brokerage and within a year was the appointed agent of Lloyd's of London.

A new partnership, which had been formed in 1813 with Hugh William Brown, a London merchant, insurance broker, and probably a brother-in-law, enabled Hoyles to survive the post-1815 depression in the fish trade. With branches at Port de Grave and Trepassey and fishing stations on the Labrador coast, Brown, Hoyles and Company became a leading mercantile firm, owning sea-going vessels, importing goods, and exporting fish.

In 1813, and possibly earlier, Hoyles had been elected to the committee of the Society of Merchants, a body which, in the absence of any locally constituted authority, played a large part in town government. Hoyles became a member of the lighthouse, powder-magazine, and pilotage committees. As the prime mover in framing regulations for the employment of harbour pilots, Hoyles earned the disapproval of Governor John Thomas Duckworth* for not obtaining his prior sanction. In 1819 Hoyles, declaring his support for the incorporation of St John's, referred to the disrepute into which pilotage had fallen because no municipal authority existed to enforce regulations. Indeed all other municipal concerns, including the police, the fire companies, and the hospital, had suffered the same fate, he said. At a town meeting which he chaired later in 1819, he presented the unanimous decision of the grand jury, of which he was foreman, that authority to establish a civil police, provide for the poor, and regulate fire companies, pilotage, and the hospital, lighthouse, and powder-magazine should be vested in a committee chosen at a town meeting and authorized to levy property taxes. Hoyles was on a committee elected to frame a bill of corporation, but contention over property assessments prevented its submission to the governor.

In 1823 Hoyles was elected vice-president of the St John's Chamber of Commerce, the executive body of the newly established Commercial Society. Alongside William Carson and Patrick Morris, he also served as treasurer of the "Committee of Inhabitants" delegated to consider the bill recently introduced into the British parliament for the reorganization of Newfoundland's courts. The committee, resolved to see the appointment of a local legislature to superintend expenditure of public revenue, prepared its own outline of a bill. In 1824 the British judicature act, which also provided a charter of incorporation for St John's but fell far short of the committee's expectations, was passed. Hoyles's support of reform was undoubtedly given some credibility by his social prominence. At various times between 1819 and 1824 he served as treasurer of the St John's Library Society, a steward of St John's Charity School, an Anglican churchwarden, captain of the fire company he established in 1824, chairman of the committee for poor relief and of the Marine Insurance Association, and foreman of the grand jury. Recognizing his importance, Governor Thomas John Cochrane* appointed Hoyles in 1825 an aide-de-camp with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. At the same time, with reservations to cover the conflict of interest which could result from his business pursuits, the governor recommended him, without success, for a position on Council.

In 1827 Hoyles, as president of the Chamber of Commerce, forwarded a petition to London protesting the extension of import duties. The next year he was one of those who requested a public meeting for the purpose of petitioning parliament not to impose further import duties but to grant a local legislature. Speaking at the meeting and referring to Patrick Morris as "the O'Connell of Newfoundland" and to William Carson, who also spoke, as a "still greater patriot," Hoyles foresaw no financial difficulties for a colonial legislature. When representative government was granted in 1832, Hoyles, who had divested himself of his mercantile interests, sat in the assembly for Fortune Bay and was appointed colonial treasurer in December of that year.

Hoyles, who had nominated Carson at the hustings in 1832, was a supporter of reform but reform concerned chiefly with local grievances and the enactment of municipal regulations. He introduced bills to regulate the storage of gunpowder, fire companies, pilotage, and the spread of infectious diseases; to open a fire-break; to provide relief for disabled seamen and fishermen; and to establish hospitals. His intention in 1833 to introduce a bill for the incorporation of St John's was not realized. The financial difficulties of the assembly were manifold, aggravated by developing party strife. Hoyles as colonial treasurer incurred the wrath of the assembly, the reformers in particular, by the payment in November 1834 of £853 6s. 11d. on the unconstitutional warrant of Governor Cochrane, and he did not sit in the assembly after 1836. He continued as colonial treasurer until his death. Between 1838 and 1840 he served on the board of health, the board of commissioners for pilotage, and as a justice of the peace and cashier of the Savings Bank. His son Hugh William* was to serve as Newfoundland's first native-born premier (1861\endash 65) and as chief justice (1865\endash 80).

Pamela Bruce

Cathedral of St John the Baptist (Anglican) (St John's), Reg. of baptisms and burials. Devon Record Office (Exeter, Eng.), 2537 A (St Petrox, Dartmouth), reg. of baptisms and marriages; 2992 A (St Saviour, Dartmouth), reg. of baptisms. MHA, Hoyles name file. PANL, GN 2/1/A, May, 9 Oct. 1822; 19 Oct. 1825. Private arch., N. J. S. Hoyles (Grand Bend, Ont.), "The house of Hoyles," comp. H. L. and N. W. Hoyles (1913). PRO, BT 98/6\endash 9. Nfld., House of Assembly, Journal, 1833\endash 35. Newfoundland Mercantile Journal, 1819\endash 20, 1824. Public Ledger, 1810, 1824, 1827\endash 29. Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 1810\endash 13, 1815\endash 16, 1828, 1832\endash 34, 1840. Gunn, Political hist. of Nfld. Leslie Harris, "The first nine years of representative government in Newfoundland" (ma thesis, Memorial Univ. of Nfld., St John's, 1959). A. H. McLintock, The establishment of constitutional government in Newfoundland, 1783\endash 1832: a study of retarded colonisation (London and Toronto, 1941). Prowse, Hist. of Nfld. (1895). Keith Matthews, "The class of '32: St. John's reformers on the eve of representative government," Acadiensis (Fredericton), 6 (1976\endash 77), no.2: 80\endash 94. Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 10 Sept. 1907.

General Bibliography

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Rebecca Martha Hoyles

Sex: F
AKA: Rebecca Martha Emerson
Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: 1875 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷²⁰ Burial: Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *Hon. George Henry Emerson MHA ⁴⁸⁰ ^,531 Marriage: Children: 1. Henrietta Caroline Hoyles Emerson 2. Prescott Emerson

Samuel Hoyles

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 8 Jan 1747/48 - Dartmouth, Devon, England ¹²⁸⁹ ^,5637 ^,5638 Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Thomas Hoyles ¹²⁸⁹ ^,5637 ^,5638 Mother: Ann Howlman ¹²⁸⁹

Spouses and Children

1. *Elizabeth Morry ¹⁶⁸ ^,1205 ^,1798 Marriage: 2 Aug 1776 - St. Saviour's, Dartmouth, Devon, England ⁷⁴³ ^,1205 ^,1798
Marriage Events
• Alt. Marriage: 2 Aug 1772, Dartmouth, Devon, England.
• Marriage Banns: St. Saviour's, 1776, Dartmouth, Devon, England. Devon Banns Registers Transcription
First name(s) Elizabeth
Last name Morry
Banns year 1776
Banns date ? ? 1776
Marriage year 1776
Marriage date 02 Aug 1776
Parish Dartmouth, St Saviour
Spouse's first name Samuel
Spouse's last name Hoyles
Residence Dartmouth St Saviour
Spouse's residence Dartmouth St Saviour
Denomination Anglican
County Devon
Country England
Archive reference 2992A/PR/1/8
Archive South West Heritage Trust
Record set Devon Banns
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Marriages & divorces
Collections from England, United Kingdom
Findmypast
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• Witnesses: Thos. Hoyles & Ric. Pillar, 2 Aug 1776, Dartmouth, Devon, England. Marriage Notes

281007: From Dartmouth Family History website: 2/8/1776: Samuel HOYLES & Elizabeth MORRY, by Licence. Both sign. Wits; Thos. Hoyles & Ric. Pillar.

Note that both were literate.

300717 from FindMyPast, copied from FamilySearch:
England Marriages 1538-1973 Transcription
First name(s) Elizabeth
Last name Morry
Name note -
Marriage year 1776
Marriage date 02 Aug 1776
Marriage place Dartmouth
Spouse's first name(s) Samuel
Spouse's last name Hoyles
County Devon
Country England
Record set England Marriages 1538-1973
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Marriages & divorces
Collections from England, United Kingdom
Index (c) IRI. Used by permission of FamilySearch Intl

Susan Hoyles

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 29 May 1811 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁵⁷⁰ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Newman Wright Hoyles Sr. ⁵ Mother: Lucretia Brown ²⁵⁶⁴ ^,2565

Spouses and Children

1. *David Stuart Rennie ²⁵⁶⁷ ^,2570 Marriage: 9 Mar 1843 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁵⁷⁰ Marriage Notes

140119 from Jackie David:

St. Thomas's Church (Source: Thursday March 16, 1843 Married On Thursday morning last, at St. Thomas's Church, by the Rev. C. Blackman, DAVID STUART RENNIE, Esq., of this town, to SUSAN, daughter of the late NEWMAN W. HOYLES, Esq., late Colonial Treasurer of this island)

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