Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry




George Cyprian Lewis 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 24 Nov 1875 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 45
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•  Occupation: Ship's Pilot, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Residence: 70 Duckworth St., living with uncle Eusebius and his wife, 1913, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Census: 1921, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.  (Household Member) 

•  Occupation: Pilot, HM Govt., 1921, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Parents 
         Father: Charles Lewis 45
         Mother: Emily Noble 45
Spouses and Children 
1. *Ida Murrin 45 
       Marriage:
Gerald C. Lewis 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: Cir 1908 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 45
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         Father: Eliel Broomfield Lewis 45
         Mother: Helen 45
Gordon Lewis 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: Cir 1900 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 45,6217
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          Death: 18 Jan 1917 - Sailly-Saillisel, , Picardie, France ( about age 17) 6217
         Burial: After 18 Jan 1917 - Combles, Seine-Et-Marne, Ξle-De-France, France
 Cause of Death: Died in battle WWI

Events

•  Residence: 53 (later renumbered as 75) Pennywell Rd., 1910, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Medical Condition: On attestation papers it shows he was 5'4" and a chest of 34"., 25 Mar 1916, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Military: Private in "C" Company, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, Regt. # 2309, Between 25 Mar 1916 and 18 Jan 1917, France. Military Record File Number 2117.
Parents 
         Father: Charles Noble Lewis 45
         Mother: Annie Laura Campbell 45
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Gordon Lewis and Howard Leopold Morry were comrades in arms, both in "C" Company of the RNR and both initially trained in Scotland but by the time that Gordon got there in 1916 Dad Morry would have already left for Gallipoli. If they knew each other it would have been on the field of battle in France around the time of Beaumont Hamel.

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Gordon C. Lewis - Excerpt from Forget-Me-Not: Fallen Boy Soldiers by Gary F. Browne, 2010, pages 86-88

Private Gordon Campbell Lewis of St. John's died at Sailly-Saillisel, along with six other members of the Regiment, on January 28, 1917.
A steward by trade, Gordon was 16, but falsely declared his age to be 18 years and 5 months when he joined the Regiment on March 25, 1916, as a regimental band drummer. Like many of the "Boy Soldiers" who lied about their ages in order to enlist, he kept his original month and day of birth so that he would quickly remember it, if asked.

Private Lewis had stowed away on the troop carrier S. S. Sicilian as it left St. John's for the U.K. with a full contingent of Newfoundland soldiers. On July 29, 1916, Governor Davidson sent a note to the Regiment's paymaster: "For your information - Lewis is, I understand, a drummer who contrived to get on board and has been missing since the S.S. Sicilian left St. John's. This message is dated July 28th but has been delayed in transmission. " Captain G. Carty replied with a short note from England: "All well. Lewis with us."

Young Lewis had his mind set on getting over to Europe with the Regiment, and indeed his youthful ingenuity won out in the end, but unfortunately, enemy shells do not discriminate when it comes to the
age of combatants.


Private Gordon C. Lewis, Regimental Band Drummer, centre front row
(The Rooms-Provincial Archives)

The Lewis family lost two boys to the war effort. Private Gordon Lewis' older brother, Charles, lost his life while serving in the Royal Navy. In 1918, his ship Calgarian was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine.(Giles Muir's Family History Paper.)

On April 4, 1921, Annie Lewis, mother of Gordon and Charles, wrote Lt. Col. Rendell of the Regiment asking for some financial assistance, through the military separation allowance process, until
her husband got back from the seal hunt:

Dear Sir:
Just a word to ask you if I may have a few dollars as I have
not had any wages this month, my husband being to the
ice-fields. As you will remember he is an engineer on the
S.S. Terra Nova, and we lost both of our eldest boys
through the war, Charlie and Gordon. I have six small
children under 15 years of age. You mentioned to me some
time ago that I might put in a claim, Mrs. Patterson came
to see me on the death of my last boy. She thought the
same, when I went to see her she was out of town, however
I would be very grateful for any assistance you may let me
have at the present time.

This letter, yet again, depicts the tough plight families had back home in Newfoundland during WW1, mainly due to the loss of their breadwinner sons. It also shows the critical leadership role women
took on as they tried to raise and feed their families during a very challenging time in Newfoundland history; they cannot be commended enough for their extraordinary efforts.

Hugh Albert Lewis 
      Sex: M
AKA: Chum Lewis 6217
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 31 Jan 1902 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 45,2756,6217,6224
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          Death: 23 Apr 1956 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 54) 45,6217,6224
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•  Occupation: Chief Engineer on the KYLE and other coastal vessels, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Residence: 53 (later renumbered as 75) Pennywell Rd., 1910, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Military: Merchant Navy Commander, Between 1939 and 1945, North Atlantic Ocean. Some suggestion in Capt. Kean's Secret that he was in RN but it seems more likely he was in the merchant navy. 

•  Alt. Death: 1950, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. According to Giles Muir's family biography.
Parents 
         Father: Charles Noble Lewis 45
         Mother: Annie Laura Campbell 45
Spouses and Children 
1. Living
       Children:
                1. Living
Living 
      Sex: M
Parents 
         Father: John Jellico Lewis 45
         Mother:
James Lewis 
      Sex: M
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         Father: Charles Lewis 45
         Mother: Emily Noble 45
Spouses and Children 
1. *Clara 45 
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                1. Frederick James Lewis
Jessie Emily Lewis 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: Cir 1906 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 45,2756,6217
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          Death: Cir 1991 - Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada ( about age 85) 45,146,6217
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•  Education: Trained as a teacher, then a nurse. 

•  Residence: 53 (later renumbered as 75) Pennywell Rd., 1910, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Religion: Commissioned as Captain in Salvation Army, 21 Jul 1927, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Residence: Transferred with Salvation Army, 1928, Springdale, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Emigration: SS CARIBOU to North Sydney destined for Salvation Army Hospital, 12 Jul 1930, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. 

•  Residence: Working at a hospital as a nurse, 1931, Montreal, Quιbec, Canada.
Parents 
         Father: Charles Noble Lewis 45
         Mother: Annie Laura Campbell 45
Spouses and Children 
1. Capt. Joseph William Kean 5191 
    Partnership: 
       Children:
                1. Joseph Lewis Kean

2. *Joseph Muir 45 
       Marriage: 5 Jan 1934 - Montreal, Quιbec, Canada
       Children:
                1. Living
                2. Living
                3. Living
                4. Living
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If one can believe Jessie Lewis's diaries, she was impregnated at the age of 12 by Capt. Joe Kean, who died in the FLORIZEL tragedy before the child was born. Of course, that means there was no one left living to support who the true father would have been. Clearly, Jessie was raped, though she tries to make it appear as a love affair in her diary, which appears to have been written many years later as a sort of personal catharsis. It is possible that Joe Kean was the father, though he was as old as her own father at the time. It is equally possible that she could have been abused by her own father. We will never know unless her son, whom she named Joe Kean Lewis or Joe Lewis Kean were to submit to a DNA test. But he is most likely deceased now.

These diaries, or excerpts from them, have been published in book and e-book form (Captain Kean's Secret - A True Story by Tom Badcock) and as an e-book only (The Lewis Family of Pennywell Road, by Joseph Giles Muir, Jesse's legitimate son), both of which I have purchased. They both reproduce extensive sections of thes so-called diaries, which I believe were actually her reminiscences written many years later in a manner to try and colour the past more to her liking. There are also diaries ostnensibly written by her sister Anne but that bear so much similarity to those attributed to Jesse that I believe they were written by the same person. That person may or may not be Jesse. There is reason to believe that any writings she did pass down were heavily edited by her son Giles and probably by her niece, Linda Olmstead, even before they were turned over to Tom Badcock to turn into a book. There are also "diaries" reputed to have been those of the Lewis family immigrant ancestor, John Lewis, at the end of the 1700s and early 1800s, but these are so full of obvious errors and written in a style out of keeping with the times and the ostensible author that it seems clear they were actually written once again by either Jesse, Giles or Linda, or a combination of the three.

Jessie Maud Lewis 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 2 Feb 1877 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 45
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Parents 
         Father: Charles Lewis 45
         Mother: Emily Noble 45
Living 
      Sex: M
Spouses and Children 
1. Living
John Lewis 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 8 Jan 1846 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 45
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•  Occupation: Seaman, Between 1885 and 1886, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Residence: 21 South West St., Between 1885 and 1886, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Parents 
         Father: William Tucker Lewis 45,1258
         Mother: Elizabeth Robinson 45,1258

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