Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Janet Morison Miller

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 12 Nov 1891 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁶⁵⁴ ^,6655 Christening: 12 Feb 1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁶⁵⁵ Death: 5 Apr 1946 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 54) ¹⁵¹³ ^,6654 Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: 18 Nov 1891, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Minister/Priest: REv. W. Graham, 12 Feb 1892, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. MILLER, Janet Morison, dau. Lewis Haldane Miller and Mary his wife, born 12 Nov. 1891, Bapt. 12 Feb. 1892 by W. Graham
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• Alt. Birth: 12 Nov 1892, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Education: Law Student in law firm of Uncle Donald Morison, 1913, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Interesting: first woman admitted into membership in the Newfoundland Law Society, 12 Apr 1913, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Military: VAD during WWI, 1917-1918, Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. She served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of the British Red Cross in the 1st Berkshire Association and also trained as an ambulance driver.
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• Interesting: A suffragist of note, After 1919, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Lewis Haldane Miller ¹⁰ ^,1506 Mother: Mary Peter Morison ¹⁰ ^,1513 ^,1518

Spouses and Children

1. *Capt. Eric Stanley Ayre RNR ¹⁰ ^,1506 ^,1513 Marriage: 19 Jun 1915 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹⁵⁰⁶ ^,1514 2. Living
Marriage Events
• Alt. Marriage: 13 Apr 1924, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Children: 1. Gertrude Murray

Notes
General:

271015:

The following is taken from the Archives Canada website but pertains to information in the collection of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at MUN:

Janet Morison (Miller) Ayre Murray (1891-1946), VAD, suffragist, was born in St. John's on 18 November 1891, the youngest child of Lewis Holdene and Mary Peter (Morison) Miller. She had a brother, Andrew and a sister, Agnes. Murray married twice, first to Eric Ayre of St. John's at St. Giles in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 19 June 1915 (no children), and later Andrew Hamilton Murray of St. John's on 30 April 1924. They had one daughter Gertrude. Murray died in St. John's on 5 April 1946.
Murray attended Bishop Spencer College, St. John's. She won the Lord Bishop's Scripture prize and was runner up for the Jubilee Scholarship. In 1913 she became a law student in the firm of her uncle, Donald Morison. When World War I broke out, she moved with her mother to Scotland. There Murray married Eric Ayre, St. John's, who was serving as an officer with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment (RNR). He was killed in action a year later.
Together with her mother and her mother-in-law, Gertrude Ayre, Murray moved to the south of England. She served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of the British Red Cross in the 1st Berkshire Association and also trained as an ambulance driver. After the war, they returned to Newfoundland. Murray became active in the woman suffrage movement and the Great War Veteran's Association (GWVA).
Murray's second husband was Andrew H. Murray, a prominent St. John's businessman and entrepreneur. He founded A.H. Murray & Co., the predecessor of Murray Industrial Ltd.

The Janet (Miller) Ayre Murray fonds consist of material related to her and her family's involvement in the first World War and the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. It also includes material associated with her service with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of the British Red Cross from 1917 to 1918.
The fonds primarily consists of correspondence written by Janet's brother, Andrew Miller, to Janet and to her mother, Mary while he served with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Included also is correspondence and material related to Eric Ayre and Bernard Ayre. Fonds also includes newspaper clippings associated with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and the Battle of Beaumont Hame, as well as photographs of soldiers and family members. Ephemera such as Janet Miller's VAD armband and pin is also included.
Fonds consists of the following series: 1.0 Janet Miller (Ayre) Murray; 2.0 Andrew Miller; 3.0 Eric Ayre; 4.0 Bernard Ayre; 5.0 Ruby Ayre; 6.0 Newfoundland Regiment; 7.0 Miscellaneous; 8.0 Photographs

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This is an exerpt on Janet Miller which is part of a story written by Bert Riggs for his column in the Telegram called "A Backward Glance". This particular article was transcribed and found on the NGB website.

"In the legal profession in Newfoundland, two women hold the distinction of being first. Janet Miller was the first woman admitted into membership in the Newfoundland Law Society, thereby allowing her to article to become a lawyer. Louise Saunders was the first woman to complete articles and be called to the bar. Janet Morison Miller was born in St. John's on Nov. 12, 1891, the daughter of Lewis Miller and Mary Morison. She was educated at Bishop Spencer college, and upon graduation applied to the law society for admission as an article clerk.
She was refused on the grounds that membership was restricted to males and the society did not see the necessity of changing that policy.
There were two things in Janet Miller's favour. One was her determination not to let the backward thinking leaders of the law society prevent her from attaining her goal.
The other was her mother's brother, Donald Morison, who was a lawyer himself. He, undoubtedly with encouragement from his niece, his sister and other female members of his family, proposed an amendment to the Law Society Act allowing women to be enrolled and be able to progress through the ranks from articles clerk to barrister. His suggestion, though, was rejected by the society.
To the legislature
The issue didn't stop there. Morison was also the minister of justice and attorney-general of Newfoundland. In the next session of the House of Assembly, he introduced an amendment to the Law Society Act allowing the enrolment of women.
The amendment became law on March 22, 1910. On Oct. 10, Janet Miller began an articled clerkship with her uncle. She was admitted into membership in the law society on April 12, 1913.
The law society could not prevent Janet Miller from entering the legal profession, but a more catastrophic event would prevent her completing her articles and a call to the bar: the First World War.
In 1915, Miller moved to Scotland, where her fiance, Eric Ayre, was stationed with the Newfoundland Regiment. They were married in Edinburgh on June 19, 1915. A little more than a year later, Eric Ayre was killed at Beaumont Hamel.
Janet Ayre spent the remainder of the war as a member of the Volunteer Aid Detachment, working with war casualties in England. She returned to St. John's after the war, but felt it was too late to return to the study of law.
She was a leading player in the suffragette movement in the early 1920s, helping to win Newfoundland women the right to vote. On April 30, 1924, she married local businessman Andrew H. Murray; they would become the parents of one daughter, Gertrude.
She died at St. John's on April 5, 1946, after a short illness."

First marriage may have been in Edinburgh 1915;second in London, 1924
--check.

Living

Sex: F

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. James Miller Giles

John Miller

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1886 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁶⁵⁶ Christening: Death: 23 Jun 1889 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 3) ⁶⁶⁵⁶ Burial: 25 Jun 1889 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁶⁵⁶ Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Lewis Haldane Miller ¹⁰ ^,1506 Mother: Mary Peter Morison ¹⁰ ^,1513 ^,1518

John Withell Miller

Sex: M
AKA: John Withel Morison ¹⁵¹⁸
Individual Information

Birth Date: 13 Mar 1886 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵¹⁸ Christening: 6 Jul 1886 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵¹⁸ Death: 1889 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 3) Burial: in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Cause of Death:
Events
• Minister/Priest: Rev. Macneill, 6 Jul 1886, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 110621 From Jean Carter Stirling's Transcripts of the Presbyterian Church (The Kirk) Records:

P. 40
MILLER, John Withel, son Lewis Miller and Mary Morison his wife born 13 March 1886, Bapt. 6 July 1886 by Rev. Macneill.

Parents

Father: Lewis Haldane Miller ¹⁰ ^,1506 Mother: Mary Peter Morison ¹⁰ ^,1513 ^,1518

Notes
General:

!BIRTH/BAP:St.Andrew's Record of Baptisms 1878-1890,p.40,Rev.L.G.Macne ill.

!DEATH:This child died very young from diphtheria

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Living Mother: Living

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Living

Katherine Miller

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *James Fish Dalrymple ¹²⁰² ^,1613 Marriage: 2 Sep 1795 - Falkirk, Stirling, Scotland ¹¹⁰⁰ Children: 1. Jane Dalrymple 2. James Dalrymple

Lewis Haldane Miller

Sex: M
AKA: Lewis Holdene Miller ¹⁵¹³
Individual Information

Birth Date: 1850 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Christening: Death: Bef 18 Feb 1910 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁶⁵⁷ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Furniture Dealer, Bef 1910, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Spouses and Children

1. *Mary Peter Morison ¹⁰ ^,1513 ^,1518 Marriage: 23 Aug 1883 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵⁰⁶ Children: 1. Pte. Andrew Haldane Miller 2. John Miller 3. John Withell Miller 4. Agnes Marion Miller 5. Janet Morison Miller

Notes
General:

271015 from NL Genweb:

In re: LEWIS H. MILLER. DECEASED

This is the last will and testament of me Lewis H. Miller of St. John's, Newfoundland, Furniture Dealer. I give devise and bequeath all my Estate and effects of every description of which I shall die possessed to my wife Mary Miller and I hereby appoint my said wife Sole Executrix of this my will.

Witness my hand at St. John's aforesaid this first day of January A.D. 1910 Lewis Haldane Miller witness both present at same time and both signed in presence of testator and of each other D. Morison, Janet M Miller

Certified correct,
D. M. Browning
Registrar
(Listed in the margin next to this will the following) Fiat Feb. 18/10 C. J. Probate Feb. 19/10 granted to Mary P. Miller Estate sworn at $21,700.00

Living

Sex: F

Spouses and Children

1. *Alexander Shannon ⁶⁶⁵⁸ Marriage: Children: 1. Neil Shannan 2. Archibald Shannon 3. Flora Shannan 4. Jessie Shannan 5. Margaret Shannon 6. Betsy Shannon 7. Archibald Campbell Shannan 8. Isabella Shannon

Maria Miller

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1816 - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰⁹⁵ Christening: Death: 19 Jul 1893 - Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 77) ¹⁰⁹⁵ Burial: Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *James Moyes Marriage: Children: 1. Julia Phoebe Moyes

Mary Shirley Miller

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1817 - Epsom, Surrey, England Christening: Death: 29 Oct 1883 - ( about age 66) Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Capt. Henry Miller Mother:

Spouses and Children

1. *Henry Price De Teissier Marriage: 17 Jan 1854 Children: 1. Henrietta De Teissier 2. Margaret Mary Tragett De Teissier 3. Henry De Teissier

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