Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Second Baby Morry

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 8 Jul 1888 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁴¹ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Constable Henry Morry RNC ⁵ Mother: Ann Neville ⁴⁵¹⁶

Notes
General:

200806:

A birth record for a male child (no name given) appeared on 10 Jul 1888 in: 1) Evening Telegram (Telegram) 1879-

atating that Father was Mounted Constable Morey. This could only be Henry. It appears that this was his second child that died in infancy though I have yet to find records of death for either of them.

Baby Morry

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 25 Apr 1888 - Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁴¹ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Athlone, 25 Apr 1888, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: William George Morry ¹⁶⁸ ^,745 ^,2773 ^,2774 ^,2908 ^,3840 ^,3841 Mother: Anna Jennings Windsor ⁶ ^,168 ^,282 ^,283 ^,745 ^,3840 ^,3841 Marriage Did Not Marry

Notes
General:

200806:

I only know of the existence of this child from Gert Crosbie's BDM records which I scanned on CD-ROM today. I suspect this child died in infancy since there is no record of her after that when they moved to BC.

The birth was recorded on 25 July 1888 in: 1) Evening Telegram (Telegram) 1879-

Father's name was spelled William Morey. Since the death record in the newspapers of Eliza (Elizabeth Coulman Morry, his mother), which appeared in 1884, also used this spelling of the surname, I suspect that this family did adhere to that older spelling, unlike their near relatives in Ferryland.

There is a second birth record for a female child to William Morey at Athlone found in the BDM CD-ROM database with date of birth 25 July 1888. This is obviously a duplicate record and uses the date that the birth appeared in the newspapers rather than the actual birth date. It too uses the Morey spelling.

080220:

Anna Elton Morris shows in her Family Group sheets for the family unnamed twin sons born on 22 Feb 1890. I suspect that this may be the same child or children even though the gender and dates are different.

Baby Stillborn Morry

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 13 Aug 1915 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ⁷⁴⁵ Christening: Death: 13 Aug 1915 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ⁷⁴⁵ Burial: After 13 Aug 1915 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ³³¹ ^,3531 Cause of Death: Stillborn
Events
• Religion: RC, 1931, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Member)

Parents

Father: BQMS Albert Graham Morry ¹⁰⁹ ^,168 ^,3630 ^,3631 Mother: Josephine Elizabeth Colbert ¹⁶⁸ ^,747 ^,748

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: George Joseph Morry ⁵ ^,328 ^,682 ^,5164 ^,5763 ^,5764 Mother: Kathlyn Verone Jahn ⁵¹⁶¹ ^,5164

Spouses and Children

1. Living
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Gerald F. Lovett, 28 Aug 1971, Seattle, King, Washington, United States of America.
• Witnesses: Gerardo A. Fopiano and Mary Verone Morry, 28 Aug 1971, Seattle, King, Washington, United States of America. Children: 1. Living 2. Living

Beatrice Mary Morry

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 7 Feb 1938 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ³⁴³ ^,6877 Christening: Death: 17 Sep 1993 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 55) ³⁴³ ^,6878 ^,6879 Burial: After 17 Sep 1993 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁹ ^,6877 Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: John Henry Morry family in 1945 Newfoundland Census, 1945, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Household Member)
• Religion: RC, 1945, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Member)
• Residence: House valued at $2000. This was the house originally willed to my father., 1945, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Occupant)
• Residence: Regency Towers on The Boulevard, Cir Dec 1992, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: John Henry Morry ¹⁶⁸ ^,316 Mother: Mary Elizabeth Sesk ⁹¹⁹

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Notes
General:

From: Ursula Kieley [mailto:ursula.kieley@nf.sympatico.ca] Sent: February 9, 2002 4:06 PM To: Chris Morry Subject: More on the tree

Margaret born on 10 June [1932]; Beatrice born on 7 Feb [1938].

This information contradicts that given earlier by Roberta Sullivan and her incorrect information has been removed.

Beatrice Mary Morry

Sex: F
AKA: Beatrice Mary Morey ⁶⁸⁴⁹, Trix Morry ³³¹
Individual Information

Birth Date: 22 Sep 1888 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷⁵ Christening: 24 Sep 1888 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁹¹⁸ ^,1064 ^,6852 ^,6880 Death: 20 Jan 1991 - London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada ( at age 102) ⁶⁸⁸¹ Burial: 25 Jun 1991 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁹ Cause of Death:
Events
• Godfather: John Morey [sic], 24 Sep 1888, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Godmother: Margaret O'Driscoll, 24 Sep 1888, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Minister/Priest: L. K. Vereker, Holy Trinity RC Church, 24 Sep 1888, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Education: Attended school at Littledale, Cir 1900-1910, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. From "A Study of the Settlement of Ferryland" by Sister Esther Moore at the MHA we learn that "A former resident now [1972] living in Nova Scotia, Beatrice Morry, attended Littledale in the early 1900s."
• Occupation: Assistant postmaster, 1919, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She was listed as an assistant agent, her father being the agent.
• Census: Household of Thomas Morrey [sic], 1921, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Household Member)
• Occupation: Post Mistress, 1921, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: Between 1923 and 1926, Trepassey, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: Between 1927 and 1943, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: 1942, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Census: 26 Mount Royal Avenue, Medical Doctor, 1945, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Household Member)
• Retirement: and London, Ont., After 1963, Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Residence: 170 Cherry Hill Circle, Apt. 1215, 1972, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. Living with daughter, Dr. Pat Giovannetti, University of Western Ontario Professor.

Parents

Father: Pte. Thomas Graham Morry III ¹⁶⁸ ^,282 ^,283 ^,749 ^,2274 ^,6854 Mother: Catherine Frances White ⁴² ^,168 ^,6855 ^,6856 ^,6857 ^,6858 ^,6859 ^,6860

Spouses and Children

1. *Dr. Louis John Giovannetti ¹⁰⁹ ^,168 ^,175 ^,1504 ^,2665 ^,2666 Marriage: 7 Jun 1923 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰⁹ Children: 1. Reginald Thomas Giovannetti 2. Dr. Patricia Mary Giovannetti

Notes
General:

Note conflicts on dates of birth and death in Bruce Cameron's records and also Richard Sullivan's (he shows born Sept. 24, 1888)

Place of death also seems conflicting in various records.

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Birth/Baptismal record from Holy Trinity RC Church, Ferryland transcribed on NGB website contains errors in spelling of surname:

"MOREY, Beatrice Mary; Baptised 24-Sep 1888; Father - Thomas Morey;Mother - Catherine White; Witnesses - John Morey and Margaret O'Driscoll."

The John "Morey" listed as witness would likely be Thomas Graham Morry's father, John Henry Morry. Margaret O'Driscoll was Catherine's sister-in-law, wife of brother Richard.

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091013: I asked Teresa Giovannetti if her mother really was buried in Newfoundland since she died in Ontario. This was her response: "Hi Chris, She died in London, Ontario but her body was shipped to Newfoundland for buriel. Their was visitation and mass. Dad was in Florida at that time and he flew from there to NL. Dad didn't realized that Gran was also on board. That's so amazing.. Unfortunately I was in Alberta, so AnnMarie and Dad were the only immediate family, but loads of Morry's....lol You have the one [photo] that I took a few years back, I spent the day recoating white on the letters. I have a picture of the tombstone but with the street names in the back for location.

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091213:
In Laura Morry Williams' book, Over The Fence", one chapter is dedicated to anecdotes about Trix, some of which were told to Laura by Trix's son Reg and his daughter Teresa. Here is that chapter:

OVER THE FENCE LAURA MORRY WILLIAMS

Pages 69-74

Relating to Relatives

Dr. Louis Giovannetti was the resident physician in Ferryland from 1946 to 1950 and operated a clinic out of what was originally Freddie Johnston's convenience store. Dr. Giovannetti was married to my father's sister, Trix Morry. They were the parents of a son and a daughter, Reginald and Patricia. He also had two sons, Humbert and Joe, from a previous marriage.

Dr. Giovannetti often dropped by my parents' house for a visit and referred to my father by the name of Jack, instead of the customary John. My younger brother, also named Jack, was terrified of needles and dreaded vaccinations. He was always frightened when the doctor came to call. One day, he heard Dr. Giovannetti coming through the back door, calling out loud, "Jack, Jack, where are you?" My brother was so frightened that he hid under the table in the kitchen until the doctor left.

Auntie Trix loved horses and enjoyed sleigh rides with her brothers. She often told her son, Reg, stories about parties she had attended at a relative's house in Mobile, and said if they were returning in bad weather her brother, Howard, would loosen the reins and let the horses find their way through the blinding snow. After Trix finished school in Ferryland she went to stay with her aunt in St. John's and took high school courses at Presentation Convent. During the summer, she stayed in Ferryland and helped her mother with the post office mail delivery service and the kitchen chores. She also attended lo the farm animals, a job which included harnessing and grooming the horse. "One day while she was horseback riding the horse balked and Mother was thrown against the fence. It was after this that her leg problems occurred and initiated a life time of knee problems," says Reg.

When Reg was five years old, his parents moved the family to Placentia in Placentia Bay. Reg's first memories of Placentia started the day of the Grand Banks Earthquake in 1929. On November 18, 1929, an underwater earthquake occurred on the southern edge Grand Banks, about 65 kilometres south of Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula. Its effects were felt as far west as New York and as far east as Portugal. The earthquake triggered an underwater landslide which, in turn, forced a series of large waves across the ocean surface. The tsunami raced towards Newfoundland where it resulted in the deaths of 28 people and caused $1 million in property damage on the Burin Peninsula.

Reg remembers that day: "My dad was on a sick call and I was playing with Nick Greene at his home when the house shook, causing my tinker toys to drop on the floor. The family quickly grabbed me up from under the table and took me along a road that was wobbling. At my house, Mrs. Greene took me upstairs to where my mom and my two-year-old sister, Pat, were in bed, and the maid was complaining about broken dishes in the kitchen. My mom did not get up as she had a lot of leg pain; she was probably praying, as she was well aware of earthquakes."

During her son's school years, Trix suffered most days; her legs and hands bothered her continually from arthritis but she still could knit and sew and make dresses for her daughter and she crocheted her son's altar boy garments. Reg tells, "My mother always sat near the fireplace which burned wood over a hot coal base. The temperature in the dining room was probably 100 degrees Fahrenheit three feet from the grate and 70 degrees elsewhere. Mom stoked the fire and remained in the chair most of the day. She passed her time writing letters to her relatives, particularly her brothers."

Besides her maternal accomplishments, Trix was a good story teller. Reg smiles as he says, "Most of her stories were of the people of Ferryland and some were not to be repeated. She laughed about people's water-fronts, saying, 'So and so was seen opening his water-front."

Reg laments that all his mother's efforts to recover failed or were preceded by a miracle. One such attempt was her visit to the Shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre with hopes of obtaining a cure. "She always said that after her visit she did not receive a miracle but a gift of living and the acceptance of God's love. Mother said a rosary or two per day, attended church weekly, and made charitable contributions of food and clothing to many deprived people."

During the 1930s, Trix had her left knee straightened and had to use a crutch. Prior to her returning from hospital, her husband, Lou, constructed a partial box fitted with three rows of electrical lamps, 25 watts each, with a switch located in a convenient place. The heat from this contraption was expected to improve the healing and lessen the pain. Reg recalls, "Dad's plan was that Mother would sleep on her bed with her feet in the box. However, for convenience, he had mounted the box on the dining room table which had a mattress on it and, since she found this comfortable, she slept there."

Reg remembers coming to say good-night to his mother and feeling sad. He thought she was going to die as the box resembled a coffin. "I can't remember how long she used it but I do remember the turning of bulbs when she was complaining of loo much heat." During the First World War, Auntie Trix knitted socks for the boys in the armed forces. She was a volunteer member of the Queen Victoria's program and, as she was the coordinator of the event, she received a certificate of honour from Queen Victoria.

Alter 1945, Lou and Trix moved from Placentia to St. John's. This brought them closer to Trix's family in Ferryland. Reg says, "She was always happy when her brothers and their families came and stayed for a meal. Her love for the children gave her a feeling of good cheer."

When Reg was twelve, he, his mom, and his sister, Patricia, spent one or two weeks in Ferryland. "We stayed with Uncle Howards family. I slept in the men's room over the store. I remember going on trips to the farm for hay and the ride back on the hay wagon and of swimming in the farm brook with my first cousins and some of the local children. We also played 'duck on the rock' on the road near the fish flakes. I went fishing once with Uncle Howard's crew and watched them haul in the nets. Fortunately, the sea was calm. But I didn't go again. One of my enjoyments was to go to the stage head when the boats were returning from the traps and watch all the activities that went on each day. When I was older, I helped turn the fish that were drying on the flakes. On foggy days, the fishermen aboard their boats called to the land as they were approaching the stages. They turned their engines off and I could hear the men talking, asking directions from the fishermen ashore or in other boats. They would be looking for the stage heads and they'd say, "Is that you, John or Jim or whoever they were expecting. The first reply to their call was, 'We hear ya."

Reg loved to visit his Uncle John's house and talk with my mother, his Aunt Lizzie, during the day when she was busy washing. He remembers saying, "You have a lot of washing" and her reply, "Every day is a wash day." Reg recalls how she generally sat him down at the long table and asked if he would like a cookie and a glass of milk.

Auntie Trix usually saved magazines for my family. Generally, there were comic books for my father, who would improvise and use local names while reading to the kids after supper. Reg tells of the times he was present and my father told stories that sounded familiar to him but had different names. "My mother had read these to me before she sent them to Uncle John and some of the substitute names he used were John Joe (Hynes) and Mr. Ned (Healey) and other characters up the road, names of people everyone knew except me."

After Lou's death. Trix went to live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, to be with Reg and his family. Theresa and Ann Marie remember their grandmother watching the soap opera Another World and playing Solitaire. Later, when Trix moved to London, Ontario, to live with her daughter, Patricia, she corresponded with Reg and his family by writing long letters to them. I remember whenever I visited Auntie Trix she rolled down the top of her stocking and removed a few coins to give me before I left. Her granddaughter, Theresa, says as she and her siblings grew older the gift of coins was replaced with paper money.

Auntie Trix was born in September, 1888; she passed away in January, 1991. She was one hundred and two years old. Her son, Reg, departed this world in 2010 at the age of 86.

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050822: In his memoirs of the war, Dad Morry speaks of a man, Joe Penney of Carbonear, who died at Beaumont Hamel. The night before the battle, he gave Dad Morry a letter and a ring to give to Trix because they were engaged or at least intended and he did not expect to survive the battle.

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Living Mother: Living

Benjamin Sweetland Morry

Sex: M
AKA: Benjamin S. Morey ³⁰⁶⁸ ^,6876
Individual Information

Birth Date: 11 Nov 1819 - Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴⁹³ Christening: 27 Sep 1823 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁸² Death: 17 Feb 1895 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 75) ⁶⁸⁷⁶ ^,6882 Burial: 19 Feb 1895 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁸² ^,585 ^,2962 ^,3197 Cause of Death:
Events
• Minister/Priest: Charles Blackman, 27 Sep 1823, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Clerk and Storekeeper for James Howe Carter, 16 Feb 1842, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Employment: Surveyed one mile of road between Caplin Bay and Ferryland, 13 Nov 1847, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Under contract to Patrick Congdon [sic] for 15 shillings. This from the Minutes of the House of Assembly.
• Residence: 2 May 1850, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Note that several of his family ( Matthew Morry III, William Sweetland Morry, Mary Morry) were still giving their abode as Caplin Bay when they married, but that these were earlier marriages than his and perhaps they too considered Ferryland their abode by 1850.
• Residence: Riverhead, 1859, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Note that at the time of his wedding both he and his wife were said to be "of Ferryland" but in his case at least this was a loose translation of the Ferryland area because it is clear that he was still resident in Caplin Bay long after their marriage.
• Court: List of Grand Jurors in SDC, Between 11 Oct 1859 and 12 Oct 1859, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Juror)
• Occupation: codliver oil Manufacturer, Between 1864 and 1865, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. CAPLIN BAY

Morry, Benjamincodliver oil Manufacturer
Morry, RobertCod liver oil Manufacturer

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• Occupation: Trader. Cod Liver Oil Manufacturer, Between 1864 and 1871, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Member of Grand Jury, Southern Circuit Court, Oct 1866, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Member of Grand Jury, Southern Circuit Court, 5 Oct 1869, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Member of Grand Jury, Southern Circuit Court, 4 Oct 1870, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Trader, 1871, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Board of Road Commissioners (Caplin Bay), 23 Jun 1874, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. June 23, 1874
His Excellency in Council has been pleased to appoint -
The Rev. M.A. CLANCEY to be a member of the Board of Road Commissioners for Cape Broyle and Brigus, in the room of the Revd. John CONWAY, left the Country; and the following gentlemen to be Board of Road Commissioners for the place set over their names respectively: -
Bay Bulls - Messrs. William G. WILLIAMS and Richard MOCKLER
Ferryland, Capline Bay & Aquaforte - Revd. M.A. CLANCEY, Edmumd HANRAHAN, John WHITE and James CARTER, Esquires (Ferryland). Messrs. Patrick POWER, Edward KOUGH, Sr., Benjamin MORRY (Caplin Bay), Peter WINSER & M.L.? MEAGHER (Aquaforte).
• Property: Mortgage and Sale of Rights to Williams Estate, 15 Jul 1874, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Between Benjamin Sweetland Morey [sic] and his wife Sarah Weston Carter on the one part and Sheriff James Carter and his wife Harriett Elizabeth Felicitia [sic] Carter on the other part.
Filed in the Central District Court, St. John's despite the fact that all the players resided in Ferryland because the Williams property was located in St. John's.
• Occupation: Operated A Boarding House In Collins Block, 187 Duckworth St.,, 1877-1890, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. This is where the National War Memorial now stands.
• Occupation: Ran a boarding house at 187 Duckworth St., 1877-1890, St. John's, Newfoundland. This is where the National War Memorial now stands.
• Court: Supreme Court: Michael Connolly v. Benjamin Morry: appearance & pleas, 1880, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador probate, estate and related records
Reel 122
Supreme Court: Michael Connolly v. Benjamin Morry: appearance & pleas
Series GN 170, File Reel 122, frames 365 - 366
1880

Level of descriptionFile

Extent 2 p. textual records

Forms part ofReel 122

Record typeGovernment Records

Scope and content File consists of summons to appear.

Statement of plea.

CopyrightCopyright resides with Crown.
• Court: Loan from Sheriff James Carter to Benjamin Sweetland and Sarah Morry, 3 May 1880, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Party)
• Residence: From their loan from Sheriff James Carter, 3 May 1880, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. CDC Vol 28 Fol 20-23 James Caarter from Benjamin S Morry et al 03-05-1880.
• Court: Selected for Grand Jury Duty, 20 Nov 1880, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Grand Jury Member in Trial of Nain Inuk Ephraim, 10 Aug 1881, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. No occupation mentioned but Domicile was Duckworth St.
• Court: Further loan of another $80 from Sheriff James Carter to Benjamin Sweetland Morry and wife Sarah Carter, 18 Feb 1882, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Party)
• Occupation: Farmer, Bef 17 Feb 1895, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Death: 19 Feb 1895, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 300112:

In the NGB transcript of the church record the dates of burial are sometimes mistakenly given as the date of death. The newspaper reports confirm the date of death was actually 17 Feb 1895. Interestingly, the vital records, which are prepared from the church registers, compounds the error by repeating the same incorrect date of death.
• Minister/Priest: Henry Winsor in the absence of a clergyman, 19 Feb 1895, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Matthew Morry II, JP ⁷⁸ ^,105 ^,109 ^,168 Mother: Ann Sanders

Spouses and Children

1. *Sarah Weston Carter ²⁸² Marriage: 22 May 1850 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁵¹¹ ^,3006 ^,3198 ^,3199
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: H. H. Hamilton, 22 May 1850, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Witnesses: Matthew Morry, Mrs. Hamilton, Jane Morry, 22 May 1850, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes

Witnesses included Matthew Morry, Mrs. Hamilton and Jane Morry and Minister was H.H. Hamilton (NLGS - C of E Ferryland District Marriage records)

180116:
According to a note by an unidentified person on her bible, which now rests in the Ferryland Museum, thanks to dear old Aunt Pat, who had no use for the Morry family history, this couple had no children.

29062021:

I just realised whilst comparing my information against that of Jean Carter Stirling in her research notes that there is a discrepancy between the Vital Records account of this marriage and the actual parish register. The former gives the date as 1 may 1850 whilst the latter shows 22 May 1850. This was one of MANY errors made in the Vital Statistics trasncription by a person named Frank Severn. Those records are NOT to be trusted.

151223:
From Robert Carter's Journal for 22 May 1850:
Benjⁿ Morry & Sarah Carter the daughter of A H Carter were married privately at the Church today, unknown to her friends

Notes
General:

[Brøderbund Family Archive #118, Ed. 1, Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s - 1900s, Date of Import: Jul 26, 1999, Internal Ref. #1.118.1.61990.3]

Individual: Morry, Benjamin Event: Living Year: 1871 Place: Caplin Bay, Ferryland

Province of record source: Newfoundland County of record source: Ferryland

Comments: Trader.

Source: Newfoundland Directory for 1871. Publisher: The Genealogical Research Library Publication place: Toronto Publication year: 1984

Volume/Page(s): 17

Please note: The province and county are associated with the locationof the record source and in some cases may not be the same as the place where the event occurred.

Listed in Hutchinson's Directory 1864 for Caplin Bay as a Cod Oil Manufacturer.

Benjamin shows up for the first time in the Voters List for Caplin Bay 1840 - 1859 in the 1855 list and has "Beach" or "Riverhead" or "Pond Head" shown as his specific domicile area.

Charles Blackman is listed as the Minister who presided at his Christening in C of E Records.

April 5, 2004: Church of England Ferryland Burial Record on Newfoundland's Grand Banks website: February 19, 1895Morry, Benjamin SweetlandNot Stated76Henry Winsor

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040910:

Willeen Keough's book, The Slender Thread - Irish Women on the Southern Shore, records a court case pertaining to theft from James Howe Carter whilst he was away in England. Interestingly, it indicates that his Clerk and Storekeeper was Benjamin Sweetland Morry. This supports the notion that the Carters were in general superior to the Morrys in the pecking order in Ferryland at that time:

Regina v. Bridget Hegarthy and Mary Reed 16 February 1842 Before Robert Carter, JP Information was laid at about 11 O'Clock of the Night of this day by Benjamin Sweetland Morry of Ferryland Clerk and Storekeeper to James H. Carter Esquire, Merchant, (at present in England) that the Store of the said James H. Carter had been feloniously entered by some person or persons unknown to this Informant and a quantity of salted Beef and pork stolen therefrom and a strong suspicion having attached to Bridget Hegarthy (Wife of Charles Hegarthy) and Mary Reed, her Daughter. Informant prayed that a search Warrant may be granted to search the premises of Charles Hegarthy which was granted accordingly and given to the Officer Sullivan to execute.

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260912 from the Evening Telegram, 21 Feb 1895, as found online, courtesy of Google, by Geoff Martin:

"At Freshwater, Ferryland, on Sunday last, 17th inst., Benjamin S. Morry, aged 74 years."

It seems obvious from this that the earlier date of death I had (19 Feb 1895) was in point of fact the date of burial. I am making the necessary changes today. Freshwater was on the southside of Ferryland and would have been the location of the Carter family relatives of his wife rather than a Morry relative. A bit odd that he would spend his last days with his wife's people and not his own.

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180419:

I don't know how Benjamin Sweetland Morry and his wife, Sarah Weston Carter, came into possession of the Williams Estate in St. John's. I don't believe that they ever personally occupied the property. But on July 15 1874, they mortgaged the right to the property to James Howe Carter and his wife Harriet Elizabeth Felicia Carter for a sum of £100 to be paid back within seven years at a rate of 7% per annum interest. CDC Vol 24 Fol 222-223 James & Harriett E F Carter from Benjamin Morry et al 15-07-1874

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151223:
From Robert Carter's Journal for 22 May 1850:
Benjⁿ Morry & Sarah Carter the daughter of A H Carter were married privately at the Church today, unknown to her friends
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Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Saul Morry Mother: Lillian Steiman ⁶⁸⁸³

Bernice Mary Morry

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 7 Feb 1925 - Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States of America ⁵ ^,6884 Christening: Death: 26 Feb 1925 - Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States of America ⁵ Burial: After 26 Feb 1925 - Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States of America ⁵ Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: 543 Middle St., 1926, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States of America. (Occupant)

Parents

Father: Gnr. Thomas Graham Morry IV ¹⁶⁸ ^,327 ^,1832 ^,1833 ^,1834 ^,1835 ^,1836 ^,1837 Mother: Esther Maud Mary Battcock ³³ ^,168 ^,327 ^,1064 ^,1827 ^,1828 ^,1829 ^,1830 Marriage Did Not Marry

Notes
General:

Email from Enid O'Brien 29/05/02:

NF Weekly, vol 1-5, March 13, 1925

The many friends of Mr and Mrs TG Morry, 204 Forest Street, Medford, Mass will regret to learn the death of their twin dgts, Bernice Mary who passed away Feb. 26th and Mary Bernadette who died March 7th. They were born at Fall River, Mass. Feb. 7, 1925 and their loss is deeply deplored as their deaths were unexpected, their illness being of shortduration. Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Mass. Mrs Morryis the former Maude Battcock of Brigus South and Mr. Morry is a native of Ferryland.

230425:
This newspaper birth announcement in the Fall River Globe newspaper (on MyHeritage) gives the incorrect date of birth.

Fall River Globe - Mar 13 1925
United States Newspapers from OldNews.com
Text:"...Antone M Slivia, 190 Lind sey street, Manch 11. boy To Mrs. Thomas Morry. 43 Middie street, March 7. (twin girls) To Mrs. ..."
Publication title:Fall River Globe
Publication place:Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
Date:Day Month 1925
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