Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Catherine Frances Morry

      Sex: F

AKA: Catherine Morey ⁶⁸⁸⁸

Individual Information

Birth Date: 1 Sep 1928 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ³³¹ ^,6889 ^,6890 Christening: Death: 1 Mar 2011 - Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States of America ( at age 82) ⁶⁸⁹¹ Burial: Cause of Death:

Events

• Documentation: Bill and Pat Morry Biography, 2019, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Graduation: St. Patrick's College, Thurles, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. This is apocryphal. She indicates on her Facebook that she attended St. Patrick's, Thurles. But I have never heard of this from her personally or any member of the family and it seems more like wishful thinking than reality. Like most of the Morrys, she liked to creatively embellish her reality.

• Alt. Birth: 1 Sep 1930, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Census: Howard Morry and family (2 pages), 1935, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Household Member)

• Census: Howard Morry and family (2 pages), 1935, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Medical Condition: German Measles, 6 Dec 1941, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Medical Condition: Mumps, 5 Mar 1943. Junior & Kay have the mumps.

• Medical Condition: Elsie, Catherine & Junior Innoculated for diphtheria, 12 May 1943, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Witness)

• Census: 83 Springdale St., 1945, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Household Member)

• Occupation: Stenographer, 1945, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Religion: RC, 1945, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Medical Condition: Innoculation for Diphtheria, 30 Apr 1945, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Residence: Returned to Ferryland for several months, 5 Nov 1945, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Work was no longer available on the American base in St. John's.

• Education: Presentation Convent Highschool, Bef 1947, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Emigration: To Canada, destination unknown, 30 Nov 1948, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Not clear from the diary entry if she flew or sailed to Canada.

• Residence: Living with sister Elsie and her husband Rene, Dec 1948, Sudbury, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. From Dad Morry's diary entry of a call he had with the tree of them on December 27, 1948.

• Residence: 8 Mar 1951, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.

• Residence: York South Electoral District, 34 Rosecliffe, Apt. 4, 1953, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. (Resident)

• Medical Condition: One month in hospital due to a "nervous breakdown", Between Feb and Mar 1953, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.

• Residence: 808 North, West Knoll Drive, 1960, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. (Occupant)

• Residence: 702 East Olive Ave., 1970, Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. (Occupant)

• Living: 1996, Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Parents

         Father: Pte. Howard Leopold Morry RNR ²³^,168^,6693
         Mother: Fredris Marion Powdrell Minty ²³^,109^,168^,673^,1251^,6685^,6686

Spouses and Children

1. *Keith George Belton ¹⁹²² Marriage: 17 Sep 1950 - Ontario, Canada ¹¹⁰⁸ Children: 1. Living 2. Seymour Bernard Kay ⁵³⁸⁰ ^,5381 ^,5382 Marriage: 4 Jul 1959 - La Verne, Los Angeles, California, United States of America ¹¹⁰⁸ ^,5867

Marriage Events

• Divorce: Jan 1971, California, United States of America. 3. Living

Notes

General:

Sister Priscilla's headstone in the Ferryland Catholic Cemetery reads: "Pricilla Anne Morry, 1930 - 1932."

Her birth date (given on Aunt Jean's records) is September 17, 1930 and that of Aunt Catherine is given as September 1, 1930. These are clearly anomalous.

Aunt Catherine (email 02/09/00) isn't interested in providing exact information on her birth but suggests the error may be on her birth year, which could be in 1928: "I go by 1930 for working purposes as it is the only document I have. I could have been born in 1928 - but I do not know for sure." On the strength of this I am adjusting her birth year to 1928 as it makes more sense. This also is borne out by the age given for her (7) on the 1935 Census of Ferryland (see scrapbook entry under father Howard Leopold Morry).

030620:

Aunt Catherine always claimed to have Irish heritage and thorughout her adult life would regale her friends with her character as Queen Maeb. But I only just realised that this delusion when much further back and that on the 1945 Newfoundland Census she listed her heritage as "Irish".

Catherine Marie Morry

      Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 27 Oct 1955 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁸⁹² Christening: Death: 22 Dec 1997 - Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada ( at age 42) ⁵³ ^,6892 Burial: After 22 Dec 1997 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁸⁹² ^,6893 Cause of Death:

Events

• Religion: RC.

• Alt. Birth: Cir 1955.

Parents

         Father: Frederick John Morry ⁵⁰⁰³
         Mother: Susan Rooney ⁸⁸⁸

Spouses and Children

1. Living
       Children:
                1. Living
                2. Living

Notes

General:

301005: Record in the Campbell River Genealogical Society Database of Obituaries

"SHAW Catherine M. (Cathy) [MORRY] 22 Dec 1997 42"

250710: Her grave appears to be in St. John's according to Stonepics: "NF064 : STJ51 SHAW, Catherine Marie Morry (1997) - 1 photo"

This is Belevedere RC Cemetery

Charles Augustus Morry

      Sex: M

AKA: Charles Agustus Morry ¹⁶⁸⁸, Clarence Augustus Morry ²⁹⁶²

Individual Information

Birth Date: Bef 1 Apr 1866 - Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵¹³⁷ ^,6123 Christening: 1 Apr 1866 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁶⁸⁸ ^,5137 Death: 8 Feb 1873 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁸⁹⁴ Burial: 12 Feb 1873 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁹⁶² ^,2986 ^,6894 Cause of Death:

Events

• Alt. Birth: Bef 1 Apr 1866, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Minister/Priest: John M. Noel, 1 Apr 1866, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Alt. Christening: 6 Apr 1866, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Alt. Death: Bef 12 Feb 1873, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Minister/Priest: James H. Carter, Lay Reader, 12 Feb 1873, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Minister/Priest: Robert Carter, Lay Reader, 12 Feb 1873, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 090621: From Jean Carter Stirling's transcript of Petty Harbour records
1878, Feb 12 Clarence Augustus Morry son R. MorryCaplin Bay7Robt. Carter
Lay Reader

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Parents

         Father: Robert Morry ¹⁶⁸^,282^,283
         Mother: Maria Victoria Matilda Winsor ¹⁶⁸⁸
        Marriage Did Not Marry

Notes

General:

April 5, 2004: Church of England Ferryland Burial Record on Newfoundland's Grand Bank s website: February 12, 1873Morry, Charles Augustus (Robt.)Caplin Bay7James Carter

140813: No way of knowing when the actual birth took place as it was not recorded on the birth/baptismal record as transcribed on NGB website. What is given here is an error on another transcript which took the baptismal date as the birth date.

080116:
I have added St. Luke's as the place of Christening of the children in this family because it is most logical since the events were recorded at Petty Harbour C of E registry, not at the Cathedral in St. John's.

In a transcript of births found in the Petty Harbour C of E Register made by Nimshi Crewe for Aunt Jean he recorded that there was a birth date of April 8, 1866 put down in the register. Either he made a mistake or the dates of birth and Christening were reversed. I suspect the latter and I am making the appropriate changes today.

290621:
Note that the burial record is out of place on the church register and pushed in at the bottom of the page under the year 1878 but it is clearly recorded that the burial actually occurred in 1873 and was therefore not a result of the diphtheria epidemic in the winter of 1878-79.

Cheryl Johanna Morry

      Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 11 Jan 1947 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁸⁹⁵ ^,6896 Christening: After 11 Jan 1947 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶⁸⁹⁶ Death: 21 Jul 1948 - London, Greater London, England ( at age 1) ¹⁵¹⁶ ^,3963 ^,6897 ^,6898 ^,6899 Burial: 27 Jul 1948 - Camden, Greater London, England ⁶⁹⁰⁰ Cause of Death: Shock of Burns of Body/Cot caught fire at home ⁶⁸⁹⁸

Events

• Court: Inquest into death, Hampstead, Middlesex, England.

• Alt. Birth: Jan 1947, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Departure: Returning to England with Cheryl, Cir 30 Aug 1947, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Witness)

• Alt. Death: Between Jul and Sep 1948, Hampstead, Middlesex, England.

• Medical Condition: Died of burns suffered in an accident., 21 Jul 1948, Hampstead, Middlesex, England.

• Alt. Death: 1949, Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.

• Probate: 21 Jan 1949, London, Greater London, England. Cheryl Johanna Morry
in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
Detail Source
Name:Cheryl Johanna Morry
Death Date:21 Jul 1948
Death Place:London, England
Probate Date:21 Jan 1949
Probate Registry:London, England.

Parents

         Father: CPO Reginald James Morry Royal Navy ¹⁶⁸^,867^,6004
         Mother: Gladys Joyce Kortan ²⁵⁴^,1964^,4858^,6001

Notes

General:

Died a tragic accidental death in 1948 (burned to death)

160513:

On Ancestry.com I found this under England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1904&enc=1>:

Morry, Cheryl Johanna of 55 Bartholomew-road Kentish Town London spinster died 21 July 1948 at Hampstead General Northwest London Hospital Haverstock Hill London N.W.3 Administration London 21 January to Reginald James Morry advertising salesman. Effects £150

It would seem that anyone, even an infant, who had possessions worth more than a certain amount had to have their estate pass through probate.

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210622:

I had been told (by Aunt Phyl I believe) that Cheryl died of burns suffered in an accident but in Dad Morry's diary after he heard the news from Aunt Phyl this is how the tragedy was described:

(25)Foggy again. Just had a phone
call from Phyl saying Cheryl had died
from shock after an accident. It
must have been an awful shock to them
as it was to us when we heard it.

Of course shock would have resulted from a serious accident involving burning but it seems to conflict with what I had been told earlier that she died as a result of burns.

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220622

Just received the official copy of her birth certificate that I ordered last week from the Provincial Office of Vital Statistics. It does not reveal any new information about the birth. And clouds things considerably with a couple of errors that may have been on the original register or were a result of its transcription to the official copy I ordered.

However, it does give the place of birth as Ferryland, which I very much doubt because Gladys and Reg had moved to St. John's for the winter according to Dad Morry's diary. Reg did go back to Ferryland at the beginning of the fishing season but it was never suggested that he was joined by Gladys and Cheryl.

I am positive that she was born in St. John's, so Reg must have given his current address when the birth was registered and they took that to be the place of birth. Note that the birth was not registered until Nov. 24, 1947 when Reg left Newfoundland to rejoin Gladys and Cheryl in England. They had already left Newfoundland around Aug. 30 1947 according to Dad Morry's diary.

The name given for Cheryl's mother on my copy of the official certifate of birth is Gladys Joyce as if Joyce were her surname, not her middle name. I do not know if this error is found on the original register or if it was made when the clerk copied the information from the register to my copy of the official birth certificate.

Medical:

Post Mortem ruling Accidental ⁶⁸⁹⁹

Living

      Sex: M

Parents

         Father: Thomas Graham Morry V ¹⁶⁸^,867^,2148^,6695
         Mother: Evelyn Mary Wheeler ¹⁶⁸^,868^,1051^,1108^,2145^,2146^,2147^,2148^,2149

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Marriage Events

• Marriage Banns: Paroise St-François-D'Assise, Between 29 Jul 1972 and 13 Aug 1972, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

• Marriage License: W 135606, 1 Aug 1972, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

• Minister/Priest: Father Arthur Lionel Deveau, PP, Paroise St-Francois-d'Assise, 19 Aug 1972, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

• Witnesses: Michael Patrick Daniel Doherty and Mabel (Elizabeth) Sinclair, 19 Aug 1972, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Children: 1. Living 2. Living 3. Bryan David Morry

Living

      Sex: M

Parents

         Father: John Colbert Morry ¹⁶⁸^,1108
         Mother: June Rose Pamela Riggs ⁶⁹⁰¹

Spouses and Children

1. Living
       Children:
                1. Living
                2. Living

Clara Isabella Morry

      Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 22 May 1854 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁸² ^,283 ^,1688 ^,3130 ^,3835 Christening: 29 Oct 1854 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰⁹ ^,1688 ^,3130 ^,3835 Death: 28 Nov 1931 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 77) ⁶⁹⁰² Burial: 30 Nov 1931 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁸⁶² Cause of Death: Myocarditis ¹⁸⁶²

Events

• Minister/Priest: H. H. Hamilton, 29 Oct 1854, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Interesting: Given a child's bible by "Mrs. Mountain", later the wife of Bishop Feild, 1864, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The book was later passed by her to Joyce Lytton, her husband's grandniece in British Columbia in 1929, shortly before she died.

• Departure: Per CASPIAN to Liverpool, 6 Jul 1878, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Witness)

• Residence: 27 Victoria St., Dec 1907, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Occupant)

• Census: 1921 Newfoundland Census of household of Clara Windsor, Widow, 1921, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Note that her spinster sister, Florence (Flossy), was living with her at the time of this census.

• Alt. Death: 27 Victoria St., 1931, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Residence: 27 Victoria St., Nov 1931, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Alt. Burial: After 28 Nov 1931, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Alt. Death: 30 Nov 1931, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Cemetery record shows date of death and burial the same so this is obviously wrong.

Parents

         Father: John Henry Morry ¹⁶⁸
         Mother: Elizabeth Sarah Winsor ¹⁶⁸^,282^,283

Spouses and Children

1. *John James Windsor ⁶ ^,19 ^,168 ^,282 ^,283 ^,1157 Marriage: 12 May 1880 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁵¹¹ ^,3006 ^,6903

Marriage Events

• Minister/Priest: Rev. Edward Botwood, Dean of Avalon, 12 May 1880, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Witnesses: John Morry, Florence Morry, Henry C. Winsor, William Morry, Thomas G. Morry, Alice W. Morry, Annie J. Winsor, Peter Winsor, 12 May 1880, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes

Discrepancy in date of marriage (1880 or 1890?). NLGS records C of E information on marriages and it shows 1880. Witnesses were John Morry, Florence Morry, Henry C. Winsor, William Morry, Thomas G. Morry, Alice W. Morry, Annie J. Winsor, Peter Winsor and the Minister was William Bowman.

Terra Nova Advocate: Married: May 12, 1880, at St. Lukes Church, Ferryland, John T. Winsor, Esq. of Aquaforte, to Clara Isabella, eldest daughter of John Morry Esq, of Ferryland. By Rev. Edward Botwood.

Note that Clara was only eldest daughter by virtue of the early and untimely deaths of her siblings, Agnes and Alice. Note also error in initial of groom.

200806:

BDM on CD-ROM repeats some of the errors above. It reports that marriage notice appeared on 18 May 1880 in: 1) Gazette (Royal Newfoundland Gazette) 1807- 2) Morning Chronicle 1865-1881

Bride was the eldest daughter of John Morey (sic) from Ferryland. I'm pretty sure that John Henry Morry did not spell his surname the old way (Morey) so there was an error either in the paper or the transcription. This transcript also spells out the groom's name as John T. Winsor, getting both the initial and surname incorrectly.

031012 Geoff Martin located the May 25 1880 copy of The Newfoundlander online courtesy of Google which includes this announcement:

"On the 12th inst., by the Rev. Edward Botwood, Dean of Avalon, at St. Luke's Church, Ferryland, John J. Winser, Esq, of Aquaforte, to Clara Isabella, eldest daughter of John Morry, Esq, of Ferryland."

This version gets the spelling of Morry correctly but gives another erroneous spelling for the groom's surname -- Winser. At least if got his middle initial correctly.

120713:

There seems to be little known about St. Luke's Anglican Church, when it was constructed and when it was demolshed for lack of use. The problem is that there are almost no living Anglicans in Ferryland anymore and hence no one with a connection to this church. I had made notations in the family tree file on many instances to a baptism, marriage or burial taking place at St.Luke's, but I now realise that in many of those instances I may have been making an assumption that was not justified. There seems to have been an earlier church that existed before St. Luke's, which was near where the Forge Hill or Fox Hill Cemetery is located. The previous church was believed to have been located near the Pool, which makes sense, but no one knows if it too was called St. Luke's and how long it lasted. Here are some notes on the subject from an email sent on July 11, 2013 by Jean Carter Stirling and contributed to by Ida White Michael:

Hi, Chris & Enid == Ida and I are here together staring at the screen and trying to decide what info we have that you may not, in the context of St. Luke's C of E Church in Ferryland -- which is not much!!!

Ida remembers as a child hearing that the first C of E church was in the Pool. Neither of us remembers knowing the name of it. This church was there for sure during the years the Robert Carter Journals ( 1832-52) were kept, and there were sometimes resident ministers, and sometimes just visiting ones ..... the ones who were resident also had other nearby places that they were responsible for, like Aquaforte, Renews, etc. . One, Rev. Hamilton, was there as a bachelor to begin with, taking the place of Rev. Hoyles who married and moved to St. John's. Rev. Hamilton after several years married in Halifax, and brought his bride back to Ferryland, where they had several children, some of whom died, and his wife died in childbirth and is buried C of E cemetery on Fox Hill, near the R.C. priest's house, North side of Ferryland. This first C of E church is very central to the life described in the RC Journals; it was heated only with a pot bellied stove, and Robert Carter, on Christmas could not attend church because his arthritis was so bad and the place so cold. We don't know how long it lasted, or when it was replaced by St. Luke's, which surely must have been built after the first church was no longer usable.???

Ida also remembers that the remnants of St. Luke's was between the priest's house and Friebairn's property. Ursula Kieley remembers as a child the remnants of it as Ida described.

Ida's great aunt Ida Clapp Mainwaring's wedding picture Ida remembers, was in the old Sea View house, which was the old Carter house where Ida was born, torn down in 1965. (we have a photo of a painting of that old house).

Great Aunt Blanche Tessier was married at St. Luke's and Ida had a copy of the original wedding invitation, addressed to her grandparents, Clara and Will Costello. The latter were married in 1913 and so St. Luke's was still there then. Blanche was married in St. Luke's and had the reception at Sea View, same as her sister, Ida. We don't know who the officiating minister was, and that original wedding invite was given to Carl Tessier, who has since died in Gander, his home.

Notes

General:

Second name may have been Isabell (Jean Funkhouser's information) but birth registration in C of E records shows it Isabella.

Minister at Christening was H.H. Hamilton according to C of E records in Ferryland.

050703: Gravestone in Church of England Cemetery, St. John's, Newfoundland, wrongly indicates year of birth as 1855.

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From Enid O'Brien 260213

Even Telegram 28/11/1931 Clara Isabelle, dgt of late John Morry (Ferryland) and widow late John J. Winsor of Ferryland. Late res 27 Victoria Street.

080116:
I have added St. Luke's as the place of Christening of the children in this family because it is most logical since the events were recorded at Petty Harbour C of E registry, not at the Cathedral in St. John's.

Living

      Sex: M

Parents

         Father: Living
         Mother: Living

Living

      Sex: F

Parents

         Father: Living
         Mother: Shirley Ann O'Brien ²⁷⁵^,343

Living

      Sex: M

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