Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry




Wallace Rees 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 
    Christening: 
          Death: Cir 1954 175
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children 
1. *Marion Regina Bown 168,175 
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Living
Elizabeth Reeve 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 
    Christening: 
          Death: 19 Sep 1846 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 5,7426
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: Lost at sea
Parents 
         Father: Living
         Mother:
Spouses and Children 
1. *Benjamin Sweetland 1202 
       Marriage: 28 Dec 1840 - Whitechapel, Middlesex, England 107,1167,3166,7779,7780

Marriage Events

•  Minister/Priest: Edward Pumphrey, Curate, 28 Dec 1840, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England. 

•  Witnesses: Lewis Richardson Coles, Elizabeth Reeve (presumably a cousin of the same name), 28 Dec 1840, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England. 
Marriage Notes 




250417 from FindMyPast:

First name(s)   Benjamin   
Last name   Sweetland   
Name note   -   
Marriage year   1840   
Marriage date   28 Dec 1840   
Marriage place   Whitechapel   
Father's first name(s)   William   
Father's last name   Sweetland   
Spouse's first name(s)   Elizabeth   
Spouse's last name   Reeve   
Spouse's father's first name(s)   James   
Spouse's father's last name   Reeve   
Residence   Whitechapel, Middlesex, England   
County   Durham   
Country   England   
Record set   England Marriages 1538-1973   
Category   Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)   
Subcategory   Marriages & divorces   
Collections from   United Kingdom   
 Index (c) IRI. Used by permission of FamilySearch Intl



       Children:
                1. Annie Maria Sweetland
                2. Frederick William Sweetland
Notes
General:
290908:

A transcript of a record in a notebook believed to have been given to Jean Morry Funkhouser by Howard Morry. The entries appear to be transcribed from family-related gravestones but the hand is not that of Howard Morry so it is unclear who wrote these records but it is believed to be either of his two aunts Jane or Frances [NB: Nimshi Crewe papers MG281 confirm it was Jane Morry Gray (Dad Morry's Aunt Josey) who visited Dartmouth and took these notes]:

"Sacred to the memory of Priscilla, wife of Thomas Silly who died 26 Janry 1847 Aged 28 years. Also Benjamin Sweetland, her brother who with his wife and child was lost at sea Septr 1846 Aged 32. Also Matthew Moray [sic] Sweetland who died at sea July 29, 1852 Aged 39 years. Also Mary Moray [sic] Sweetland who died 30 May 1854 Aged 33 years."

251121:

This is what William Sweetland said in the family bible:

"Benjamin Sweetland the above 3rd son of William Sweetland married Elizabeth Reeves of London by whom he had issue two children one of whom his son Fred was lost with him together with his wife at the Sugar Loaf near Saint Johns Island in the hurricane which occurred and swept a huge portion of the coast of this island September 19th 1846 leaving one daughter Ann Mana Sweetland who is now in London at the Master (Merchant) orphan and asylum school and since sent to Dartmouth with her Aunt in 1863.
"

I have never heard of Sugar Loaf in the context of St. John's, Newfoundland and I don't know what he means by Saint John Island either. But I have been told since that Sugar Loaf is indeed a land feature near Logy Bay, though the Saint Johns Island remains a mystery as he was well familiar with the St. John's area and would have known that there was no such island in the area.



Rev. Oliver Rouse in his journal had this to say of the storm:

"September 28, 1846
Bowring. The mercantile firm of Bowring Brothers was formed in 1841 by the sons of Benjamin Bowring (born 1778 in Mortonhemstead, Devon), a watchmaker of Exeter who had opened a shop in St. John's in 1815, and in 1823 "acquired a small schooner of forty-four tons, called the Charlotte". "By 1870 the Liverpool and Newfoundland branches of the firm were operating thirty-six ships." (O'Neill 1976.919-21, 961, 956-57.) For details on the history of this firm, and of the Bowring family, see David Kerr: The Bowring Story (London: The Bodley Head, 1962).
our safety. Some ship which had seen the Hawk after the hurricane must have reached St. John's about the time of the present journal-entry , for Maria managed to get a letter to OR by October 15th, telling him she knew that the Hawk had survived the storm. During the week following the Hawk's de- parture, however, Maria must have been gravely worried about her husband's safety. Certainly she had cause for deep con- cern, for the hurricane which raked the Avalon peninsula was (in the words of the Harbour Grace Herald of September 23rd) "one of the most awful and destructive storms that has ever been experienced in this country". The St. John's Times of

September 28, 1846 (continued)
of September 23rd and 30th carried reports of the storm from all over the peninsula: reports of high seas, torrential rains, and violent wind; of ships driven ashore or swamped, and buildings destroyed. Out-harbors which lacked natural protection from the howling northeast winds were particularly hard hit. The village of Grates Cove (which OR was later to serve as mission- ary) lost no fewer than sixty of the seventy fishing skiffs which were lying at anchor in its harbor, and several larger vessels loaded with fish and oil- the fruits of a full summer's labor- were also sunk. (Another source tells us that nearly half the population of Harbour Grace was left utterly destitute by the storm.) In St. John's itself bridges were washed away, brick buildings were demolished, and the well-constructed, wooden Church of St. Thomas "was moved, bodily, from its position about
4 inches"."

On Wikipedia we learn this about the storm from an American perspective:

Hurricane Two
September 10-24. Hurricane originated near the Leeward Islands. On September 19, a gale, possibly a tropical cyclone, destroyed 11 schooners from Marblehead, Massachusetts, and took 65 lives. After this event, Gloucester, Massachusetts took over as the center of New England fishing.

Living 
      Sex: M
Spouses and Children 
       Children:
                1. Elizabeth Reeve
Living 
      Sex: M
Spouses and Children 
1. Living
Living 
      Sex: F
Spouses and Children 
1. *Gerald Leo Espenschied 534 
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Living
Amelia Reeves 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 
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          Death: 
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Spouses and Children 
1. *Joseph Walter Bragg 1035 
       Marriage: 29 Sep 1895 - Kentish Town, Greater London, England
Living 
      Sex: M
Parents 
         Father: Hon. Gerald Augustine Paul Regan 2866
         Mother:
Hon. Gerald Augustine Paul Regan 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 13 Feb 1928 - Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada 172,2866
    Christening: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
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Events

•  Election: 19th Premier of Nova Scotia, 1970-1978, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 

•  Election: Federal Cabinet Minister, various portfolios, 1980-1984, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Parents 
         Father: Living
         Mother: Rose Mary Greene 2866
Spouses and Children 
       Children:
                1. Living
Living 
      Sex: F
Parents 
         Father: Living
         Mother: Rose Mary Greene 2866
Living 
      Sex: M
Spouses and Children 
1. Living

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