Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Leonard Charles Pike Simms

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 28 Oct 1887 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²³ Christening: Death: Apr 1888 - St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²³ Burial: Apr 1888 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²³ Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Dr. William Cawley Simms M.D. ²³ Mother: Julianna Smith Hayward ²³

Lillian Maud Simms

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1872 ⁴²⁵ Christening: Death: 1949 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 77) ¹⁹¹³ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: 25 Military Rd., 13 Mar 1909, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Occupant)
• Residence: 25 Military Rd., 1914, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: Military Rd., 14 May 1929, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Occupant)

Parents

Father: Dr. William Cawley Simms M.D. ²³ Mother: Julianna Smith Hayward ²³

Spouses and Children

1. *Francis Edward Rendell ¹⁰ ^,168 ^,425 Marriage: Cir 1895 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴²⁵ Children: 1. George William Rendell 2. Arthur Charles Rendell 3. Hubert Francis Rendell

Margaret Simms

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 1835 Christening: 15 May 1836 ⁹⁷³ Death: 18 Oct 1923 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 88) Burial: in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Cause of Death:
Events
• Property: SDC Vol 4 Fol 480-482 Mary A & Robert Carter et al to Alfred Larder 17-12-1869, 17 Dec 1869, Trepassey, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Conveyance to Alfred Larder of all the lands owned by the late George Simms Senior by all of his children and heirs, including Mary Ann Simms and her husband Robert Carter.
• Residence: 17 Dec 1869, Trepassey, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: George Simms JP ¹⁰ ^,141 Mother: Catherine Burke ¹⁰ ^,1506 Marriage Did Not Marry ¹⁷⁹²

Notes
General:

!Unmarried, died age 88 according to newspaper.

Marion Charlotte Simms

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 11 Sep 1863 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵¹⁸ Christening: 22 Dec 1863 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵¹⁸ Death: 1946 - ( at age 83) ²³ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: 1863, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Dr. William Cawley Simms M.D. ²³ Mother: Christine St. Clair McLean ³⁰³⁷

Mary Anne Simms

Sex: F
AKA: Mary Ann Simms ¹¹ ^,141 ^,983
Individual Information

Birth Date: 26 Oct 1824 - Trepassey, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹¹ Christening: 23 Jun 1826 ⁹⁷³ Death: 4 Dec 1906 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 82) ³³ ^,2558 Burial: 6 Dec 1906 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁹⁷³ ^,2558 Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1824, Trepassey, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Birth: 26 Oct 1824, Chester, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Interesting: Robert Carter and his future bride meet for perhaps the first time, 10 Nov 1837, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Witness)
• Christening: 12 Jun 1850, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Sponsor)
• Residence: 91 Water St., 1863, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Occupant)
• Property: SDC Vol 4 Fol 480-482 Mary A & Robert Carter et al to Alfred Larder 17-12-1869, 17 Dec 1869, Trepassey, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Conveyance to Alfred Larder of all the lands owned by the late George Simms Senior by all of his children and heirs, including Mary Ann Simms and her husband Robert Carter.
• Residence: Cochrane St., 1887, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Death: Dec 1906, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: King's Bridge Rd., 4 Dec 1906, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 1906 Dec. 6Carter, Mary Ann82 yrs. Dec. 04King's Bridge Rd.
.

Parents

Father: George Simms JP ¹⁰ ^,141 Mother: Catherine Burke ¹⁰ ^,1506

Spouses and Children

1. *Robert Carter ¹⁰ ^,33 ^,2568 Marriage: 27 May 1847 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁴ ^,141 ^,983 ^,1865 ^,2659 ^,3185
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Rev. Bridge, 27 May 1847, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Witnesses: James Simms, James Henry Carter, George Simms Junior, 27 May 1847, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes

210806: BDM reports marriage notice appeared on 01 June 1847 in: 1) Gazette (Royal Newfoundland Gazette) 1807- 2) Weekly Herald & Conception Bay General Advertiser 1842-1854 and added that Bride was the third daughter of George Simms of Trepassey.

150113:

26-May 1847 St Johns Robert CARTER, bach, merchant, Ferryland. [b. abt 1819, son of Robert Carter and Sarah Randell] Mary Ann SIMMS, spinster, Trepassey James Simms, George Simms Sr. STTH [Mary Ann was the third daughter of George Simms of Trepassey

271123:
Remarkably, it seems that this marriage may have been opposed by the father of the groom, though it is incomprehensible why he would have opposed the marriage of his son to a woman of this prestigious family. Nevertheless, it is clear the father was kept in the dark and only found out about the wedding after the fact even though his wife was present.

Here are the entries from Robert Carter's Journal for May 28-29 1847:

"Whites Boat brought
acct of my son Robert's Marriage yesterday to
Mary Ann Simms"

and

"At 9 PM Robert returned from St Johns in his
Boat, with him his Bride and Mother"

Children: 1. Robert Carter 2. George John Carter 3. James Charles Carter 4. Emily Charlotte Carter 5. Mary Ann Carter 6. Fanny Margaret Carter 7. William Frederick Carter 8. Albert Edward Carter 9. Edwin Stephen Carter 10. Sarah Jessie Carter

Notes
General:

Notes from the family tree of Jean Carter Stirling:

Mary Ann Sim(m)s was the eldest child of George Simms, a merchant
in Trepassey,although newspapers have identified her as 4th or 3rd
daughter. Parents married 1823, Mary Ann born 1824.

B&D:Old Anglican Cem'y gravestone:Mary Ann wife of Robert
Carter Born Oct 26, 1824 Died Dec. 4, 1906; also Nf.Archives
Vol.26B, St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Christened by Rev.
F.R.Carrington, father's occupation,Merchant.

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021222:

I have only just discovered that there is a Fonds at the PANL in the Rooms which includes a scrapbook given to Mary Ann Simms by her papa. Here is the reference material to this collection:

Mary Ann Simms
Collection MG 708
1839 - 1844

Level of description
Collection

Accession
8 82

Extent
4 cm textual records
1 photograph: b&w
1 drawing

Consists of
[Item MG 708.2] Large English style cottage (pencil sketch)
[Item A 56-124] Grave of Ann, wife of late James Simms, who died at Clapham...also William, fourth son of James and Ann Simms...
[Item MG 708.3] List of bible verses
[File MG 708.4] Family tree for Robert Carter and Ann Wylley, Ferryland
[Item A 56-125] Christmas greeting to Robert and Mary A. Carter

Record type
Non-Government Records

Custodial history
Acquired by the Newfoundland Museum in October 1979 from John Caines. Transferred to the Provincial Archives 1982. Prior history unknown.

Scope and content
Collection consists of a decorative scrapbook album inscribed to: Mary Ann Simms, given to her at Christmas by her affectionate Papa, 1839. Mary Ann Simms (1824-1906) was the daughter of George Simms and Catherine (Elizabeth) Boerque Burke Simms of Trepassey. On 1 June 1847, Simms married Robert Carter, son of Robert and Sarah Carter, Ferryland.

The commercial album includes blank and embossed pages, with printed quotations and poetry on several embossed pages. Mary Ann Simms appears to have used the album as a sketch and poetry album. Several poems are signed with the name Anne.

Several poems, dated 1844 suggest the writers were saying goodbye to Simms, possibly prior to a departure from Trepassey. These poems, predominantly transcriptions, are written in several hands, likely friends and family members. Signatures include J.M.M. St. John's, 10 Sept. 1844; C.D.K.; J.B.H; and AMLH, 11 July 1944. Signatures may be the author of the poetry or the transcriber.

Seven sketches, predominantly pencil, are drawn or adhered inside embossed frames throughout the album.

Loose in the album are a typescript family tree for the family, of Robert Carter, Sidmouth, Devon and Ann Wylley Simms, Ferryland, a parlour card of the grave of Ann Simms and son, William Simms, Clapham, England, an illustrated Christmas greeting, a pencil sketch and a list of bible verses.

Source of title
Title based on the contents of the collection

Physical description
Commercial album; 29 x 24 x 3.5 cm; brown embossed leather cover; inside cover of pink, heavy graded paper with textured leaf design; various colour pages, predominantly white; multiple embossed pages, some with printed verse.

Alpha-numeric numbers
Newfoundland Museum # 979.251.1

Arrangement
Four loose items described at item level.

Copyright
Copyright expired

General note
For an analysis of the album see The Slender Thread / Willeen Keough (Columbia University Press: 2008) http://www.gutenberg-e.org/keough/index.html

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Augustus Simms ¹⁷⁹² Mother: Living

Mina Louise Simms

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 2 Jan 1875 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Christening: Death: 28 Feb 1960 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 85) Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Dr. William Cawley Simms M.D. ²³ Mother: Julianna Smith Hayward ²³

Spouses and Children

1. *Herbert Stirling ¹⁰ Marriage: 5 Jul 1899 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Children: 1. Marjorie Stirling 2. Living 3. Dorothy Dolly Stirling

Robert Henry Simms

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 18 Dec 1880 - St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²³ Christening: Death: 8 Nov 1948 - St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 67) ²³ Burial: After 8 Nov 1948 - St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²³ Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Dr. William Cawley Simms M.D. ²³ Mother: Julianna Smith Hayward ²³

Spouses and Children

1. *Ethel Fox ⁹⁷³ Marriage: 1912 ⁹⁷³

Sophia Simms

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1785 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom ⁹⁷² ^,4093 Christening: Death: 14 Jun 1859 - Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada ( about age 74) ⁴⁰⁹³ Burial: 16 Jun 1859 - Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada ⁴⁰⁹³ Cause of Death:
Events
• Emigration: From Birmingham, 1805-1817, St. John's, Newfoundland.
• Emigration: From St. John's, Newfoundland, After 1817, Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada.
• Residence: After Oct 1832, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.
• Occupation: Publisher of Toronto Patriot after death of husband, Between 18 Mar 1834 and 9 Oct 1848, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.

Parents

Father: William Simms ⁹⁷³ Mother: Mary ⁹⁷³

Spouses and Children

1. *Thomas Dalton ⁹⁷² Marriage: 9 Nov 1805 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom ⁴⁰⁹³

Notes
General:

21 March 2024 from http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/simms_sophia_8E.html

SIMMS, SOPHIA (Dalton), newspaper publisher; b. 1785 or 1786, near Birmingham, England; m. c. 1805 Thomas Dalton*, and they had three sons and four daughters; d. 14 June 1859 in Toronto.

Sophia Simms was one of 15 children born to William and Mary Simms of Hall Green (Birmingham) and was a sister of James Simms*, the eminent Newfoundland jurist and statesman. Little is known of her early life. She married Thomas Dalton of Birmingham about 1805 and spent much of the next 12 years in Newfoundland. Her husband served in St John's as agent for mercantile houses in Birmingham and London and later had his own business. Bankrupted in the general economic decline that followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the family left Newfoundland in 1817 and settled in Kingston, Upper Canada, where Thomas set up a brewery and was made a director of the first Bank of Upper Canada.

The family prospered for a few years, but the failure in 1822 of the private Bank of Upper Canada, and the harsh sanctions subsequently imposed on the bank's directors, brought great hardship. A disastrous fire in the brewery late in 1828 completed their financial ruin. With the help of his family Thomas Dalton launched a new career in November 1829 as publisher of the Patriot and Farmer's Monitor, but he had to sacrifice the brewery property and their comfortable home to finance the project. Three years later, in October 1832, the family moved to York (Toronto) where the always staunchly pro-British and now strongly conservative Patriot became one of the most influential newspapers of its period. Life for the family was somewhat easier now, but Dalton, frustrated by the government's approach to the problems that beset the province, gave way to frequent intemperate editorial outbursts which Sophia tried her best to get him to moderate.

When Thomas died of apoplexy on 26 Oct. 1840, Sophia took over the management of the semi-weekly paper, becoming the first successful woman publisher in Toronto, but she did not undertake the editorial duties herself. J. P. Macklin, said to have worked at one time on the Manchester Guardian and already assistant editor of the Patriot, stepped into the gap. But Sophia made it clear that she had no intention of abandoning her husband's policy of uncompromising condemnation of perceived evils. In a confidential letter to Dominick Daly*, Macklin reported in November 1840 that he was "not unshackled, being obliged to bow to the dictum of my employers (his widow &c). I have however endeavoured to moderate the tone of the paper, and in doing so have drawn a nest of hornets about my ears." Other editors followed him, with Sophia keeping control of the paper until 9 Oct. 1848.

During Sophia Dalton's years as publisher, the Patriot lost none of its status as a leading conservative journal. In announcing her retirement, at age 63, she said that "although during [her] period the editorial department has been filled by gentlemen of ability, yet, from the peculiarity of her position, there must have been many deficiencies, chiefly on local matters, arising from a want of that energy and activity which are absolutely requisite in the publication of a newspaper. . . . [She] is happy in being able to say to the friends of The Patriot, that it is now in the hands of gentlemen, who will conduct it in the advocacy of those Conservative Principles hitherto maintained, and with vigour and ability beyond her power to accomplish." The Patriot was sold to Edward George O'Brien* and was edited for a short time by his brother, Lucius James O'Brien*, and later by Samuel Thompson*.

Sophia Dalton raised eight children, including one son from her husband's first marriage. Two sons, William Henry and Robert Gladstone, worked in the Patriot office as young men and went on to gain a degree of prominence as a physician and a lawyer respectively. Quiet and unassuming but apparently with great strength of character, Sophia was able to maintain domestic calm through the many storms that buffeted her family. Matthew Teefy, an apprentice at the Patriot at the time of Thomas's death, said of her later: "I shall remember with feelings of pleasure during my life . . . the civility of Mrs. Dalton. She was a kind, good person." She died possessed of a very modest estate, but she made special provisions for her daughters and daughter-in-law, setting up trusts "for their separate use free from the control of their husbands."

I. R. Dalton

The Daltons' Patriot and Farmer's Monitor appeared in Kingston, [Ont.], from 12 Oct. [actually 12 Nov.] 1829 to 23 Oct. 1832, and in York (Toronto) from 7 Dec. 1832 to 18 March 1834. It was called the Patriot from 21 March 1834, and became the Toronto Patriot on 3 Jan. 1840. Issues relevant to Sophia Dalton's life include 25 March, 1 April, 1 June 1830; 23 Oct., 7 Dec. 1832; 27 Oct., 20 Nov., 29 Dec. 1840; and 10 Oct. 1848.

ACC-O, St George's Cathedral (Kingston), reg. of baptisms, 7 May 1825. AO, MS 78; MU 2113, 1858, no.16; RG 22, ser.155, will of Thomas Dalton. Cathedral of St John the Baptist (Anglican) (St John's), Reg. of baptisms, 27 April 1807, 7 Sept. 1809, 9 March 1813. Frontenac Land Registry Office (Kingston), Deeds, vol.E, no.276 (mfm. at AO, GS 3928); vol.K, no.156 (mfm. at AO, GS 3932). PAC, RG 5, A1: 36415\endash 25, 47740\endash 43, 135347\endash 50; RG 9, I, B1, 9, List of appointments, 16 Aug. 1821; 12, Markland to Coffin, 2 July 1824. PANL, P1/5, Thomas Dalton to Duckworth, 31 Aug. 1811 (mfm. at PAC). St James' Cemetery and Crematorium (Toronto), Record of burials, 16 June 1859 (Sophia Dalton), 24 July 1865 (Charles Simms). York County Surrogate Court (Toronto), no.1685, will of Sophia Dalton, proved 18 May 1874 (mfm. at AO). Arthur papers (Sanderson), 2: 436\endash 37; 3: 165. [Thomas Dalton], "By the words of thy own mouth will I condemn thee"; to Christopher Alexander Hagerman, esq. ([Kingston?, 1824?]; copy at MTL). Murphy, Winter studies and summer rambles, 1: 272. U.C., House of Assembly, Journal, 1825, app.B. Aris's Birmingham Gazette; or the General Correspondent (Birmingham, Eng.), 9 April 1804. Kingston Chronicle, 16 July 1819, 29 Nov. 1828. Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 10 Jan. 1811, 3 Dec. 1816. Upper Canada Herald (Kingston), 1823. Birmingham directory, 1808. I. R. Dalton, "Thomas Dalton and the 'pretended bank'" (ms, Toronto, 1981, possession of the author). Raymond Card, "The Daltons and The Patriot," CHR, 16 (1935): 176\endash 78. Courier (St John's), 9 Aug. 1865. I. R. Dalton, "The Kingston brewery of Thomas Dalton," Historic Kingston, no.26 (1978): 38\endash 50. Leader, 22 July 1865. M. L. Magill, "James Morton of Kingston \endash brewer," Historic Kingston, no.21 (1973): 28\endash 36.

General Bibliography

© 1985\endash 2024 University of Toronto/Université Lava

Sophia Simms

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 1820 - Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁹⁸³ ^,8022 Christening: Death: 29 May 1902 - Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada ( at age 82) ⁹⁷³ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.
• Alt. Birth: 1818.
• Living: 4 May 1892.

Parents

Father: Joseph Simms ⁹⁸³ Mother: Living

Spouses and Children

1. *Peter Hart Carter ²⁹² ^,1864 Marriage: 17 Feb 1846 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁴ ^,983 ^,3154
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Charles Blackmore, St. Thomas's Anglican Church, 17 Feb 1846, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Witnesses: William George Brooking, William Weston & Mary Carter, Elizabeth J Porter, 17 Feb 1846, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Children: 1. Living 2. James Oxnard Simms Carter 3. Sarah Sidney Livingston Carter 4. Samuel Carson Carter 5. Joseph Simms Carter 6. Sophia Simms Winsor Carter 7. Mary Susanna Carter

Notes
General:

070906:

Carter Family Tree notes she is cousin of Mrs. Brocklebank, whomever she may be!

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