Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Amy Bartlett

Sex: F
AKA: Amy Bartlett ¹⁰¹⁴, Amy Dawe
Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: 30 Nov 1829 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Thomas Bartlett ¹⁰¹⁴ Mother: Mary ¹⁰¹⁴

Spouses and Children

1. *Jacob Isaac Dawe ¹⁰¹⁴ Marriage: 22 Nov 1810 - Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰¹⁴ Children: 1. Susannah Dawe

Beatrice Stentaford Bartlett

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 30 Sep 1876 - Brigus, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷⁸ Christening: Death: 9 Nov 1962 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 86) ⁷⁸ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: William James Bartlett ⁷⁸ Mother: Mary Jemima Leamon ⁷⁸

Spouses and Children

1. *Wilfred Richard Henry Dove ⁷⁸ Marriage: 26 Jan 1904 - Brigus South, Cape Broyle, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷⁸ Children: 1. Dr. Robert Frederick Dove

Eleanor Isabel Bartlett

Sex: F
AKA: Eleanor Isabel Bartlett ⁵²⁰, Eleanor Isabel Ellis
Individual Information

Birth Date: 18 Nov 1898 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵²⁰ Christening: Death: 22 Sep 1984 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 85) ⁵²⁰ Burial: After 22 Sep 1984 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵²⁰ ^,1791 Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett ¹⁵⁰⁴ Mother:

Spouses and Children

1. *Charles Archer Ellis ⁵²⁰ Marriage: 18 Aug 1921 - Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵²⁰ Children: 1. Living

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Abraham Bartlett ⁹⁷³ Mother:

Spouses and Children

1. *Joseph Charles Simms ¹⁰ ^,1792 Marriage: Children: 1. Living 2. J. Simms 3. William Bartlett Simms

Henry B. Bartlett

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 1863 - Brigus, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵⁰⁴ Christening: Death: 1894 - Lost At Sea ( at age 31) ¹⁵⁰⁴ Burial: Cause of Death: Lost at Sea

Parents

Father: Capt. Abraham Bartlett ⁷⁸ Mother: Elizabeth Bellamy Wilmot ⁷⁸

Notes
General:

290618 from Encyclopedia of NL:

BARTLETT, HENRY B. (1863- 1894). Mariner. Bom Brigus; son of Abram Bartlett qv. Educated Brigus. Upon completion of his education Bartlet began fishing each summer at his father's establishment at Turnavik qv in Labrador and sealing each spring on board the S.S. Panther. At the age of 26, in 1889, he became the skipper of the sealing vessel Nimrod which he commanded at the seal hunt in 1889, 1890 and 1891. In the subsequent seal hunts of 1893 and 1894 he commanded the sealer Algerine at the front. Bartlett commanded the Falcon on its trip to the Arctic in 1893, carrying R.E. Peary's expedition to northem Greenland. During the following year, on board the same ship, he picked up Peary in Greenland and transported him to Philadelphia. On the return trip to Newfoundland from Philadelphia the ship, with all its crew, was lost at sea. R.W. Bartlett (letter, July 1981), H.M. Mosdell (1923), H.Y. Mott (1894). CFH
Medical:

Between Philadelphia and Newfoundland ¹⁵⁰⁴

Capt. John Bartlett

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 1841 - Brigus, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵⁰⁴ Christening: Death: Cir 1925 - Brigus, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 84) ¹⁵⁰⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Capt. Abraham Bartlett ⁷⁸ Mother: Elizabeth Bellamy Wilmot ⁷⁸

Notes
General:

290618 from Encyclopedia of NL:

BARTLETT, JOHN (1841 circa 1925). Master mariner. Born Brigus; son of Abram Bartlett qv. John Bartlett was the first of the Bartletts to sail in the High Arctic when, in 1869, he brought the Dr. Isaac Hayes expedition into Melville Bay in the Panther, his father's vessel. Later John Bartlett commanded a number of Peary's ships in the latter's early expeditions in the Arctic. As well, Bartlett was elected to the House of Assembly in 1843 and in 1882 to represent the District of Port de Grave. He became an instant celebrity as a result of his campaign to place a grindstone in each community of the District so that "every man could grind his own axe at the public expense." (D.W. Prowse: 1895, p. 495). Once he was elected, grindstones were established at Brigus, Bareneed, Port de Grave, Clarke's Beach, and Pick Eyes. R.W. Bartlett (letter, July 1981), D.W. Prowse (1895). CFH

John Bartlett

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1725 ⁷⁸ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

Children: 1. William Bartlett

Marina Holecombe Bartlett

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 2 Mar 1812 - Launceston, Cornwall, England ³⁹⁷ ^,444 ^,445 ^,1793 Christening: 11 Oct 1815 - Dartmouth, Devon, England ¹⁷⁹⁴ Death: Bef 30 Dec 1875 - Dartmouth, Devon, England ¹⁷⁹³ Burial: 30 Dec 1875 - Dartmouth, Devon, England ¹⁷⁹³ Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: Household of Christopher Graham Clift, Above Town, 1851, Dartmouth, Devon, England. (Household Member)
• Occupation: Ship Owner and master mariner, 1851, Dartmouth, Devon, England. (Witness)
• Residence: 1851, Dartmouth, Devon, England.
• Census: Household of Christopher Graham Clift, Inland Master Mariner, New Rd., St. Saviour, 1861, Dartmouth, Devon, England. (Household Member)
• Residence: 1871, Dartmouth, Devon, England.

Parents

Father: Living Mother: Living

Spouses and Children

1. *Capt. Christopher Graham Clift Esq., J. P. ⁴⁴⁴ ^,939 ^,1795 ^,1796 ^,1797 Marriage: 23 Mar 1830 - St. Saviour's, Dartmouth, Devon, England ⁴⁴⁴ ^,743 ^,1167 ^,1798 ^,1799 ^,1800
Marriage Events
• Marriage License: Father's approval of marriage of Marine Bartlett, a minor, 20 Mar 1830, Dartmouth, Devon, England. Marriage of Christopher Graham Clift of Townstall in Devon, bachelor and Marina Bartlett of St Saviours in Devon, spinster, minor, 20th March 1830
Repository

Devon Heritage Centre

Reference number

DEX/7/b/1/1830/117

Description

William Bartlett, father of Marina Bartlett, gave his consent to the marriage. Licence to be married in St Saviours in Devon.

Date

20th March 1830

Access status

Open

Level

Item
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• Minister/Priest: Edward Dix, Curate, St. Saviour's, 23 Mar 1830, St. Saviour's, Dartmouth, Devon, England.
• Witnesses: Ann Bartlett, Lavinia Quick & William Bartlett, 23 Mar 1830, Dartmouth, Devon, England. Marriage Notes

211009: From The deanery of Totnes CD CLIFT CHRISTOPHER G 23 03 1830 BARTLETT MARINA

070412 from DRO transcript of St. Saviour's marriages: 23/3/1830. Christopher Graham Clift of Townstall & Marina Bartlett, by Lic No. 310 Both Sign. Wits; Ann Bartlett, Lavinia Quick & William Bartlett

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First name(s) Marina
Last name Bartlett
Marriage year 1830
Marriage date 23 Mar 1830
Spouse's first name(s) Christopher G
Spouse's last name Clift
Denomination Anglican
Parish St Saviour
City or town Dartmouth
Place Dartmouth, St Saviour
County Devon
Archive South West Heritage Trust
Record set Devon Marriages
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Marriages & divorces
Collections from United Kingdom
Devon Family History Society
Transcriptions © Devon Family History Society

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First name(s) Cristopher Graham
Last name Clift
Birth year -
Age -
Marriage year 1830
Marriage date 23 Mar 1830
Place Dartmouth, St Saviour
Denomination Anglican
Residence Townstall
Spouse's first name(s) Marina
Spouse's last name Bartlett
Spouse's age -
Spouse's residence Dartmouth St Saviour
County Devon
Country England
Archive South West Heritage Trust
Archive reference 2992A/PR/1/11
Record set Devon Marriages And Banns
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Parish Marriages
Collections from England, United Kingdom

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Children: 1. Noah Bartlett Clift 2. Sarah Elizabeth Clift 3. Marina Bartlett Clift 4. Capt. Christopher Graham Clift 5. Ann Caroline Clift 6. William Bartlett Clift 7. George Clift 8. John Graham Clift

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071106:

I am making the assumption that her nickname was Sarah because a person by that name is buried with her husband and daughter and is listed as a widow who died in 1875 at the age of 63, all of which fits otherwise.

Records of Burials at St. Saviours, Dartmouth, taken from "The Dartmouth Archives" website of the Dartmouth History Research Group: http://www.dartmouth-history.org.uk

No.of entryName of PersonBuriedDescription of Person BuriedAge Years 741Clift, Sarah Widow63

Place where Death occurredDate of BurialCeremony performed by Saint Saviours30 Dec. 1875 Rev'd. Rhodes

Place of Burial and No. of GrantNo.In Consecrated Ground Wall'd Grave Re-opened305Yes

In Unconsecrated GroundFrom what Parish removedRemarks Saint Saviours

Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett

Sex: M
AKA: Robert Bartlett ⁵²⁰
Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1875 - Brigus, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵²⁰ ^,1504 Christening: Death: Cir 1946 - Brigus, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 71) ¹⁵⁰⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: William James Bartlett ⁷⁸ Mother: Mary Jemima Leamon ⁷⁸

Spouses and Children

Children: 1. Eleanor Isabel Bartlett

Notes
General:

290618 from Encyclopedia of NL:

BARTLETT, ROBERT ABRAM (1875-1946). Master mariner. Bom Brigus. Son of Captain William James Bartlett qv Educated Brigus; Methodist CoUege, St. John's. Soon after completing his education Bartlett embarked upon a long career as mariner, explorer and sealing captain. At the age of seventeen he commanded his first vessel during the fishing season in the waters near Tumavik, Labrador, the site of his father's fishing station. In the fall of the same year he began working towards his master's papers and for the next six years spent his time sailing on merchant vessels, fishing schooners and sealers, and studying navigation. In 1898 he received his master's papers and soon after signed on as first mate of the Windward, the principal vessel of Robert E. Peary's attempted expedition to reach the North Pole from 1898 to 1902. Although the expedition was unsuccessful, principally because of bad ice conditions and severe handicapping of the expedition's leader, Peary, by frostbite and subsequent gangrene, the expedition gave Bartlett experience in survival and travel in the Arctic and left him with the desire to continue Arctic exploration. Consequentiy, when Peary approached Bartlett to take command of the ship on Peary's second expedition to the Pole, Bartlett gladly accepted.

Many preparations had to be made by Peary before that expedition was begun, and while waiting Bartlett continued sailing, commanding the sealers Nimrod, Kite and Algerine in the springs of 1901, 1903, 1904 and 1905. By July 1905 Peary had a new ship, the Roosevelt, built for his expedition and in that month it set sail from New York to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where Bartlett took command. From the beginning the new vessel was a problem: two of its boilers exploded off Cape Breton, leaving only one boiler with which to power the vessel. Despite this problem the Roosevelt was successfully navigated through the ice as far as Cape Sheridan, EUesmere Island, where the expedition members began hunting to provide meat for the rest of the winter, and transporting supplies by sledge over the ice to Cape Columbia, east of Cape Sheridan, where a base for the expedition was established. Starting on February 19, 1906 supplies from Cape Columbia were sledged by Bartiett and other members of the expedition north to various caches along the route which had been plotted to the Pole. Once all caches had been established, Peary was to travel quickly north to the Pole drawing on the supplies in the caches. After approximately 120 days on the ice, sledging toward the Pole, the expedition came to within 87°6' and halted because many of their dogs had died and supplies ran short. On their retum trip south in the summer of 1906 the Roosevelt sttuck rocks, losing her stempost, ruining her rudder and two propellors and puncturing the bottom of the ship. Temporary repairs to the ship were made at Etah, but the trip south from Etah proved little better, as the ship's rudder was lost and the ship ran out of coal. Fashioning a new rudder and hanging it over the stem, and using up whatever expendable combustible materials there were on board, Bartlett managed to get the steamer south along the Labrador coast, stopping in at various settlements along the way to acquire spruce, whale blubber, small amounts of coal and anything else that would burn. The vessel limped south as far as Cape Breton, where sufficient amounts of coal were obtained, and the trip to New York was completed by Christmas Eve.

In the following spring Bartiett went sealing again and during that summer went to the United States to help Peary gather financing for the next expedition that he was planning. The following spring Bartlett commanded the Leopard out of St. John's to the seal-hunt in the Gulf. The ship was wrecked off Cappahayden on the Southem Shore but no lives were lost.

In July 1908 Bartiett, nonplussed by the previous mishaps, took command of the Roosevelt on Peary's final expedition to the Pole. Again the ship was successful in attaining Cape Sheridan. The same methods designed to reach the Pole in 1906 were again adopted and the ordeal of sledging supplies north to Cape Columbia and thence to selected points north on the ice began immediately. On February 15, 1909 Bartlett took command of the first party to go north, and from February 15 to April 2 he marked out a trail on the ice, over which later supply parties were to travel, depositing supplies at regular intervals. While Bartlett and the last of the supply groups were finishing their work on the ice Peary in late March began his trip north from Cape Columbia. Bartlett made his last camp at 87°, 240 km (150 mi) from the ultimate target, and waited for Peary to arrive there. According to Harold Horwood (1977) Bartlett and Peary had agreed earlier that Bartlett would accompany Peary to the Pole. In any event, when Peary arrived at the last camp he ordered Bartlett to retum to the Roosevelt and on April 2, 1909 Peary left the camp, accompanied by his servant, Matt Henson, and without Bartlett, for the Pole. According to Peary he reached the Pole on April 7 or 8, 1909; he was back on the Roosevelt on April 23. Many writers since then have stated that it was impossible to get to the Pole and then return to the ship by April 23. Bartlett, however, never doubted Peary nor did many others, and by the time the Roosevelt had arrived back in the United States, both Peary and Bartlett were heroes.

It should be noted that Peary was not the only one who claimed to have reached the Pole in that year. Dr. Frederick Cook, who had been in the Arctic in the spring, claimed that he also had attained the Pole. An acrimonious battle between Peary and his supporters and Cook and his supporters soon surfaced. In the controversy which ensued Bartlett did not come out of it unscathed, being accused, with others, of having stolen Cook's papers. Despite the battie, Peary and Bartlett received much favourable publicity and in the following winter both went on a lecture tour of Europe, recounting their experiences.
In 1913 Bartlett was approached and asked to command the Karluk, a wooden barkentine which was commissioned to take the Canadian Arctic Expedition, a scientific and exploratory project, headed by VUhjalmur Stefansson, to what is now the Western Canadian Arctic. Bartlett, anxious to get back to the Arctic, agreed and in late July 1913 took command of the vessel, which was docked in Victoria, British Columbia. The vessel, which carried ten scientists, seven Inuit, one white passenger and a crew of thirteen, was supposed to steam north to Herschel Island in the Beaufort Sea, where a base was to be established from which the scientists were to spread out to study and survey the region. The ship, however, did not reach its destination; instead it was caught solidly in ice on August 9, within 80 km (50 mi) of Herschel Island. For forty days the imprisoned vessel floated with the ice and the expedition's leader, fearful that the food supplies were not sufficient, left the ship with five other men to hunt for caribou. He was supposed to have retumed to the same spot where he left the ship but within a day of the party's departure the ship began to drift again and the meeting never occurred. For more than two and a half months the ship continued to drift, powerless, to the west. Bartlett took precautions in the event of the ship's sinking, placing supplies on the ice in which the ship was embedded, and building igloos nearby. On January 10, 1914 the vessel was crushed by increased ice pressure and sank about 240 km (150 mi) northeast of Wran- gel Island and 480 km (300 mi) northeast of the Siberian Coast. All the passengers left the ship before it sank.

As it was the middle of winter, Bartlett decided the best plan would be to stay where they were until light came back. In the meantime he planned to send out parties regularly on the ice to set up supply caches to the southwest toward Wrangel Island, to which he hoped to travel and from which he planned to travel to the Siberian coast. On January 20, he sent the first supply group southward toward the small island known as Herschel Island, where a camp was to be established. This first party never returned; it was revealed later that they died stranded on Herschel Island when ice broke up around its shores and did not form again. A rescue party had been sent to the island to find the first group, but they were kept from the island by open water. Soon afterward four members of the group broke away from Bartlett's group after signing papers releasing Bartlett of any responsibility for their fate. This party was never heard from again. Through perseverance, supply caches were established along to Wrangel Island, obviating the need to carry all their supplies the whole way, and by March 12 Bartlett had succeeded in leading the remnants of the Karluk's passengers and crew over the ice to the island. The island was a barren, inhospitable spot which could not support the survivors for long. Consequently Bartlett, accompanied by one Inuit from the Karluk, and two dogs (which had to be eaten on the way) struggled an astonishing 1280 km (795 mi) over the ice to Siberia and from that part of Siberia southeastward to the Bering Strait, and thence by ship to St. Michael, Alaska, where he arrived on May 28 after one of history's most perilous walks. Acquiring a ship to go from Alaska northward to Wrangel Island to rescue the survivors was not easy, but by mid-July he had succeeded. The ship, however, never did reach Wrangel Island; within thirty-two kUometres of the Island they were forced to tum back for fuel. Luckily on the second trip from Alaska to Wrangel Island in September they encountered a schooner on its way back with the survivors. For his efforts Bartlett received an award from the Royal Geographical Society, but he was also forced to stand before a commission of enquiry into the disaster and was criticized for having agreed to sail the Karluk, which the commission felt had been unfit for its job, and for allowing the group of four to leave the main party.
Soon after, Bartlett applied for and acquired United States citizenship. For most of World War I he served in the United States Army Transport Command. In 1917 he left the services and was commissioned to rescue the Crocker Land Expedition, which he did successfully.

Following this, Bartlett tried for a number of years while living in New York to get financial support for an exploratory trip to the Arctic, but he failed in this attempt. In 1923 he went to Alaska and prepared a report on his trip for the National Geographic.

In 1925 Bartlett, who had been spending most of his time in New York yeaming to go north, received a very generous offer from a friend, James B. Ford, who was a wealthy businessman. Ford, realizing that Bartlett had no money to start exploring the north on his own, offered him money to buy a ship in which to do so. Bartlett accepted and after much searching acquired the Effie M. Morrissey, a schooner of about 120 tons gross, out of Brigus. Bartlett soon gathered financial support from other friends in New York.
Following that summer he had the Morrissey made fit for Arctic travel and embarked upon fourteen yeas of sailing and exploring. In 1926, under contract with the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Michigan, he travelled to westem Greenland, where he made collections of marine life. Sponsored by various groups, including the Museum of the American Indian and the American Geographical Society, he did surveys of Foxe Basin in 1927 and 1933. In 1928 he transported archaeological groups to the westem Arctic and in the following year starred in Varrick Frissel's motion picture of the seal hunt. The Viking. In 1930, 1931 and 1939 Bartlett made trips to northeast Greenland, carrying out work for various institutions, including the Smithsonian Institute, the New York Botanical Gardens and the American Museum of Natural History. In 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1938 he took the Morrissey to Ellesmere Island and northwest Greenland to carry out work for the Smithsonian Institute, the Chicago Zoological Society, the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and a number of other U.S. scientific organizations.

With the commencement of World War II he commanded the Morrissey on various trips to the Canadian Arctic and Greenland and helped in establishing supply bases and weather stations for the United States military.

Once the war was over he returned to New York City, where in the winter of 1946 he contracted pneumonia and died on AprU 28, 1946.

Among the awards he received for his work were the United States' Congressional Peary Polar Expedition Medal, presented to him for the 1908-1909 Polar expedition; a medal from the American Geographical Society; the Kane Medal of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia and the Hubbard Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society.

In 1948 a memorial to Bob Bartlett was erected in Brigus by his friends and another memorial to him was erected in Brigus by the Canadian Govemment in the 1960s. The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada have declared him a person of National Historic Importance. In 1981 a building to house the Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering (C-CORE) was officially opened on the St. John's campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland and was named the Robert A. Bartlett Building in his honour. R.A. Bartlett (1928; 1934), Bartlett and Hale (1916), Harold Horwood (1977), Farley Mowat (1973), R.E. Peary (1907), G.P. Putman (1947), Paul Samoff (1966), Centre for Newfoundland Studies (Robert A. Bartlett), DN (May 30, 1914; June 10, 1914; Oct. 22, 1938; Dec. 31, 1938; July 7, 1939; Sept. 2, 1939; Jan. 27, 1955), ET (Mar. 20, 1926; Sept. 6, 1938; Oct. 2, 1948; June 27, 1949; July 2, 1949; July 16, 1949; May 19, 1953; Apr. 5, \\95A), MUN Gazette (Apr. 23, 1981), NQ (July 1917), Who's Who In and From Newfoundland (1930?), Archives (P 6/8/1/31). CFH

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Capt. Abraham Bartlett ⁷⁸ Mother: Elizabeth Bellamy Wilmot ⁷⁸

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