Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Living

Sex: M

Spouses and Children

1. *Phoebe Georgina Corbin ⁴⁴⁹ Marriage:

Living

Sex: M

Spouses and Children

Children: 1. Alfred Canning

Alfred Canning

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Dec 1865 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁰ ^,33 ^,68 ^,493 ^,2772 Christening: Death: 19 Nov 1923 - Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 57) ³³ ^,2772 Burial: After 19 Nov 1923 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁷⁷² Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: Athlone Cottage, Home of Matthew and Elizabeth Morry, After 1865, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Fisherman, 1894-1897, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Fisherman, 1898, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: On the 1900 Voters List, 1900, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The 1900 Voters List for Caplin Bay included Alfred Canning but not Miss Lizzie Morry because women did not have the franchise then. There were no Morrys on the list. All the men had moved away or died by then.
• Occupation: Unknown or unemployed, 1904, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. No sign of Alfred Cannings name and of course no Morrys in business in Calvert by then.
• Residence: 1908 Voters List, 1908, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The 1900 Voters List for Caplin Bay included Alfred Canning but not Miss Lizzie Morry because women did not have the franchise then. There were no Morrys on the list. All the men had moved away or died by then.
• Census: Household of Elizabeth Morey [sic], 1921, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Head of Household)
• Occupation: Fisherman, cod fishery and small farmer, 1921, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Matthew Morry III ¹⁶⁸ ^,497 Mother: Elizabeth Coulman ¹⁶⁸ ^,2773 ^,2774

Spouses and Children

1. *Mary Swain ³³ ^,493 Marriage: 26 Nov 1892 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁵⁰³ ^,2775
Marriage Events
• Alt. Marriage: Cir 1892, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Minister/Priest: L. K. Vereker, Holy Trinity RC Church, 26 Nov 1892, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Witnesses: Thomas and Charlotte Ann Swane [sic], 26 Nov 1892, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes

290120 from NLGenweb:

26Nov1893CANNING, Alfred28 SWAIN, Mary23 LK VerekerThomas SwainCharlotte Swain
Children: 1. Pte Charles Augustus Canning 2. Mary Valetta Canning 3. Leonard Joseph Canning 4. Mary Evelyn Canning 5. John Canning 6. Mary Canning

Notes
General:

220108:

Alfred was unofficially adopted by Elizabeth [Coulman] Morry, as was often the case in Newfoundland when a family was too poor to look after all their own children. As a result, his son Leonard inherited all the Morry property on the North Side of Calvert that was left in the estate of Matthew and Elizabeth's spinster daughter Elizabeth Ann. The only surviving heir was Elizabeth's brother, Henry Morry in BC and he was left nothing by her. The will is of questionable validity, having been written out shortly before her death in the presence of the Cannings and witnessed by their friends and relatives. But it was never legally challenged at the time of her death.

Alfred's birth parents are unknown. Kevin Reddigan points out that his Christian name is one seldom if ever used in Irish Catholic families and that there is a possibility his father was a Protestant and that he may not have married Alfred's mother. Alfred was a name used in the White family of Ferryland. This is purely speculation obviously but in the absence of any birth or baptism record to connect him with any of the known Canning families in the area, speculation is all we have to go on.

161019:

This is how Kevin Reddigan describes the presence of the Morry family and their associates at Athlone starting about 1844:

Courageous Souls, Chapter Six, Pages 173-175
Morry and Locke - Athlone circa 1844
As mentioned earlier, the property at Athlone that belonged to John Rossiter might have become the home of Matthew Morry (III) about 1844. Matthew was born in August 1813 on the South Side of Caplin Bay, the second son of Matthew Morry (II) and Anne Saunders/Sanders. Matthew Morry (III) was married twice. On August 18th, 1838, he married Elizabeth Chafe of Petty Harbour, who was terminally ill. Elizabeth died four days later at her family's home in Petty Harbour.
Matthew did not marry again until February 19th, 1844. His second wife was Elizabeth (Eliza) Coleman from Ferryland, one of the first schoolteachers mentioned for Caplin Bay under Newfoundland's initial non-denominational school system. Matthew Morry established his fishing enterprise in the small cove on the north shoreline, just below his home referred to as Athlone Cottage. He and Elizabeth had five children over the next ten years. Matthew Morry (III) died at the age of forty, in 1854, when all his children were still very young. His eldest son, Matthew Jr. died several years later when he was just 12 years old. We do not know who ran the fishing enterprise at Athlone after Matthew's death. I can only speculate that some of his brothers and a servant, James Locke, operated it until his sons, William and Henry, came of age.
Sometime before Matthew Morry died, he had hired James Locke. It appears that James lived in the Morry family household since his name never appeared in any of the Caplin Bay Voters Lists. There are no surviving records to tell us what duties James performed for the Morry family, but his name appears in two Crown Land grants at Caplin Bay. Although both grant documents were destroyed in the Great St. John's Fire of 1892, the general location of these properties are shown on Edward ''Kehoe" Sr.'s Crown land grant #2893, of 1869. The associated survey showed James Locke's two properties abutting the land granted to Edward Keough.
James Locke's Newfoundland Vital Statistics death record for December 3rd, 1896, stated that he was born in England, about 1806. Although I found no evidence of a will in James Locke's name, it appears that my great-grandfather, Thomas Meaney, came into possession of his properties, adjacent to the Morry estate at Athlone Caplin Bay.
Matthew and Elizabeth (Coleman) Morry's sons, William and Henry, survived to manhood and eventually immigrated to British Columbia. William died there in 1910 and Henry died there in 1939. Their only surviving daughter, Elizabeth (Lizzie) never married, but lived out the rest of her life at Athlone. Records indicated that in addition to Athlone this branch of the Morry family also had property directly across the Bay, at Lance Cove, near the southern headland of Caplin Bay. It was obtained by Matthew Morry (III) in 1851 under Crown Land grant #961. Elizabeth and her brother, Henry, eventually sold this property in March 1900 to Dr. James Walker McCullock.
In addition to the property at Athlone, Elizabeth Morry held possession of part of the old Nash/Morry property on the South Side of Caplin Bay. In Gerald L. Pocius' book, A Place to Belong - Community Order and Everyday Space, in Calvert, Newfoundland, the late Clarence O'Toole explained that before his father, James O'Toole, bought the old Morry property, fishermen who needed shore space in that area had to rent it from Miss Lizzie Morry.
He stated that "a trapman paid ten dollars a year and a trawlman paid five dollars a year'' for access to the shoreline. He also indicated that the rent money, which was due before the fishing season started, was collected on Miss Lizzie's behalf by a man named LeMessurier who ''came up" from St. John's. Family researcher, Christopher Morry, identifies this person as likely being William Warner LeMessurier, the husband of Miss Lizzie's aunt, Priscilla Ann Morry. The Newfoundland Registry of Deeds indicates that Miss Morry eventually sold this property to James O'Toole on November 10th, 1928.
Miss Elizabeth Morry died at Calvert in 1930, the last of the Morry family living there. Miss Morry left a will, but after her death, there was a dispute between the descendants of Alfred Canning and relatives of Miss Morry, as to who would, or who should inherit her estate.
Alfred Canning was born at Ferryland about 1865. It appears that after Alfred Canning's mother died at Ferryland, Miss Lizzie Morry's mother took him in at Caplin Bay. In those days, there was no formal adoption process, and even though the Morry's were still Anglican at that time, Alfred was raised as a Roman Catholic, his mother's religion. He continued to live in the same household with Miss Lizzie Morry even after his marriage to Mary Swain in 1892.
The 1921 Newfoundland Census shows they were all still living together in Athlone Cottage. A few years after Alfred Canning's death in 1923, his son Leonard took over the care of Miss Morry. Even though Leonard eventually married and started a family of his own, he continued to care for Miss Morry, the last of her family at Calvert, until she died in 1930, at the age of 85 years.

Alfreda Canning

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1934 - Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁵⁴³ Christening: Death: Bef 2 Dec 2022 ²⁷⁷⁶ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: 1945 Newfoundland Census of Household of Leonrd Canning, 1945, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Household Member)

Parents

Father: Leonard Joseph Canning ³³ ^,1685 Mother: Marcella Clancy ³³ ^,493

Spouses and Children

1. *Mike O'Neil ²⁷⁷⁶ Marriage:

Notes
General:

PAGE Database online. DATA TEXT Record for Leonard Joseph Canning Ancestry.com, OneWorldTree (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network)

Anita Mary Canning

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 2 Dec 1937 - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ³³ ^,1762 Christening: Death: 23 Feb 2012 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 74) ¹⁷⁶² Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: 1945 Newfoundland Census of Household of Leonrd Canning, 1945, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Household Member)

Parents

Father: Leonard Joseph Canning ³³ ^,1685 Mother: Marcella Clancy ³³ ^,493

Spouses and Children

1. Living 2. Living Children: 1. Living 2. Living

Notes
General:

290712 from Evening Telegram, Feb. 25, 2012

Anita Mary Kelland KELLAND, Anita Mary (nee Canning)- December 2, 1937 - February 23, 2012. Passed peacefully away in the presence of her loving and devoted daughters Rhonda, Lynn and special family friend, Louise at Masonic Park Nursing Home, on Thursday, February 23, 2012...

Anne Loretta Canning

Sex: F
AKA: Anne Lauretta Canning ¹⁴⁹
Individual Information

Birth Date: Bef 19 Oct 1909 - Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁶⁸⁵ Christening: 19 Oct 1909 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁶⁸⁵ Death: 24 Sep 1936 - Aquaforte, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁷⁷⁷ Burial: Sep 1936 - Aquaforte, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁷⁷⁷ Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1909, Aquaforte, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Thomas Joseph Canning ¹⁴⁹ ^,542 ^,1685 Mother: Mary Josephine Jones ¹⁴⁹ ^,542 Marriage Did Not Marry

Caroline Josephine Canning

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 1911 - Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada ⁶ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Thomas Joseph Canning ¹⁴⁹ ^,542 ^,1685 Mother: Mary Josephine Jones ¹⁴⁹ ^,542

Notes
General:

Helen Steinke provided information on this line in emails and a printout of her family tree file in July 2001. The year of birth differed in some of this information between 1911 and 1912 but was probably 1911 since her brother Ernest was born in 1912.

Catherine Canning

Sex: F
AKA: Kate Canning ¹⁰⁶⁴
Individual Information

Birth Date: Nov 1868 - Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁹ Christening: Death: 3 Sep 1939 - Brigus South, Cape Broyle, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 70) ²⁹ ^,1855 Burial: Sep 1939 - Cape Broyle, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁹ ^,2778 Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *William Joseph Battcock ²⁹ Marriage: 30 Sep 1889 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁹ Children: 1. Peter Louis Battcock 2. Thomas Clement Battcock 3. Mary Joseph Battcock 4. Annie Joseph Battcock 5. John Patrick Battcock 6. Johanna Joseph Battcock 7. James Joseph Battcock

Catherine Matilda Canning

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: 2 Mar 1875 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Living Mother:

Spouses and Children

1. *John Sinclair Simms ¹⁰ ^,1792 Marriage: 7 Jul 1868 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Children: 1. Elizabeth Mary Simms 2. Johnny Simms

Notes
General:

!DEATH: Newspaper account
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Pte Charles Augustus Canning

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 18 Oct 1893 - Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ³³ ^,2772 Christening: 23 Oct 1893 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁶⁸⁵ Death: 13 Apr 1918 - Bailleul, Basse-Normandie, France ( at age 24) ³³ ^,2772 ^,2779 Burial: After 13 Apr 1918 - France ²⁷⁷⁹ Cause of Death: Believed to have died as a prisoner of war in France in WWI
Events
• Military: Private Regt. # 3466 in Royal Newfoundland Regiment in WWI, Between 8 Feb 1917 and 13 Apr 1918, Europe.
• Military: Wounded at Ypres, 16 Aug 1917, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
• Honors: Marble Memorial Tablet to the fallen in Altar of Holy Trinity Church, 9 Sep 1938, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Alfred Canning ³³ ^,493 Mother: Mary Swain ³³ ^,493

Notes
General:

300410 from NGB wesbite: 3466PteCanning, Charles8-Feb-1917Caplin Bay13-Apr-1918Beaumont-Hamel (Nfld) Memorial; Somme, Franceb. Oct 18, 1893, eldest son of Alfred and Mary (Swain) Canning. Believed to have died at Bailluel, France while being held as a prisoner of war.

130717:
The Legion's book, "Lest We Forget, Vol. 16" had this to say about him: " CANNING, Charles, Pte 3466 Served with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment February 8th, 1917 - April 13th, 1918. Born on October 18th, 1893 in Caplin Bay (Calvert), Newfoundland. Wounded at Ypres August 16th, 1917. Remembered on the Beaumont Hamel Memorial, France. KIA: April 13th, 1918.

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