Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Joseph Delahunty ³³⁰² Mother: Desales Goff ³³⁰² ^,4144 Marriage Did Not Marry

Eleanor Delahunty

Sex: F
AKA: Ellen Delahunty ³¹⁰⁰, Ellen Dullanty ⁴¹⁴⁹, Nell Dullanty ⁴¹⁴⁹
Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1805 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Christening: Death: 20 Mar 1834 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 29) ⁴¹⁴⁹ Burial: 22 Mar 1834 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴¹⁴⁹ Cause of Death:
Events
• Court: Action against James Howe Carter for seducing Eleanor Delahunty, 4 Oct 1827, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Party)
• Court: Action against James Howe Carter for seducing Eleanor Delahunty, 4 Oct 1827, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Convicted of Raping an Employee, Ellen Delahunty, 3 Nov 1827, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Witness)

Parents

Father: Catherine Delahunty ⁴¹⁴⁵ Mother:

Spouses and Children

1. *James Howe Carter ¹⁰ ^,983 Partnership: Children: 1. Illegitimate Carter

Notes
General:

060716:

This is the young woman who worked part time as a maid to James Howe Carter and whom he raped (the court case says seduced) and got pregnant. Her mother sued him for £100 but was only awarded £30 in a case heard on October 3, 1827. The Supreme Court (Southern District Circuit) hearings on that visit was presided over by Chief Judge Richard Alexander Tucker Esqr. and the Foreman of the Grand Jury was Benjamin Sweetland, with other local merchants including Matthew Morry, Peter Winser, Noah Clift, Ewen Stabb and Nicholas Stabb as Jurors. It is a wonder, considering the composition of the Jury, that the poor woman received any compensation at all. One thing is certain, neither the mother nor the child she bore of him was remembered in his very rich will.

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From Willeen Keough's Ph.D. Dissertation - Slender Thread:

At the seduction trial of James H. Carter of Ferryland in 1827, testimony revealed that he had hired his alleged victim, Ellen Delahunty, to cut sounds with his shore crew.

GN 5/1/C/1, Ferryland, 142-45, Catharine Delahunty v. James H. Carter, 4 October 1827.

In 1830, Catherine Delahunty tried to sue her son's employer, Thomas Norris, for the balance of her son's wages for "being on the Cut tails" on Norris's boat that summer; the court ordered, however, that she had no cause of action.

Catherine Delahunty of Ferryland, for example, was a widow when she sued James H. Carter for the seduction of her daughter Ellen in 1827,and Thomas Norris for her son's outstanding wages three years later.

PANL, GN 5/4/C/1, Ferryland, box 1, 28, Catharine Delahunty v. Thomas Norris, 15 November 1830.

On 4 October 1827, Catharine Delahunty complained that James H. Carter had seduced her daughter Ellen, and she asked for compensation for the loss of Ellen's services in the amount of £100. (As Ellen's father had been dead for sixteen years, her mother was the proper legal personality to initiate the suit.) Ellen herself appeared at the trial as a witness. She told the court that, for the past year, Carter had persistently courted her attention, first by offers of work\emdash knitting socks, cutting sounds on the stage head\emdash and then by more romantic dint of arranging assignations in the forest to cut firewood. According to Ellen, on their second excursion into the woods, Carter had "used some liberties"; she had resisted his advances, but he had succeeded in having "connexion" with her. The couple went on several more woodcutting expeditions, and eventually, Ellen became pregnant. Her mother claimed that Ellen had been unable to carry out her duties from the seventh month of her pregnancy onwards, that her recuperation from childbirth had been slow, and that her capacity to work thereafter had been reduced as a result.

Ellen's sister, Catharine Kelly, appeared as a witness for the defense, claiming that she had recently had to warn Ellen against "walking with Robert Brine… a married man." Her mother countered with character witness Martin Conway, who swore that he had "never seen Ellen Delahunty conduct herself differently from what well behaved Girls in her situation in life do." The effort by the defendant to present Ellen as an "unchaste" woman would not have disproved Catharine's suit, as the action was for compensation for loss of household services only; however, he may have been hoping to lower the valuation for Ellen as "damaged goods." Certainly, the jury awarded far less than the £100 pounds sought by Catharine, but the assessed damages\emdash£ 30 Cy.\emdash were still substantial for the period, and a significant award for this particular court.

Indeed, given that seduction suits generally garnered higher damages than paternity suits, and given that James Carter was a member of a wealthy middle-class family in Ferryland, Catharine and Ellen demonstrated a fair degree of legal savvy in proceeding in this manner. No local awards under the bastardy law approached £30 during the period. Case File 33.

Case File No. 33
Catharine Delahunty v. James H. Carter
Writ No. 179
Initiated 3 October 1827\emdash returnable 4 October 1827
4 October 1827
Before Chief Justice Richard A. Tucker with W. Carter, A. Morrison, and J. Preston, JPs
This action is to recover compensation for the loss of Services of Plaintiffs Daughter, inconsequence of her seduction by Defendant
Damages laid at £100.0.0
The Defendant having prayed a Special Jury the Court ordered one to be summoned, when the following Gentlemen appeared in Court and were sworn in as Special Jurors Benjamin Sweetland foreman, Gregory Brown, William Richards, Nicholas Stabb, Maurice Brazil, Thomas Norris, Matthew Morry, Peter Winser, Ewen Stabb, Noah Clift, William Goff, and John Killegrew.
Ellen Delahunty, Sworn, Is Daughter of the Pltff\emdash Has no Father living. He has been dead sixteen years, lived with Plaintiff for the last Ten or Twelve years, and has worked for her. Pltff keeps no Servant but witness has performed the duties of one towards her. In 1826 witness first became acquainted with the Defd., the acquaintance commenced by witness going to Defd. for the price of a pair of Cuffs, which Plaintiff had made for one of the persons in Defds. employment, thinks that she went soon after to Defd. with another message from Pltff and Defd. asked witness when she would come again. Witness said she had no business to come again, after this Kitty Kelly desired Witness to make some Socks for the Defd., which Wit. accordingly did and carried them to Defd. who gave her Three shillings and Six pence for a pair of the socks and told her, she might get whatever she wanted, for the money in the shop, Defd. also asked Wit. if Kitty Kelly had delivered her any messuage. Wit. said she had desired her to make the socks for him. Wit. afterwards
occasionally met Defd. in the Street and asked by him more than once when she would come to the shop\emdash at one time Defd. asked Wit. if she wou'd cut some Sounds on the Stage and she consented to do so, she cut four Firkins of sounds, and took up some articles of dress in the Shop on Credit, Defd. sometimes asked Wit. if she had much washing and where she got firewood, He also ask'd her when she wou'd go into the woods for it, Wit. told Defd. she was in the habit of going into the woods for it and Defd. said he wou'd go too. Whenever Wit. went out she generally saw Defd. who repeated his questions about going into the woods. Wit sometimes told Defd. she would go into the woods tomorrow, and he said he wou'd be there too. This sort of acquaintance between Defd. and Wit. continued up to July 1826 when Wit. one day met Defd. in the woods, but no freedom was allowed. Wit. afterwards met Defd. in the Street, and was again ask'd by him when she was going into the woods\emdash Wit. said not until that day week and on that day she again met Defd. in the woods, who ask'd her to speak a word to him. Wit. promised to do so provided he wou'd do nothing to her, when he said he wou'd not. Wit then went to him saying she wou'd take him at his word\emdash Defd. took Wit by the hand and seated himself by her Defd. used some liberties and Wit desired him to desist. He said it was all Nonsense. Deft. then had connexion with Wit. on the ground and afterwards cut some wood for her, after this Wit had frequent connexion with
Defd. and produced a Child on the 29th. April last\emdash The Defd. is the Father of that Child\emdash it was about a week after the first connexion that Wit had another in the woods and it was always in the woods that the connexion took place between them. Defd. is certainly the Father of Wits. Child, during her pregnancy Wit. concealed her situation but it was discovered by Dr. Morrison about six or eight weeks before the birth of the Child, Wit. was living with Pltff at this time, before Dr. Morrison attended Wit. she was attended by Dr. Bryand but he did not find out her situation, When Wit. lay in
her Mother attended her, for a long time before the birth of the Child, Wit. suffered from a stich in her side and a pain in her breast which prevented her from doing her usual work, and after this she was obliged to work when really not able to do so, From July to October, Defd. had occasional carnal connection with her, but it did not take place very often.
Cross examined
Never told Defd. she was with Child by him, but went several times with an intention of doing so, but could not find an opportunity
Plaintiffs case closed Defendant calls Andrew Morrison, Sworn, knows last Wit. and was call'd on sometime last Winter to attend her professionally, discovered that she was pregnant but found her most reluctant to confess that she was so. Wit. thought then that she was about seven and a half months advanced in her pregnancy, and told Pltff he supposed she wou'd be deliver'd about the end of April or beginning of May.
Catharine Kelly, sworn, About one and a half months ago, Wit. who is Sister to Ellen Delahunty, cautioned her against walking with Robert Brine. Wit. did this because he was a married man does not know that her sister ever saw him after that William Harris, sworn, Martin Conway sworn has never seen Ellen Delahunty conduct herself differently from what well behaved Girls in her situation in life do, His Lordship charges the Jury, who retire and on their return deliver into Court the following verdict.
For Plaintiff £30.0.0 Curcy.
Signed Benjamin Sweetland
foreman ⁹⁸¹

Esther Delahunty

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1852 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁸⁶⁶ Christening: Death: 1879 - Cape Broyle, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 27) ²⁸⁶⁶ Burial: Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *Constable Thomas Barnaby Greene ¹⁴⁶ Marriage: Children: 1. John Greene

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Richard Edward Delahunty ⁴¹⁴⁴ Mother: Selena Bridget Harvey ³³⁰²

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Joseph Delahunty ³³⁰² Mother: Desales Goff ³³⁰² ^,4144

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Joseph Delahunty

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1907 - Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴¹⁵⁰ Christening: Death: Bef 21 Oct 2015 ³³⁰² Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Ranger, 1935, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Census: 1945 Newfoundland Census of Household of Joseph Delahunty, 1945, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Downloaded from FamilySearch and corrected so that right and left pages match

All family members RC.
• Occupation: Retail Merchant, 1945, Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Selling liquor without a license, Nov 1948, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Joe Delahunty up before
Court for selling Controller beer. Over
seventy witnesses called.
.

Spouses and Children

1. *Desales Goff ³³⁰² ^,4144 Marriage: Children: 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living 4. Living 5. Living 6. Living 7. Richard Edward Delahunty 8. Living 9. Living 10. Living 11. Living

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Richard Edward Delahunty ⁴¹⁴⁴ Mother: Selena Bridget Harvey ³³⁰²

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Joseph Delahunty

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 1827 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴¹⁵¹ Christening: Death: 6 Mar 1899 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 72) ⁴¹⁵¹ Burial: After 6 Mar 1899 - Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴¹⁵¹ Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *Mary Walsh ⁵ Marriage: Children: 1. Catherine Delahunty 2. Mary Delahunty

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Joseph Delahunty ³³⁰² Mother: Desales Goff ³³⁰² ^,4144

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Richard Edward Delahunty ⁴¹⁴⁴ Mother: Selena Bridget Harvey ³³⁰²

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