Howard Leopold Morry
Beside the Holdsworth Border Stone, ca 1965

This site describes the family history of the Morry family of Newfoundland, from its earliest known roots in Devon, England, to the present dispersal around the world. Please browse the site and contribute your ideas, additional information or corrections to:

cjmorry@ncf.ca

Last updated: September 13, 2023 at 10:20 am

NEWS !!!

A new collection of publications has been initiated today (September 12, 2023).

These are entitled “An Annotated Transcript of the Journals of Robert Carter of Ferryland, Newfoundland”.

They are being published by Amazon on all of its national websites. Here is the Canadian website:

Now completed! All 25 Volumes of Dad Morry’s Diaries are now Available as paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon. Just search for Howard Leopold Morry

UPDATE!!!

As of today (August 23, 2023), for those who wish to simply have access to a complete set of the images and plain text transcripts of the above diaries, they are now freely available on the Digital Archives Initiative at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Many thanks to Collen Field and Don Walsh for making this a reality:

https://dai.mun.ca/digital/howardmorry/

Just Released: An anthology of Tom Morry’s poems taken from his collected works covering the period 1990 to 1996. Available in both paperback and eBook format on Amazon.ca and other Amazon national websites.

Now Available in Kindle and Paperback on Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US

When the Great Red Dawn is Shining vignette by James Langer
Available from the publisher, Breakwater Books or Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US

Now available in Kindle and Paperback on
Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US

September 12, 2023

Today the first Volume of the collection entitled “An Annotated Transcript of the Journals of Robert Carter of Ferryland, Newfoundland (Volume 1 (24 Aug 1832 – 02 Oct 1833)” is available in published form on Amazon. See the announcement here on the Home Page.

August 23, 2023

This year I have been focussed on different aspects of my family history research and have not been updating this website. But one of those other aspects has recently reached a milestone and I want to advertise this fact here.

Today, with the able and much appreciated assistance of Colleen Field, Division Chief of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies (CNS) at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), and Don Walsh the technical brains behind the university’s Digital Archives Initiative (DAI), my grandfather, Howard Leopold Morry’s diaries, in both page image format and as plain text transcripts, are not freely available on the DAI.

This is the culmination of many years of work by family members, including our late cousin, Jamie Morry, his brother, Howard Morry, my brother, Glen Morry, and our cousin, Karen [Funkhouser] Chapman, and I cannot thank them all enough for helping me to realise my dream to honour Dad Morry’s memory in this way.

Here is the link to the collection of these diaries:

https://dai.mun.ca/digital/howardmorry/

January 23, 2023

A letter from James Stewart, newly appointed Pay Officer in Newfoundland, to Rt. Hon. Robert Dundas seeking to spend his first winter in London in an advisory capacity thereby delaying the inevitable adaptation of the Newfoundland climate. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

January 23, 2023

Two letters related to an aging Barrack Master, John Lees, in St. John’s, essentially begging to be transferred back to Great Britain because of the effect of the “extreme severity of the climate” on his health. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

January 19, 2023

Here is a letter from the Scottish Record Office that concerns discussions over Newfoundland Confederation with Canada, not in 1867, and not in 1949, but rather in 1895. The sender and recipient are prominent figures in colonial affairs but apparently in South Africa, not Newfoundland, and this was included on the microfilm solely because of this topical discussion. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

January 18, 2023

A letter from Allan MacDonald, Commanding Officer of the Garrison in St. John’s, sent from London on December 1, 1767, to Sir James Moray of Abercairny offering his home in Newfoundland as a suitable place for the restoration of the health of the Laird’s son. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

January 18, 2023

A letter from a junior Scottish Officer, John Peeble, recounting the events of the Battle of Signal Hill from his personal observations. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

January 17, 2023

The remaining documents on the Scottish Record Office microfilm are an eclectic mix of unrelated information on a variety of subjects which are unrelated to one another except in that the pertain to Scottish activities in Newfoundland in the 18th and 19th centuries. The first of these is an anonymous transcript of the epitaphs of two Scottish officers who died in the Battle of Signal Hill. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

January 17, 2023

Here is the last of the documents on the microfilm from the Scottish Archives that pertains to the Rogerson family. It is a very brief genealogy of the family members who came to Newfoundland and was written by Col. William Rogerson of the 53rd Shropshire Regiment. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

January 13, 2023

A new letter to Samuel Rogerson, the Scottish clerk working for Messrs. Hunter & Co. in St. John’s in the early 1800s. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

December 4, 2022

Excerpted passages pertaining the four Newfoundland voyages recounted in “The Journal of James Yonge, Plymouth Surgeon [1647-1721]. Books

November 4, 2022

After 7 months of long days and nights at the computer, today I have finally completed the transcription and publishing of my grandfather, Howard Leopold Morry’s 25 diaries as paperbacks and eBooks on Amazon and Kindle.

April 4, 2022

An updated and complete Webtree has been added to the Family Trees Page

March 11, 2022

Gradually adding information to the page created to contain information other than the Morrys. Today I am adding Anna Elton-Morris’ excellent summary of the Windsor family of Aquaforte presented at the Windsor Family Reunion, July 29-31, 1988. Related Families

March 9, 2022

Following on with the documents found on the microfilm from the Scottish Records Office, here is a letter from Jean Rogerson to her brother Samuel in Newfoundland written almost exactly 200 years ago. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

March 7, 2022

Read here the fascinating story by Jennie Crisp of how she came upon the 200 year old bible given by Matthew Morry to his daughter Priscilla at the time of her wedding to William Sweetland and then meticulously put together the facts pertaining to all of those named in that bible. Bibles

January 27, 2022

Here is a second letter from the young apprentice, Samuel Rogerson, written a week after the previous one but destined to travel to Scotland at the same time. This one is written to his other brother, David, in Leithenhall and repeats much of what he has already said to William with a few minor additions. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

January 20, 2022

Following on with the documents found on the microfilm from the Scottish Records Office, here is one of two letters from a young Scottish apprentice to his relatives back home giving his first impressions of Newfoundland and Newfoundlanders. Hint: they are not very complimentary. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

January 19, 2022

Another letter found on the Scottish Microfilm suggests a connection to Russia in the trade that was being developed by certain Scottish merchants in Newfoundland in the early 1800s. In this case, it is the Rogerson family, which was well established in Newfoundland commerce and politics in the 19th Century. Scottish Interests in Newfoundland.

Howard Leopold MorryBeside the Holdsworth Border Stone, ca 1965

This site describes the family history of the Morry family of Newfoundland, from its earliest known roots in Devon, England, to the present dispersal around the world. Please browse the site and contribute your ideas, additional information or corrections to:

NEWS !!!

Now completed! All 25 Volumes of Dad Morry’s Diaries are now Available as paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon. Just search for Howard Leopold Morry

UPDATE!!!

https://dai.mun.ca/digital/howardmorry/

Just Released: An anthology of Tom Morry’s poems taken from his collected works covering the period 1990 to 1996. Available in both paperback and eBook format on Amazon.ca and other Amazon national websites.

Now Available in Kindle and Paperback on Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US

When the Great Red Dawn is Shining vignette by James LangerAvailable from the publisher, Breakwater Books or Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US

Now available in Kindle and Paperback on Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US

Howard Leopold Morry
Beside the Holdsworth Border Stone, ca 1965

When the Great Red Dawn is Shining vignette by James Langer
Available from the publisher, Breakwater Books or Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US

Now available in Kindle and Paperback on
Amazon.ca as well as Barnes&Noble in the US