Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Joseph Rennie

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 14 Jan 1797 - Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland ³⁸⁹¹ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: David Stuart Rennie ³⁸⁹⁰ Mother: Living

Mary Broom Rennie

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1838 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²²⁸⁵ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: Terra Nova, Croxteth Drive, 1881, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, England.

Parents

Father: William Frederick Rennie ⁴⁸¹ ^,511 ^,596 ^,2570 ^,3890 Mother: Caroline Broom Williams ⁵¹¹

Spouses and Children

1. *John Bowring ²²⁸⁶ Marriage: 14 May 1856 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴⁸¹
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Bishop Edward (Feild) Newfoundland, 14 May 1856, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Witnesses: George J. Rendell, Elizabeth Jane Carter, 14 May 1856, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Children: 1. Sir Edgar Rennie Marshall Bowring K.C.M.G. Kt. 2. Edward Bowring 3. Mary C. Bowring 4. Arthur Bowring 5. Charlotte R. Bowring 6. Harriet L. Bowring

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Dale Bowring Rennie ²²²⁵ Mother: Living

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: David Stuart Rennie ³⁸⁹⁰ Mother: Janet McAuslan ³⁷⁵⁰

Robert John Rennie

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 12 Jun 1856 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²²²⁵ Christening: Death: 5 Dec 1942 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 86) ²²²⁵ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: William Frederick Rennie ⁴⁸¹ ^,511 ^,596 ^,2570 ^,3890 Mother: Catherine Thorburn McNab ³⁷⁴⁷

Spouses and Children

1. *Julia Caroline Chamberlain ²²²⁵ Marriage:

William Frederick Rennie

Sex: M
AKA: Frederick Rennie ⁷⁸³⁹
Individual Information

Birth Date: 14 Feb 1812 - Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland ⁴⁷⁷⁷ Christening: Death: 5 Feb 1902 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 89) ³⁸⁹⁰ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1812, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland.
• Emigration: From Scotland, Cir 1830, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Owner and originator of Rennie's Mill, After 1832, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Said to have taken over full operation of the mill when his brother James died (Source: Email from Michael Rennie, 160821).
• Occupation: Secretary of St. John's Gas Works, After 1846, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. John Bowring Rennie was the son of William Frederick Rennie (1812-1902) who took over the Rennie mill on the death of his brother James and then after the big fire in St Johns in the 1840's William became secretary of the St Johns Gas Works.
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• Court: Member of Grand Jury, 20 Oct 1858, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Gentleman, Fresh Water Rd., 20 Oct 1858, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Selected for Grand Jury, 20 May 1859, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. From Edward Chafe on Facebook (Newfoundlanders and Genealogy) 050620.
• Occupation: Gentleman, 20 May 1859, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Grand Jurors, Central District, 20 May 1862, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Including George, Warchmaker, Water St.
Monier Hutchings, Gentleman, River Head
John M. Brine, Gentleman, Monks Town
Frederick Rennie, Gentleman, Longs Hill
Lewis Tessier, Merchant, Water St.
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• Residence: Gentleman, Long's Hill, 20 May 1862, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Bef 1902, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Death: Cir 1902, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: David Stuart Rennie ³⁸⁹⁰ Mother: Janet McAuslan ³⁷⁵⁰

Spouses and Children

1. *Caroline Broom Williams ⁵¹¹ Marriage: 14 Oct 1835 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁴⁸¹ ^,511
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Rev. F.H. Carrington, B.A., rector,, 14 Oct 1835, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Witnesses: Robert Rennie, Eliza Langley, 14 Oct 1835, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Children: 1. Living 2. Caroline Broom Rennie 3. Living 4. Mary Broom Rennie 2. Catherine Thorburn McNab ³⁷⁴⁷ Marriage: Bef 1861 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ³⁷⁴⁷ Children: 1. Helen Gemmill Rennie 2. Emma Hoyles Rennie 3. Robert John Rennie 4. John Bowring Rennie

Notes
General:

231117:

Information from Michael Rennie, who was responding to a "match" on FamilyTreeDNA.

"John Bowring Rennie (1861-1931) born in St Johns Newfoundland to William Frederick Rennie (1812-1902) and his 2nd wife Catherine Thorburn McNab. While William was born in Glasgow, his father (David Rennie) lent money to fishing boat captains and bought their catch as the Newfoundland representative of Stuart and Rennie from 1790 to 1810. The birthplace of David Rennie is uncertain. William Frederick Rennie and his siblings returned to Newfoundland in the 1830s."

280220:

Obituary from Michael Rennie's family tree:

"Death's harvest for the past twelve months has robbed St. John's of much that gave its society individuality and distinction. Many of those who have passed away, by strong personality, by keenest interest in the pursuits and amusements of our little life, by large knowledge, peculiar ability or by pleasant mannerisms, had endeared themselves to those around them and gave a flavor and fragrance to the society in which they moved. Need we instance Mr. W. Warren, Mr. John Bowring, Mr. Michael Thorburn, Father Scott and Archdeacon Botwood. Last week yet another has been added to those who have gone, leaving us still more the poorer, we refer to Mr. W. F. Rennie, who in the midst of an almost robust life, astonishingly so for one just 90 years of age, was suddenly called away.

He belonged to a time and age that was far removed from the strenuousness and self-assertion of modern life. There was an old world courtesy about him that was so modest as to be almost shy and which never obtruded itself unnecessarily.

Educated at Edinburg University - and it is interesting to note sitting in the same form with Archibald Tait, who afterwards filled so splendidly the Archiepiscopal chair of Cantebury - Mr. Rennie was ever the man of culture, but one whose deep wells of knowledge were only known to his intimates.

Though the associations of a long life furnished him with abundant and entertaining reminiscences, yet the interests of the present never suffered by the remembrances of the past, for up to the last morning of his long life he was keenly alive to the world's progress and politics.

Mr. Rennie was born in Scotland in 1812 and came to Newfoundland in 1832. His father had carried on business here as partner in the firm of Stuart and Rennie from 1790 to 1810 when he returned to Glasgow. Although Mr. W. F. Rennie had been offered most advantageous business connection in the old land, both he and his brothers seemed to have preferred the more untrammelled and adventurous life of the New World, and all of them made their home on this side, one (Robert) going to Prince Edward Island where his father had purchased 20,000 acres of land from the British Government. Mr. W. F. Rennie thought there was a good opening here for a biscuit manufactory, and after visiting the Army bakeries at Portsmouth brought out machinery and men from Scotland and built what is what is now known as Rennie's Mill as a bakery.

Owing to conditions of trade at this time the venture was not a success. It is rather remarkable though that this was the first machine bakery established on this side of the Atlantic. After the failure of the business, Mr. Rennie was appointed, about 1848, Usher of the Black Rod in the Legislative Council, which office he held to the day of his death, being the oldest Civil servant in the colony.

Mr. Rennie's home and social life is sympathetically reviewed in the following tribute from the facile and kindly pen of D.W.P.:

"Mr. Rennie, who has just passed away at the ripe age of 90, was so extremely modest and unassuming that few persons of the present generation were aware of the intellectual capacity and energy, or the immense service rendered to this colony in times past. Of no one could it be more truly said that "he did good by stealth, and blushed to find it fame." Only those of us who are verging on the seventies or past it, can now remember Mr. Rennie as the energetic, devoted secretary of the old Agricultural Society.

All the great improvements that have taken place in farming, in the breed of cattle, and in the cultivation of the soil, are mainly due to his unwearied zeal. In his day the general public looked on farming in Newfoundland as a pure delusion. Just in the same spirit as the old West Country man exclaimed when he heard of our making roads: "Ah! said he, "they will be having carriages next in Newfoundland!"

Mr. Rennie, and his brother David, however, believed in the country, and for several years carried on a grist mill on the site now familiarly known to us as "Rennie's Mill."

The increase in American and Canadian flour, and its cheapness, put an end to their enterprise. I need not say it was the first mill in modern times, if we except the one erected by John Guy in 1618 at Southern River, near Cupids.

Mr. Rennie belongs to one of the oldest Scotch Families of merchants in the colony. His father's partner, Mr. Stuart, was a cousin of Tom Campbell, the poet. The two young Scotchmen, who first came out to this country in 1832, were highly cultivated and extremely well educated. Never were two brothers more united and affectionate. Both took a keen interest in literature. David was especially a book man. Both, however, were so morbidly shy and diffident that only their most intimate friends knew of their gifts. David married rather late in life the eldest Miss Hoyles, Sir Hugh's sister, Frederick became the husband of the beautiful Caroline Williams, youngest of a bevy of lovely sisters, one of whom was the mother of Lady Raleigh and Hedley Vicars. Others were Mrs. Blackman, and Mrs. Pinsent, Sir Robert's mother. The most distinguished scientific man of our times, Lord Rayleigh, is a relative, as well as the great Oriental scholar Sir Monier Williams. Mr. Rennie's first wife died quite young, dearly beloved by her grief-stricken husband and friends. Mrs. Bowring, mother of the Hon. Edgar and Henry Bowring, was her oldest daughter, Mrs. R. Harvey the youngest, and a son, D. Rennie. Several years after her death he married his second wife, Miss McNab, mother of Mrs. Withers, Mrs. Rothwell and an elder daughter who married at home; also five sons, of whom three reside here and are well known and respected in the community.

Only those who had the pleasure of Mr. Rennie's intimate acquaintance could appreciate his sterling qualities, his kindliness, his keen appreciation of humor, and his high intellectual attainments. His family, who were so beloved, will sadly miss his genial presence. To each and all of them we tender our warmest sympathy. Mr. Rennie was the younger member of a generation that has completely passed away - a link with the past, with a dear old-fashioned society that shoddy democracy has almost obliterated."

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Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and labrador bio: RENNIE, WILLIAM FREDERICK -- (1812-1902) Miller, civil servant. Born Scotland, son of David Rennie. Educated Edinburgh University. Married (1) Caroline Williams; (2) Catharine Thorburn McNab. Rennie and his brother James came to Newfoundland in 1832, and established a flour mill on Rennie's River qv in St. John's. Beginning in 1835, Rennie's mill operated for several years, but in the long run could not compete with cheaper flour imported from Canada and the United States. After selling the mill in about 1848 Rennie became a civil servant, named to the largely ceremonial position of Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in the Legislative Council. He held this position until his death and was for some time Newfoundland's oldest civil servant. Rennie was involved in the St. john's Agriculatural Society for many years. He also sketched local scenes, with several of his works appearing in the Canadian Illustrated News."

160821:

New information from Michael Rennie:

"Going back a generation William Frederick Rennie's full siblings had no descendants or at least no legitimate ones. William Frederick Rennie's half brother, William Eppes Cormack (explorer of the Newfoundland interior), had no children. Half-brother John Bell Cormack had a bunch of children and a few grandchildren but I think the line died out after that. Half sister Janet Cormack had a large number of children and smaller number of grandchildren but I don't think that line has died out. I don't know of what relatives William's father, David Rennie, had. David ran the Newfoundland portion of Stuart and Rennie in Newfoundland from 1790 to 1810 and then brought his family to Glasgow in 1810. Both William Frederick Rennie's wife and David Rennie's wife have many traced cousins but their siblings do not seem to have new descendants to check."

Andrea Renouf

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: 2000 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵ Burial: Cause of Death: Breast Cancer

Parents

Father: Rex Renouf ⁵³ Mother: Margaret Cullen ⁴⁷⁵

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Living 2. Living

Deanne Renouf

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: 2005 ⁵ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Rex Renouf ⁵³ Mother: Margaret Cullen ⁴⁷⁵

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Rex Renouf ⁵³ Mother: Margaret Cullen ⁴⁷⁵

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Rex Renouf ⁵³ Mother: Margaret Cullen ⁴⁷⁵

Spouses and Children

1. Living

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