Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Rita Florence Loretta Bown

Sex: F
AKA: Loretta Bown ¹⁷³, Rita Florence Bown ¹⁶⁸
Individual Information

Birth Date: 15 Feb 1913 - Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁶⁸ ^,175 Christening: Death: 28 Apr 2001 - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 88) ¹⁶⁸ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Thomas Alfred Bown ¹⁶⁸ ^,169 ^,173 ^,174 ^,175 Mother: Rita Giovannetti ¹⁶⁸ ^,173 ^,2275

Robert Thomas Addison Bown

Sex: M
AKA: Addison Bown ¹⁷³
Individual Information

Birth Date: 26 Jan 1905 - Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ¹⁷⁵ Christening: Death: Cir 1988 - Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 83) ¹⁷⁵ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Thomas Alfred Bown ¹⁶⁸ ^,169 ^,173 ^,174 ^,175 Mother: Rita Giovannetti ¹⁶⁸ ^,173 ^,2275

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living 4. Living 5. Living

Notes
General:

140112 this found on the website of M. L. Munro on Ancestry.com:

L J Giovannetti MD by Addison Bown On Thursday 20 June 1962 at St Clare's Mercy Hospital, death closed the mortal career of a pioneer outport doctor, Louis John Giovannetti, after a long and useful life of 87 years. The last of the graduating class of 1900 from Dalhousie Medical School, he had actively practiced his profession in Newfoundland for half a century. A native of Port Morien, Cape Breton, the late Dr Giovannetti was of direct Italian descent, his father Nicodemus having emigrated to Canada from Tereglio, a town in Tuscany in the year 1866. He settled at what was then known as Cow Bay in Cape Breton Island. The French, after their expulsion from Placentia in 1713, had moved to Louisburg and near there, at Cow Bay, they opened the first coal mine in North America. By the 1860's the town that grew up around the mine had become one of the most prosperous of its kind in Canada. Some twenty years later its name changed to Port Morien, which is located only a few miles from the present town of Glace Bay. His uncle Lorenzo, the eldest of four brothers, (John, Lorenzo, Anthony) to leave Italy, came out to Newfoundland from Genoa, learned navigation here and became the captain of a schooner. He was engaged in carrying coal from Port Morien and finally made his home with his brothers, John, Nicodemus and Anthony. Anthony returned a few years later, while the others remained. ( This is actually untrue as it was John or Giovanni that returned to Italy and Anthony remained- Lynn Munro) Louis Giovannetti, the eldest of three children of Nicodemus Giovannetti was born at Port Morien on 24 October 1875. He entered Halifax Medical School ( then affiliated with Dalhousie University) in 1896 and was graduated in April 1900. He came to Newfoundland in June that year at the invitation of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, to act as Medical Examiner on a voyage along the West Coast to Labrador. Crossing to Port Aux Basques on S S Harlow, he first came into contact with Newfoundland weather conditions when he was told by the conductor on the Reid's company's railway that the train would not leave for 24 hours for fear she would "capsize". One of the passengers was the late Hon. John Pitts, a prominent businessman and political figure in the Colony at that time. Dr Giovannetti left the train at Bagg's Crowing, Bay of Islands, where the yacht Selina, Captain Thomas Fiander awaited him. While waiting for the ship to sail he visited the R C church and found the late Monsignor Sears working in the gallery. Like many of the old time clergymen, he " could do a good carpenter job". There was not thought then that within the next quarter of a century a great industry employing thousands of people would rise on the shore of Bay of Islands, or the City (Cornerbrook) second in Newfoundland , which would grow up around it. The first stop on the voyage northe was at Woody Point, Bonne Bay. There he met the pioneer doctor in that area, Dr Prebble, who as a young man had gone to the French shore from Nova Scotia to catch and pack lobsters. Finding most of the population illiterate and subject to all the ills of mankind, he sent to Toronto for a Home Medical Service Book, studied it and eventually set up in practice after passing an exanination at St John's. The Newfoundland Legislature passed a special Medical Act which enabled him to receive a license to practice under section 29. While at Bonne Bay Dr Giovannetti brought his first Newfoundland baby into the world, the mother being Mrs Seeley, wife of the principal merchant there. Her daughter was the first of a long line of infants who were brought into the world by Dr Giovannetti in his 50 years of practice in the outports of this country. The Yacht went on to Port Saunders where there were a few fishermen engaged in catching lobsters. Under the terms of the treaty by which the French had been given fishing rights from Cape Ray to Cape John, it was illegal for the residents to catch fish in that area, all rights being reserved to the fishermen who came out annually from France. On the following day a British Warship H M S Calypso (afterwards the Briton) arrived there and confiiscated eight cases of lobsters beloinging to a Newfoundlander who had caught them "illegally" on the French shore. The question was resolved a few years later (1904) when the French finally gave up their treaty rights through efforts of Sir Robert Bond. Pror to that time the British Navy was required to protect the interests of Frenchman. From Port Saunders the yacht sailed to Port Aux Choix and then to Brig Bay, from which she crossed the Straits of Bell Isle to Blanc Sablon. The months of July and August were spent going up and down the Labrador coast from Red Bay North to Harrington south. At Blanc Sablon the firm of Job Brothers had a fishing room, run by the late Hon Samuel Blandford, a famous sailing captain who, like Hon John Pitts was a member of the Legislative council. The Witeleys had a room at Bonne Esperance. After his return to Cape Breton, Dr Giovannetti received an invitation to practice at St Jacques on the South Coast and recrossed the Gulf on the Bruce, Captain Delaney. At Port Aux Basques he joined the Glencoe. On arrival at Harbour Breton, the principal settlement in Fortune Bay, there were hundreds of people on the wharf giving a send off to the newly elected member, Charles Way, who was leving to take his seat in the House of Assembly. The great firm of Newman's fish suppliers and buyers as well as owners of the maturing cellars for the world famous Newman's Port, was then about to close its business at Harbour Breton. Dr Con Fitzgerald, famous medical practitioner of the South Coast, was living there at the time. He had been brought out from England years before by the company. Dr Giovannetti spent the next five years at St Jacques ministering to his patients under some of the most difficult conditions to be found in the whole of Newfoundland. Roads were non-existent and the only means of transportation was by open boat in all kinds of weather. While there he met and married his first wife Maud Burke, a cousin of the late Senator V P Burke. In 1905 while on visit to St John's he learned that Dr RH Carey stipendiary magistrate at Trepassey had died and he applied for the post. Dr Carey was a veteran of the American Civil War who had come to Newfoundland and first practiced at Ferryland where he married Miss Minnie Morry. In 1889 he was magistrate at Trepassey and died there in July 1905. In September that year Dr Giovannetti received the appointment and moved to Trepassey with his wife Maud Burke and two sons Humbert and Joseph. He remained there for the next 21 years. Dr Giovannetti could tell many interesting stories of life on the Southern Shore in those years. He lived in an area which was noted for its shipwrecks and in his capacity of justice of the peace he was called upon to receive depositions from surviving officers of steamers and vessels giving a sworn statement of the circumstances of each wreck. But the greatest single event in the history of Trepassy during that period was the flight of three American seaplanes from there to the Azores in 1919. That was about a month before the direct pioneer crossing of Alcock and Brown from Newfoundland to Ireland. During the preparations for the flight, the harbour at Trepassy was filled with warships. At one time there were 21 destroyers at anchor there, in addition to supply ships. The destroyers were afterwards stationed 50 miles apart on the route across the Atlantic. Of the seaplanes which set out from Trepassey Bay, only one finally reached Portugal from the Azores. The scene at the settlement during those historic weeks was described as "the greatest show on earth". Before the arrivel of the fleet two Americans visisted Trepassey to select a suitabel site of the proposed attempt to fly the Atlantic. One of them was a lame man who was afterwards discovered to be the secretary of the Navy, Franklin D Roosevelt, after President of the United States. Dr Giovannetti's first wife Maud Burke died at Trepassy in 1922. A year later remarried Beatrice Morry of Ferryland who is a sister of World War Veteran Howard Morry and a niece of the Miss Minnie Morry who had married the earlier doctor at Trepassy, Dr Casey. Dr Giovannetti then had two children by Beatrice, Patricia and Reginald. In 1926 at the invitation of Rev W P O'Flaherty who had previously been parish priest at Trepassey Dr Giovannetti moved to Placentia and remained there until 1943. Finding because of advancing age that he was unable to cope with the large practice and serve the hospital there, he decided to retire and make his home in St John's. He was prevailed upon, however, to accept an appointment to Ferryland and served there for four years while retaining his home in the city. Finally at the age of 74 he settled down in St John's. But now that retirement had come, he determined to realize the dream of a lifetime and make a pilgrimage to the home of his ancestors. In 1950 he crossed the Atlantic to England and proceeded by train through France to Rome. In the Eternal City he was privileged, through the kind offices of the Irish Christian Brothers to receive the blessing of Pope Pius XII at St Peter's. He then journeyed to his father's home in Tereglia and remained there for three months, during which time he celebrated his 75th birthday. The following table of dates summarizes his half century of practice in Newfoundland St Jacques- 1901-1905 Trepassey- 1905-1926 Placentia- 1926-1943 St John's- 1943-1946 Ferryland- 1946-1950 The late Dr Giovannetti was one of the old type of outport practitioner who belonged to an era that is now past but which was benefited and enriched by the faithful and devoted services which he and others like him rendered to the people of their time. They leave behind them a legecy and a memory which are among the brightest adornments of those earlier years. Left to mourn his passing are his wife Beatrice , one daughter Patricia of the department of education, and three sons Dr Humbert, dentist at Bell Island; Dr Joseph in medical practice in New Brunswick and Reginald engineer of Dartmouth, NS. His brother Dr H A Giovannetti and his sister Mrs T A Bown both predesceased him. He was laid to rest in Belevedere Cemetery following Requiem Mass in the Parish Church at Mundy Pond on Saturday morning June 22nd. May he rest in peace.

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Charles Gordon Bown ¹⁶⁸ ^,175 Mother: Living

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living

Rosina E. Bown

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: May 1847 - Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ¹⁶⁸ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: This date is either in error or Rosina is not Florence's child, 1866, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Census: 1871, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Parents

Father: Thomas Samuel Bown ¹⁶⁸ Mother: Florence Eliza Ellen Haire ¹⁶⁸

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Herbert Gideon Bown OC ¹¹⁹² ^,1193 Mother: Living

Susan Weston Bown

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 27 Dec 1861 - Cow Bay, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ¹⁶⁸ Christening: Death: 18 Feb 1943 - Port Morien, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ( at age 81) ¹⁶⁸ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Alfred Elly Bown ¹⁶⁷ ^,168 ^,169 ^,170 ^,171 Mother: Anne Maria ¹⁶⁷ ^,168

Sydney Francis Bown

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 4 Oct 1921 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁶⁸ Christening: Death: 2 Sep 1998 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 76) ¹⁶⁸ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: 4 Oct 1921, Wabana, Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Thomas Alfred Bown ¹⁶⁸ ^,169 ^,173 ^,174 ^,175 Mother: Rita Giovannetti ¹⁶⁸ ^,173 ^,2275

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Robert Thomas Addison Bown ¹⁶⁸ ^,175 Mother: Living

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Living

Thomas Alfred Bown

Sex: M
AKA: Thomas Bown ¹⁶⁷, Thomas A Bown ²²⁷⁴ ^,2283
Individual Information

Birth Date: 20 Jun 1873 - Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ¹⁶⁹ ^,174 Christening: Death: 11 May 1940 - Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 66) ¹⁷³ ^,174 Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1872, Canada.
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1872, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Alt. Birth: 14 Jun 1872, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1873, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Residence: Age: 8, 1881, Cow Bay, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Residence: Age: 27; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son, 1901, Port Morien, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Departure: Cir Sep 1913, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Miner, Mine Manager, Sep 1913, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Religion: C of E, Sep 1913, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Arrival: 22 Sep 1913, North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Parents

Father: Alfred Elly Bown ¹⁶⁷ ^,168 ^,169 ^,170 ^,171 Mother: Anne Maria ¹⁶⁷ ^,168

Spouses and Children

1. *Rita Giovannetti ¹⁶⁸ ^,173 ^,2275 Marriage: 6 Sep 1904 - Sydney, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ²²⁸³ Children: 1. Robert Thomas Addison Bown 2. Marion Regina Bown 3. Father Alfred Humbert Bown 4. Father Ernest Ralph Bown 5. Louis Adrian Bown 6. Rita Florence Loretta Bown 7. Sgt. Gerald MacNess Bown 8. Henry Victor Bown 9. Mary Viola Bown 10. Charles Gordon Bown 11. Sydney Francis Bown 12. Florence Katherine Bown

Thomas Samuel Bown

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 26 May 1798 - Sydney, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ²³ ^,168 Christening: Death: 13 Aug 1876 - Coxheath, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ( at age 78) ²³ ^,168 Burial: After 13 Aug 1876 - Sydney, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ²²⁸⁴ Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: 1871, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Occupation: Custom House Officer, 1871, Sydney, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Parents

Father: William Bown ²²⁷⁷ Mother: Elizabeth Vinson ²²⁷⁷

Spouses and Children

1. *Florence Eliza Ellen Haire ¹⁶⁸ Marriage: 16 Sep 1822 - Sydney, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ¹⁶⁸
Marriage Events
• Alt. Marriage: 14 Sep 1822, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Children: 1. Maria Susannah Bown 2. William Warren Bown 3. Elizabeth Bown 4. Anne Bown 5. Agnes Bown 6. Alfred Elly Bown 7. Matilda Caroline Bown 8. Thomas Samuel Bown 9. Charles Rigby Bown 10. Delia Mary Bown 11. Vinson E. Bown 12. Rosina E. Bown

Notes
General:

181214:

The 1871 Census shows Thos. S. and Florence with what are apparently four children but the ages make me suspect that the youngest two belong to one of their sons:
Matilda 35
Vinson 26
Rosina 5
Mary 4

Son Alfred Elly had a daughter Mary of about this age so this could be she. I'm not sure of Rosina as I have another date of birth for her that puts her close to Vinson in age so there may have been an aunt and a niece of the same name.

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