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February 21, 2017

This is the first post in the Morry Family Blog

January 4, 2024

As of today, all 20 volumes of the series “An Annotated Transcript of the Journals of Robert Carter of Ferryland, Newfoundland” are now available on Amazon. A search on any of Amazon’s national websites for “Robert Carter” will find this series.

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.

We hope that this site will serve as a link and a gathering place for the scattered remnants of the Morry Family, whose ancestor, Matthew Morry, came from Stoke Gabriel via Dartmouth Devon, England, to Newfoundland to make a living in the fishing trade some time before Sept. 1784. At that time we know he was granted land for a fishing room in Caplin Bay (now Calvert) near Ferryland, a tiny fishing village on Newfoundland’s Southern Shore that we, his descendants, think of as our family seat.

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