This is the first post in the Morry Family Blog
Christopher Morry
My name is Christopher John Augustine Morry, Chris or CJ for short. In the Morry family of Newfoundland, ex Devon, I am at this time the most active of a small number of family historians. I essentially took over this role about twenty years ago from my late aunt, Jean [Morry] Funkhouser, who, together with my grandfather, Howard Leopold Morry, began researching the family in earnest in the early 1960s. To her go all of the honours for laying the groundwork for our family tree on the paternal side (the Morrys) and on our grandmother's side (the Minty family of Edinburgh).
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Just testing a post on 21 August 2017
Here is the reply to my own post on 21 August 2017
Just looking through the pages again, and it seems like we need to add a page for TG Morry VI – glaring in its absence!
Hi Glen:
Of course you are right. I have been gradually adding pages for the so-called “older generation”, to which we now belong I guess, and have only recently completed pages for them. So I guess Tom will be next.
I like your chosen moniker. Haven’t heard that one for years!
Hi Chris…Jackie Ebsary David here. I have out and am updating my Hutchings Volume of my own family tree. I have a couple of connections for you regarding some of your material (which I do enjoy)! very good thorough work sir.
James Clift was first married to Elizabeth Liddle…her sister Jean Liddle was married to Sir Hugh William Hoyles. weird twist that Sir Hugh’s father would go against (family?) hehe
James Clift then married Jane Sidney T LeMessurier (a hutchings descendant) who was first married to William Grieve.
Their daughter, Flora LeMessurier Clift first married William Punton Munn and had John Shannon Munn, and then she married Sir Edgar Bowering. There is more I think that connects back to Hutchings descendants but I will have to go have another look.
Be well
Chris, you are a Trojan! It is so delightful to see the information you and others like you have gathered which shows how we got to where we are now. It is an exceptionally wonderful history, when you examine and consider the various elements. I think those of us who want to know where we came from and where we may be going, as I do, owe the world to those of you such as yourself and others who have considered our family history to be important enough such as you did to share several centuries worth of treasureable information for those of us who are part of the larger, world wide Morry family picture. I hope this will be an inspiration for those others outside our family kin who belong to similar families where a history can be built up from some distant past right up to the present, and who aspire to building their own unique family histories.
Lanny Morry @gmail.com
Hi La:
As you correctly observe, this has very much been a team effort and I have benefited from the assistance of several keen historians and family historians in Newfoundland and elsewhere who have contributed material for the site. My only concern, in view of my advancing age, is that so far no member of a younger generation has emerged to take on this life’s work and give me a break!
Dear Chris
I just wanted to add a tidbit to Reg Morry’s story. In 1960 when I was three, I moved with my family to 12 Tracey Street in Belleville. There was a little blonde haired kid that lived at 22 Tracey St whom I became fast friends with. Kirk and I being one month apart him being older struck up a friendship that lasted until Kirk made his way West in his old Green Ford Pinto. But before I get ahead of myself I wish to relay a small anecdote about the building of Matthew. I showed up at their place one day to a hell of a racket. There was Mr. Morry squatting outside of the Starboard Bow whilst someone was on the inside of the hull beating it with a sledge hammer. I asked Mr. Morry what was going on but he didn’t answer because I dare say his ears where ringing. So I stood there back a few feet mind you and waited for him to look up, then the banging stopped and he in a loud voice gave instructions to the “Inside Man.” “Pound three inches forward and up two.” The poor sod on the side was Kirk, I didn’t get to talk to him that day, not that he would have heard me anyway but they got the dent out. I remember the day that the boat was towed on its cradle down to be launched. Mr. Morry standing tall on the Foc’le with a corn broom at the ready. He was not taking any chances on a low hanging wire impeding his way to launch his pride and joy.
He stood up there like Eric the Red looking for the shores of Newfoundland, I’ll never forget it.
Thanks for that interesting tidbit on Uncle Reg, Tom. I have more to say on this but will do so using your email so that our discussion is private. Chris