Morris arrival Tasmania c1844/5

[solidrock]

Application for admission to the Queens Orphanage.
William Louther MORRIS, free, pension, arrived Lord Petric.
Mother Bridget MORRIS, died 7 years hence, arrived free Lord Petric.

Where it says arrived free, not sure as to what that means, is it free passage.

[majm]

Application for admission to the Queens Orphanage.
William Louther MORRIS, free, pension, arrived Lord Petric.
Mother Bridget MORRIS, died 7 years hence, arrived free Lord Petric.

Where it says arrived free, not sure as to what that means, is it free passage.

Arrived free means they did not arrive under a sentence, so arrived free (of any current civil sentence)

JM

[majm]

Lord Petre, convict ship 
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4106735?descriptiontype=Full&ref=ADM+101/44/8
TNA  has the following ...
Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty’s convict ship Lord Petre ....
....
Reference:   ADM 101/44/8

uploaded to Ancestry 

those journals can often include names of family members of garrison forces who were sent as guards on those voyages.

JM

[solidrock]

"Arrived free means they did not arrive under a sentence, so arrived free (of any current civil sentence)"

So we can assume that Mary's story that she arrived with her parents and that Wiiliam was Pte. Morris possibly accompanying the convicts.

[wivenhoe]

This for John SEWELL, wife Jessy formerly CONNELL, nee MORRIS, and son Henry -

QLD State Records Reformatory Boys School admissions Feb 1875
http://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/Image/DigitalImageDisplay.aspx?ImageId=7043
Henry SEWELL, 14 years, born Tasmania, tried Maryborough, father John SEWELL, butcher. for two years.

 Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser 2 Feb 1875 p2
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/148506726?
........mother left six or seven years ago..........

BDM QLD death
1948   C1920   Henry   SEWELL parents John   / Jessie Morris

Search Maryborough papers for death of John SEWELL, 1898, and Henry SEWELL.
Also for domestic dramas for John and Jessy in 1860s.

It is interesting to see that Henry's family knows about his MORRIS origins. He was very young when mother left, and you might think that father John is hardly likely to keep knowledge of her alive. I wonder if there is any other MORRIS family around?

[solidrock]

Application for admission to the Queens Orphanage
Applicant M*  SEWELL, Ware Street Hobart  November 1st 1860

William MORRIS 8 years  protestant,
Father William Louther MORRIS, free, pension, arrived Lord Petric Lefroy, died Dec 1859 by accident at Fingal.
Mother Bridget MORRIS, died 7 years hence, arrived free Lord Petric Lefroy

Admitted 17 Dec 1861
Margaret Louther MORRIS 9 years      details for parents as for William

Still can't find the births for the above or for Jessy.

[wivenhoe]

They are probably among the numerous unrecorded births, in which case you have to hope to find a baptism.....somewhere.

What use would a birth record for Margaret MORRIS and brother William Louther MORRIS be to you?

[solidrock]

At Williams death it says he left 5 children, I have only got 3, 2 still alive at his death.

[wivenhoe]

For the purpose of good research, and so we know where we are going with this, can you please identify the three children and where you see them.