hi back malcolm,sorry ive only just seen your post..believe it or not most of henry morris children were born in carlton so i think this may be one and the same..i kept getting hits of a george morris being henrys father..maybe elizabeth married george and he either died,or she left him.ive noticed the youngest child is 3 years old,wondering if elizabeth was left a widow or something with very young children and remarried.i can find henry where he was born and when but thats it,no burial nothing.
thanks for putting up the census of the family and i really think this is the henry morris im looking for.
by the way who was your g grandmother?..and was it that line that came to australia?..henry morris"s two daughters moved to australia in 1912 which were beatrice and amanda.beatrice had her husband ernest and two girls grace brenda and edith with them.
regards
debbi...
Hi Debbie, It would make more sense for Henry's father to have been a George Morris. In that case I think his father George was baptised 4 January 1835 the son of William and Anne. This William Morris was I think baptised 1st September 1806 at Blyth, Torworth the son of William Morris who married Elizebeth Turner at Blyth on 12 December 1797. They had another son, namely Thomas baptised 25 September 1814 at Carlton-in-Lindrick and Thomas married 1. Alicia Hurst on 26 1839, and 2. Hannah Whitworth.
Thomas and Alicia (Elesher in one Census) had a daughter Elizabeth Morris baptised 1 February 1841 and this is the Elizabeth Morris who was my great grandmother who married Charles Grant on 4 June 1866 at Gainsborough, Lincs.
Elizabeth and Charles Grant both died from consumption by 1874 leaving my grandmother Harriet Grant and her brother William Grant very young orphans.
The thing is that I was told that my grandmother was raised by the Hopkinson family of East Retford because her aunt was Ann Morris who married Charles Hopkinson. But Ann Morris was actually the sister of the above said George Morris who may have been the father of Henry Morris.
However, the 1881 census shows my grandmother Harriet Grant living with a Mary Morris who was born in Carlton-in-Lindrick aged 50. I did manage to find this Mary Morris but would have to search for the details just now.
No, it was myself that came to Melbourne, first time in 1956 for about a year and then I migrated with my family at the end of 1965.
I did meet up with a Hopkinson descendant in East Retford on one trip home and he filled me in with many details. Charles Hopkinson was a big Iron Founder and his company had an office in Brisbane. Charles and Anne Morris had a son called Charles Hopkinson who was sent out to Queensland in the hope that it might cure his consumption but he died at Woolloongabba on 15 December 1890. I have the death certificate. Only 6 weeks in Queensland. In the Brisbane Courier for 16th December there is not only a funeral notice but a description of the terrible storm that hit Brisbane the previous evening. ... Church Spire damaged...rain driven into places normally watertight...at first blinding rain then heavy gusts of wind from the south....men and horses could scarcely make progress....rain came driven horizontally....then hailstones with street gutters covered with pellets of ice forming drifts several inches deep...tramcars ran off tracks...omnibus and cab horses were paralysed with fear and in an instance an omnibus was driven violently against a lamppost at Finney, Isles's Corner...by 6.30pm the worst had passed. On the Sunday before a curious solar halo was observed in and around Brisbane 4 degrees in diameter.
How dreadful to be buried in such circumstances.