Laughlin Morrison & Dorcas Nickerson- missing family

[cosmac]

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12881-29709-45?cc=1601211&wc=MMBR-W48:1945216777

First page of death registration for Alexander W. Morrison in New Hampshire (1916) with father Lockland Morrison and place of birth Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

1900 US census Alexander W. Morrison, b. Aug 1859 Canada, married 13 years in Old town Penobscot Maine with wife Emma J. b. Sep 1850 Maine (12 children 6 living) and
stepson William W. Carter 14 b. Maine
daughter Winnifred Morrison b. June 1889 Maine
son c. Harold Morrison b. Feb 1895 Maine

1910 US census Plaistow, New Hampshire
Alexander W. Morrison, carpenter, parents b. Nova Scotia, he is born Nova Scotia and an immigration year of 1885.
wife Emma J. and son Harold C. Morrison (17) and also in the household is son-in-law Charles C. Kidson and Alexander's daughter Minnie S. Kidson.  It looks more like Minnie but should be Winnie.  She had been married one year.

Harold's WWI draft registration is signed in Plaistow, New Hampshire

Another son found

added:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-13035-167846-64?cc=1469062&wc=6961449
Winnifred's marriage to Charles Kidson.  Emma's maiden name was Campbell.

[cosmac]

Did you have their daughter?
Marriage in Haverhill to Burnup.  Mother shows with first name of Lillian.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11754-2275-1?cc=1469062&wc=6961464

added:
1st marriage to Patrick Urquhart in 1871
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-13033-64919-54?cc=1469062&wc=6961512

[aghadowey]

Thank you, Jacquie, for finding Magnus- will now be able to search for further information.

Thank you again, cosmac, for lots more information- great to have accounted for another son. However, when I saw there was a daughter I thought 'aha, this could explain an 'extra' female in 1861 census' even though 2 sets of old family notes only list sons. Then I looked at her age (born either c1861 or c1869) according to her two marriages- c1869 too young for 1st marriage. By 1881 she could have been old enough to be working away from home but not much of a gap in ages given in that census for the boys (although there ages are showing to be inaccurate). More searching to be done...

Correction- Ella C. Morrison age 20 married in 1871 so born c1851 which makes more sense

[Lisa in California]

I don't think this has been mentioned - a possibility, even though the year of birth is not quite right... 

Magnus D Morrison is living in (Gloucester?) Chelsea, MA in 1896.
Magnus D Morrison is listed in the 1888 Gloucester, MA City Directory.

Also listed in the same directory:
John A Morrison
James Morrison

1900 Chelsea, MA Census
John R(?) Morrison, born March 1857, born Canada (Eng) as were parents, married 15 years, immigrated 1886, Mill hand
Wife, "Amada" U, born Sept 1861, born Canada, etc.
Children: Mabel G, John S, Pricilla U, Linton R H.
4 Prescott Ave
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0viv/

Birth of Morrison female, parents John A and Amanda Steeves. Place of birth of father: N.S., place of birth of mother: N. (page torn).
4 Prescott Ave
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0viy/

Marriage record for Drusilla E. Morrison and Charles L. Hall
Parents John A Morrison, Amanda E. Steeves
2nd page of image:
Father: John R. Morrison, residence Dorchester, Mass.  Age 78, retired, born Nova Scotia.
Dated: Oct 3, 1933
This puts his age closer to 1854.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0vix/

There is additional information about this family, which could be explored, if you think there might be a connection.

[Lisa in California]

Drusilla E Morrison
Father: John R. Morrison, born Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0viz/

Does this help, or rule him out as a possibilty? 

[Lisa in California]

2.   Warren Morrison (c1851 N.S.-aft.1881), seaman.

Posted by cosmac:
"First page of death registration for Alexander W. Morrison in New Hampshire (1916) with father Lockland Morrison and place of birth Liverpool, Nova Scotia."
and
according to the marriage information cosmac found for Howard L. Morrison, he was born in Liverpool.

A slight possibility?
Enlistment at Boston, October 1867
Morrison, Warren.  Born Liverpool, N.S.  Age 18.  Hazel eyes, "d" brown hair, dark complexion, 5'10".
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0vj0/
He could have lied about his age in order to enlist?

Update:  the above enlistment was Naval Enlistment Rendezvous. 

[aghadowey]

I think Magnus D. Morrison in Gloucester is one of the sons but I haven't found his marriage either- perhaps met and married a girl outside Massachusetts.

Drusilla E Morrison
Father: John R. Morrison, born Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0viz/
Does this help, or rule him out as a possibilty? 

I think the Kings Co. birthplace rules him out.

Warren Morrison enlisting in U.S. Navy in 1867 is most interesting. 'My' Warren is at home (PEI) in 1881 but period of service supposed to be 3 years which gives him plenty of time to get back to PEI by 1881.

It is most likely that the Morrisons lived in the Liverpool, Queens, N.S. area before moving to PEI. Liverpool, Sandy Point, Sandy Cove, Great Hill, Brooklyn (formerly Herring Cove), Bristol are all much the same location and this is where Dorcas' family would have lived. Family note gives Dorcas & Laughlin married 1844 in Mill Willage which is also in the vacinity.

[aghadowey]

I did discover some interesting details about Ella Christine Morrison (the daughter I never knew about).

She married first (1871 Boston) to Patrick Hill Urquhart (also a blacksmith like her father). In 1874 they had a daughter May Blanch in Londonderry, Colchester Co., NS (he was from there) and an online tree says he died c1881 although I've not been able to confirm a date.

I have possible sightings of Ella- no sign of daughter May (perhaps she died young or was left with father's family)-
- in Lynn, Mass. 1900 as Christina Urquhart (age 37, single, to US 1885)
- in Haverhill, Mass. 1910 as Christina P. Urquhart (age 53, widow, to US 1887)