Henry Morris (abt. 1815 - 1896)

Born about 1815 in Buckinghamshire, England

Husband of Elizabeth (Baily) Morris — married 1839 in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England

Husband of Flora Loudoun Reid (Smith) Morris — married 19 Mar 1855 in Residence of John Smith, Yankalilla, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Descendants

Died 18 Apr 1896 at about age 81 in Norwood, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Henry was born about 1815. He passed away in 1896.

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Sources

• Birth

Unknown for cetain (10Jan2019)

• 1st Marriage to Elizabeth BAILY

England and Wales Marriage Registration Index. Name Henry Morris; Event Type Marriage; Registration Quarter Jan-Feb-Mar; Registration Year 1839; Registration District Newport Pagnell; County Buckinghamshire; Event Place Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England; Volume 6; Page 417; Affiliate Line Number 89; Name Elizabeth Baily. "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DH6-3W2 : 13 December 2014), Henry Morris, 1839; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1839, quarter 1, vol. 6, p. 417, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

• England and Wales Census, 1841

Name Henry Morris; Event Type Census; Event Date 1841; Event Place Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire, England; Gender Male; Age 25; Birth Year (Estimated) 1812-1816; Registration District Leighton Buzzard; Parish Stoke Hammond; County Buckinghamshire; Page Number 16; Registration Number HO107; Piece/Folio 59/11; Affiliate Record Type Household.

Henry Morris M 25-29

Elizabeth Morris F 20-24 Buckinghamshire

George Morris M 0 Buckinghamshire

"England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7QL-VRR : 13 December 2017), Henry Morris, Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire, England; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

• Immigration to Australia

Source not yet found. Time frame between 1848 (death of twins in UK) and 1851 (birth of Ann in South Australia)

• 2nd Marriage to Flora SMITH

Genealogy South Australia: Marriage. 1855; 22/251; MORRIS, Henry; SMITH, Flora; Adelaide. https://www.genealogysa.org.au/

• Death

Genealogy South Australia: Death. 1896; 234/226; MORRIS, Henry; Norwood. https://www.genealogysa.org.au/

• Death Notice

The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA.) Fri 10 Apr 1896

MORRIS.—On the 10th April, at his son-in-law's, (J. Bennett) 22 Sydenham-road, Norwood, Henry Morris, late of Broken Hill, aged 81. His end was peace.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/209061901

• Funeral Notice

The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA.) Sat 11 Apr 1896

THE FRIENDS of the late Mr. HENRY MORRIS are respectfully informed that his Remains will be removed from the residence of his son-in-law (Mr. John Bennett), Sydenham-road. Norwood, THIS DAY (Saturday), at 3.30, for interment in the Walkerville Cemetery. G. J. TREVELLION, Undertaker, Telephone 748. Magill-road, Norwood. 102

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/209061985

Additional Information

The following is an article in a Port Augusta newspaper in 1900. It refers to Henry's death being "a few months ago" even though Henry had died 4 years earlier. It refers to similar information included in son, Isaac's obituary and again later in daughter, Margaret's also and therefore is about Henry.

The Port Augusta Dispatch, Newcastle and Flinders Chronicle (SA.) Fri 11 May 1900 HENRY MORRIS—RAILWAY MAN. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197611017

One of the oldest (if not the oldest), hands on the Big Mine was Henry Morris n charge of the railway gang. He died only a few months back, but for mental vigor and alertness (especially with fists) he was not to be beaten by the younger ones. He was an historian of the progress of the locomotive having been "boy" to George Stephenson at the time he ran his famous "Comet" and many a rattling yarn spin of his master. Old Henry could neither read nor write till he was sixteen. Through saving Stephenson from being run over by his own engines he roused the great man's interest, and the grand locomotive inventor made time even amongest all his multifarious duties and interests to teach old Henry the three R's. Stephenson's interest in humanity was always one of his greatest virtues and it seems to link with the long past to have talked with a man to whom this side of his character was so ungrudgingly opened.