Charles William Morse was the eldest child of Charles and Sophia Morse. He was born on 24 September 1831 and christened on 1 March 1833 at St Peter's, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire. [1]
He married Juliet Gilbert on 6 October 1868 at St Andrews Church, Walkerville, South Australia. [2]
South Australian Register, Wednesday 7 October 1868
MARRIAGE
MORSE - GILBERT. On the 6th October, at St. Andrew's, Walkerville, by Rev. George Dove, Charles W. Morse, eldest son of Rev. Charles Morse, Rector of St. Michael's at Plea, Norwich, England, to Juliet, daughter of W. Gilbert, Esq., of Wangolere. [3]
He died on 26 July 1901 at Normanville, Yankalilla, South Australia and is buried in the Christ Church Anglican Cemetery, Yankalilla. [4]
See also obit:
THE LATE ARCHDEACON MORSE. A DISTINGUISHED CHURCHMAN. Universal regret will be felt at the announcement of the death of the Venerable Archdeacon Morse, who passed away suddenly at Normanville at 11 o'clock on Friday morning. Mr. Charles William Morse took his B.A. degree at Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1851, and his M.A. degree in 1880. Part of his earlier life was spent at sea; and later, with Mr. Fred Halcomb, he was engaged in endeavoring to open up the northwest country for squatting purposes, but tlie difficulties being insurmountable the task was abandoned. Mr. Morse was then engaged in educational work at the Port, and was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Adelaide (Right Rev. Dr. Short) on St. John's Day, 1868. On the Feast of St. Thomas, 1869, he was ordained to the priesthood, and licensed at once to the district of Yankalilla. In 1881 Mr. Morse was appointed hon. canon, and in 1885 chaplain to the Bishop of Adelaide (Right Rev. Dr. Kennion). A canonry in the Cathedral being vacant in February, 1887, he was appointed thereto, and on St. Peter's Day of the same year he was instituted Archdeacon of Adelaide and examining chaplain to the Bishop. On the formation of the Rural Deaneries in 1889 Archdeacon Morse was elected rural dean of Port Elliot, and continued in that position ever since. In August, 1894, he was appointed organising chaplain to the Bishop's Home Mission Society, and examining chaplain to the Present Bishop of Adelaide in 1895. The archdeacon was always greatly interested in the missionary work of the diocese. In 1869 he first visited Kangaroo Island, and from that time kept the island under his protection and pastoral care, though since 1889 his personal visits were infrequent from the pressure of other ties. In the early days of the mission the work was very rough, and from the nature of the position of the island extremely dangerous at times, the different places having to be reached in an open boat. Here the early training of Archdeacon Morse stood him in good stead. During 1875 Bishop Short, wishing to extend the work of the Church on Southern Yorke's Peninsula, asked Mr. Morse to undertake the task, but his health gave way through over-exertion and a sunstroke, and in 1876 he went to England on twelve months' leave of absence. On his return he again, took up the work on Yorke's Peninsula, in addition to his own parish; but there being no Bishop's Home Mission Society in those days, both bishop and mission priest were often hard pushed for funds for travelling expenses and providing clerical services for Yankalilla. The attorneys of the S.P.G., however, seeing the good effected, came to the rescue and made a grant of £25 per annum. When Bishop Short left for a visit to England in 1878 he expressed a wish that Mr. Morse should "look up the Coorong," and two trips were made as far as Kingston on the then overland route to Melbourne. Regular services at Meningie every six weeks were instituted and carried on for about two years, when Meningie was attached to the South-Eastern Mission. In 1884 Bishop Kennion placed Myponga, which had been attached to the Willunga parish, in charge of Canon Morse, the Church being then in great difficulties. The late archdeacon was always much interested in Church schools, the school at Christ Church, Yankalilla, being, next to that at Walkerville, the oldest parish school in the diocese. He had a large experience of work connected with the Bishop's Home Mission Society from its inception. On several occasions pressure was brought to bear to induce the archdeacon to leave Yankalilla, and take a parish nearer to the centre of diocesan work, but he always declined to leave the parish which, under his fostering care, had grown up round him. Archdeacon Morse enjoyed the full confidence of the Bishops of Adelaide, and during their absences from the diocese a great deal of diocesan duty fell upon his shoulders, and each administrator felt the value of his ever-willing counsel and varied knowledge. The action of Bishop Kennion in making Canon Morse Archdeacon of Adelaide was amply justified by the manner in which he fulfilled his office. He always sought to be a teaching priest, and his success in that is proved by the possibility of his working efficiently his immense parish in conjunction with the arduous duties of his archdeaconry. In his parish Archdeacon Morse was looked upon as a true father in God to his people, but his self-sacrificing work and practical sympathy won for him the love and respect of all sections of people. [5]
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