Morris Family Mysteries-1

Location: Gateshead, Durham, England, United Kingdom [uncertain]
Surname/tag: Morris

Trying to trace Gladys Morris born 7 September 1882 but year is not certain. The first official record of her is her marriage certificate 1909 St. George's Hanover Square, London to Ernest Goodfellow. Father's name on marriage certificate is Henry Morris - a secretary. There are no births registered at GRO for a Gladys Morris with these details. She told her children that she ran away from home in Gateshead to become a dancer in London and that she came from a wealthy coal mining family - nothing found to prove this. DNA links to a Morris family from Newtown Montgomeryshire, there may be a relationship with Ebenezer Morris, a weaver and his wife Elizabeth Reynolds. Their daughter Sarah may have married a Henry Smith and they settled in Durham, their son David married his cousin Edith Griffiths daughter of Mary Ann Griffiths nee Morris. Ebenezer had three sons - Charles who died young, Alfred who emigrated to Australia and Thomas, is Gladys a child of Thomas?