Genealogy Report: Descendants of Edward Morris
Descendants of Edward Morris
6.CHARLES4 MORRIS (ANTHONY3, THOMAS2, EDWARD1)12 was born 1555 in England12, and died 1608 in England12.He married ELIZABETH HOLLOWELL12, daughter of JOHN HOLLOWELL.She died Unknown.
Children of CHARLES MORRIS and ELIZABETH HOLLOWELL are:
| i. | CHARLES WILLIAM5 MORRIS13, b. 1575, Wales13; d. Unknown. | ||
| 8. | ii. | EDWARD MORRIS, b. 1580, Wales; d. Unknown, NC. |
7.ANTHONY4 MORRIS II (ANTHONY3, THOMAS2, EDWARD1)14 was born Abt. 1559 in England15, and died Unknown16.He married ELIZABETH SENIOR17 165318, daughter of JOHN SENIOR and THOMASINE SMALL.She was bornin Weymouth, England18, and died Abt. 1660 in Barbados18.
Notes for ANTHONY MORRIS II:
ANTHONY MORRIS (II) ELIZABETH SENIOR
Anthony Morris (II) was a son of Anthony Morris (1) of Reading, in the
county of Berkshire, England and of Barbados in the West Indies. The
following is quoted verbatim from the book "The American Heritage of
James Norman Hall", by Robert Leland Johnson, 1968.
"In 1630, Anthony Morris I became the father of Anthony Morris II, who
became a mariner, dividing his time between residences in Barbados and in
London, carrying on the business begun by his father. In 1653, Anthony
Morris II was united in marriage with Elizabeth Senior of Weymouth,
England, where she had been born in 1629. Her parents were prominent in
the affairs of the community--her father, John Senior was a prosperous
mercer, and her mother, Thomsine (Small) Senior was the daughter of one
of the leading men of the town, John Small, Attorney and Town solicitor
of Weymouth and Mel come Regis. It was to John Small that these towns
entrusted the task of obtaining the permission of Queen Elizabeth to
consolidate, and, through his efforts over many years, this was
accomplished in 1616, the united town being called Weymouth.
Weymouth has always been a bustling sea port, and we can easily
conjecture that Anthony Morris II and Elizabeth Senior met there when
Anthony's ship made Weymouth a port of call. Perhaps more important to
our story, however, is the fact the the Member of Parliament from
Weymouth was William Penn, father of the founder of Pennsylvania, whose
close ties with later generation of Morris family doubtless owed some of
their warmth to the remembrance of their common ancestral home.
In 1654, when Anthony Morris III (later to be called Anthony Morris 2nd
by the historians) was born, his father was a member of the Church of
England. Oliver Cromwell ,a staunch Puritan, ruled England in 1654, and
the afflictions the Puritans had suffered which forced them for found the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620 were a thing of the past. Anthony
Morris II fared well under the rule or Cromwell at the head of England.
Indeed, Cromwell's rule was beneficial to Anthony Morris II, despite his
personal religious convictions, since Barbados had become a Royalist
refuge.
But is August, 1654, his mind was not occupied with thought of business.
He had just returned from Barbados, timing his return to be at home for
the birth of his first child. Only the welcome comfort of being home
with his wife on Old Gravel Lane, Stepney, London, quieted the pounding
pulse of this young man of 25 years as he awaited the birth. On August
23, 1654, Anthony Morris III was born, and two very proud parents carried
Him to St. Dunstan"s Church, Stepney, London, to be baptized on August
25. Less than a year later, in 1655, the little boy's father would drown
at sea off Barbados, on a return voyage to London, leaving him to be
raise by his mother.
The estate of Anthony Morris II was detailed and large and active,
requiring Mrs. Morris;s personal visit to Barbados soon after her
husband's death. She continued there handling the details of her various
commercial interests for several years, making a return voyage to London
as often as her commercial interests allowed or required. Her child,
being so young, had to remain in England. His only other contact and
remembrance of his mother was that every three months or so a letter
would come, and what great glow of warmth set his little face abeam as
some adult would read aloud the message from his mother. The very
mainstay of his existence was the receipt of these messages from his
mother and her voyages home, and it was with down-cast countenance that
he shuffles through the days in the one month in his sixth year when the
message failed to come. It almost broke his heart when he was told that
his mother was dead.
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References:
"The Morris Family of Philadelphia", by Rober
Children of ANTHONY MORRIS and ELIZABETH SENIOR are:
| 9. | i. | ANTHONY5 MORRIS III, b. Abt. 1596, England; d. Unknown. | |
| ii. | MARY MORRIS19, b. 158819; d. 25 Feb 1620/21, Plymouth, England19. | ||
| iii. | ANNA MORRIS19, b. 159419; d. Unknown. |