Nostalgia
is
a balm for the world's hostilities...
We hope
that this site will serve as a link and a gathering place for the scattered remnants of
the Morry Family, whose ancestor, Matthew Morry, came from Stoke Gabriel via Dartmouth, Devon, England, to Newfoundland to make a living in the
fishing trade some time before Sept.
1784. At that time we know he was granted land for a fishing room in Caplin Bay (now Calvert) near
Ferryland, a tiny
fishing village on Newfoundland's Southern Shore that we, his descendants, think of as our
family seat.
Stoke Gabriel, Devon, England
Before that time our family history
gradually fades into ambiguity, and
it is one of the purposes of this web site to invite anyone knowing of the existence of
Morrys either in England prior to that time or elsewhere around the world since then, to
pass along whatever information they can. This will permit us to continue the
genealogical research originally carried out by my late aunt, Jean (Morry) Funkhouser (latterly of
Parawan, Utah).
An Early Map of Caplin Bay
(Calvert) and Ferryland
The website was
originally designed in 1996 as part of a university term assignment by Gillian
Morry, my daughter. It has been completely overhauled (in November 2003) because
with the growth of information available to be posted, the previous one and a
second site maintained on the Family Tree Maker system were poorly integrated
and didn't allow for adequate display of graphic information of all kinds.
