Newspaper and Magazine Articles

 

Esther Graham Morry Carew's Obituary, 1939

This is the obituary that appeared in the St. John's Daily News on the occasion of the death of Esther Graham (Morry) Carew. It names many of her relations, both living and deceased. Sent to me by Enid O'Brien, one of Esther's g. granddaughters. Esther was the first cousin of my g. grandfather Thomas Graham Morry.

 

Howard Morry Concerning the Holdsworth House, 1954

This is an article which appeared in The Newfoundland Ancestor 15:1, Spring 1999. The article was submitted by Enid O'Brien and consisted of a letter from Howard Morry to Michael Murphy relating a little of the history of the Holdsworth House.

 

Howard Morry - Memories of Ferryland, 1967

This is an article which appeared in The Evening Telegram, February 23, 1967. Dad Morry speaks of the rough justice of earlier days in Ferryland when there were three gallows in the village and the word of the Captain of the Royal Naval ship in port was law. He also recounts stories of the Whites and Sullivan's, ancestors on his grandmother, Catherine White's side. 

 

Jean Edwards Stacey, 1997

Evening Telegram -- Feb. 24, 1997

Here is an interesting (if slightly inaccurate) account concerning the house of Thomas Graham Morry.

 

Robert Parsons' Downhomer article on the Wreck of the SIGRID, 2003

This article, which appeared in the September 2003 edition of the Downhomer, tells the story of a daring but doomed rescue attempt by a number of Ferryland men, following the tragic wreck of the Danish vessel SIGRID, with the loss of all souls, off Ferryland Head in 1903. Two of the people mentioned, the Light keeper at the time, William Costello, and his son John William, were related to the Morrys by marriage.

 

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