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PETER MCEWAN was born February 17, 1774 in Westhill, Madderty, Perth,Scotland, and died 1840. He married JANET CARMICHAEL May 07, 1809 inMadderty, Perth, Scotland. She was born May 18, 1788 in Abbey, Madderty,Perth, Scotland, and died 1840.Notes for PETER MCEWAN:
Birth/Marriage Madderty OPR; 1709-1820; Film 1040128 Madderty 378; ;; A KBell Library Perth Scotland; NOTE: See 1993 IGI, Error in originalsubmission, birth Feb not Jan, both living in Madderty in 1809.
Notes for JANET CARMICHAEL:
Madderty OPR; 1709-1820; Film Madderty 378 1040128; ;; A K BellLibrary, Perth, Scotland.; NOTE: parents James Carmichael & Helen Clark,see 1993 IGI, both living in Madderty 1809.
1 TEXT baptised 5 December 1811 Handfold
1 INFO Went to USA with Aunt Helen
1 TEXT Was living with W Morrison and family
1 TEXT Surname spelt Morrison at death
Peter went to the USA and was killed there in West Kansas. He was aprivate detective and was killed by the felon he was pursuing. He waskilled in his late 20's. He probably went to Chicago first.
John was a School Teacher and was the Principal of the Greenock HighSchool in Glasgow in Scotland for many years. For 5 years after that hetaught school at Gobroch. He migrated to the USA in 1915 with his sisterHellen and they lived for a time with his brother Andrew in Seattle.Hellen acted as their housekeeper. He died in Seattle about 1925 in TheKenney Presbyterian Nursing Home.
John never married.
1 TEXT Living in Chico Kitsop Washington State USA
Andrew and his twin sister Margaret migrated to the USA in the mid1860's. They initially stayed with their sister Grace in RockfordIllinois. Andrew moved to Kansas and purchased property there. He latersold up and moved to King County Washington. He had a timber property onPuget Sound. He may have aquired this property from the Estate of hisbrother William, who was killed there in 1894. Andrew attended William'sfuneral and made all the arrangements about the disposal of hisproperty. It is not know if Andrew ever married or had produced Issue.He apparently did own an amout of Real Estate in Seattle when he diedthere in 1921.Andrew's history is still being researched.
Hellen was housekeeper for her brother John in Greenock when he taughtschool there and later on in Gobroch in Scotland. She migrated to theUSA with him about 1915. She never married. It is believed that she wasa resident of the Kenny Presbyterian Home in Seattle until her deaththere in 1931.
1 TEXT Possible marriage to Elizabeth Key
James was the eldest son of William Morrison and Janet McEwan. There issome confusion about his history. He is reported as living with theMcEwans in Hardfold in 1851. It is most likely he migrated to the USAwith his uncle Peter McEwan about 1854. Peter [b: December 5, 1811]migrated there with his aunt . The recorded note is for Peter; " went tothe USA with aunt Helen". The only possible aunt Helen that is mentionedhere is Helen Carmichael, his mother's sister b: July 15, 1795 inMosside, Perthshire.
Records indicate that James arrived in Chicago USA as "a very youngman". He established a highly successful meat distribution businessthere in Chicago and became quite wealthy. He diversified into RealEstate and owned substantial properties in a number of States.
1870 Census for Cook County Chicago, Illinois, 6th Ward, p 416, dwelling1336: James Morrison age 30, Carpenter born Scotland, Real Estate Value$1200, Personal Estate value $200, listed with Anna Morrison, age 25, b.Ireland, and Willie Morrison aged 2, b: Illinois.
There were 3 other children born to the couple. Anna apparently diedwhen the children were quite young. James died while on a business tripto San Fransisco in 1888.
Florence was a highly regarded School Teacher in Chicago. She and herhusband? visited Australia to visit relatives about the turn of theCentury. No details of who she visited are known. Current day membersof the family in Australia have no information regarding the visit at all.
Grace was a School Tearcher in Chicago. She married as a young woman.
Died as a teenager.
William was a Stone Mason at St.David's Madderty.
Janet Morrison, born 1837], also at Madderty in Perth was 14 when hermother died. Jessie Mae Brislen remembers her mother [who was 6 weeksold at the time] repeating what had been told to her, when she, themother, knew she was going she called to Janet and referring to her babyMary Ann, saying "Take her Janet, she is yours now". Four years laterJanet married William Halley and took Mary Ann to live with them for afew years. She had 6 children, most of whom may have migrated toAustralia in later years.
Census 1881 Source: FHL Film 1341035 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0160Folio 38 Page 7
Dwelling: 94 North Street St Marylebone, London, Middlesex, England
John HALLEY U 21 M Edinburgh, Scotland Rel: Lodger Occ: Carpenter
Census: 1881 Source: FHL Film 0223993 GRO Ref Volume 685-1EnumDist 103 Page 6
Dwelling: 28 Royal Circus Edinburgh St Stephens, Edinburgh, Scotland
Janet HEALLY U 19 F Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland Rel: Serv Occ: House &Table Maid
Census: 1881 Source: FHL Film 0224012 GRO Ref Volume 685-5EnumDist 113 Page 4
Dwelling: No 3 Marchmont St Edinburgh St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ann HALLEY U 17 F Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland Rel: Serv Occ: DomesticServant (Genl)
Census: 1881 Source: FHL Film 0224007 GRO Ref Volume 685-4EnumDist 93 Page 20
Dwelling: 16 Glengyle Terrace Edinburgh St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland
Grace HALLEY U 15 F Cramond, Edinburgh, Scotland Rel: Servant Occ:Genl Serv Domestic
1 TEXT Buried at Lakeview Cem. Seattle Space 5 lot 704
Obituary for William Morrison.
Published in the opposition newspaper, "The Hawick News" 26th August 1892
DEATH OF EX-BAILIE MORRISON
On Monday intelligence reached Hawick (in the form of a brief letter to
Mrs Morrison) from Kent. Washington, United States, of the death of
Ex-Bailie Morrison on 3rd August, and of his interment on the 5th, with
Masonic honours. A prominent figure on the stage of local affairs has
thus unexpectedly passed away. Mr Wm. Morrison had a somewhat remarkable
career. He was born at Madderty, Perthshire; and was for some years a
detective in the Leith Constabulary, receiving a gold watch on leaving.
About 27 years ago he came to Hawick, and for 11 years filled the offices
of Superintendent of Police and Procurator-Fiscal for the burgh, bringing
a good deal of ability to bear upon the discharge of his professional
duties. He was also Firemaster, and received a handsome gift in
acknowledgment of his services in that capacity. About a year before he
resigned these appointments in 1876 - he became proprietor of the Hawick
Advertiser, in succession to the late Mr Jas. Haining. During the
fourteen years he managed this business, he started two other newspapers,
the Border Standard, published in Langholm, and the Hawick Advertiser
(???), but both of these ceased to exist some years ago.
He was also for a time a coal merchant in Hawick, and secretary of a
society for the abolition of the State regulation of vice. His numerous
private engagements did not prevent him from taking a prominent part in
public affairs. For a dozen years at least he was a member of Hawick Town
Council; and many being of opinion that his experience in the police
department admirably fitted him for the bench, he was during the greater
part of that period a bailie. When Provost Milligan resigned in November
1890, Bailie Morrison was a candidate for the premier honour. Provost
Hogg being elected by a majority of only two votes. Besides all this, he
was chairman of Hawick Parochial Board, and a member of the School Board.
He was a member of Hawick Bowling Club, St James' Lodge of Freemasons,
and other local societies. In politics he was a Liberal, and in various
social movements he also took a leading part. About a year and a half
ago, as noticed at the time, he suddenly left the town, and his
whereabouts was for a considerable period, a matter of curious conjecture
to those who had known him.
Shortly before that time, he had made the Advertiser a limited liability
concern under the style of "W.Morrison & Co.," and the business is still
carried on by this company. The deceased, who was 53 years of age, leaves
a widow, who still resides in Hawick, and one son, who went abroad some
years ago.
Bailie Morrison possessed to a remarkable extent the faculty of
ingratiating himself either with an individual or with a body of people,
and invariably secured a considerable following for the various projects
of one kind and another in which he interested himself. While in Hawick,
he took an interest in almost every movement which enlisted the
sympathies of any section of the community, and really did a good deal of
service to the town in the various aspects of its municipal work, being
not only a Bailie, but Convener of the Lighting Committee, besides
representing the Council at the Gas Company's board. He had the gift in a
unique degree of giving any scheme a most plausible appearance, and thus
securing for it a corresponding amount of support from the public at
large, completely capturing an unreflecting audience, and at the same
time demolishing all opposition that was not very pronounced. Not only
was he able to make others see a subject from the point of view that he
desired them to take, but he seemed to be capable of working up in
himself the firm belief that any undertaking he engaged in was the only
and absolutely certain means of accomplishing the desired end. Whether
at an evangelistic meeting, a Masonic social, a Town Council picnic, a
philanthropic gathering, or a political demonstration, he appeared to
feel fully convinced that he was the right man in the right place.
Indeed. he seemed to have laid very deeply to heart the apostolic motto
to be "all things to all men". It was almost impossible for any one to
ruffle his outward composure. He met all opponents in public with the
blandest of smiles, and evinced quite a fatherly solicitude for the
welfare of his constituents. No one ever consulted him on any subject
without taking away with him the impression that he was the man to
rectify his grievance or help him towards the attainment of his object.
Acting continually in the belief that it was possible to achieve success
in business within a short time, not so much by hard work as by a clever
combination of circumstances, he always strove to utilise the "tide in
the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," and
in the pursuit of this aim gave evidence of an astonishing fertility of
resource. Such was Bailie Morrison as he was known to the public of
Hawick during the quarter-of-a-century in which he lived amongst them.
Further intelligence from America, contained in a letter from a brother
of the deceased to another brother in Greenock, states that on the 3rd of
August, Mr Morrison fell off a log, injuring himself so severely that he
was unable to reach the house. One of his neighbours heard him calling
for help, and found him lying at the side of the log. They carried him to
the house, and he died in the evening at nine o'clock. He was interred by
the Freemasons of Seattle on the 5th.
Seattle Post-lntelligencer
August 5, 1892
Captain William B. Seymour of the Steamer Grace brought word of the death
of WILLIAM MORRISON of Chico as the result of an accident Wednesday.
Morrison was living on a ranch a little distance from the town. Edward
Bethel, a neighbour of Morrison's, heard a noise like a man shouting in
the woods behind Morrison's house Wednesday afternoon. As night came on,
he still heard the noise and proceeded to see what the cause was. He
found Morrison lying between two logs and in response to his inquiry as
to what the matter was, he said he had been hurt by a log. Bethel and
another man carried Morrison to his house, but he died by morning.
Captain Seymour did not learn any more particulars, but he will bring the
body over on the steamer this morning and it will be buried from Bonney
and Stewart's undertaking rooms.
Morrison was born in Scotland and was 53 years of age. He was a member of
a Masonic lodge in Scotland (see note:1), but whether he joined any
lodge in this country is not known. He had a brother name James (see
note:2) who is supposed to be somewhere in Washington.
Note:1 William Morrison belonged to St.James Lodge of Freemasons in
Perthshire Scotland.
Note: 2 William Morrison's brother James died in Scotland in 1881. He
could not have been in the USA at the time of William's death. His
bother Andrew was known to be living in WA in either Kitsap or King
County.
The Following information was abstracted from microfilmed copies at the
Kitsap County Courthouse, Port Orchards on November 14, 1989. It is
possible to photocopy these records, but they are very dim and very
difficult to read.
Kitsap County Probate Record # 118, William Morrison
Record No. 1:
Fred M. Comstock of said County of Kitsap and State of Washington being
duly sworn says that on the 24th day Of September 1892 he posted correct
and true copies of the above notice in three of the most public places in
said county, to wit: One of said places where court is held. the County
Building and the hotel in said County. (All in Port Matison, then the
County seat.)
October 5th. 1892
Record No. 2
Notice is hereby given that Andrew Morrison has filed in the Superior
Court of Kitsap County, Washington, a petition praying for letters Of
administration upon the estate of William Morrison, deceased.
Record No. 3
Know and these men present that we, Andrew Morrison as principal. and J.
P. P. Shepherd and J. R. Hobbs as sureties are jointly and severally
bound unto the State of Washington in the sum of Two Hundred Dollars.
conditioned that the above bonded, Andrew Morrison, who has been
appointed administrator of the estate of William Morrison, deceased.
Record No. 4:
Order appointing administrator. William Morrison died intestate and the
value of said estate does not exceed $100.
Record No. 5:
Andrew Morrison of King County says that the estate consisted of real and
personal property. The estate: A part of Lot 10 in Section 2, Range 24
North, Range I West, and the whole of Lot 11 in said section containing
44 acres. Value $540. Lot 1. Block 42, Port Washington, valued at $50.
One (cabin?) # ($) 210 located within 10 (?) and some household property
of no value. (see note:1) There is also some property in Scotland and its
precise location is unknown. The deceased also received a homestead in
Kitsap County. Total estate value this country, $602.
That the next of kin of said deceased and whom your petitioner is
advised and believes. Said deceased had a widow and one son aged about 26
(see note: 2) residing in Hawich (sic Hawick); Scotland. (One other only
living) The son, William Morrison resides in Sidney, (sic Sydney)
Australia. The said petitioner is a brother of deceased.
(The attorney for the case Was F. J. Foster, Seattle.)
Note: 1 I have been able to locate the subdivisional plan of Township
24 North, Range 1 West, W.M. and identify the two blocks of land Lot 10
and lot 11 referred to in the Record # 5, but not the land in Port
Washington referred to. What is of interest regarding this is that if
Andrew disposed of the various properties in the estate he would need to
have identified his place of residence, or this I hope would be the
case. If I can find any type of an address re his location at the time I
may be able to discover if he had any family, offspring, property. etc.
etc.
Note: 2. The brother in Scotland that is referred to in Record # 5
could only have been Ivie Alexander, b. 1 Dec 1865 but he died 3 Dec
1886 aged 21 years. This was 6 years before William's (his father)
accident in 1892. It seems strange that Andrew was not aware of his
brother's death. Unless there was another sibling I have been unable to
trace. There was a son born in 1866, but he died aged 5 months. It is
probably irrelevant.
1 TEXT Was living at Greenbank Harwick
1 INFO Husband abroard. See previous marriage
1 TEXT Died of Lupus 21 years old
Grace Morrison, sixth child, born in 1845. Came to Rockford Illinois asa young woman. Married Charles Pickens, a wealthy farmer, who wasconsiderably older than she. Three children in the family - twins,Anetta and George, and Charles. A fall, causing several broken ribswhich punctured her lungs seemed to bring on a lung ailment which causedher death in 1879. Her sister, Mary Ann, took her young first childJohn, then only a baby, and went back from Kansas to Illinois to helpcare for her for several months.
It was often told of how tiny the twins Netta and George were. Nettagrew up to marry John McDonald. She had a family of four, yourgrandmother had their photograph as children. George and Charley nevermarried - Anetta's death date is not yet known.
Most of grace's siblings lived with her for a time at Rockford when theyfirst arrived from Scotland.
Martgaret married Ben Butler and they purchased land in Kansas andsettled there. They had only the two children John and Helen.