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Descendants of
WILLIAM HALLEY AND JANET MORRISON

[Official References: Census 1881 Source: FHL Film 1341035,  PRO Ref RG11   
Piece 0160    Folio 38    Page 7 ]

W ILLIAM HALLEY  (JOHN2, JAMES1 HALEY) was born Abt. 1834 in Gavelmore St., Crieff.  He married JANET MORRISON June 06, 1859 in St. Davids Madderty, Perthshire. Baptism: August 18, 1837, Craig Madderty; daughter of WILLIAM MORISON and JANET MCEWAN.  She was born August 06, 1837 in Craig Madderty, Perthshire.

Notes for WILLIAM HALLEY:
William was a Stone Mason at St.David's Madderty.

Notes for JANET MORRISON:
Janet Morrison, born 1837, also at Madderty in Perth was 19 when her mother died.  Jessie Mae Brislen remembers her mother [who was 6 weeks old at the time] repeating what had been told to her, when she, the mother, knew she was going she called to Janet and referring to her baby Mary Ann, saying "Take her Janet, she is yours now". Four years later Janet married William Halley and took Mary Ann to live with them for a few years.  She had 7 children, most of whom may have migrated to Australia or New Zealand in later years.    

The 7 Children of WILLIAM HALLEY and JANET MORRISON are:

JOHN       JANET       ANN       GRACE       WILLIAM       ANDREW       JAMES

                   i.       JOHN HALLEY, b. September 20, 1860, Leith, Edinburgh.

Notes for JOHN HALLEY:
Dwelling: 94 North Street  St Marylebone, London, Middlesex, England
John HALLEY U 21  M Edinburgh, Scotland Rel: Lodger    Occ: Carpenter
Batch LDS #: C116921

                  ii.       JANET HALLEY, b. February 06, 1862, Leith, Edinburgh.

Notes for JANET HALLEY:
Census:  1881 Source: FHL Film 0223993     GRO Ref    Volume 685-1    EnumDist 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
Batch LDS #: C11692

    iii.       ANN HALLEY, b. October 26, 1863, Leith, Edinburgh.

Notes for ANN HALLEY:
Census: 1881 Source: FHL Film 0224012     GRO Ref    Volume 685-5    EnumDist 113  Page 4 Dwelling: No 3 Marchmont St  Edinburgh St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ann HALLEY U 17  F Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland Rel: Serv  Occ: Domestic Servant (Genl)
Batch LDS #: C116921

                 iv.       GRACE HALLEY, b. July 30, 1865, Cramond Edinburgh.

Notes for GRACE HALLEY:
Census: 1881 Source: FHL Film 0224007     GRO Ref    Volume 685-4    EnumDist 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
Bat Mitzvah: C116791

                  v.       WILLIAM HALLEY, b. April 06, 1867, Cramond Edinburgh.

More About WILLIAM HALLEY:
Batch LDS #: C116791

                 vi.       ANDREW HALLEY, b. May 20, 1869, Cramond Edinburgh.

More About ANDREW HALLEY:
Batch LDS #: C116791

                vii.       JAMES HALLEY, b. May 11, 1871, Edinburgh.

More About JAMES HALLEY:
Batch LDS #: C116853

END OF OFFICIAL RECORD ABOUT WILLIAM HALLEY AND HIS FAMILY

 

Descendants of
NEIL BRISLEN and MARY ANN MORRISON

1.  NEIL BRISLEN was born in Argyllshire, Scotland.  He married MARY ANN MORRISON in 1877 in Rockford Illinois, daughter of WILLIAM MORISON and JANET MCEWAN.  She was born September 24, 1854 in St. Davids Madderty, and died March 31, 1931 in Pasadena, California USA.

Her Life in Scotland

Tenth and last child, Mary Ann, born 24 Sept 1854, in Perth Scotland - and died 31 March at Pasadena, California in 1931.  Her mother died when she was six weeks old, and her early life had a great many hardships.  When Janet married at 21, she took the four year old child with her, and there she remained until she was nine - her brother John decided she was being overworked and took her to a sister of their mother [Helen McEwan b: 1820], who promptly put her to work in a mill.  (Helen McEwan used to smoke a pipe, secretly!). Mary Ann spent some time at her father's home until his death in 1864.  After that her brother John made a home for her until she was around 16, when she left to go to work.  She claimed that she was never happier in her life than while she was second maid for a family who lived in an old castle. She had the tower room, and she loved to tell about those days. 

In 1873 she sailed for America, stopping at her sister's in Rockford, Illinois.  Three years later she was married to Neil Brislen.  Moved to Plymouth, Kansas, in 1878, locating on a farm 4 miles north of the town, where they raised their family of five.

After living in Plymouth for a little over a year, they bought and moved to a farm north of the little town, where they lived until 1910.  Kansas was practically frontier the earlier years of their live there - crop failures and many other hardships took their toll through the years, leaving her something of an invalid, house bound through the winter months.  It is reported that she was very pretty in her old brown taffeta dress, and a little bonnet she wore on special occassions.

In November of 1910,  Mary Ann & Neil Brislen moved to Pasadena, California where she died early in 1931.  She loved beautiful things and craved a good education for her family, her life was not easy. 

Children of NEIL BRISLEN and MARY MORRISON are:

                   i.       JOHN BRISLEN, b. August 25, 1878; d. March 1927.

                  ii.       EDWARD NEIL BRISLEN, b. June 22, 1880; d. March 1937.

                 iii.       MARGARET ELLEN BRISLEN, b. September 17, 1882; d. March 29, 1943.

                 iv.       JESSIE MAY BRISLEN, b. October 08, 1886; m. UNKNOWN, Abt. 1906.

                  v.      GRACE BRISLEN, b. May 25, 1894.

END OF OFFICIAL RECORD ABOUT NEIL BRISLEN AND HIS FAMILY


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