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Morrison
Eldest Son of the Eldest Son


WILLIAM MORRISON#5 of Leith, Scotland came to Australia in 1883. William and his wife ELIZA ANN APPLETON had 11 children. Read on for their Family History...

WILLIAM MORRISON#5 ---WILLIAM#1’s son ---WILLIAM#2’s grandson ---DANIEL#1’s great-grandson ---WILLIAM#3’s great, great, grandson and ---JOHN#1's great, great, great-grandson); was born at 6 Kirkgate, Leith, in Scotland on August 09, 1863. He died March 11, 1913 in "Marwood" 29 Gordon St, Paddington NSW, Australia. He was buried at Rookwood Cemetary, Lidcombe. NSW. William arrived in Sydney on 24 December 1883 on the ship "PERICLES" . He was a printer by trade and became the NSW Government Printer. He resided at "Marwood", 29 Gordon Street, Paddington NSW.

He married ELIZA ANN APPLETON on April 22, 1885 in the Church of England, Sydney NSW, Australia. Eliza was born March 17, 1859 in 70 Green St Westoe, Sth Sheilds, Durham, England. She died September 14, 1942 aged 83 years, at "Strathglass" 102 Lang Rd, Centenial Park NSW. They had 11 children.

 

Webmaster's Note: We would love to hear from any Australian Appletons who may be part of this lady's family, and consequently, the Morrisons of Engadine, Australia.

The Eleven Children of WILLIAM MORRISON#5 and ELIZA APPLETON are:
1. Ivy,    2. William#6,    3. John Sydney,    4. Margaret,       5. Jessie,
6. Eliza Ann [1],    7. Robert,     8. James (Jimmie),    9. Eunice,
10. Eliza Ann (Annie)[2],    11. Reginald.

Records of these 11 children are as follows:

1.    IVY ALEXANDER GREGG (KNOWN AS ALEX) MORRISON, [First born Child of WILLIAM MORRISON#5 and ELIZA ANN APPLETON] was born September 09, 1886 in Gold Street, Brunswick Victoria. He married JANIE PRISCILLA BASTION October 21, 1916 in All Souls Church of  England, Leichhardt. Janie was born in McCauley Road, Stanmore. They had one child.

A Child of IVY (ALEX) MORRISON and JANIE BASTION was:

i. BERYL MORRISON
Beryl married TOM MAPLE. They had a daughter CAROLINE.


2.    WILLIAM MORRISON#6, [Second Child of WILLIAM MORRISON#5 and ELIZA ANN APPLETON] b. March 28, 1888.

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3. JOHN SYDNEY MORRISON (known as Sid) was born February 12, 1890 in Sydney and died October 13, 1940 aged 50 years in Stanmore, Sydney. He married EDITH CAROLINE YOUNG on October 14, 1916 in St Clements, Marrickville. Edith was born in 1888, and died in 1964 aged 76 years.They had 4 children.

The Four Children of JOHN (SID) MORRISON and EDITH CAROLINE YOUNG are:

1. Gwenda,    2. Allen,      3. Jean,       4. Betty

 

 

1. GWENDA MORRISON, b. February 27, 1919 married LESLIE JAMES HYDE January 10, 1942.
They had 4 children...

The Four Children of GWENDA MORRISON and LESLIE JAMES HYDE are:

i. Dianne     ii. Allen    iii. Gregory    iv. Margaret

i.   DIANNE GWENDA HYDE, b. March 10, 1946. She married GEOFREY WILLIAM ATKINSON September 17, 1966. They had 3 children.

The Three Children of DIANNE GWENDA HYDE and GEOFREY WILLIAM ATKINSON are:

a. KIMBERLY GAYE ATKINSON, b. October 26, 1970.

b. MELLISA JANE ATKINSON, b. October 04, 1972.

c. MARK GEOFREY ATKINSON, b. March 10, 1980.

ii. ALLEN JAMES HYDE was born September 10, 1948. He married ROBYN ANNE TAYLOR May 19, 1979. They had 2 children.

The Two Children of ALLEN HYDE and ROBYN TAYLOR are:

a. ADAM STUART HYDE, b. January 19, 1981.

b. DAVID ALLEN HYDE, b. March 05, 1983.

iii. GREGORY JOHN HYDE, b. May 05, 1951; married JULIE MARGARET PEARCE, May 20, 1978.


iv.MARGARET CAROLINE HYDE was born February 19, 1953.
She married ROSS ARTHUR SMITH December 28, 1979. They had 1 child.

The Child of MARGARET CAROLINE and ROSS SMITH is:

a. Unknown b. January 01, 1982

2.  ALLEN SYDNEY MORRISON was born August 25, 1921. He married DOROTHY ROSS March 05, 1955 who was born 1921. They had 1 child...

The Child of ALLEN MORRISON and DOROTHY ROSS is:

a. ROSSLYN MORRISON, b. February 21, 1957.
She married BRIAN REILLY April 19, 1978. He was born 1953.
They had 1 child.

The Child of ROSSLYN MORRISON and BRIAN REILLY is:

a. LARRISA GAY REILLY, b. July 29, 1983.

3. JEAN MORRISON was born June 15, 1925. She married RONALD PIPER November 12, 1949 in Holy Trinity Church of England, Dulwich Hill. They had 3 children..

The Three Children of JEAN MORRISON and RONALD PIPER are:

a. JANEEN PIPER, b. December 21, 1950. She married TERRY CLIFTON.
They had 3 children.


The Three Children of JANEEN PIPER and TERRY CLIFTON are:

i.  JAMES CLIFTON, b. October 31, 1974.

ii.  BRYAN CLIFTON, b. January 11, 1977.

iii. CHERELLE CLIFTON, b. October 11, 1980.

b. DENISE PIPER, b. April 24, 1953. She married GARRY EDWARDS.
They had 4 children.

The Four Children of DENISE PIPER and GARRY EDWARDS are:

i.   BRETT EDWARDS, b. December 26, 1974.

ii.  CAROLINE EDWARDS, b. May 04, 1976.

iii.   LUKE EDWARDS, b. December 07, 1979.

iv.   BRIHONY EDWARDS, b. October 02, 1981.


c. WILLIAM PIPER, b. July 16, 1955. He married GAIL HARRIS.
They had 4 children.

Children of WILLIAM PIPER and GAIL HARRIS are:

i.  LYNDAL PIPER, b. February 17, 1976.

ii.   SCOTT PIPER, b. March 14, 1978.

iii.  MATTHEW PIPER, b. July 09, 1979.

iv.  KELLY ANNE PIPER, b. July 19, 1983.

4.   BETTY MARGARET MORRISON was born April 20, 1927. She married REGINALD WALL
September 18, 1948 in St. Clements Marrickville. He was born 1926. They had 2 children...

The Two Children of BETTY MORRISON and REGINALD WALL are:
i. Suzanne Margaret, ii. John Reginald

i. SUZANNE MARGARET WALL, b. February 03, 1951. She married GRAHAM PARKER April 15, 1972. He was born 1944. They had 3 children.

Children of SUZANNE WALL and GRAHAM PARKER are:

a.  JONATHAN GRAHAM REGINALD PARKER, b. October 31, 1977.

b. STUART REGINALD PARKER, b. October 10, 1980.

c. BRENDAN JAMES PARKER, b. November 23, 1983; d. November 25, 1983.

ii. JOHN REGINALD WALL, b. November 20, 1955.

Continuing...The Eleven Children of WILLIAM MORRISON and ELIZA APPLETON:


iv.   MARGARET ELIZA (MAGGIE) MORRISON, b. June 01, 1892; married LEN BUCHANAN.

v.   JESSIE MORRISON was born February 17, 1894. She married (?) DARNLEY.

The Two Children of JESSIE MORRISON and DARNLEY:

i.   NOLA DARNLEY

ii.  ALLAN DARNLEY

Webmaster's Note: Gregg Morrison is currently researching this connection.
New information will be added as soon as it is confirmed.

vi.   ELIZA ANN MORRISON, b. August 26, 1895; d. December 16, 1895.
(Survived only 4 months).

vii.  ROBERT GREGG MORRISON was born October 10, 1896. He married FLORRIE PARNELL.

The Four Children of ROBERT MORRISON and FLORRIE PARNELL are:

i.   ROB MORRISON

ii.  NEVILLE MORRISON

iii. DOREEN MORRISON

iv. VALERIE MORRISON

Debt of Honour Register
to a couragous young ANZAC

viii. JAMES MCEWAN GREGG (JIMMIE) MORRISON, born January 12, 1899, Leichhardt;
who died a Hero on the battlefields of Villiers Bretonneux, France
during World War 1, on Saturday, July 22 1916.

This information is in Memory of Private JAMES MACEWAN MORRISON
3960, 1st Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
.
Private MORRISON was the Eighth Child of William and Eliza Ann Morrison,
of "Marwood", of 29 Gordon Street, Paddington,
New South Wales. Australia.
Remembered with honour

Cemetery: VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL, Somme, France

Location: Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Memorial stands in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, which is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.

Visiting Information: The names are engraved on the memorial in order of battalion, then alphabetically under rank.

Historical Information: Villers-Bretonneux became famous in 1918, when the German advance on Amiens ended in the capture of the village by their tanks and infantry on 23 April that year. On the following day, the 4th and 5th Australian Divisions, with units of the 8th and 18th Divisions, recaptured the whole of the village and on 8 August 1918, the 2nd and 5th Australian Divisions advanced from its eastern outskirts in the Battle of Amiens.

The VILLERS-BRETONNEUX-MEMORIAL is the Australian national memorial erected to erected to commemorate all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War, to their dead, and especially to those of the dead whose graves are not known. The 10,700 Australian servicemen actually named on the memorial died in the battlefields of the Somme, Arras, the German advance of 1918 and the Advance to Victory. The memorial was unveiled by King George VI in July 1938.

The memorial stands within VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY, which was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other burial grounds in the area and from the battlefields.

Plots I to XX were completed by 1920 and contain mostly Australian graves, almost all from the period March to August 1918.

Plots IIIA, VIA, XIIIA and XVIA, and Rows in other Plots lettered AA, were completed by 1925, and contain a much larger proportion of unidentified graves brought from a wider area. Later still, 444 graves were brought in from Dury Hospital Military Cemetery.

There are now 2,141 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 608 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to 15 buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not be found on concentration. The cemetery also contains the graves of two New Zealand airmen of the Second World War.

Both cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.



There's a song which we are proud to bring to our Morrison Family Website, which puts the tragedy of the Anzacs so poignantly in perspective. Click on the following link and turn up your sound.


1. The Lyrics...

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

The words of this truly beautiful song may be found by selecting the following link. We acknowledge that the lyrics and words belong Eric Bogle. Copyright.

2. The Words...
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda


ix.   EUNICE MORRISON, born October 01, 1901; died December 18, 1907 aged 6 years.
Buried in Rookwood with her Father (William).

x.   ELIZA ANN (ANNIE) MORRISON, born November 12, 1904, Leichhardt;
married NORMAN WILLETS.

xi.   REGINALD JOSEPH MORRISON, born February 19, 1907; died 1953 aged 46 years. Buried at Rookwood with his Mother  (Eliza Appleton).

APPROACHING THE 20th CENTURY... Many Scottish Morrisons were seeking lands in which to settle that were not as remote as Australia, so the United States of America beckoned them. Some who had already settled in Australia, decided to sail to the USA, leaving families behind, some of whom would never see them again.

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