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121787
Surname: Moriarty
First Name: Owen
Ship: -
Date: 1858 11 May
Place: Hobart
Source: The Hobart Town Daily
Details: Sentenced to 1 month imprisonment with hard labour for wandering abroad and having no visible means of subsistence. Tailor
121788
Surname: Moriarty
First Name: Owen
Ship: -
Date: 1844 1 November
Place: Sydney
Source: SMH
Details: Committed for trial for burglary of the house of Patrick Macarthy
121789
Surname: Moriarty
First Name: Owen
Ship: -
Date: 1842 30 September
Place: Bathurst
Source: SMH
Details: On trial for forgery, however committed as a lunatic after he was carried into the Court by 4 constables, kicking and screaming and appearing deranged
121790
Surname: Moriarty
First Name: Owen
Ship: -
Date: 1843 4 October
Place: Bathurst
Source: SMH
Details: Sent to Sydney Gaol and then Tarban Creek Asylum be placed on trial again after suspicions arose as to his state of insanity
124727
Surname: Moriarty
First Name: Owen
Ship: -
Date: 1842 4 March
Place: Maitland Circuit Court
Source: SH
Details: Joseph Lydiard, free, and Owen Moriarty, free by servitude, committed for trial for forgery
66534
Surname: Moriarty
First Name: Owen
Ship: Eliza 1832
Date: 1838 7 February
Place: -
Source: GG
Details: Ticket of leave cancelled for being absent from district with a forged pass
121775
Surname: Moriarty
First Name: Owen
Ship: Eliza 1832
Date: 1842 29 April
Place: Singleton
Source: GG
Details: Pale, small sized emaciated man, by trade a tailor. Broad Irish accent, hair thin on the top of his head and well known in the Ironed and Road Gangs at Parramatta. Charged with forgery and uttering forged orders. Reward Offered
121776
Surname: Moriarty
First Name: Owen
Ship: Eliza 1832
Date: 1837
Place: Liverpool
Source: GRC
Details: Aged 52. Assigned to the Hospital at Liverpool
81698
Surname: Moring
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1851 1 February
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Arbitrator for John Downing in the estate of James Walker
81967
Surname: Moring
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1851 15 February
Place: Sydney
Source: MM
Details: Correspondence re Henry Rae's committal for forgery
190840
Surname: Morison
First Name: David Nevin
Ship: -
Date: -
Place: -
Source: -
Details: Burgman House, 4 Pitt Street Mayfield originally built for David Nevin Morison (1898) and called St. Swithins. Later the home of the Parnell family. In 1960 Burgman house became a hostel for apprentices and students
57718
Surname: Morison
First Name: Mrs. C.W.M.S
Ship: -
Date: 1849 29 August
Place: Glenmorison, New England
Source: MM
Details: Gave birth to a son on 5th August who died the same day
198991
Surname: Morison
First Name: Robert and James
Ship: -
Date: 1888
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison Morrison, W. Frederic Sydney. The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888
Details: . MORISON AND BEARLY, Soho Foundry and Works, Bullock Island.-This firm, consisting of Robert Morison, James Morison, and Edwin Bearly, commenced business in 1874, and were for a time only assisted by one boy, but their trade has so increased that they now employ 110 hands. Mr. R. Morison is the general manager, Mr. Bearly superintends the foundry, and Mr. J. Morison has charge of the engineering department. A considerable share of their work is the manufacture of the most advanced type of marine engines. The first work they did as engineers was in the construction of it small engine of four horse-power for a cordial factory, but now they turn out the machinery of the fastest tug and passenger boats on northern waters of as high as 150 horse-power. They are also largely employed in manufacturing colliery winding and hauling gear, sanitary pipe, and brick-making machinery, and saw-mill gear, and a special feature of their foundry work is the casting of cylinders for coal pits. Some of the latter, as turned out by Morison and Bearley, measure seventeen feet in diameter by one inch and a quarter in thickness, the whole tubing of a shaft weighing as much as 375 tons. They do a large trade also in builders and ship ironworks, build all classes of land and marine boilers, and execute repairs to machinery of as large vessels as could be dealt with in most of the Sydney engineering works. The firm s foundry and engineering plant are the largest in the northern district, and cover an acre of ground. )Jr. R. Morison learned his business with his father in Sydney. He is a member of the Committee of the School of Arts, of the Wesleyan Church, and of the Committee of the Y.M.C.A
96786
Surname: Morison (Morrison)
First Name: Rev. J
Ship: -
Date: 1852 29 December
Place: Raconer New England
Source: MM
Details: Marriage of James Hutton of the Falconer Inn to Mary, second daughter of J. Cameron of Falconer Plains on 22 December. Officiating clergy REv. J. Morison
190839
Surname: Morison (obit)
First Name: David Nevin
Ship: -
Date: 3 August 1942
Place: Mayfield
Source: The Newcastle Sun
Details: DEATH OF MR. D. N. MORISON Head of the oldest general engineering firm in Newcastle and himself an outstanding technical engineer, Mr. David Nevin Morison, managing director of Mori son and Bearby Ltd.. Carrington. died on Saturday night. He was 73 years old. and had been ill for only a short time. The late Mr. Morison. who was a prominent churchman and respected for his business ability and citizenship, was born in Balmain and came to Newcastle with his family at the age of three. The remaining 70 years of his life was spent in Newcastle. He served his time with the firm and became its head in 1914. He was educated at Maitland Boys High School. He was one of the first advocates of the Stockton-Tomago Sand beds water scheme when the Chichester plan was first discussed. He was a firm believer in Newcastle s destiny as a ship building centre, and was a member of the District Shipbuilding Committee formed in the city in 1938. Mr. Morton was a foundation member of the Institution of Engineers and a councillor of that body. He also supported the former Newcastle Betterment Board, the Chambers of Commerce and Manufactures, and Newcastle Ambulance. He was a prominent local preacher, a trustee of the Mayfield Methodist Church, and superintendent of the Sunday School for 30 years. He also sang in the choir. A liberal contributor to the Mayfield Methodist Church, he presented a bell to it in honor of his mother. He was a delegate to conference, and attended many synods. He was an active supporter of the YMCA and the British and Foreign Bible Society. The firm of Morison and Bearby Ltd. was established by Mr. Morison s father and a member of the Bearbv family at Carrington in1874. Later it was conducted by the late Mr. Morison and Mr E. Bearby, a son of the other original partner. Recently, Mr. Bearby ceased to take an active part in the firm and Mr. Morison was in charge until his death. He employed 350 men. He is survived by his wife and three daughters. Misses Nancy. Gwen and Vina Morison. The funeral took place this after noon leaving Mayfield Methodist Church for Sandgate Cemetery.
190838
Surname: Morison (obit)
First Name: Robert
Ship: Francis Walker 1852
Date: 9 March 1914
Place: Waratah
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Mr. Robert Morison, who died at his residence, Mayfield, Waratah, on Thursday, was well-known in this city and district. He was born in England on May 20, 1840, and came to Australia with his parents in 1852 in the ship Francis Walker. As a youth Robert Morison served an apprenticeship at the establishment of Messrs. Halliday Bros. One of his early duties was to assist the late Mr. Barnes to install some of the first printing machines in the offices of the Sydney Morning Herald. In later years he came to Newcastle, and worked in the first rail- way shops at Honeysuckle. Returning to Sydney, he entered the service of Mort s Dock Engineering Company, and had considerable experience in some of the early steamboats running to Australia. In 1875 Mr. Morison and Mr. E. W. Bearby entered into partnership as engineers at Carrington. Shortly afterwards Mr. James Morison, a brother, joined the firm, and to-day the firm of R. and J. Morison and Bearby is known throughout Australasia. Mr. Morison was prominently associated with the Methodist Church, and for many years was a local preacher in the Newcastle district, and teacher and superintendent at the Wesleyan Sabbath School in Tyrell street, Newcastle. He also held the position of trustee for a number of churches in the district. He was a supporter of the Y.M.C.A. in Newcastle, and a president and member of the committee of the local auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Deceased leaves a widow and four daughters - Miss Morison, Mrs. F. A. Moxey, Mrs. R. Bryant, junr., and Mrs. R. G. Ellis and one son, Mr. D. N. Morison.
162324
Surname: Morisset
First Name: Brevet Major James Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 17 January 1820
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Evidence Before Commissioner J.T. Bigge
Details: EVIDENCE OF BREVET MAJOR MORISSET, COMMANDANT AT NEWCASTLE, 17 JANUARY, 1820 1. How long have you been in the command of this settlement? Since 1 January 1819. 2. From whom did you receive your appointment? From Governor Macquarie. 3. By what instrument was the appointment made? In the form of a Government and General order signed by Mr Campbell the Secretary and Major Antill as Major of Brigade. 4. You likewise have an appointment as a magistrate? I hold an appointment under the hand and seal of Governor Macquarie as magistrate for the settlement of Newcastle in Hunters River. 5. Upon your receiving this appointment did you receive any special instructions from the Governor in writing? I did. 6. What is the amount of your colonial pay as Commandant of this settlement and of rations or other indulgences you receive? I receive seven and six pence a day as Commandant and 2 as Magistrate an allowance of four men on the store provided they are not required for government service. I am not allowed any extra ration or any allowance for a horse. There is a farm belonging to government on the river at some 50 distance from the town over which is placed an overseer, who has a farm of his own in the neighbourhood; and to him I give up my four men in consideration of a certain quantity of wheat and maize for my use which last year amounted to 350 bushels - I have made this arrangement rather than conduct any farm on account of government or have anything to do with farming transactions.
104947
Surname: Morisset
First Name: Captain
Ship: -
Date: 1819 9 January
Place: -
Source: SG
Details: Captain James Wallis returned to Sydney on the Elizabeth Henrietta. To be succeded as Commandant at Newcastle by Captain Morisett of the 48th
62048
Surname: Morisset
First Name: Captain James
Ship: -
Date: 1818 26 December
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: 48th Regiment. Appointed Commandant at Newcastle Settlement in the room of Captain James Wallis
129949
Surname: Morisset
First Name: Captain James Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1819 12 August
Place: -
Source: A List of the Officers of the Army
Details: Captain James Thomas Morisset appointed Major 12 August 1819. 48th (or the Northamptonshire)Regt of Foot