Photo Album

Family photos through the years

What's New

This page is definitely a work in progress. I have hundreds of photos I want to place here eventually. I will be adding new images to this collection constantly, so please return to this page from time to time. I will list the most recent additions here at the top for the benefit of those returning to catch up.

To begin with I've cheated a bit and used a programme called Google Picasa © to compile photo albums of old photographs provided to me by various relatives. The first one in this series will be the photos of the Norris and Wheeler family and their near relatives provided to me by Joan Wheeler.

Joan's Photo Album

The next album contains photos of my father, mother and friends when they were first courting and then married as well as some photographs of their children while still in Newfoundland and after moving to Ottawa. These are from my father's scrapbooks.

Tom Morry's Photo Album

A third album records the early life of my mother, Evelyn Wheeler Morry, from her infancy until her marriage. The period covered is more or less the same as that of my father's album above. There are some shots here taken by her Uncle Ed Bishop, who was one of the few professional photographers of note in Newfoundland in those days.

Evelyn Wheeler Morry's Album

A consolidation of the many photographs collected by Jean Funkhouser herself and those given to her by Dad Morry for safekeeping as the family historian makes quite an impressive collection. There are over 600 photographs in this collection and all but a few have now been identified with certainty.

Jean Funkhouser's Album

On Jamie's side of the family there are a considerable number of old photographs from the Quinlisk family assembled from various relatives in the US, Canada, Australia and Ireland. Unfortunately there are far fewer from the O'Brien family itself.

Quinlisk and O'Brien Families

Other individual Photographs of note will be highlighted on their own below

It is believed that the wealth of the Morry family had nigh on vanished by the time they departed England for Newfoundland, due to a business reversals and well-publicised lawsuits. But their economic status must have appreciated significantly in the next decades, due to the lucrative fishing business in Newfoundland. It isn't clear to what extent Matthew I, the original immigrant ever benefited from this restoration of the family's financial status but it appears his son, Matthew II, and his family were certainly reaping the benefits. One indication of this is found in the images that have survived of four of his sons, Matthew III, Frederick Clift, John Henry (my great great grandfather) and Robert. Only an affluent family could have afforded to have portraits either painted or prepared by early photographic techniques which were equally expensive. Moreover their style of dress in these portraits is hardly representative of the working fishermen of the day in Ferryland, being more that of the pampered English gentlemen they no doubt still aspired to appear to be.

Matthew Morry 1813-1854