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From: The Taylor Family <>
Subject: Re: MORRIS
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 00:38:16 +0200

I have a copy of part of a plan of the old Quaker burial ground in
Bridport, Dorset in England showing "graves supposed to belong to the
KENWAY family" which has several MORRIS graves alongside the KENWAY
plot. As some of the KENWAY burials are not in the Dorset & Somerset
Burials Digests the same may be true of the MORRIS graves.

For what it's worth - the graves are undated:

Ben'n (Benjamin?) MORRIS
Elizabeth MORRIS
Deborah MORRIS

- to help date these they are next to the grave of an Elizabeth KENWAY
d. 175? presumed to be Elizabeth MORRIS who married William KENWAY 22
Apr 1753, "Wm KENWAY's child", William (d. 1773) and William's second
wife Mary (SEYMER) KENWAY (d. 1789).

This may have nothing to do with your MORRISes but they had to originate
somewhere...

Judith
in Holland
Research interests: KENWAY, SEYMER, BALSTON in Dorset, KING, BALL,
CLENDENON in McKean Co USA

Someone wrote (sorry I didn't pick up this thread at first):

> >I have several questions about these lines and am in hopes that a MORRIS
> >relation can give me some input. Are the MORRIS deeds and the Isaac MORRIS
> >who married Rachel Manlove the same? Is the William MORRIS listed below, the
> >grand-father of Isaac? Who were the GRUNDENS?
> >The birthdates are all hypothetical, as none were listed in the original
> >genealogy. I am also curious as to whom the LOWBER listed as the second
> >husband of Mary MORRIS and the Broadaway listed as the second husband of
> >Hannah MORRIS are? Any and all input muchly appreciated. Linda
> >
> >"'ST MARTIN'S RIDGE' 200 a. patented 1683 for John SMOCK.
> >---11/6/1743 Isaac MORRIS and Henry LATCHOLE with wife
> >Tabitha (wd/o Thomas MITCHELL) sold to John Bowen
> >(s/o William Jr, d 1728), 200 a.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >1 Isaac Morris b: 1812
> >
> >
> >..+Rachel Manlove b: 1812
> >
> >
> > Father: John Manlove Mother: Jane Wheeler
> >.... 2 Emmaline Morris b: 1833
> >
> >
> >........+Samuel Grunden b: 1833
> >
> >
> >........... 3 Hattie Grunden b: 1853
> >
> >
> >........... 3 Will Grunden b: 1854
> >
> >
> >.................. 4 Carl Grunden
> >
> >
> >.................. 4 Elizabeth Grunden
> >
> >
> >.................. 4 Paul Grunden
> >
> >
> >........... 3 Ben Grunden b: 1855
> >
> >
> >.... 2 Jasper Morris b: 1834
> >
> >
> >........+Nancy Rose
> >
> >
> >........... 3 Eva Morris b: 1854
> >
> >
> >.... 2 Mark Manlove Morris b: 1835
> >
> >
> >........+Elizabeth Grunden b: 1835
> >
> >
> >........... 3 George Grunden Morris b: 1855
> >
> >
> >.................. 4 Mary Morris b: 1875
> >
> >
> >........... 3 Herbert Willis Morris b: 1856
> >
> >
> >.... *2nd Wife of Mark Manlove Morris:
> >
> >
> >........ +Sadie Snodgrass
> >
> >
> >........... 3 Charles Ora Morris b: 1855
> >
> >
> >.................. 4 Charles Milton Morris b: 1875
> >
> >
> >.................. 4 Mark Manlove II Morris b: 1876
> >
> >
> >........... 3 Claude Morris b: 1856
> >
> >
> >........... 3 Taylor Isaac Morris b: 1857
> >
> >
> >.................. 4 Taylor Isaac II Morris b: 1877
> >
> >
> >........... 3 Irwin Mark Morris b: 1858
> >
> >
> >............... +Edith Ivalee Newby b: 1858
> >
> >
> >.................. 4 Joseph Morris b: 1878
> >
> >
> >.... 2 Lucy Morris b: 1832
> >
> >
>
> Isaac H. and Rachel (Manlove) Morris lived in Wayne Township, Henry County,
> Indiana. Isaac died June 3, 1852, aged 35 years and 28 days, and is buried
> in Knightstown Cemetery. He died in Indianapolis while serving in the
> state legislature. I find two civil marriages for an Isaac Morris in Henry
> County: June 8, 1837, to Rachel Manlove, and March 27, 1845, to Susanna
> Butler.
> The family appears thus in the 1850 census:
> Isaac H. Morris 32 Farmer, born Va.
> Susan, 26, born Ind.
> Lucy, 12, Emaline 11, Levi 9, Almaretta 7, William 3, and Mark 1, all born Ind.
> Thus Rachel must have died and Susanna or Susan was the second wife.
>
> Isaac H. Morris was born in Monongalia Co., W.V., the son of Lewis and
> Rebecca (Hoskinson) Morris. Lewis died March 14, 1858, aged 68y, 10m, 21d.
> Rebecca died May 19, 1866, aged 80y, 2m. Both are buried in Knightstown
> Cemetery. County histories state that Lewis was born in Maryland and
> Rebecca in Virginia. Whether they connect with the Morrises in Worcester
> Co. Md. I don't know. Lewis and Rebecca moved to Belmont Co., Ohio, then
> to Henry Co., Ind., in 1833.
>
> At least some of the ages for children in the census are wrong. Mark
> Manlove Morris and wife Sarah became members by request of Knightstown MM
> in 1886. You'll find their dates and those of their four sons in volume 4
> of Heiss's Indiana abstracts. Mark was born 10-3-1841, Sarah 12-29-1851.
> Charles was born in 1885, Taylor in 1889, Claud in 1891, and Irwin in 1894.
> I know some of the family who still live in the area.
>
> The Grunden family is first found in Huntingdon Co., Pa. They moved from
> there to Butler and Mercer counties in Ohio before coming to Indiana. No
> evidence of Quaker connections before they came to Indiana.
>
> ______________________________

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