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Title: Simpson Gabriel Morrison
Post by: CanadianGail on Sunday 16 November 08 01:10 GMT (UK)
Hello!

I've just chanced on Heather Graham's (Heppy) appeals for information about the Dubliner Rev Morrison 's large family.  I 'm pretty sure that he is my great great great grandfather, and I've sent emails to the two email addresses provided by Heather, but both have bounced.  I see from her profile she is some 67 years old, am I too late??
If anyone has taken up the challenge of tracking down Rev Morrison's 80 plus grandchildren and heavens knows how many g-g or g-g-g or g-g-g-g grandchildren please get in touch, Gail
Title: Re: Simpson Gabriel Morrison
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 16 November 08 09:20 GMT (UK)
Welcome to Rootschat, Gail. If you reply to this post that will give you a total of 3 posts and you can then use the PM (personal message) system to try to make contact with Heppy (her profile will tell you when she's last been online which might not have been that long ago). Often people are busy with other things so after sending your pm you'll just have to wait patienly and hope she or other descendants make contact. Good luck

Note: I see Heppy was last online 30 Oct.2008. Her thread on Rev. Simpson is here:
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,203394.msg2207437.html#msg2207437
Title: Re: Simpson Gabriel Morrison
Post by: CanadianGail on Sunday 16 November 08 16:49 GMT (UK)
Of course! 

I had only just started to work on my great-great grandmother's (Gabriella R D Morrison) history, and since she was "adopted" I thought that Morrison was not her "real" surname, so I was quite surprised to see Heather Graham/Heppy's requests on a dozen or so websites asking for some information on Rev S G Morrison.

I was brought up not to ask my elders questions, which means that I couldn't learn about my own family history.  Now I'm positively nagging! My grandmother (1905-1973) adored her "Granny" Gabriella, my and uncle and late mother remember their great-grandmother with fondness.

So here's hoping Heppy will sign in soon and well make some headway on the descendants of the good Pastor.  Because Gabriella is my mother's mother's mother's mother, this makes it a case for doing DNA research.

I have four children, aged 19-25 and they're starting to ask about their heritage.  I tell them they are profoundly Canadian, their ancestors came to Canada for a good reason, but more and more it's looking like they can say "Irish" especially since they have Irish first names and an Irish last name, but that's another story.

I've been doing genealogical research for some 20 years now, the internet has assisted enormously of course.  I have traced back to the 1600s for nearly ALL my ancestors, and right there that means some 1,000 g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandparents, give or take.

Weve just had our first real snow of the season, there was a fox scampering around our house, a red squirrel is hopping about, the snow has frozen into sparkling lumps of ice, the sun is dazzling and thatk you for your response and ....

Canadian Gail

Title: Re: Simpson Gabriel Morrison
Post by: gaye mcphee on Sunday 08 December 19 01:33 GMT (UK)
G'day from Australia. Simpson was my gggGrandfather and I have knowledge of many of his line descending from Jane  {Jenny) >would be happy to share. Gaye McPhee