Family Info History

Family Info!

(This part is still vague.)
Henry Edward Morrison started the Emerald Shipping and Trading Company from scratch, with the funding of some questionable investors. He was not a member of the peerage, but the rising middle class. Morrison later helped with the starting and funding of Lloyds of London. Somehow, later he met Josephine Bright, who was highborn. Against the wishes of her family, she married him.

(But this part isn't.)
Morrison married Josephine Alice Bright. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Victoria Morrison, who married Matthew Jonah Wellard- who started as a clerk in the Emerald Shipping and Trading Company and had risen up to be second in command of the Co by the time he proposed to Morrison's daughter. Morrison's only grandchild was born Nov 13 1786- Henry Matthew Wellard.

Wellard's parents died of cholera in Feb 1794, when he was 8- he then lived with his great uncle Robert Bright in Kent. Bright, a retired captain of the Navy, spoke to a friend who was a current captain to accept Wellard on board the Worthington as a midshipman in 1799 when Wellard was 13.

In 1801 he was transferred aboard the Renown under Captain James Sawyer, and then died in the West Indies in Jan 1802 at the age of 16.

Other dates for reference. Mother was 18 when she had H.Wellard, prolly married at 17. Elizabeth therefor born 1768. Matthew Wellard born 1759, married at age 26, was 27 when H.Wellard was born.

"Bloomsbury was colonized by respectable merchants and the professional classes, handsome houses but tainted by trade in the eyes of the elite." Right from An Elegant Madness. *snerk* Which fits Wellard's grandfather, and then his parents.

I need to figure out a few things about his grandfather and grandmother. How to have a high-born young lady even meet a tradesman, one self-made, even if he was probably more well-off than a good portion of the nobility? Then, how to kill them off. Hmmmm. *is open to ideas- even something like EIC 'arranging' an accident for Morrison and wife.*

Cinderella Story

Alright. So once upon a time, no one knows exactly when, that's how these stories usually go because no one wrote them down- There was a lord who's wife died. He had a daughter, so after a while he sought to find another wife and get married again, and he did. She was a widower as well, with two daughters of her own, and moved into the lord's home. Unfortunately, he died soon after they were married, and left all his affairs to her. The lady was also supposed to look after his daughter, but she put her own above her stepdaughter, and made her out to be nothing more than a scullery maid in the kitchen.

... She did hire new servants, of course. None of them knew that the daughter was really the daughter of the old lord. She had to sleep by the kitchen fireplace to keep warm, and the only name anyone ever knew for her was Cinderella.

Now, the lady was busy with the upcoming season, as both her own daughters were of age to come out. Cinderella was old enough as well, but the lady woudn't bother letting her scullery maid go out, not when she had her own daughters to worry about. However, the lord's daughter was still known by some, and when the prince held a ball, she still received an invitation. The lady had tossed it away, but since Cinderella had to take things to the dustbin, she found the invitation.

But what to do then? Her step mother had sold all of her clothes to the rag pickers, and given all of her own mother's jewelry to her step-sisters. She had nothing except her one change of clothes that were tattered and torn.

However, Cinderella was not totally forgotten. Her father and mother had friends who were Cinderella's godparents, an older couple that the lady had banned from her house long ago. But they had not forgotten her, and the day of the ball, they sent a footman in- since he had not been banned from the house- to go and get her. Cinderella was old enough, they could get her to the ball, and then see about getting her away from her stepmother's control. There was a fine gown for her, and her godmother gave her her own jewelry to wear. Then, they sent her to the ball in a coach with a driver and six footmen. The problem was that she could not stay for long, otherwise her stepmother may find her out.