Family Info History

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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.*

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The child of a baronet would not have a courtesy title or honourific, but his/her parents would be Sir John Blank and Lady Blank.

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ravenboy1976: Hm. How a tradesman could meet a highborn lady...
StarCPenny: That's what I've been trying to figure. He would have been quite well off (financially) by then- even if said finances wouldn't be quite stable- trading was a risky business.
StarCPenny: I seem to recall something in my books about a minor title, or knighthood, that could be awarded- but wouldn't be passed down to the sons.
ravenboy1976: Baronetcy.
ravenboy1976: That would do well.
StarCPenny: *nod!* Did something- perhaps in the navy, was awarded that, and had prize money to start the business.
StarCPenny: Wellard's father- Mathew- I think did not come from a well-off family. A poor apprenticed clerk- but rather good at what he does. And Morrison- well, given his own background, he's quite the sort to promote on merit, rather than who your family is or isn't. So, M. Wellard rose up through the company, until he was working more on the books and paper part of it, and finally became a partner, before he married Morrison's daughter.
ravenboy1976: That would work very well.
StarCPenny: *nodnod* so- Morrison and Justine meeting, I still have to figure.
StarCPenny: As well as what happened to kill them off as well.
ravenboy1976: If he's a baronet and she's a lady, they could meet at court after he does whatever he wins his baronetcy for.
ravenboy1976: He's still not good enough for her and her family won't approve,
ravenboy1976: but there's no reason why they can't encounter each other.
StarCPenny: yay. *notes that down*
StarCPenny: *nod* her family doesn't approve, and they don't quite actively disown her- but most dont' have much to do with her anymore. Years later, though- its her brother, Wellard's great-uncle, who takes him in.

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My copy of Debrett's Correct Form dates from the 1970s, but these stylings haven't changed in centuries so there's no worry about them being off. ^_^

Henry Edward Morrison, upon receiving his baronetcy, becomes Sir Henry Morrison, Bart. ('Bart.' being the old-fashioned abbreviation for baronet.) In conversation, he'd be spoken to and of as 'Sir Henry'; in writing, he would simply sign his name 'Henry Morrison'.

His wife, before her marriage, was the Hon. Josephine Bright, daughter of Lord [Name] (a baron or viscount). Upon her marriage, she became the Hon. Mrs. Morrison, and after her husband received his baronetcy she would have been the Hon. Lady Morrison.

If Wellard's great-uncle doesn't have the family title, he'd be a younger son and would be known as the Hon. Robert Bright.

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Wellard's first tutor was a Mr Guillaume Chernait, who taught him french as well as a normal education.

(*snerk* Blame Gen and Sweeney. Mr Chernait is a quiet man with a limp and a perminant sadness for his son. *facepalm*)

Mr Ganderton was the tutor hired by Wellard's Great Uncle, who continued the French, as well as Latin and Greek, and worked a lot on mathematics- up to the starting of Trigonometry.

Kent

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Robert Bright lived near Ashford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford%2C_Kent) in Kent.

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ok, for reference then- during AWE events, Matthew Wellard was 12, Elizabeth Morrison was barely 4. Matthew prolly just started working at the Emerald offices, and has a long way to go before ending up Morrison's partner in the company and marrying Morrison's daughter.