The Quilietti Family

The story of a Scots Italian family

MORRISON Alexander 1869-1915 Great-Granduncle

Alexander Morrison son of George Morrison 1831-1911

It is with great honour that I include Alexander Morrison, my great Grand Uncle in this website. I have only in 2022 found this information about him. He was the son of my 2nd Great Grandparents George Morrison and Elizabeth Cowie.
Alexander here the second eldest of five known children of George Morrison and Elizabeth Cowie. The line stretches back to tongue in Sutherland where the families worked as fishermen and also as smallholders
HMS Reserve RN Ship JASPER. She was mined in the Moray Firth on 26 August 1915 and this is when Alex. Morrison lost his life.

Alex. was born in Jhansi, Bengal, India when his father George was serving in the Army. He joined the Merchant Navy from an early age and as we can see below served for many years

This document tells us so much about Alexander.
Born on 16th June 1868. It seems he continued to work at sea like his grandfather Angus Morrison who had the fishing boat in Tongue.
He enlisted on 28th December 1892, age 24. He served in the Merchant Navy and served his 20 years at sea when he was ‘disposed of’ as they describe it.
He was 5’4 inches tall with dark hair and ‘black’ eyes. On both his arms were tattoos of a cross and a sailor on his left arm. Just a real life Popeye. As well as the Merchant Navy he also served on Trawling boats and then the herring boats as well as a pontoon boat before WW1
The couple were married at 4 Queen Street, Aberdeen on third May 1889. Jane’s father was also a seaman which may have influenced the young Alex to go into the Merchant Navy. It looks like they were married at home by Father Cooper of the East Parish of Saint Nicholas in Aberdeen

He married Jane Skinner on 3rd May 1889 in Aberdeen and the above 1891 census tells us that he was a Seaman even then. The family home was at 73 Virginia Street in the City.
This document tells you that at the beginning of WW1 he again enlisted on 3rd September 1914. He was reported missing on 26th August 1915 after being hit by enemy fire.
Tattoos now cross on both arms and woman’s head back of hand
This was food on an auction website. Can’t imagine why any of the family would do this.

DAUGHTER Jane Morrison 1890-1922

Jane Morrison was the daughter of Alexander Morrison and Jane Taylor. Jane was born on 25th January 1890 at 4 Queen Street, Aberdeen. Her father Alexander already a Merchant Seaman.

Jane Morrison
1890–1922
BIRTH 25 JAN 1890 • 4 Queen Street, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
DEATH 11 JAN 1922 • Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
She married James Johnstone or Reid who was also known as Shand on 11th March 1910 in Aberdeen. They had four children,
  • ELDEST SON
  • ALEXANDER MORRISON REID 1910-1994. Alex married Annie Love or Smith in 1935. Annie was born in Stonehaven.
Birth of Alexander Morrison Reid, 1 Doric Place, Aberdeen, Scotland
This is the birth of Annie Love Smith, the wife of Alexander Morrison Reid. They went on to have four children,
Alexandrina Morrison Reid 1938-2010 – she married Henry Riddell and they had one daughter Yvonne 1962-2019.
Edward Alexander Reid 1949-2001. The other two children still to research
a snapshot of this line
The marriage of Alexander Morrison Reid and Annie Love.
This is the little church in Marycoulter in Kincardine where they were married and indeed are buried there as well
Catherine MORRISON Duthie Reid daughter of James Reid and JEANNIE MORRISON
  • FLORA ANN GARVIE REID 1914-1999. Flora married Kenn Johnston or Reid. They remained in Aberdeen. Have no further information
RESIDENCE 1930
  • JAMES REID 1916-1992- have no further information.

  • CATHERINE MORRISON DUTHIE REID 1919-1975. She married George Wilson in 1943 in Perth, Scotland. Have no further information

DAUGHTER CATHERINE MORRISON 1894-1962

Catherine Morrison – she was my 1st cousin x 2 removed. She married John Leslie Coulter Duthie on 3rd April 1917 in Aberdeen.
They had two sons Mathew 1916-1972 and John 1918-1972.
This is Catherine’s death in 1962 in Aberdeen. You can see she married John Leslie, who was a trawler fisherman. Her usual residence 89 Urquhart Road, Aberdeen
Catherine’s husband John Duthie 1885-1942 – in later life
John Leslie Coulter Duthie was the son of Catherine Morrison. He married in 1955 to
Sheena Downie 1935-2015 [photograph below]
Matthew Charlton Duthie son of Catherine Morrison
1916–1972
BIRTH 1916 • Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
DEATH 1972 • Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
This is Jack Duthie 1956-2020 – the son of John Duthie and Sheena Downie.
He was my Third Cousin.

THE LOVIE CONNECTIONS

I am including this line in honour also of Charles Love 1892-1915 whose daughter married the son of Jane Morrison. Charles Love was killed prematurely when He was drowned off the coast of Orkney on 13th September 1916.

The steel Trawler Loch Garry was built by Hall A. & Sons Ltd. Aberdeen in 1903, Yard No 400​, for the Empire Steam Fishing Company of Aberdeen Ltd. (H.A. Holmes, Managers) Sold to J. B. Graham
and Registered in Hartlepool as HL 32.

HMT Loch Garry was on duty as a Boom Net Tender and at anchor on the west side of ”A” Boom at Kirkwall. ”A” Boom stretched from Twi Ness, Shapinsay to Thieves Holm.
At about 1.15 am the vessel foundered with the loss of up to eight crew. The only survivor was William James Smith (16) who was son of the skipper. William survived by floating to a nearby small islet or island (possibly Thieves Holm or Shapinsay) where he was rescued later that day. 

Newspaper reports state that an anchor line parted and the vessel went broadside to the sea and was swamped and foundered but file HD1916-793 held by UKHO states that enquiry found that ”she probably sank owing to the heavy gale and strong tides having strained her and caused some internal leak in the engine room….”

https://lostinwatersdeep.co.uk/hmt-loch-garry.html
under water wreck today courtesy of the Scapa Scientific

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