Morey Family

Some were descendants of Moreys who sailed directly to New Zealand from  various English ports; others had sailed to Australian ports and then  came on to New Zealand, where coastal shipping lists show a vast number  of trips north and south. We are still today getting Moreys entering  Kiwiland from England and America. (Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12951, 02 Sep 1905, Page 5).

An Indian paper states: A very painful sensation was caused in  Ootacamund yesterday morning (May 6th) by the terribly sudden death of  Mr William George Morey, who has been as well-known as he has been  popular for many years in Bangalore, Ootacamund and Madras. Mr Morey was  a great sportsman and loved horses and hunting. He was early on the  racecourse yesterday, riding as usual, and seemed in perfect good health  and spirits. Indeed, I was conversing with him shortly before he died.  It would seem he was riding a horse belonging to Colonel Gordon Price,  his son-in-law, and had gone round the course about one and a-half times  when he apparently lost strength and fell to the ground. This was  between the three, furlong and half-mile posts, and Mr Clementson, Colonel and Mrs Gordon-Price and others, who were on the course, rode to Mr Morey's assistance at once with stimulants.

He was  conscious when they reached him, but died in a few moments, apparently  from syncope, or failure of the heart's action. Mr Morey, I am told, was  68 years of age," but he was so active and apparently healthy a man  that he might have passed, for ten years less. His cheery voice and  presence will be much missed from the Downs, the race-course, also from  Bangalore, Mysore, and Madras. He was a 'true sportsman and a gentleman,  and will be long remembered as such by all who knew him.

Mr George William Morey of Bangalore was a brother of Mr Walter Morey of this town (New Plymouth); who was christened 17 Jun 1844, Rumboldswyk,  Chichester, SSX, ENG, Walter Morey is found in the SSX census 1851 aged  six. He migrated to Port Phillip, Melbourne, VIC, AUS on the Archilles  arriving Sep 1854 aged 08. On 07 Oct 1854 he arrived in Hobart aboard  the City of Hobart from Melbourne, with father James Morey brother  Charles Morey and his wife, brother Josiah Morey and his wife, sister Amelia Morey and brother William Morey.

He passed his teenage years in  Hobart and then migrated to NZL where at the age of 25 he married Martha  Elizabeth Green at Nelson in 1869. She died 18 Apr 1871 and is buried  at Wakapuaka Cemetery, Nelson. Walter moved to New Plymouth with his son James Clewer Morey where he married 14 May 1873 Sophia Veale at her  father's house. Walter took his son James Clewer Morey to Nelson 12 Mar  1876 on the "Phoebe" to visit his Greene grandparents and returned alone  16 Mar 1876.

Brother Josiah Morey was in NZL and brother Charles Morey  with whom Josiah migrated from SSX to AUS had been and gone. Walter  lived in New Plymouth for many years running a business as a draper in  Vivian Street and Devon Street. He played bowls for New Plymouth and played at Crystal Palace, LND, KEN, England during 1901. He  died 25 Jul 1916 in New Plymouth where he is buried.

New Plymouth Wills:  Walter Morey, date 25 Jul 1916, document number R62/648, type  declaration, New Plymouth, draper, pages 02, Lands and Deeds New  Plymouth. KLN Back River.