Sherren Family Tree » Robert Morrison (D.D. & 3rd GGF) (1782-1834)

Personal data Robert Morrison (D.D. & 3rd GGF) 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Sources 4, 6

Household of Robert Morrison (D.D. & 3rd GGF)

(1) He is married to Mary Morton.

They got married on February 20, 1809 at Macao, Tongcheng, Anhui, China, he was 27 years old.Source 8


Child(ren):

  1. James Morrison  1811-1811
  2. Mary Rebecca Morrison  1812-1903 


(2) He is married to Eliza Armstrong.

They got married on November 24, 1824 at Liverpool, St Philip, Lancashire, England, he was 42 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Robert Morrison  1825-1911
  3. Hannah Morrison  1828-1866


Notes about Robert Morrison (D.D. & 3rd GGF)

Son of James Morrison, a Scottish farm laborer and Hannah Nicholson, an English woman, who were both active members of the Scottish Presbyterian Church. They were married in 1768. Robert was the youngest son of eight children. At age three, Robert and his family moved to Newcastle where his father found more prosperous work in the shoe trade. It is possible that Robert was a childhood friend of George Stephenson, who invented the steam locomotive. Robert's parents were devout Christians and raised their children to know the Bible and the Westminster Shorter Catechism according to Presbyterian ideals. At the age of 12 he recited the entire 119th Psalm (176 verses long) from memory in front of his pastor without a single mistake. John Wesley was still alive and many foreign mission agencies were being formed during this period of the Evangelical First Great Awakening. In 1796, young Robert Morrison followed his uncle James Nicholson into apprenticeship and later joined the Presbyterian church in 1798. By age 14 Robert left school and was apprenticed to his father s business. For a couple of years he kept company in disregard of his Christian upbringing and fell occasionally into drunkenness. However, this behavior soon ended. Inscription on his grave stone reads: Sacred to the memory of Robert Morrison DD., The first protestant missionary to China, Where after a service of twenty-seven years, cheerfully spent in extending the kingdom of the blessed Redeemer during which period he compiled and published a dictionary of the Chinese language, founded the Anglo Chinese College at Malacca and for several years laboured alone on a Chinese version of The Holy Scriptures, which he was spared to see complete and widely circulated among those for whom it was destined, he sweetly slept in Jesus. He was born at Morpeth in Northumberland January 5th 1782 Was sent to China by the London Missionary Society in 1807 Was for twenty five years Chinese translator in the employ of The East India Company and died in Canton August 1st 1834. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth Yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Morrison

John Nicholson
± 1702-± 1785
Mary ?
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James Morrison
± 1740-1812
Hannah Nicholson
± 1748-1802

Robert Morrison
1782-1834

(1) 1809

Mary Morton
1791-1821

James Morrison
1811-1811
Mary Rebecca Morrison
1812-1903
John Robert Morrison
1814-1843
(2) 1824

Eliza Armstrong
1795-1874

Robert Morrison
1825-1911
Martin Crofton Morrison
1827-1870
Hannah Morrison
1828-1866
George Staunton Morrison
1831-1893
Charles Marjorbanks Morrison
± 1833-1852

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Sources

  1. Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. Lancashire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  4. Liverpool, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921, Ancestry.com, Liverpool Record Office; Reference Number: 283 PLP/3/1 / Ancestry.com
  5. Fife, Scotland, The Dunfermline Register, 1829-1859, Ancestry.com, Fife Library and Archives Service; The Dunfermline Register for 1829 / Ancestry.com
  6. Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22, Ancestry.com
    Birth date: 5 Jan 1782 Birth place: Buller's Green, Morpeth, Northumberland, Death date: 1 Aug 1834 Death place: Canton
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  7. Book, Robert Morrison and the birth of Chinese Protestantism
  8. England, Pallot's Marriage Index, 1780-1837, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday January 5, 1782

  • The temperature on January 5, 1782 was about 8.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1782: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 27 » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
    • April 19 » John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
    • April 21 » The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
    • August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
    • August 19 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
    • September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

Day of marriage November 24, 1824

  • The temperature on November 24, 1824 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1824: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 17 » The Anglo-Dutch Treaty is signed in London, dividing the Malay archipelago. As a result, the Malay Peninsula is dominated by the British, while Sumatra and Java and surrounding areas are dominated by the Dutch.
    • June 21 » Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
    • July 25 » Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
    • August 6 » Peruvian War of Independence: The Battle of Junín.
    • October 21 » Portland cement is patented.
    • December 9 » Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.

Day of death August 1, 1834

  • The temperature on August 1, 1834 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken onweer veel regen. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1834: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • February 3 » Wake Forest University is established (as Wake Forest Institute) in North Carolina, United States.
    • March 6 » York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
    • May 30 » Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
    • October 16 » Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
    • October 28 » The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
    • December 3 » The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.


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