Walkershire - Person Sheet
Walkershire - Person Sheet
NameAnn Durham
Birth Dateabt 1740
Spouses
Birth Dateabt 1740
ReligionQuaker
ChildrenEleanor (1771-1850)
Notes for Ralph (Spouse 1)
From: lili.stpt (at) hotmail.com
Subject: Update for your Homepage.mac.com regarding Ralph & Ann Morden
Date: June 28, 2007 2:42:44 PM CDT


Dear Mr. Walker,

I was looking at entries for Ralph Morden & Ann Durham on your website and thought that you might like to have a listing of both his ancestors and their descendants. If you have any questions or any additions, I would welcome hearing from you.

I enjoyed your site as it enabled me to "put the leaves on the branch" pertaining to Eleanor Morden & Gilbert Field.

Many thanks,

Lili Kennedy

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MORDEN FAMILY TREE

GENERATION ONE

Samuel Morden (b. 1665, near London, England)
- was married in Yorkshire England abt 1685

Issue: Daniel and Thomas

GENERATION TWO

Thomas Morden (b. 1690 near London, England / d. in Yorkshire, England)

Married 14 Feb 1710 at Holy Trinity, Ely, England
To ? Elizabeth Jackson (b. abt 1692/1695, Yorkshire, England)

Issue: James R., Moses, George, and Jane.


GENERATION THREE

George Morden (b. 1715, Yorkshire, England)

Granted land by Pennsylvania Proprietaries 10 Nov 1755 in Northampton Co., Penn. adjoining James Morden between branches of Allegany River 40 miles above Philadelphia.

First Marriage in 1737 (Yorkshire, England)
They emigrated with their children to the US in 1743. She either did not survive the voyage or died soon after arrival

Issue: Jonathon, James, George, Joseph (b. 1741), Ralph, and Nancy

Second Marriage
To ? Neeltje (Elinor) Emans Robeson (b. 3 Oct 1725 and christened 19 May 1728 at Kingston, Ulster Cty., New York / d. after 1755 in Northampton, PA) ? d/o Jan Emans (b. 1695/99 / d. 1732) and Neeltje (Elinor) Van Aken (b. 11-Sept-1697 d/o Marinus Van Aken and Pieternella DePree). After her father?s death in 1732, her mother remarried Edward Robeson (b. abt 1693) and Elinor is also known by her stepfather?s name. She was also married to a man names Butler ? some researchers have indicated that this marriage was prior to the Morden marriage and that she may have also brought young children into the marriage. (see Emans Family Tree)

Still being researched: Elinor might be the mother of George's two youngest, Daniel and Moses, but she is definitely not the mother of his children who were born in England as she was born in the colonies of parents of Dutch ancestry and had another family with her first husband.

Joseph and Daniel enlisted in the King's Royal Regiment of New York which was organized in Montreal, June 19, 1776.

Joseph, once married, moved to the Mohawk Valley, where he served with Sr. William Johnson as tenant farmer, and under him in the King's Royal Rangers of New York (see Side Story). On the death of Joseph, in November 1777, in the Montreal Encampment, from smallpox, his widow Laurania removed her family to Prince Edward cty, Upper Canada, where she re-married to Matthew Forrest, who also served in the K.R.R.N.Y. There were nine childern, one of whom was named Joseph. The names of seven of the nine children are known.

Nancy was born abt. 1743, at sea, enroute to America; died 1793.


GENERATION FOUR

Ralph Morden (b. 1742 Yorkshire, England / bapt. 29 May 1743 Haycock, Bucks Cty, PA / d. 25 Nov 1780 Easton, PA / burr Nov 1780, Northampton, PA)

Married in 1765 in Cochencton, Wayne Cty, PA
To ? Ann Durham (b. abt 1742 Bucks Cty, PA / bapt. 29 May 1743 Haycock, Bucks Cty, PA / d. 1832 London Twp, Middlesex Cty, ON) d/o John Durham (1717-1774) and Catherine Marname (d. 1720)

Ralph Morden, born in 1742 in Yorkshire, sailed across the Atlantic with his family when he was just a year old.

In 1755, 13 year old Ralph lived on the 55 acres his father owned on the Delaware River in Northampton County, just north of Easton.

While on a hike in 1765, Ralph fell in love with a young English~Irish Quaker lass named Ann Durham. Ann's parents, Catherine and John Durham fled religious persecution of their homeland and settled in the peaceful Penns Woods. After their courtship, Ralph and Ann married, with Ralph converting from his family's Anglican religion, embracing the Quaker beliefs of the Durhams.

They settled on 100 acres in Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, PA., which Ralph owned. They had nine children.

The war between Patriots and Loyalists brought tragic changes to the the Morden family. One of Ann and Ralph's neighbors was Robert Land (see Side Story), a staunch Loyalist with England. Robert was a courier for British forces and in 1780 sought help from Ralph to lead his way to Canada. Robert knew he would face certain death if he remained in Pennsylvania. Ralph being a true Quaker was only too happy to help his neighbor in need.

As Ralph guided Robert through the woods, a group of Patriots who had learned of Robert's plans to flee, were waiting in silence. With shock, they attacked the two neighbors and Robert was shot on sight. He fortunately survived and did escape for his successful journey to Canada. Ralph was immediately taken captive by the Patriots and imprisoned. Being a Quaker, 38 year old Ralph had taken no side in the War and he only had helped a neighbor and friend in need. Ralph believed that he would easily clear his name and be home with Ann and his children.

The atmosphere in 1780 was highly volatile and emotions ran high in both Loyalist and Patriot camps. Both groups had a disdain for Quakers who mainly were Pacifists. Tragically, this bias affected Ralph. He quickly would find out that he would not be released as easily as he thought. Instead he found himself charged with high treason by the Patriots and a hasty trial found a peaceful Quaker guilty of aiding the enemy and was condemned to death. On November 25, 1780, Ann Durham Morden and her eldest son John witnessed the public hanging of Ralph in Easton. It is recorded that they stood without support.

Ann was 37 years old when widowed. While she continued to hold strongly to her Quaker beliefs, her eldest son, John, went against his mother's wishes and entered the War as a Loyalist soldier. He joining Sir John Johnson's King's Royal Regiment of New York (see Side Story). His younger brother James soon followed him in the Loyalist regiment. This is the same regiment in which one their father's brothers Joseph had joined, meeting his own death in 1777 in Montreal. Ann's son Moses then joined the New Jersey volunteers and he soon went off to War.



By 1786 after the War finally ended, the 3 Morden sons reunited at Fort Niagara. They had no idea they would all meet there. John told his brothers of his meeting with Robert Land who was now living in peace at Burlington Bay. John and his brothers decided that it would be best to move into Canada. Ann wrote Robert Land, but the uncertain mails of those days did not bring her an answer until late 1786. Land advised them to come to the head of Lake Ontario. (Source: W. Flamboro Centennial Book.)

Ann readily agreed to join her sons as she could no longer tolerate the endless persecution by Patriots who formerly were friends and neighbors. Even the Loyalists and some Quakers who remained in the area had shunned the Widow Morden and her fatherless children. This was a totally different world than she had ever thought possible. At this time, she also had taken in her 2 orphaned grandchildren. They were children of one of her daughters.

Early in 1787, together with four hundred other Pennsylvanians, Ann gathered what belongings they could carry and packed their wagon for their new home in Canada.

They spent the winter at Fort Niagara before moving into the Dundas Valley, an area that they were to be the first white settlers. Ann decided it was already too crowded in Burlington Bay for her family. Ann also spoke Mohawk and as a Quaker had always gotten along well with Native populations.

With Ann's sons being Loyalist soldiers, the family was granted land by the English in the area of today's Dundas, Ontario. Ann registered her Crown Patent on July 8, 1789 on Lot 18, Concession 3, West Flamborough Twp (Original Patent deposited in the London Public Library by Leslie R. Gray.) As Loyalists, Ann and her sons David and Ralph were granted all of the land on which the older part of Dundas has been built. Ann's son Moses settled at what is now Rock Chapel and built a sawmill on Borer's Falls. Her brother-in-law George received land up on the mountain where Bullock's Corners stands. George's son, Jonathan Morden, built a mill on Spencer's Creek in 1798 near the Crooks Hollow Conservation Area. His house still stands on a hill on Crooks Hollow Road near Cramer Road, formerly Brock Road and the boundary between the Crooks land and the Morden land

Ann at one point even ran a still to help support the family. She was known to help Governor Simcoe to deal peacefully with the Natives, translating for them. Ann and her eldest son John decided to move into the London, Ontario area where they spent their last years.
William Hare, a former Butler's Ranger, bought Ann Morden's farm. The farm was 300 acres comprising most of the northern part of present Dundas, on York Street, east of Cross Street.
There was a story that Ann Morden left Dundas because of a conflict with Sir Allen Napier MacNab
Further research has shown that, in 1822, the original Morden farm was sold by William Hare to George Rolph. He built a house on the land which was given the street address of 43 Cross Street. Rolph was born in England and was a veteran of the War of 1812. He was, however, a tremendous snob, which did not endear him to such people as Sir Allen Napier MacNab, future builder of Dundurn Castle, Hamilton. A gang of these people got together one night and tarred and feathered Rolph, on the excuse that he was reposing in the arms of his housekeeper, Mrs. Evans. Included in the gang were Titus Simons and his son-in-law Alexander Robertson, who owned Foxbar (another residence in Dundas). Allen MacNab was suspected of being a member. The incident plagued McNab for many years because Rolph would not let it die. Rolph had a very influential brother, Dr. John Rolph, in the Legislative Assembly and the matter kept reappearing in the public eye. So of interest, but nothing to do with the widow Ann.
In a nice ironic twist to the story when T Roy Woodhouse states, in his compilation of the History of Dundas, that a century and a half after the Americans hanged Ralph Morden, they gathered together to honour his descendant, Charles Lindbergh.
Issue: Catherine, Jane, John, Moses, Ralph, Eleanor, Elizabeth, James, and Nancy Ann

Children of Ralph and Ann (Durham) Morden (all born at Mount Bethel Twp.):

1.) Catherine - b. 1766. Married Elias Longin 1786 and died soon after.

2.) Jane - b. 1767. Married John J. Auten in 1792. A revolutionist, he did not take up the Loyalist side as did his in-laws. He was born in Easton, Northampton, Pa, on June 10, 1765.

3.) John - b. January 21, 1768. SEE BELOW

4.) Moses - b. 1769. Joined the New Jersey volunteers and served with them until 1784 when he was dischaged, a veteran at the age of twenty. (Source: W. Flamboro Centennial Book.) He died in West Flamboro in 1837.

5.) Ralph, Jr.- b. 1770. He was a Mason, member of Barton Lodge #6 in Barton Twp.,Wentworth Co., Ontario.

6.) Eleanor - b. September 16, 1771 / d. 21 April 1850 / burr. Field-Vrooman-Brown Cem., Niagara Twp., Lincoln Coty, Ontario.) She married Gilbert Field, s/o George Field & Rebecca Hains, in 1789 in Niagara Twp, Lincoln Cty, Ontario. Gilbert Field was a ranger during the Revolution. He was from Duchess Cty, NY. They had 10 children - George (1790-1853), Daniel (1792-1873), John Morden (1793-1861), David McFall (1795-1856), Ralph (1798-1858), Rebecca (1800-1869), James (1802-1872), Nathan (1805-1865), Gilbert Crysler (1807-1881), and Hiram (1811-1869)

7.) Elizabeth - b. 1773. Married Johannes Crysler on March 3, 1795 at St. Mark's Anglican Church, Niagara Twp., Lincoln Co., Ontario. She died in on May 2, 1812 and is buried in the Crysler Family Burial Plot, Niagara Twp., Lincoln Co., Ontario.

8.) James - b. in 1775. died in West Flamboro, Wentworth Co., Ontario.

9.) Nancy Ann - b. 1776. She married Asahel Davis. They had eight children. The two youngest died two weeks before their mother. She died on October 1, 1814. Asahel was from North Carolina. His father, William Davis was born in Maryland and was the son of a plantation owner of Welsh descent. In 1771, he married Hannah Philipse (died spring 1793) and established his own plantation in North Carolina near his wife's parents. They reached Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Genesee River in the summer of 1792, the eldest son, Asahel, and his brother-in-law, Thomas Ghent, were sent ahead to Newark to find their friend Major John Graves Simcoe of Neslon.

Further information on Ralph Morden:
articles written by Prof. John M. Coleman of Lafayette College in Easton, PA:
"The Treason of Ralph Morden and Robert Land", Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 79 (1955), pp. 440-441
"Robert Land and some Frontier Skirmishes", Ontario History, XLVIII, No. 2, Spring, 1956

Further information on Ann Durham:
"A Tentative Identification of the Parents of Ann Durham Morden of Dundas, West Flamboro Township, Wentworth Co., Ontario", Ontario Genealogical Society 'Familes', Vol. 20, No. 4 (1981), pp. 365-6
"Confirmation of the Durham-Dorm Relationship from the Goshenhoppen Registers", O.G.S. 'Families', Vol. 21, No. 2 (1982), p. 116



GENERATION FIVE

John Morden (b. 21 Jan 1768 Bethel Twp, Northampton, PA / d. 24 Jan 1832, age 64, Westminster Twp, Middlesex Cty, ON / burr 1832 Middlesex Cty, ON / bur. at Old North Street Methodist Cemetery is on the Talbot Road halfway between St. Thomas and London, Ontario)

Married in 1796 in Dundas, Wentworth Cty, ON
To ? Joanna Hannah Sutton (b. 1775 New Jersey) d/o William Sutton (1742-1797) and Anna Hawkins, also a Quaker (see Sutton Family Tree)

John enlisted in the King's Royal Regiment in 1780 following his father?s execution. He serving until February 1784, when he returned home and persuaded his mother, Ann Durham, to move to Canada.

John's obituary states that he settled at Flamboro West and later Westminster. Was a member of the Church of England in his youth and after arriving a Canada he became a Methodist. He married at age 28 and died on his 64th birthday. (Source: Christian Guardian, Toronto dated 21 March 1832; extracted in William D. Reid's Death Notices of Ontario, FHL book 971.3 V4r)

GENERATION SIX

John Morden (b. 25 Oct 1800 Dundas, Wentworth Cty, ON / d. 1855 London, ON)

Married on 25 Feb 1825 in Middlesex Cty, ON
To ? Mary Ann Parkinson (b. abt 1802 Seaford, Cty Down, Ireland / d. Middlesex Cty, ON)


GENERATION SEVEN

Mary Morden (b. abt 1832 in Middlesex Cty, ON / D. 25 Oct 1920, Windsor, ON)

Married in 29 Sept 1852
To ? Meredith Conn (b. 1828 London, Middlesex Cty, ON / d. 1910) s/o Meredith Conn (1791-1889) and Catherine Humphries (1811-1879) both born in Ireland and emigrated to Ontario.

Issue: Robert, Edwin A., W.M., John Edmond, a daughter, Lyda, and Ella

Children:

1.) Robert (b. 10 Sept 1856 / d. Jan 1926, Stuttgart, Arkansas)
Married 25 May 1881
To ? Florence Moore (d. Oct 1938, St. Thomas, ON) d/o M.T. Moore of St. Thomas, ON
Issue ? Florence May (adopted)
Florence May Conn (b. 14 Feb 1894 / d. 3 June 1966 Stuttgart, Arkansas)
Married Arnold Bronson (b. 24 Sept 1894 / d. 15 Sept 1977 Stuttgart, Arkansas)
Issue ? a daughter who married Kenneth Smith
Note: Spoke with Mrs. Smith in the mid-1990s ? all family history lost in a flood in the 1980s. She was not particularly concerned as she did not view the Conns as ?family?. The adoption was obviously still an issue.

2.) Edwin A.
Married to Ada Stock of Waterdown, ON
Issue: unknown
Note: Was a banker in Waterdown, ON. He moved to Minneapolis.

3.) W.M. Conn
Lived in Cleveland, Ohio

4.) John Edmond
See below


GENERATION EIGHT

John Edmond Conn (b. abt 1860 in London, ON / d. 1912?

Married abt 24 Oct 1890 at the Ryckman homestead ?The Maples? in Waterdown, ON
To ? Annetta (Nettie) Josephine Ryckman (b. 6 Apr 1863 in West Flamborough, ON) d/o John Wesley Ryckman (b. 1838) and Mahala Louisa Carpenter.

Issue: Gordon R and Ethel Winnifred

Children:

1.) Gordon R (Roy or Ryckman?) graduated in 1908 from the Michigan Military Academy in Pontiac, MI. There is a photo of him in his school uniform and we have his school sword.

2.) Ethel Winnifred ? see below


GENERATION NINE

Ethel Winnifred Conn (b. 1 Aug 1886 Alvinston, ON / d. 17 Jun 1976 Guelph, ON / burr. At the Mausoleum at the Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Guelph, ON)

Married 21 June 1910 from her parents home at 27 East Bethune Avenue, Detroit, MI by the Rev. Paul Faude of St. Joseph?s Episcopal Church. The marriage is registered on Pg 244 of Volume II of the records of St. Joseph?s Episcopal Church.
To ? Thomas Gowdy Kennedy (b. 19 Nov 1885 Guelph ON / d 19 Aug 1942 - Guelph, ON / burr at the Mausoleum at the Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Guelph, ON)


GENERATION TEN thru THIRTEEN

Maj. John Edmund Kennedy (b. 28-Nov-1912 - Ingersoll, ON / d. 17-Apr-1965 - Toronto, ON / burr Connell Family plot, Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, ON)

Educated at Ridley College School, St. Catherine?s, ON ? Class of 19____. Then attended McGill University in Montreal, graduating with a Business degree in 19_____.

Married on 06-Nov-1937 at St. Paul's Church (Anglican) Toronto
To - Amy Elizabeth (Betty) Connell (b. 17-Jul-1914, Toronto, ON / d. 26-Oct-1975 at Random Rocks, Spaish Point, Bermuds / burr at St Mary's the Virgin, Warick, Bermuda), daughter of F.M. Connell and Amy Florence Milne of Toronto

John was an active Reservist, a continuation from the cadet training received at Ridley College. He served overseas during WWII at Aldershot with the Guelph 29th Rifles & Field Artillery but never saw action. Instead he was brought back in the Fall of 1942 after the deaths of his father, Tom Kennedy, and grandfather, John Kennedy, to deal with the sale of Northern Rubber Co. Ltd, a company involved in the war effort. After the company was sold, he was sent to Shiloh Military Base in Brandon, MB, to train soldiers being sent to the Front. His father-in-law, Martin Connell, was a Dollar-a-Year Man serving in the War Cabinet as the Minister of Mines. It is believed by the family that he intervened to keep his son-in-law from going back overseas as his own son, Jack Connell, was already MIA.

Issue - one son, two granddaughters and two great-grandsons
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