MURISON -- SCOTTISH RELATIVES IN AUSTRALIA
Alexander Murison, Albert Edward Leeson’s realtive in Australia
ALEXANDER GEORGE CARNO MACKIE MURRISON
ALEXANDER GEORGE CARNO MACKIE MURRISON, fourth son of ROBERT and ELIZABETH, went to sea at an early age. (For information about his life as a ship's Captain, see the following pages written and published in a Sydney, Australia newspaper at the time of his death. Relatives in Mansfield, Washington, USA, dropped one "R" from MURRISON, spelling it MURISON.)
ALEXANDER located in Sydney, Australia about 1886, and at the age of 23 was married to MARGARET MULHERON in 1887. Their children are:
ELIZABETH, born in November 1888.
CATHERINE, born in 1890 (died when she was 4 years old).
ALEXANDER GEORGE, born June 5, 1891
MARGARET, born May 9, 1895.
MARGERY ISABELL, born May 9, 1895.
CECIL JAMES, born February 15, 1897
JAMES died at birth, followed by his mother, MARGARET soon afterwards, in 1898.
Ten years later, in 1908, ALEXANDER married EVELYN BERTHA VICTORIA HOWETT (Aunt EVA). Their children were:
JESSIE LILLIAN, born February 7, 1909
JOYCE EVELYN AGNES, born October 2, 1910
JEAN ISOBELL, born October 26, 1912
ALLEN FREDRICK, born December 17, 1913
RONALD GORDON, born November 17, 1915
JOAN ADA, born May 4, 1926.
(FIRST FAMILY OF ALEXANDER and MARGARET)
ELIZABETH (called BESSIE) was married to a man named WHITE. She lived in Richmond, New South Wales (N.S.W.) She had three sons and a daughter, MARY, born in 1914, who became a nurse. Elizabeth was widowed when her children were small so she raised them herself. She worked in a railroad station, as her husband had been a railroad man. One son died of World War II injuries, about 1961. BESSIE died in August 1965, at age 77.
ALEXANDER GEORGE married ETHEL MILHAM April 27, 1914. ALEXANDER was a dairy farmer on Ash Island, New Castle, Australia. Their only son, ALEXANDER GEORGE II never married and suffered from Parkinsons disease until his death August 31, 1971. They had two daughters, JEAN, who married LEO BUTLER, a journalist and Catholic. JEAN and LEO have four children: ANN, JANE, PETER and SUSAN. (PETER met PHILLIP McLEAN in London about 1960 when they both happened to be there at the same time.) BETTY (ALEX and ETHEL's third child) married SYDNEY TAPNER. They have two children, STEPHEN and JILL.
No information about MARGARET, daughter of ALEXANDER and MARGARET is available, and the only information about MARJORIE is that one of her sons died in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. MARJORIE died in October 1966.
CECIL JAMES, the youngest child of the first family married DOT and they had one child, ERIC, who was born in 1922. DOT died November 24, 1968. CECIL died 1971. ERIC married a girl named BERYL and they have one daughter, DEBBIE, born in 1952. ERIC and BERYL's address (in 1975) is: Mr. and Mrs. Eric Murison, 187 Sandgate Road, Birmingham Garden 2287, New Castle, N.S.W., Australia.
(2ND FAMILY -- ALEXANDER GEORGE CARDNO MURISON AND EVELYN HOWETT MURISON)
JESSIE, born in 1909 (first child of ALEXANDER's second family) had polio at the age of ten which left her with a handicapped left foot and leg. In her first year of High School she had a nervous breakdown and had to quit school. She also had amnesia. Her father, who was a ship's Captain, decided to move the family to the country so he bought a poultry farm and orchard at Eastwood, thirteen miles from Sydney, calling it "Gowan Brae." Jessie worked on the farm and her bather bought her a nice horse to ride which she rode a lot until she had an accident and was dragged quite a ways. After this Jessie was unable to do the work on the farm so took a course in typing, shorthand and bookkeeping and worked for a local real estate Agent until her Mother (at the age of almost 50 years) had JOAN in 1926, and was ill for a long time so Jessie had to take over running the home, with eight mouths to feed.
JESSIE liked to cook though, so really didn't mind the experience. She had piano lessons and played with a jazz band, too. When she was 21, JESSIE married a widower, A. W. TAYLOR, who was 13 years older than she was. He was a Fitter and Turner in the Railways. They were married June 7, 1930 and had the following children: GEOFFRY ALBERT, born March 19321 (was drowned February 1943, at almost 11 years old.), JEAN, born in 1935, ALEXANDER, born 1937 (is 6'1" tall), IAN GEORGE MACKIE, born 1939 (5'10" tall), and ROBERT GEOFFRY, born 1943 (called BOB and is 6'3" tall.)
In 1952, when JEAN was 17 years old, A.W. TAYLOR died on December 13, leaving JESSIE the responsibility of making a livelyhood for the family. She mortgaged their home and bought a rundown Delicatessan Shoppe. She and JEAN worked at it and made it into a good paying business in four years time. JEAN did not marry until she was 31 in 1966. She now has three children, SCOTT, born in 1969, and two little girls.
ALEX became Chief Engineer with a construction business, married to HILARY in December 1964 and has two sons.
IAN went into the Import business and in 1969 married a girl eight years younger than himself, CHRISTINE WARD (CHRIS), only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. JOHN WARD of "ONE TREE POINT". IAN and CHRIS took an extended honeymoon trip on the S.S. Fairstar, traveling around the world for almost two years. They had two sons, JAMES, born May 10, 1977 and CHRISTOPHER. IAN and CHRISTINE divorced and IAN remarried in the 1990s
ROBERT obtained a Masters Degree in Engineering in Bridge Design and hadn't yet married in 1974.
In 1957 JESSIE met a carpenter named ROBERT WHITE and they were married on October 30, 1957. She had sold her business and retired to being just a housewife when her husband ROBERT had a stroke so she went back into the Delicatessen business. Later when ROBERT recovered enough to work at his own speed he built onto her house, "Jessiemine" so that it has seven bedrooms, a recreation room, dining and living room 20'x24' and a four car garage. ROBERT WHITE died of a heart attack September 16, 1967. JESSIE lived about two miles from Macquarie University and boarded six boys from the University. She had 1/3 acre and kept poultry, ducks, a vegetable garden and fruit trees. She attended the Dopping Baptist Church and lived in Eastwood 54 years and lived in her house, Jessamine: for 36 years. Her address in 1974 was: Mrs. J.L. White, 69 Eastwood Ave., Eastwood, N.S.W. 2122.
JOYCE EVELYN AGNES, in 1940 married LIEUME PRONK whose father was connected with the Dutch Steamship Lines in Sydney at that time. They have the following children: "LOW" JUNIOR (called MICK). Born 1941. "LOW" a pilot flying 707's, TONY, born in 1943 -- married JANE, HENDRIK (HANK) born in 1945, married in May 1974 to ELIZABETH ANN SMITH daughter of DR. MacDONAL SMITH, in Brisband.
JEAN ISOBELL was married to a man named STAUNTON, who has since passed away. They had three daughters: RONDA, who has a boy, SCOTT, and a daughter and an adopted son and daughter, JOAN, who has: MELISSA, born June, 1967, CATHERINE FRONA, HELEN was born on June 18, 1950 and married an Englishman in 1971. No children (as of 1974). HELEN is a nurse working in a Semi-private Hospital in Sydney. JEAN STAUNTON's address (1974) is: 2A Robert Street, Wyoming, N.S.W. Australia 2150IV.
ALLAN. Not much is known about ALAN other than that he was married and had 3 sons and that his wife died in 1961
RONALD. Nothing is known about RONALD either, except that he and ALAN were both in the Navy and that in 1962 RONALD was on coastal runs in Australia. RONALD also lives near JESSIE. RONALD and ALLAN are both engineers in the Navy. His 1974 address was: RONALD MURISON, Merelynne Ave. West Pennant Hills, N.S.W. Australia 2120VI.
JOAN is married to a Colonel in the British Army and lives in England and has one son. Name and address unknown.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN ALEXANDER GEORGE MURISON
(taken from a 1944 Sydney, Australia newspaper)
Captain Alexander George Cardno Mackie Murison, who died April 28, 1944, of a heart attack at his home in Eastwood, Sydney, Australia at the age of 81. At the time of his retirement in 1937 he had more than 42 years service with J. and A. Brown and Abermain Seahan Collieries Ltd. For half a century he was connected with vessels trading on the coast. In the last thirty years of his association with J. and A. Brown he made 3500 trips between New Castle and Sydney, covering 500,000 miles and carrying 4,000,000 tons of coal on his ships.
Captain Murison began his career in Sail, in the Baltic Timber Trade. He was an apprentice on the Barquentine, PARAGON, when the vessel was adrift for three weeks in a gale in the Cattgat, with sails spent, deckhouse washed away, and decks leaking. He signed on with the Scottish Barque, FIRTH OF LORNE on the Clyde, in the '80's and came to Australia. Leaving his ship in Sydney, he joined the Steamer Victoria, owned by the A.S.N. Company Ltd. and was a member of the crew when the vessel was chartered to return Kanaka laborers from Queensland to the South Seas.
His first Tow to Sea was just 50 years ago, in the ship ALICE which towed the sailing vessel ROYAL TAN. It was in this ship that the expedition under William Lane set out for Paraguay to found the Socialist Colony (1894).
Captain Murison joined the Collier DUCKENFIELD as Chief Officer in 1895, becoming Master four years later, having in the interval, joined the ALICE as Master. When in 1910 the Collier PELLAMAIN arrived from Scotland, Captain Murison was placed in Command, and occupied the Bridge of that fine Vessel at the time of his retirement in 1937. He recalled that he never missed a trip, and would pass through the 'Heads' under all weather conditions. In the '90's it was common to leave New Castle with a cargo of coal for Sydney and encounter a becalmed sailing vessel a few miles down the coast. A bargain would be struck with the Captain, and the Collier would return to New Castle towing the sailing vessel.
The funeral took place on Saturday at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium. His wife, EVA died in 1954 of a heart attack. ###
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