Kate Emma (Sissy) Morris

  General Notes:

Peter Morris notes: Emma was known as 'Sissy' and had six children to William Henry Stenlake, who came to the colony from Plymouth in Devonshire in 1862. He owned a group of cake shops in the Rockhampton district. William Henry was listed as a confectioner of 36 William Street, Rockhampton and was living at 182 Denham Street in 1903. Previously, the establishment was known as the Stenlake Fitzroy Steam Biscuit & Confectionary Works and it had as an off-shoot for many years, Stenlake's Café in East Street. In 1910 a rival, Medcraf, sold his business to Stenlake and 'Christmas stockings became one of his specialties and each year in January he sent his factory manager, his nephew James Bruce, to Brisbane to buy German toys ready for the next season …At the height of the firm's production about one hundred and fifty men and girls employed … '. Kate Emma and William Henry had six children:
Albert William; Richard Robert; Vida (Cowley); Clarise (Tomms); Doris (Turner); Gwen (Kavanagh). While all the children were musical, Vida, indeed, became a very well known pianist throughout Queensland. William and Kate moved to Sydney and settled at 33 Evans St., Bronte. Kate died June 9, 1930 and William died May 2, 1940 and both are buried at Waverley Cemetery.

  Noted events in her life were:

• connection. My connections to Kate Emma Morris (1865) are as follows:
Kate Emma Morris (1865) father was Robert Morris (1842) & he also had Frederick Morris (1864) who married Vida Alderson (1867)
Her father was William Alderson (1828) who married Charlotte Gosper (1830)
Her father was James Gosper (1805)
James Gosper (1805)
His father was Thomas Gosper (1768) & he also had John Gosper (1801)
He had Archibald Gosper (1842)
He had Amy Gosper (1872) who married William Shrimpton (1869)
His father was Richard Shrimpton (1826) & he also had Richard 3rd Shrimpton (1855) who married Susannah Jeffery (1857)
Her father was John Jeffery (1834)
His father was John Jeffery (1808)
His father was James Jeffery (1781) & he also had William Jeffery (1803)
He had James Jeffery (1837)
He had Mary Jeffery (1860) who married William South (1854)
They had Annie South (1891) who married Leslie Rice (1885)
They had Hazel Rice (1913) who married Emmett Whyte (1899)
They had Sandra Whyte (1943) who married Colin Parker (1936)
His father was Arthur Parker (1894)
His mother was Martha Parker (1872)
Her mother was Elizabeth Roser (1844)
Her father was John Roser & he also had John Roser (1838)
He had George Roser (1868)
He had Charles Roser (1897)
He had George Roser (1923) who married Olive Elliot (1924)
Her mother was Doris Emery (1903)
Her mother was Phoebe Davies (1876)
Her father was Joseph Davies (1852) & he also had G. A. Davies (1894)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Kate married William Stenlake. (William Stenlake was born circa 1865, died on 2 May 1940 ¹⁰³⁶ and was buried in Waverley Cemetery, Sydney, NSW Australia.)