Morey 2661 Email 01 Inbox
From: eyre shaw [email protected]
To: 'Geoffrey Williams' [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2013 5:05 AM
Subject: RE: Maxwell Ernest Morey
Hello Geoffrey
How nice to make contact with you over the airwaves. You are a man after my own heart as in terms of genealogy I have been chipping away at my Shaw family history most of my adult life, I turned 74 last Saturday, and am in the final stages of writing it all up. Check out the photo family tree I drafted on my computer or some of the lead in pages I designed for my books, all of 360,000 words, which I am printing and binding myself.
Please don't go to too much trouble on Max Morey. I'm naturally interested but he is not a blood relative. I am not sure when MM would have come to settle in East London, the small coastal city where I was born and where my father lived. My father was born in 1892 so was close in age to MM, born 1894. My father was a wool buyer for one of the big farmer's co-ops and my understanding is that MM was an independent wool broker to whom my father steered business. MM later , before WWII, relocated to Johannesburg where he got into property and did fairly well for himself. My father had been forced to give up work about 1946 because of the onset of arthritis which left the family with no income other than a small pension. MM used to send my mother a cheque, usually £25 every December without which Christmas would have been very bleak. As children, there were four of us, we knew the critical nature of this cheque so would lie in wait every day for the postman to arrive in the hope that we would find MM's letter in our mailbox.
In terms of the opportunity he afforded me to attend university I will forever be grateful for his kindness and generosity. He was a keen hunter and would go up to east Africa on frequent hunting trips. Attached are the only three photos I have of him with this "trophies". In today's world of nature conservation I am horrified that he killed those beautiful helpless animals but that was the norm of the day. I only ever met him once in July 1961 in Johannesburg and had dinner with him and his wife at the house in Cradock Ave, Rosebank. He had a fairly brusque, but not impolite manner and was short on words. A real man's man if I can put it that way. I used to write to him occasionally when I was a student at UCT to give him updates on my progress. When he replied he would usually enclose a 5 quid note and tell me to go out and have a few beers on him. I did not exactly cover myself with academic glory to which he would reassuringly tell me that a university education could not be measured solely in terms of grades achieved. In his 1973 will he left me enough money to put down as a deposit on our first house so there was virtually no end to the assistance he afforded me.
No, I don't know Peter Morey. MM was first married to a Doris Elizabeth Barlow but got divorced in 1949. I found this entry in the SA National Archives but have no information as to whether they had any children which I doubt. He married his second wife, Frances Eileen (maiden name or first married name not known) sometime during the 1950's. She was previously married and had children from this prior marriage. Whether one of them was Peter who took his step-father's last name I do not know. I looked up the last name Morey in the national phone book and see that 26 are listed including Peter Morey. Peter Morey has a number of websites dedicated to him.
Best wishes, George
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From: eyre shaw [email protected]
To: 'Geoffrey Williams' [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2013 5:05 AM
Subject: RE: Maxwell Ernest Morey
Hello Geoffrey
How nice to make contact with you over the airwaves. You are a man after my own heart as in terms of genealogy I have been chipping away at my Shaw family history most of my adult life, I turned 74 last Saturday, and am in the final stages of writing it all up. Check out the photo family tree I drafted on my computer or some of the lead in pages I designed for my books, all of 360,000 words, which I am printing and binding myself.
Please don't go to too much trouble on Max Morey. I'm naturally interested but he is not a blood relative. I am not sure when MM would have come to settle in East London, the small coastal city where I was born and where my father lived. My father was born in 1892 so was close in age to MM, born 1894. My father was a wool buyer for one of the big farmer's co-ops and my understanding is that MM was an independent wool broker to whom my father steered business. MM later , before WWII, relocated to Johannesburg where he got into property and did fairly well for himself. My father had been forced to give up work about 1946 because of the onset of arthritis which left the family with no income other than a small pension. MM used to send my mother a cheque, usually £25 every December without which Christmas would have been very bleak. As children, there were four of us, we knew the critical nature of this cheque so would lie in wait every day for the postman to arrive in the hope that we would find MM's letter in our mailbox.
In terms of the opportunity he afforded me to attend university I will forever be grateful for his kindness and generosity. He was a keen hunter and would go up to east Africa on frequent hunting trips. Attached are the only three photos I have of him with this "trophies". In today's world of nature conservation I am horrified that he killed those beautiful helpless animals but that was the norm of the day. I only ever met him once in July 1961 in Johannesburg and had dinner with him and his wife at the house in Cradock Ave, Rosebank. He had a fairly brusque, but not impolite manner and was short on words. A real man's man if I can put it that way. I used to write to him occasionally when I was a student at UCT to give him updates on my progress. When he replied he would usually enclose a 5 quid note and tell me to go out and have a few beers on him. I did not exactly cover myself with academic glory to which he would reassuringly tell me that a university education could not be measured solely in terms of grades achieved. In his 1973 will he left me enough money to put down as a deposit on our first house so there was virtually no end to the assistance he afforded me.
No, I don't know Peter Morey. MM was first married to a Doris Elizabeth Barlow but got divorced in 1949. I found this entry in the SA National Archives but have no information as to whether they had any children which I doubt. He married his second wife, Frances Eileen (maiden name or first married name not known) sometime during the 1950's. She was previously married and had children from this prior marriage. Whether one of them was Peter who took his step-father's last name I do not know. I looked up the last name Morey in the national phone book and see that 26 are listed including Peter Morey. Peter Morey has a number of websites dedicated to him.
Best wishes, George
Find A Grave Memorial# 100410803
Morey 2661 Email 01 Inbox
From: eyre shaw [email protected]
To: 'Geoffrey Williams' [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2013 5:05 AM
Subject: RE: Maxwell Ernest Morey
Hello Geoffrey
How nice to make contact with you over the airwaves. You are a man after my own heart as in terms of genealogy I have been chipping away at my Shaw family history most of my adult life, I turned 74 last Saturday, and am in the final stages of writing it all up. Check out the photo family tree I drafted on my computer or some of the lead in pages I designed for my books, all of 360,000 words, which I am printing and binding myself.
Please don't go to too much trouble on Max Morey. I'm naturally interested but he is not a blood relative. I am not sure when MM would have come to settle in East London, the small coastal city where I was born and where my father lived. My father was born in 1892 so was close in age to MM, born 1894. My father was a wool buyer for one of the big farmer's co-ops and my understanding is that MM was an independent wool broker to whom my father steered business. MM later , before WWII, relocated to Johannesburg where he got into property and did fairly well for himself. My father had been forced to give up work about 1946 because of the onset of arthritis which left the family with no income other than a small pension. MM used to send my mother a cheque, usually £25 every December without which Christmas would have been very bleak. As children, there were four of us, we knew the critical nature of this cheque so would lie in wait every day for the postman to arrive in the hope that we would find MM's letter in our mailbox.
In terms of the opportunity he afforded me to attend university I will forever be grateful for his kindness and generosity. He was a keen hunter and would go up to east Africa on frequent hunting trips. Attached are the only three photos I have of him with this "trophies". In today's world of nature conservation I am horrified that he killed those beautiful helpless animals but that was the norm of the day. I only ever met him once in July 1961 in Johannesburg and had dinner with him and his wife at the house in Cradock Ave, Rosebank. He had a fairly brusque, but not impolite manner and was short on words. A real man's man if I can put it that way. I used to write to him occasionally when I was a student at UCT to give him updates on my progress. When he replied he would usually enclose a 5 quid note and tell me to go out and have a few beers on him. I did not exactly cover myself with academic glory to which he would reassuringly tell me that a university education could not be measured solely in terms of grades achieved. In his 1973 will he left me enough money to put down as a deposit on our first house so there was virtually no end to the assistance he afforded me.
No, I don't know Peter Morey. MM was first married to a Doris Elizabeth Barlow but got divorced in 1949. I found this entry in the SA National Archives but have no information as to whether they had any children which I doubt. He married his second wife, Frances Eileen (maiden name or first married name not known) sometime during the 1950's. She was previously married and had children from this prior marriage. Whether one of them was Peter who took his step-father's last name I do not know. I looked up the last name Morey in the national phone book and see that 26 are listed including Peter Morey. Peter Morey has a number of websites dedicated to him.
Best wishes, George
Find A Grave Memorial# 100410803
From: eyre shaw [email protected]
To: 'Geoffrey Williams' [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2013 5:05 AM
Subject: RE: Maxwell Ernest Morey
Hello Geoffrey
How nice to make contact with you over the airwaves. You are a man after my own heart as in terms of genealogy I have been chipping away at my Shaw family history most of my adult life, I turned 74 last Saturday, and am in the final stages of writing it all up. Check out the photo family tree I drafted on my computer or some of the lead in pages I designed for my books, all of 360,000 words, which I am printing and binding myself.
Please don't go to too much trouble on Max Morey. I'm naturally interested but he is not a blood relative. I am not sure when MM would have come to settle in East London, the small coastal city where I was born and where my father lived. My father was born in 1892 so was close in age to MM, born 1894. My father was a wool buyer for one of the big farmer's co-ops and my understanding is that MM was an independent wool broker to whom my father steered business. MM later , before WWII, relocated to Johannesburg where he got into property and did fairly well for himself. My father had been forced to give up work about 1946 because of the onset of arthritis which left the family with no income other than a small pension. MM used to send my mother a cheque, usually £25 every December without which Christmas would have been very bleak. As children, there were four of us, we knew the critical nature of this cheque so would lie in wait every day for the postman to arrive in the hope that we would find MM's letter in our mailbox.
In terms of the opportunity he afforded me to attend university I will forever be grateful for his kindness and generosity. He was a keen hunter and would go up to east Africa on frequent hunting trips. Attached are the only three photos I have of him with this "trophies". In today's world of nature conservation I am horrified that he killed those beautiful helpless animals but that was the norm of the day. I only ever met him once in July 1961 in Johannesburg and had dinner with him and his wife at the house in Cradock Ave, Rosebank. He had a fairly brusque, but not impolite manner and was short on words. A real man's man if I can put it that way. I used to write to him occasionally when I was a student at UCT to give him updates on my progress. When he replied he would usually enclose a 5 quid note and tell me to go out and have a few beers on him. I did not exactly cover myself with academic glory to which he would reassuringly tell me that a university education could not be measured solely in terms of grades achieved. In his 1973 will he left me enough money to put down as a deposit on our first house so there was virtually no end to the assistance he afforded me.
No, I don't know Peter Morey. MM was first married to a Doris Elizabeth Barlow but got divorced in 1949. I found this entry in the SA National Archives but have no information as to whether they had any children which I doubt. He married his second wife, Frances Eileen (maiden name or first married name not known) sometime during the 1950's. She was previously married and had children from this prior marriage. Whether one of them was Peter who took his step-father's last name I do not know. I looked up the last name Morey in the national phone book and see that 26 are listed including Peter Morey. Peter Morey has a number of websites dedicated to him.
Best wishes, George
Find A Grave Memorial# 100410803
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