John Alexander Duke MORRISON [c.1901-1966]

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 04/27/2013 - 23:15
Names
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John Alexander Duke
Family
Morrison
Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
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A wild stab in the dark

 

Kenneth Sinclair Morrison had a brother John Douglas Morrison dob 23 June 1889 Chorlton on Medlock Lancashire

departed UK 26 February 1921  for Singapore occuaption mercantile assistant, departed Penang for London 2 Septmber 1925   and  departed UK for Singapore  26 February 1926 occupation merchant and rumoured to have died in Hong Kong. No trace of him in UK after 1926.

8 April 1949 John Alexander Duke Morrison  a banker aged 48 and his wife Gwennyth Louise aged 36 travelled from Southampton UK to Singapore

Passenger List "The Empress of Canada" which sailed from Hong Kong on 21 February 1939

J A D Morrison is recorded as unmarried aged 37 a banker born Langholm Scotland. He held a Hong Kong  transit certificate dated 10 February 1939

The list records those who crossed from Canada to Vermont in the USA

Some of the recorded names have had lines drawn through them and his is one of them.

The 1901 Census shows him at 16 Henry Street Langholm Dumfrieshire. He is the youngest of five children of James Morrison an Inspector of the Poor and Registrar and his wife Emma.  The first four recorded children have single forenames. His name is shown as J A D Morrison age 0 

Scotlands People

MORRISON

JOHN ALEXANDER

M

1901

839/ 8

Langholm or Staplegorton

Probate Calender

John Alexander Duke Morrison of Tompsets Bank, Forest Row Sussex died 1 January 1966

Daily Telegraph Obituary

Gwennyth Louise Morrison died in 24 December 2004 aged 92. Born 9 February 1912.

I'm currently looking through the land registry records for IL 2447 (now Po Shan Mansions) and the only info of note before the lot was sold and redeveloped into the current development was a Statutory Declaration made by J.A.D Morrison at the end of 1946 regarding the discharge of the mortgage on Lot IL 2447 during the Japanese Occupation.

So was he the owner, or just the banker with who the mortgage was with? Seems odd that an individual banker would make such a declaration in a personal capacity, so perhaps he was also the owner? There's no mention of any other names prior to this with regards to ownership other than the lease commenced in 1924.

Additionally, this site (https://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/print-lot/?id=351623) mentions his death as 1964.