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21. wool trader, anti-transp Mort Thomas Sutcliffe-6023 (Jonathan , John , James , Richard , George , Thomas , George , Richard , Adam I , Progenitor ) was born on 23 Dec 1816 in Bolton,Lancashire,,wool broker. He died on 9 May 1878 in Bodalla,NSW.
See http being http://www.mortfamily.net/, site built by Martin Watson His own ADB online entry, His ice engineer is E. D. Nicolle, he has dispute with WCW in 1859-1863, case known as Wentworth Vs Lloyd. Heaton says he is with Manchester merchants A&S Henry their warehouses. He had been a clerk in Apsinall, Browne and Co., later Gosling Browne and Co. His own ADB entry. Later with Alexander Campbell Brown. Cf., Alan Barnard, Visions and Profits: studies in the business career of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort. Melbourne University Press. 1961. See D. E. Fifer, p. 105. See CMH Clark, ch, Tethering the Bush to the World, Mort a believer in C/of/E, moved with Cowper in Sydney to agree to form NSW Association for Preventing the Revival of Transportation about Aug-Sept 1850, in Sydney. See Sylvia Morrissey essay, p. 97. See N. G. Butlin, invest, p. 149, Mort and Co in Sydney dealt mainly to northern NSW and Queensland. Biog item in AGL Shaw and Nicolson, Growth and Development in Australia. Mort subisdies work of French engineer, ED Nicolle, re means of refrigerating meat, p. 121. Mort has a property, p. 136, Bodalla. biog sketch from pp, 142ff, family is in cotton business. See Daily Telegraph article of 10-12-1999 by Margot Pitkin, Mort has comfortable, middle-class background, his fr dies as Mort is 18 ie in 1798, Mort arrives Aust in 1838, works for Aspinall, Browne and Co., works his way to a £1000 pa salary, invests in new Hunter River Steam Navigation Co., Marries Theresa Shepheard in Oct 1841, in 1843 opens his own biz in wool store, bottom of Phillip Street at Circular Quay, works with his older brother William, in late 1840s expands to auction livestock, pastoral properties, provides credit to selected clients and finance for running expenses, became involved with AMP (together with Thomas Holt and rector/canon W. H. Walsh of Christ Church St Lawrence for Anglo-Catholicism), plus sugar at Moreton Bay, wanted railways from Sydney to Parramatta, Newcastle to Singleton, is director fo Sydney Railway Co., but went bad in gold investments at Bathurst area, Great Nugget Vein Mining Co., from 1854 builds Mort's Dock, at Waterview Bay, Balmain, he has partner Alexander Campbell Brown, as Mort and Brown, William now in charge in London, Mort's vast wealth, etc. See Geoffrey Mort (revised by James Mort, 2007), Challenges and Charades: The Mort Family at Franklyn Vale. TRAMS Pty. Ltd., Armidale NSW, 2007, (self published). By 1853 or so he has a partner J. V. Gorman. He is also one of NSW Fresh Food and Ice Co.
Thomas married (1) wife1 Laidley Theresa Shepheard-27642 daughter of Dep-Commissary NSW Laidley James-113237 and Of Barbados Shepheard Eliza Jane-27644 in Oct 1841. Theresa died in 1869.
Barnard's book, p. xv.
Thomas and Theresa had the following children:
+ 26 M i Mort James Laidley-27656 was born in 1844. He died in 1907. 27 M ii Mort Robert-93069. 28 F iii Mort Annie-93070. 29 F iv Mort Alice-93071. 30 M v Mort Edward-93072. 31 M vi Mort Ernest-93073. + 32 F vii Wife1 Mort Anne Catherine-129851 was born in 1855.
Thomas married (2) Macaulay Marianne Elizabeth-27647 daughter of Macaulay Senior-219816 and MNotknown Miss-219817 in 1874 in Circa.
She has two sons as noted on Mort family http. dr of? Barnard, p. xv.
Thomas and Marianne had the following children:
+ 33 M viii Mort Macaulay-328200 was born in 1875. + 34 M ix Mort William E.-328210.
24. Mort James-27639 (Jonathan , John , James , Richard , George , Thomas , George , Richard , Adam I , Progenitor ) was born in 1824. He died in 1879.
See Geoffrey Mort (revised by James Mort, 2007), Challenges and Charades: The Mort Family at Franklyn Vale. TRAMS Pty. Ltd., Armidale NSW, 2007, (self published).
James married Forster Elizabeth-326673 daughter of Forster Progenitor-118254 and FNotknown Miss-52935 in 1862. Elizabeth was born in 1829. She died in 1923.
They had the following children:
25. Mort Henry-311992 (Jonathan , John , James , Richard , George , Thomas , George , Richard , Adam I , Progenitor ) was born in 1818. He died in 1900.
Barnard's book, p. xvi. See Geoffrey Mort (revised by James Mort, 2007), Challenges and Charades: The Mort Family at Franklyn Vale. TRAMS Pty. Ltd., Armidale NSW, 2007, (self published)., p. 63 he has an old partner in finance business, Ewan Cameron qv.H e on Mort http is an auctioneer, commercial agent and pastoralist, director of Fresh Food and Ice Co., and the Mercantile Bank of Sydney. Also, Illawarra Steam Navigation Co. He has three sons and three drs.
Henry married (1) Laidley Maria-27654 daughter of Dep-Commissary NSW Laidley James-113237 and Of Barbados Shepheard Eliza Jane-27644. Maria was born in 1823. She died in 1873.
Barnard's book, p. xvi. See Geoffrey Mort (revised by James Mort, 2007), Challenges and Charades: The Mort Family at Franklyn Vale. TRAMS Pty. Ltd., Armidale NSW, 2007, (self published)., p. 56 she seems to be Maria Weston, born in India and brought up at Horsley near Liverpool. She has a sister-in-law named Octavia Laidley.
Henry and Maria had the following children:
+ 36 M i Mort Arthur Edward Lyle-259789 was born in 1862. He died in 1944. + 37 M ii Mort Henry Wallace-326674 was born in 1847. He died in 1932. 38 F iii No issue Mort Eliza Shepheard-326675 was born in 1848. She died in 1919. 39 M iv Mort Charles Franklyn-326676 was born in 1850. He died in 1893.
See Geoffrey Mort (revised by James Mort, 2007), Challenges and Charades: The Mort Family at Franklyn Vale. TRAMS Pty. Ltd., Armidale NSW, 2007, (self published).+ 40 F v Mort Kate Marion-326542 was born in 1852. She died in 1926. 41 F vi Mort Mary Sutcliffe-326677 was born in 1854. She died in 1855. + 42 F vii Mort Mary Louisa-326548 was born in 1856. 43 F viii Mort Theresa Laidley Adelaide-326547 was born in 1861.
See Geoffrey Mort (revised by James Mort, 2007), Challenges and Charades: The Mort Family at Franklyn Vale. TRAMS Pty. Ltd., Armidale NSW, 2007, (self published).
Henry married (2) wife2 Traill Emma-27655 daughter of Traill Progenitor-326584 and TNotknown Miss-326585. Emma was born in 1836. She died in 1922.
See Geoffrey Mort (revised by James Mort, 2007), Challenges and Charades: The Mort Family at Franklyn Vale. TRAMS Pty. Ltd., Armidale NSW, 2007, (self published). Mort http says she is widow of Dr Rowland Traill.
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