Baker Morrell (1779-1854)

GENETIC PARENTS

Father: James Morrell
Mother: Anne Baker

GENETIC CHILDREN

Son: James Wright Hayward Morrell
Daughter: Ann Elizabeth Morrell (June 17, 1804-?)
Son: Robert Price Morrell, Rev.
Son: Frederick Joseph Morrell
Son: George Kidd Morrell, Rev., Vicar of Moulsford
Son: Thomas Baker Morrell, Bishop Coadjutor of Edinburgh

OTHER RELATIONS

Wife: Mary Elizabeth Chapman (6/21/1783-1861), daughter and co-heir of Rev Joseph Chapman, D.D., President of Trinity College, Oxford, and later Vice Chancellor of Oxford University. Married 1801

NOTE: There is considerable disagreement between "Burke's Landed Gentry" of 1937 and Brigid Allen's "Morrells of Oxford" regarding these siblings. I have favored the latter in the below list.

Sister: Maria Morrell (1770-1800?), married Rev. Robert Wintle, Vicar of Culham, County of Oxford
Sister: Ann Morrell (1772-?)
Sisters: Mary and Sarah Morrell (1773-?), apparent twins
Brother: Deacon Morrell (1775-1854) , M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, unmarried
Sister: Elizabeth Morrell (1777-1846)
Sister: Frances Morrell (1780-1826)

Burke's lists Deacon and Baker, then lists their only sisters as "Margaretta" and Anne Deacon, with the former being the wife of Rev. Wintle (see Maria above) and the latter living until 1870 which seems unlikely if this is the "Ann" born in 1772.

BASIC DATA

Birthplace: Probably Oxford, England
Birthdate: June 21, 1779
Date of Death: 1854

HISTORY

Prominent Oxford Lawyer and Steward of St. John's College who followed his father into the law practice, per The Morrells of Oxford - A Family and their Brewery 1743-1993, by Brigid Allen (Sutton Publishing, Ltd., 1994). The law firm became Morrell and Son, Peel, and then Morrell, Peel, and Gamlen over the years. Resposible for the present-day building 1 St. Giles in downtown Oxford.

Link to British History Online discussion of the Morrells in Oxford