Died in a Cemetery
Henry (Harry) Clement Morrell was found dead in Bolton Street cemetery in December 1902. He was a native of Wales, aged 50 and a painter by occupation. The inquest noted that he was of intemperate habits, of no fixed abode though he had lived about Wellington for many years. He had a wife named Mary (nee Farley) living in the Marton district and together they had seven children.
Dr Tripe said indications pointed to ‘death being due to a sudden stoppage of the heart’s action’. He had an abnormally sized liver but death was not due to alcoholism alone.
Harry was buried at Karori Cemetery on 5 December 1902. Mary remarried the following year to John Edward Jones. Coincidence that Harry travelled to New Zealand in 1875 in the company of a John Jones?
Plot: *Public/N/72
By Julia Kennedy
Morrell plot