Richard Russell Morrison antique dealer

• Birth*: Richard Russell Morrison antique dealer was born circa 1850.
• (Groom) Marriage*: He married Elizabeth Miller in 1880 at Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, .

• (Witness) Newspaper Article: Richard Russell Morrison antique dealer and Robert Fisher McKenzie Conway dentist & baptist minister and Samuel Meney Conway dentist & baptist minister were mentioned in a newspaper article about Ruth Agnes Fisher Conway medical missionary Congo and Alfred Joseph Brooke Russell medical missionary Congo on 6 April 1940. For The Congo
  Dundee people and members of Rattray Street Baptist Church in particular, will be interested to learn that valedictory services are being held to-morrow for Dr Ruth F. Conway, missionary designate to Tondo, Belgian Congo. The services are taking place in her father's church in Hamilton.
  Dr Conway belongs to a well-known Dundee family. Born in Dundee, she was educated at the Harris Acaderns and later at St George's, Edinburgh. She studied medicine at St Andrews University and took her tropical course at Liverpool.
  Dr Conway's father, Rev. R. F. Conway, practised as a dentist in Dundee for many years before entering the Baptist ministry. His brother followed the same change of profession. On her mother's side Dr Ruth Conway is a grand-daughter of the late Mr Richard Morrison, a well known antique dealer in Dundee.
  While in Dundee the family worshipped at Rattray Street Baptist Church and took a big part in mission work. Dr Conway, in fact, began her religious life in this church and her time is the first registered on the church's cradle roll for young children.
  The valedictory services, which are to be held in the forenoon, afternoon and evening will be conducted by Dr J. Tennent. Dr H. Fraser, and Rev. R, F. and Dr Ruth Conway.
  A farewell social is taking place the following evening when the speakers will be Dr John Macbeath, Rev. James Watson Rev. T. W. Lister and Dr Ruth Conway.
  Dr Conway is leaving early this month. She will join her fiance, Dr Alfred J. B. Russell, also a Baptist missionary, in this work abroad. Their wedding will take place soon after her arrival.¹
• (Officiating Clergy) Marriage: Richard Russell Morrison antique dealer officiated at the marriage of Alfred Joseph Brooke Russell medical missionary Congo and Ruth Agnes Fisher Conway medical missionary Congo on Tuesday, 21 May 1940 at Belgian Congo, ; By Air to Get Married
  To Do Missionary Work in Congo
  After a four days' trip by air from London to West Central Africa, Dr Ruth Conway, graduate of St Andrews University and daughter of Rev. R. E. and Mrs Conway, Hamilton, has been married to Dr Alfred Russell, Edinburgh.
  Dr Conway belongs to Dundee and began her education at Harris Academy. Her father practised as a dentist in the city for many years before entering the Baptist ministry.
  His brother followed the same change of profession.
  On her mother's side, Dr Conway is a grand-daughter of the late Mr Richard Morrison, a well-known antique dealer in Dundee.
  Dr Russell is in charge of the Tremout Hospital, Ntondo, Belgian Congo, and went there shortly after the outbreak of war.
  It was the delay in travelling by boat prompted Dr Conway to go by air for the wedding. The route lay over the Mountains and the Sahara. She was permitted to take only her trousseau, and had to leave behind the wedding cake specially made by her brother-in-law. Mr. William Dennison, Birmingham.
  Her bridesmaid, Nurse Brown, with whom she took her tropical medicines course at Liverpool, was held up on the sea voyage, and her place at the wedding ceremony
  was taken by the six-year-old daughter of a missionary.
  After a honeymoon at Sona Bata the couple will proceed to their station in the heart of the Congo by canoe. The compound where they will carry on their medical missionary work is two days journey from any other village.
  They met as students in an inter-university conference in London.²

Census & Directory Entries

Head of Household

3 April 1881

He was listed as head of household along with spouse Elizabeth Miller in the 1881 census at 11 Reform Street, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, . FHL film 0203483 GRO ref vol 282-3 enum dist 6 page 16; Richard Morrison, head, mar, 32, bookseller emp 3 men, Arbroath; Elizabeth Morrison, wife, mar, 34, book sellers wife, Dundee; also in the household were Beatrice Morrison.