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Harvey George Eli Morley was born 24 FEB 1891 in Kesgrave, Carlford Suffolk. He died 23 APR 1965 in Cheltenham, Gloucester. He was the son of Eli Morley (1864-?) and Louisa Reeve (1864-?). His siblings were Lila Morley, Violet Morley, Elsie Morley, Richard Morley, Wilfred Morley, Grace Morley.
Harvey George Eli Morley's wife was Florence May Derry (1888-1955). They were married 1 MAR 1917 in St Thomas, Calcutta.. They had four known children named Barbara Morley, Vera Morley, John Harvey Morley (1922-1987), and George Robert Morley (1927-1987).
Harvey was shown as a Draper on his marriage certificate and also on th
e birth certificates of his children. We have in our possession a cup h
e won as a consolation prize in India for shooting, inscribed to Sergean
t H. Morley, L.G.A. Shooting Club. This seems to point to the fact tha
t initially he may have gone to India as a member of the Army.
He worked for Whiteaway Laidlaw one of several big Calcutta emporia, o
r deparment stores, others being the Army and Navy Stores and Newman's a
nd Hall. It was said to be like a small Harrods. The upper management wa
s invariably European, the clerks usually Eurasion. In contrast Norman W
atney who worked on the North West Railway from 1925 until after Indepen
dence reminisces as follows:- "We were recommended to go to an emporiu
m called Whiteaway and Laidlaw, known universally as "Right away and pai
d for" because of the necessity of payin in ready cash. Whteaway's had a
quired the distinction of being solely for those with small purses and h
ad a large clientele of junior officers such as ourselves. Others in a m
ore senior position used to go down the road about a quarter of a mile t
o the Army and Nave Stores.
We went along in a four-wheeled Victoria, a musty smelling apparatus wit
ha driver who must have been at least ninety, and eventually landed at t
his rather imposing building. The doors were thrown open by stalwart Pat
hans in grandiose uniforms and we were directed to a counter where we ob
tained all the necessities required by the junior office during his fir
st tour of duty. The assistand was able to tell us that it was not expec
ted of people in our position to buy idigenous articles: it would not lo
ok good for us to be seen to have inferior equipment and for this reas
on only the best would do. (Ref. http://www.deefholts.pwp.blueyonder.co.
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