A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morley, William
MORLEY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 29.)
William Morley was born in Jan. 1791, at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rattler sloop, Capts. Fras. Mason and Jas. John Chas. Agassiz, on the Newfoundland station; where, from Dec. 1808 until July, 1811, he served, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Adonis 10, Lieut.-Commander David Buchan. He then joined the Minerva 32, Capt. Rich. Hawkins, with whom, during a continuance of nearly three years, he saw service at Halifax and also in the West Indies. After he had been for four months borne, as a Supernumerary, on the books of the Namur 74, Capt. Chas. John Austen, he joined, about Oct. 1814, the Cyane, of 32 guns, Capt. Gordon Thos. Falcon; and, next, the Triton, prison-ship at Newfoundland, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Bishop. He took up, in June, 1815, a commission bearing date 6 Feb. in that year; and he was, lastly, from April, 1816, until paid Off in Nov. 1817, employed on the coast of North America and in the Leeward Islands in the Pike 12, and Hydra troop-ship, Capts. D. Buchan and Dan. Roberts.
He married, in 1829, Eleanor, daughter of Thos. Sutton, Esq., of Scarborough, co. York, and by that lady has issue 10 children.