{"id":533,"date":"2012-06-09T01:11:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T01:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/\/?page_id=533"},"modified":"2012-06-09T01:13:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T01:13:27","slug":"william-albert-morfey-1888","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/?page_id=533","title":{"rendered":"William Albert Morfey (1888"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wma_morfey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wma_morfey.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wma_morfey\" width=\"250\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-443\" \/><\/a>A volume of sheet music entitled \u201c40 Hymn Tunes\u201d by WA Morfey was published after his death. One copy has the following note written by his son Cyrus Morfey:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Father was born in 1821 and died in 1904. He wrote a good deal of Church Music including many Hymn Tunes, and this selection was made after my Father\u2019s Death. I believe the Tunes were composed from about 1845 up to 1880. My Father was organist at the Stoke-by-Nayland Church Suffolk sometime prior to and after 1850. Some of the Tunes were in use at that Church. Most of the Tunes were written for special hymns and the names refer to incidents in my Father\u2019s life and places where he had been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sheet music has been scanned and made available for church use by Rod Mather, organist at St Clements on the Hill Anglican Church, Stafford, Queensland, Australia, with the permission of WA Morfey\u2019s great-grandson Kenneth Dalgliesh. It can be found at http:\/\/www.cantatedomino.org\/cd\/index.shtml?127.txtMusic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A volume of sheet music entitled \u201c40 Hymn Tunes\u201d by WA Morfey was published after his death. One copy has the following note written by his son Cyrus Morfey: \u201cMy Father was born in 1821 and died in 1904. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/?page_id=533\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":472,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-533","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions\/535"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}