Rick Morley
Honor Code SignatorySigned 25 Sep 2020 | 13,179 contributions | 246 thank-yous | 2,305 connections
Signed 25 Sep 2020 | 13,179 contributions | 246 thank-yous | 2,305 connections
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Rick V. Morley
Born 1950s.
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[private brother (1950s - unknown)] and [private sister (1950s - unknown)]
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This profile is part of the Santa Cruz County, California One Place Study.
Biography
--->This profile is part of the Priest River, Idaho One Place Study.
Rick was the first child of Morley-1659 Carl Morley & Parker-37545 Louise Parker, which also made me the first grandchild.
Dad had severe allergies and spent most his life in the desert, including his college at Arizona State, and first job in Benson, Az,
Tombstone was closest hospital to residence in Benson, about 60 miles, as Doctor in Benson was on vacation (same for my brother 15 months later.) Delivery room had been a bank, and still had the bank vault doors. My great grandmother, Vaughn-3362 Minnie Della (Vaughn) Morley passed just a couple months before I was born, but knew I was on the way. She left me $100 in her will. That inheritance & the bank vault doors led to jokes I was born rich (proverbial silver spoon...)
When Grandmother Huber-3752 Gertrude (Huber) Parker and Grandfather Sims-7534 Athol (Sims) Parker visited, I used to bring dog leash and Grandpa's hat to be taken for a walk (with the dog as well.)
Moved to Palmdale CA in March 1956- Dad was a trainer at Convair. Moved to China Lake Feb 1960- Dad volunteered to be laid off from Convair as he knew he could work on base at China Lake Naval Ordinance Test Station, as he had lived there with his Grandparents during high school and done summer work there on base.
When my father hurt his hip in the early 60s and said he wouldn't be able to take us camping any more, I joined the Cub Scouts & later a Boy Scout troop that went on camping trips every month. Hiked 3 50 milers, attended the 1969 Boy Scout Jamboree at Farragut State Park in Idaho, and earned Eagle Scout rank.
My parents were leading members of the China Lake Ballet Society to encourage my sister to dance. This led to my first job, janitor at the Ballet Society. First real one was janitor at the local hospital. Took a Nurses-Aide Training during the summer, scoring 2nd only to a Mensa student, and the Hospital let me work as Orderly in the Emergency Room and Central Supply.
Attended UCLA and UCSC. When I finished, the country was in the middle of the 1970s recession, so took a labor position at Kerr McGee Chemicals in Trona CA, only 30 minutes from China Lake. Enrolled in a 3-year Welding apprentiship program, which I finished in 9 months. Kerr McGee wouldn't recognize that achievement, so I left the company.
Moved back to Santa Cruz to eventually marry Cindy and worked several jobs welding, which also got me in the door at Watkins Johnson in 1980. I was specializing in TIG welding, and the Engineers of a new product line would bring me parts to be modified- and explain why. These parts were from a new line of conveyorized furnaces to deposit SiO2 on wafers for the Semiconductor Industry. By 1983, WJ was hiring 4 people for the Laboratory to work on those Semiconductor systems, and I was tired of welding, so moved over.
In the Lab, we did R&D testing, film development such as Boron & Phosphorous doping of the Silicon Dioxide deposition, as well as proving the operation of each machine that was manufactured before it shipped to the customer. WJ asked me to do the same at customer sites, so I became a Field Service Engineer. IBM Burlington VT sponsored the development of the first system, so I spent a lot of time there, and other Semiconductor Manufacturing sites, eventually traveling all over the world, living in Europe for 4 years, and rising to Senior Product Support Engineer.
WJ sold the Semiconductor Equipment Division to Silicon Valley Group. SVG sold out to ASML (Netherlands), ASML divested to what became Aviza Technology. Aviza eventually closed down, with only minor remnants remaining. So, I worked the WJ thru Aviza APCVD Semiconductor product line from birth to dying stages, covering 29 years. At one time, we had over 80% of the market, especially for BPSG deposition for Semiconductor manufacturing.
I worked 9 more years at SierraTherm, purchased by Schmid (Germany), which made similar mass-production systems for the Solar Cell industry. SierraTherm was started by ex-members of WJ staff when WJ closed down production of furnaces for Electronics manufacturing to focus on the Semiconductor market in 1991. The man who had been my boss when I first entered field service at WJ was again my boss at SierraTherm.
I started my "retirement" part time seasonal job in 2003, a Tax Professional at H&R Block. I have risen to Enrolled Agent, and also did volunteer tax preparation for the elderly & low income.
Places of residence: Benson, AZ 1954-1957 Palmdale, CA 1957-1960 China Lake, CA 1960-1968 Ridgecrest, CA 1968-1972, 1978-1979 Los Angeles, CA 1972-1974 Oakland, CA 1974 Santa Cruz, CA 1975-1978, 1979-1989, 1993. Trona, CA 1979 Munich, Germany 1989-1991 Rosenheim, Germany 1991-1993 Soquel, CA 1994-2018 Priest River, ID 2018-present
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Richard Morley at registration.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
- Bill Morley
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test, FTDNA kit #N68559
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100.00%
100.00%
Rick Morley:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch NN5223594 [compare], Ancestry member rmorley_cqr
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~1.56%
Gerri (Bowman) Husemann :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A696991 [compare], Ancestry member drhent
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Rick:
- We have a new pilot: 100,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Rick Morley, and thank you from all of us! Sep 14, 2023.
- Comments on Rick Morley Sep 6, 2023.
- Rick Morley is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 15, 2022.
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Charlotte (Highfield ) Allard Born : about 1787 either in Egerton , Kent , England or Pluckley , Kent , England She was married to William Allard Born: 27 Aug. 1787 in Egerton , Kent , England Married: 19 Mar. 1808 Egerton , Kent , England Died: 22 Feb. 1877 in Colden , Erie County , New York That is all I have. Hope this helps.
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Can you remove the parent category of One Place Studies from this profile, please?
Thanks, Azure Rae
Is it okay for me to send you a message on your Dunnagan/Dunegan/whatever variation you want to use :) research? I was going to re-orphan that William I had adopted bc I didn't think I would really have any connection to him...but I ran a comparison on mine & my grandfather's dna and we are matching the person who shows up under them.
Yes, would love to receive info.
Glad you found a match, hope you can develop! I was trying to look at where you might have been matched, but my computer kept stumbling last night (or maybe the user was very tired...)
I had stumbled across a Dunnigan in my wife's tree and had worked with a couple Dunnigans. So, during a down time, entered some info then had contact with Robert Dunagan and did some research work for him- not a great computer user- he had been dependent upon actually visiting librarys, etc, and the Pandemic really slowed down his ability to do that. Had not seen anything recently, so was very happy that you thought you had something. See his profile at Dunagan-174. l Hope he survives thru the pandemic. He hasn't answered me directly, but I saw some activity in WT.
So, we are agreed I should reject the merge? Are you removing his parents?
Good hunting,
Rick
I noticed you listed a military pension source for John R Dunagan, Dunagan-178. According to the pension index card for John Dunegan he served in F 2 US Art which is Battery F, 2nd US Artillery. This was a colored unit, part of the Memphis Light Artillery. As John R Dunagan, born 1844 was white, this could not be the same person.
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Thank you for your message, my Elliotts originate in the Scottish Borderlands / Northumberland areas and the link is through my Nana Jennie Elliott-6378. If you are interested there is an Elliott One Name Study, take a look and explore - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Elliott_Name_Study
See how to add categories to your Elliott profiles https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Elliott_Name_Study
As a number of things One Name Studies are always a work in progress the more folks who add their Elliott profiles to the categories the better chance of linking the family lines up.
If I can be of any help let me know
Janet
Member of the Elliott One Name Study (ONS)
https://www.scotsconnection.com/clan_crests/elliot.htm
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The matching options on profile creation are not the strongest. I concur.
You can search for them first though and might have better luck. Use the first name last name boxes at the top of any profile. Then sort the results by birth date.
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Yes, the New Member How-To was useful on day 2, too basic for anything else. I'm still digging out the paper records I've kept during my lifetime. I know there is alot of info on other sites, but when I try to research, many of the links are Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, or British census records, all of which require a fee. I guess once I get all my records entered, then I can do the quick 14 day free test at Ancestry, & I may have a backdoor into MyHeritage. Do you know of any other ways to get info/do research for free? Not sure about tags yet.
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Thank you for the question. I am going to give you a link to the merge page. It will tell you everything you need to know about merging.
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Thanks, Rick