Price Morris Cottage is a heritage-listed residence at 37 Upper Macdonald Road, St Albans, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1835 by Price Morris and family. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 22 December 2000. History Price Morris was a Welshman who was in 1812 transported to New South Wales with a life sentence at around age 29. Six years after his arrival, around 1818, he married Mary, who was born in the colony and was twenty years her husband's junior. Over the first ten years of marriage, Price and Mary had five children - Sarah (b. 1819), Elizabeth (b. 1821), Price, Jr. (b. 1824), William (b. 1826), and Mary (b. 1828). By 1828 Price senior had his ticket of leave and the family was living on 12 hectares (30 a) at Lower Portland on the Hawkesbury River, cultivating 10 hectares (25 a) and running half a dozen cattle. Shortly after the surveyor Felton Mathew compiled his map of all the occupied farms in the Macdonald Valley in 1833-4 (on which the Morrises do not feature), Price and Mary moved to St Albans, and on this land, just to the south of the swampy land in the middle of the rectangular block, they built the slab section of the present cottage. The cottage was deliberately on an elevated site to minimise the danger of flooding and overlooked their cultivation paddock. The exact date of building is not known, but it is likely to be between 1835 and 1837. Certainly the house was in existence by 1838 when what is claimed to have been the first Methodist service in the area was held in the cottage. Methodism was a strong bond between the Morrises and the Walker family who had moved from the Hawkesbury to the Macdonald around 1830 and established three generations of Methodist preachers. The Walters of the Industrious Settler, some of the Baileys, and the large Thompson fan-lily were also Methodists living nearby. This Methodist group was a counter-balance to the powerful Catholic influence of Sheehy and Watson, who gave land for the Catholic churches of St Joseph's and Our Lady of Loreto in 1839. Catholicism was also strong in the new township of St Albans. The survey in 1837 and gazettal in 1841 of a government township just across the Macdonald River from Price Morris's cottage