Amos Harriott (1869 - 1953)

Born 1869 in Heighton, Sussex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Lucy Jane (Sell) Harriott — married 26 Apr 1896 in Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England

Descendants

Died 2 Jan 1953 at about age 84 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England

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Biography

It is reported that Amos was in the Royal Navy and lost a leg to a shark.^[1] He was still at home in 1891 in Denton, Sussex, living with his mother and siblings and working as a carter. By 1896, he was living in Kingston Upon Thames and working as a gardener when he married Lucy Sell, a gardener's daughter. By 1901 they have moved to Keston in Kent where he was working as a stockman on a farm. In 1911, he was working as a herdsman on a farm in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire and his family had grown to four children.
It is hard to imagine how he could have done all those jobs with one leg. Perhaps he enlisted when the war broke out in 1914 and suffered the injury subsequent to that. He would have been 45 years old in 1914. When his son Alexander marries in 1923, he lists his father as a farmer.
The family would seem to have ended up in Basingstoke. Amos would live to 84 years old before passing away in Basingstoke in 1953. He left Alexander as executor of his estate. His wife Lucy would die two years later. When Alexander died in 1983, it was also in Basingstoke.

Sources

• 1871 England Census, Class: RG10; Piece: 1070; Folio: 77; Page: 30; GSU roll: 827493, Household schedule number: 148, Sussex, Heighton, District 3, pg. 5 of 5.

• 1881 England Census, Class: RG11; Piece: 1073; Folio: 102; Page: 44; GSU roll: 1341253, Sussex, Heighton, District 3, pg. 3 of 5.

• 1891 England Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 800; Folio: 92; Page: 3; GSU roll: 6095910, Sussex, Denton, District 4, pg. 4 of 7.

• Surrey, England, Marriages, 1754-1937, Anglican Parish Registers. Woking, Surrey, England: Surrey History Centre, Kingston Upon Thames, St Luke, Reference Number: 2209/1.

• 1901 England Census, Keston, Bromley, Kent, Class: RG13; Piece: 686; Folio: 49; Page: 25, Household schedule number: 159.

• 1911 England Census, Hertfordshire, Chorleywood, 08, Registration District Number: 140, Sub-registration district: Rickmansworth, Piece: 7729, Household schedule number: 69.

• Cited in West Yorkshire, Non-Conformist Records, 1646-1985, Archive Location: Wakefield, Castle Grove United Methodist Church, King Street, Millwood; Reel Number: Salterhebble, Savile, Sheepridge, Shepley, Shipley, Silsden, Skircoat, South Kirby, Southowra…; WC13; Reference Number: CIII/738.

• Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Volume: 6b, Page: 88.

• England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright, 1953., H, Ha, pg. 163.

1. ↑ Family history recounted by Wendy (McNiff) Barry.