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Thomas Harris (1800)

Thomas Harris
Born in Newcastle Upon Tyne,Northumberland,Englandmap
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Husband of — married 9 Jan 1832 in Albany, Cape Colonymap
Died [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Biography

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Thomas Harris was born in England.
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Thomas Harris is genealogies verbind aan Suid Afrika /is genealogically connected to South Africa





Thomas was born was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 17 May 1800; he was the son of Richard Harris and Mary Anne (Duckett) Harris.

He was 31 years old when he married Eleanor Reeves in Albany, Cape Colony; the marriage was reported in the Advertiser as follows:[1]

MARRIED on Monday 9 January by special licence, Mr. Thomas HARRIS, Merchant, to Eleanor, fourth daughter of the late Dr. REEVES of Cork.

There were six children born of this marriage:[2]

Robert Duckitt Harris
Eleanor Fenton Harris
Thomas Myburg Harris
Richard Bastable Harris
George Gould Harris
James Gould Harris, b 1842, d 6 January 1929

The Death Notice of James Gould Harris gives his parents as Thomas and Eleanor Harris.[3] The Death Notice of the 7th child on My Heritage, Mary Grace Russel (Harris) Ackermann, indicates that her mother was Elizabeth Russell, but gives her father as unknown?[4] Her date of birth is about 1845; it would thus seem that Eleanor passed away about 1843 and that Thomas remarried; about 1844, to Elizabeth Russell as has been suggested.

Spouse 2 - Elizabeth Russel[citation needed][5]

Sources

  1. Newspaper: South African Commercial Advertiser 1832 - 1 - January to March, Wednesday 11 January 1832
  2. https://www.myheritage.com/matchingresult-31897d47366c5085de3d572e753458d4?match_type=all&minimal_match_confidence=10
  3. South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG56-MVJJ : 4 November 2019), James Gould Harris, 1929
  4. South Africa, Orange Free State, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1832-1989," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7189-B73Z : 23 March 2020), Mary Grace Russell Harris Ackermann, 1914; citing Probate, Brandfort, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa, Master's Office of the Orange Free State Archives, Bloemfontein; 004087508
  5. Added by Des Lynch on 16 June 2020




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Harris-31973 and Harris-20716 appear to represent the same person because: Exact dates and same spouse

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