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samuel wallace harris 1873 ,more help please??

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JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 18 May 2009 21:59

Ah, I see. The marriage info has the notation @ beside it.

@ indicates that the date give for a marriage is derived from the date of the first identified birth of a child to the two people and therefore may not be accurate. In such cases the place is derived in the same way and may not be accurate.


Clever of them to derive a marriage date *after* the child's birth.

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 18 May 2009 21:55

I'm new to Tasmanian BMDs.

http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=8

Found his birth,

HARRIS, SAMUEL WALLACE
Gender: Male
Birth 1872 - NEW NORFOLK,Tasmania
FAMILY INFORMATION
Parents:
182426 HARRIS JOHN

clicked on his father's name, John Harris, shows mother's name, Emma Maria Reese.

Marriage/Relationship: 1873 - NEW NORFOLK,Tasmania

This seems to be reliable info? What do you do with it now??

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 18 May 2009 21:42

There's a submitted (unsubstantiated) record in the IGI that says this:

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/search_igi.asp

John Harris
Birth: 1854 Wesrbromwich, , Stafford, England
Spouse: Emma Reece
Marriage: About 1876 West Bromwich, Stafford, England


That should be findable in the GRO, if it's true ...

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

but there doesn't seem to be such a marriage there.


This looks like the couple in question, in the 1881 in West Bromwich - no Samuel:

John Thos. Harris 27
Emma Harris 25
Wm. Henry Harris 4
John Thos. Harris 2

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 18 May 2009 21:16

I have got the names of samuels parents from tas site and they are
John harris and emma maria reese but am unable to find a marriage for them prior to his birth.
They were not convicts as there is no record of them being so and samuels was a military birth and in fact he was in the
Royal Irish himself.

I have found and obtained his marriage cert in the punjab in 1905 but it does not give his fathers occupation,just that he was deceased.

Other than that I have only this
His death in 1962 and,

1901 England Census
about Samuel Wallace Harris
Name: Samuel Wallace Harris
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1873
Gender: Male
Where born: Tasmaina

Civil Parish: New Windsor
Ecclesiastical parish: New Windsor St John and All Saints
Town: New Windsor
County/Island: Berkshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Windsor
Sub-registration district: Windsor
ED, institution, or vessel: Victoria Barracks Windsor
************************************


UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
about Samuel Wallace Harris
Name: Samuel Wallace Harris
Birth Date: abt 1873
Age: 59
Port of Departure: Brisbane, Australia
Arrival Date: 1 Apr 1932
Port of Arrival: London, England
Ports of Voyage: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Port Said, Marseilles
Ship Name: Moldavia
Search Ship Database: View the 'Moldavia' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd
Official Number: 145973

His children were born in kilkenny while he was stationed there so he is not on the 1911 england census and is not on the irish one either.

Any help to find anything on him other than this ,especially his parents marriage, would be wonderful.