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Henry Josiah HARRIS (1821 - 1898)
Butcher
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Annie HARRIS (1853 - 1899)
Emma Harriet HARRIS (1855 - 1932)
Henry George HARRIS (1857 - 1942)
Robert HARRIS (1859 - 1898)
Catherine Louisa HARRIS (1863 - 1922)
Rose Elizabeth HARRIS (1864 - )
Oliver John HARRIS (1866 - 1924)
 Henry Josiah HARRIS (1821 - 1898)

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Harriet CAPPLE (1823 - 1904)



























b. abt 1821 at England
m. 02 Jan 1853 Harriet CAPPLE (1823 - 1904) at London, Middlesex, England
d. 17 Aug 1898 at Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia aged 77
Near Relatives of Henry Josiah HARRIS (1821 - 1898)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Father in Law John CAPPLE abt 1836 Somerset, England
Mother in Law Mary (CAPPLE)

Self Henry Josiah HARRIS abt 1821 England 17 Aug 1898 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 77

Wife Harriet CAPPLE abt 1823 Ashcott, Somerset, England 02 Aug 1904 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 81

Daughter Annie HARRIS 15 Oct 1853 London, Middlesex, England 1899 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 46
Daughter Emma Harriet HARRIS 1855 London, Middlesex, England 1932 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 77
Son Henry George HARRIS 15 Feb 1857 London, Middlesex, England 06 Mar 1942 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 85
Son Robert HARRIS 06 Jun 1859 Newtown, New South Wales, Australia 30 Mar 1898 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia 38
Daughter Catherine Louisa HARRIS 10 May 1863 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 1922 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 59
Daughter Rose Elizabeth HARRIS 12 Sep 1864 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia
Son Oliver John HARRIS 09 Feb 1866 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 24 Nov 1924 Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia 58

Son in Law John Garner LEADER 1836 1919 83
Son in Law Charles Edward WEST 1850 1914 Adaminaby, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 64
Daughter in Law Agnes Maud Ida SUTHERLAND 1875 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia 30 Mar 1972 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 97
Daughter in Law Winifred CASEY 12 Mar 1873 Jillamatong, Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 06 Jul 1932 Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia 59
Daughter in Law Lydia SNOWDEN 1866 23 Jun 1950 84

Grandson Percy Harry Sutherland HARRIS 07 Feb 1891 Towong, Victoria, Australia 1959 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 68
Grandson George Adam HARRIS 14 Jul 1893 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia abt 15 Jul 1893 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia 0
Granddaughter Effie Harriet Margaret HARRIS 29 Jun 1894 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 08 Jul 1894 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia 0
Grandson Bertie Colin HARRIS 15 Sep 1895 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 15 Apr 1917 France 21
Granddaughter Henrt Robert Adam HARRIS 07 Nov 1896 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 1961 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 65
Grandson William Oliver George HARRIS 08 Nov 1901 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 1981 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 80
Granddaughter Jessie Athelia Cleary HARRIS 10 May 1904 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 01 Sep 1984 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 80
Grandson John HARRIS 10 May 1904 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia abt 11 May 1904 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia 0
Granddaughter Zillah Edna HARRIS 06 May 1908 Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 2004 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 96
Granddaughter Florence "Florrie" HARRIS 1894 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Amelia R HARRIS 1896 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Robert HARRIS 28 Aug 1898 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia 1924 Ballina, New South Wales, Australia 26
Grandson Oliver A HARRIS 1892 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia 1908 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia 16
Granddaughter Annie M HARRIS 1895 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Harriett E HARRIS 1897 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Catherine I HARRIS 1900 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson George H HARRIS 1903 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Arthur F HARRIS 1907 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Eileen S HARRIS 1909 Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia

Events in Henry Josiah HARRIS (1821 - 1898)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
abt 1821 Henry Josiah HARRIS was born England 78
02 Jan 1853 32 Married Harriet CAPPLE (aged 30) London, Middlesex, England 69
15 Oct 1853 32 Birth of daughter Annie HARRIS London, Middlesex, England 69
1855 34 Birth of daughter Emma Harriet HARRIS London, Middlesex, England 69
15 Feb 1857 36 Birth of son Henry George HARRIS London, Middlesex, England 69
06 Jun 1859 38 Birth of son Robert HARRIS Newtown, New South Wales, Australia 69
10 May 1863 42 Birth of daughter Catherine Louisa HARRIS Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 69
12 Sep 1864 43 Birth of daughter Rose Elizabeth HARRIS Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 69
09 Feb 1866 45 Birth of son Oliver John HARRIS Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia 69
30 Mar 1898 77 Death of son Robert HARRIS (aged 38) Kiandra, New South Wales, Australia 69
17 Aug 1898 77 Henry Josiah HARRIS died Glory Hole Farm, New South Wales, Australia Note 1 78
Note 1: The "Glory Hole" property is situated south of the thermal pool at Yarrangobilly Caves. The cemetery is to the west of the house ruins and has been enclosed with a wooden fence and a sign listing names of those buried there. Henry Harris and his wife Harriet came to 'Glory Hole' circ 1860. George and John Harris are their grandchildren.
Source References:
69. Type: Book, Abbr: Relict of, Title: Relict of … Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District, Auth: Tumut Family History Group, Publ: Tumut Family History Group, Date: 2001
- Reference = pages 61-62 (Name, Notes)
- Notes: Harriet Harris nee Chapple
by Phyllis Dowling

Harriet Harris must have been a truly resilient, versatile and adaptable person

Born in the village of Ashcott in Somerset and baptised there on 31 January 1827, she was one of seven children of John and Mary Chapple. Her father, a builder, died when she was 9 years old leaving her mother with 5 children under 11 years of age.

Despite the loss of their father the family appeared to be in comfortable circumstances as they apparently tried to persuade Harriet not to join her husband in Australia, saying they would care for her and the children if she remained in England. The transition from this to the Kiandra goldfields in 1860 with 4 young children must have been nothing short of appalling.

Nothing is known of Harriet's early years or where she met her husband or how she came to be in London where she married at Trinity Church on 2 January 1853. Her husband, Henry Josiah Harris, was a butcher by trade and had "several" trips to Australia as a ship's butcher before deciding to remain here.

Meanwhile Harriet was living in London and had 3 children, Annie born 15 October 1853, Emma Harriet born 1855 and Henry George born 15 February 1857. Sometime after the birth of Henry she returned home to her mother before leaving to join her husband in Australia.

Harriet and her 3 small children arrived in Sydney on Herald of the Morning on 23 June 1858 and they made their home at Newtown, Sydney where her next child, Robert, was born on 6 June 1859.

ln 1860, with the discovery of gold at Kiandra, Henry decided to try his fortune at the gold fields. Not as a miner, but as a provider of food, meat in particular, to the hoards of men who had flocked to the area. The family travelled by boat to Twofold Bay and then to Kiandra by bullock dray. This was no mean feat given the terrain, lack of roads, swampy, boggy creek and river crossings and the climate.

On their arrival, conditions at Kiandra would have been no better. lt was a wild, primitive, isolated gold town, the only accommodation the tents they would have brought with them, until they were able to construct a hut of some kind with the iimited materials available.

Henry soon realised that he would need somewhere other than Kiandra to run his cattle in the winter. To this end he took out a conditional purchase on land in a deep valley below the snow line just south of what is now Yarrangobilly Caves. He called the properly "Glory Hole" and built a log cabin hut on the site and in the winter he relocated his family and his cattle. Meat was packed out on horses as far as the snow would allow and men from Kiandra would meet him on skis and take the meat back in on toboggans. "Glory Hole" was a very inaccessible and isolated area and, in the early years at least, Harriet must have found it very lonely after living in London and being part of a close knit family group in Somerset. Few callers would come to break the monotony and certainly no women, ln the summer months the family returned to Kiandra to enable the children to attend school.

As the land was cleared for crops and grazing, the timber was used to build a 3 roomed hut to house the family which had increased by Catherine Louisa born 10 May 1863, Rose Elizabeth born 12 September 1864 and Oliver John born 9 February 1866. lt is to Harriet's credit that despite the isolation, severe climatic weather conditions and lack of medical facilities, all her children survived to adulthood.

Of necessity the family had to be virtually self sufficient and to this end they planted fruit trees, grew vegetables, had their own milk, butter and eggs with the surplus being sold to the miners at Kiandra.

The home too was increased, with four bedrooms and a large living room and veranda eventually added, making it a substantial and comfortable home.

One by one Harriet's family all married except Catherine who remained home with her mother. When her son Henry married lda Sutherland in 1890 they lived periodically at "Glory Hole" as Henry and Harriet were getting older. Harriet and her husband both died at "Glory Hole", Henry on 17 August 1898 and Harriet on 1 August 1904. Together with their two infant grandsons and Thomas Rees they are buried in the family graveyard on a lonely hillside above their home.
- Reference = pages 61-62 (Marriage)
78. Type: Book, Abbr: Tumut District Small Cemeteries, Title: Small Cemeteries and Isolated Graves of the Tumult District, Auth: Val Wilkinson and Martha Pebesma, Publ: Tumut Family History Group Inc., Date: 1999
- Reference = page 42, Index 271 (Death)
- Notes: HARRIS, Henry Josiah, died 17 Aug 1898 at Glory Hole, buried 18 Aug 1898 at Glory Hole aged 77 years
- Reference = page 42, Index 271 (Birth)
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