[Index]
Capt. John HARRISON (1800 - 1869)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
John Arthur HARRISON ( - 1897)
Adela Ann HARRISON (1834 - 1910)
Henry Colden Antill HARRISON (1836 - 1929)
George Alfred HARRISON (1838 - )
Kate HARRISON (1840 - 1914)
Alice HARRISON (1842 - )
Ernest HARRISON (1845 - )
Horace Washington HARRISON (1848 - 1869)
 Capt. John HARRISON (1800 - 1869)

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Jane HOWE (1816 - 1880)



























Capt. John HARRISON Jane HOWE
Capt. John HARRISON Capt. John HARRISON
Pic P1. copied from Currey family tree - ancestry

Pic S1. copied from Curry Family Tree - ancestry
This Australia magazine Winter 1988

also in 'A Currency Lad'

Pic 1. copied from Currey family tree - ancestry

Pic 2. copied from Currey family tree - ancestry
This Australia magazine Winter 1988

b. 1800 at Cumberland, England
m. 12 Feb 1831 Jane HOWE (1816 - 1880) at St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW
d. 21 Jul 1869 at Williamstown, Victoria, Australia aged 69
Near Relatives of Capt. John HARRISON (1800 - 1869)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Father in Law George HOWE abt 1769 St Kitts, West Indies 11 May 1821 NSW, Australia 52
Mother in Law Sarah HARDING Aug 1776 London, Middlesex, England 08 Jul 1823 Sydney, NSW, Australia 46

Self Capt. John HARRISON 1800 Cumberland, England 21 Jul 1869 Williamstown, Victoria, Australia 69

Wife Jane HOWE 09 Nov 1816 Sydney, NSW, Australia 23 Nov 1880 Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia 64

Son John Arthur HARRISON 1897
Daughter Adela Ann HARRISON 11 Sep 1834 23 Jul 1910 Victoria, Australia 75
Son Henry Colden Antill HARRISON 16 Oct 1836 Cj, NSW, Australia 02 Sep 1929 Kew, Victoria, Australia 92
Son George Alfred HARRISON 1838
Daughter Kate HARRISON 1840 1914 Minto, NSW, Australia 74
Daughter Alice HARRISON 1842
Son Ernest HARRISON 1845
Son Horace Washington HARRISON 1848 Avon, Victoria, Australia 09 Feb 1869 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 21

Daughter in Law Possibly Nellie VIVIAN
Son in Law James Henry NORCOTT abt 1812 1870 Mackay, Queensland, Australia 58
Daughter in Law Emily Spencer WILLS 25 Dec 1842 'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia 06 Dec 1925 "Molongolo", Kew, Victoria, Australia 82
Son in Law Christian Herman OHLFSEN BAGGE abt 1824 Prussia 1908 Minto, NSW, Australia 84
Son in Law Unknown SKINNER
Daughter in Law Laura Augusta ARMSTRONG

Grandson Amos Chauncey Harrison NORCOTT 1857 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia 1932 Richmond, Victoria, Australia 75
Granddaughter Eva Wills HARRISON 11 Aug 1865 Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia 27 Sep 1869 Victoria, Australia 4
Grandson Horace HARRISON 25 Dec 1866 Collingwood, Victoria, Australia 1867 Victoria, Australia 1
Granddaughter Kate Wills HARRISON 26 Feb 1868 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1955 Caulfield, Victoria, Australia 87
Granddaughter Emily Rosalie (Rose) HARRISON 23 Jul 1869 1947 Hove, Sussex, England 78
Grandson Henry Norman HARRISON 28 Jul 1870 09 May 1895 Broad Arrow, WA, Australia 24
Granddaughter Ida Mary HARRISON 20 Jan 1872 Kew, Victoria, Australia 01 Aug 1872 Victoria, Australia 0
Grandson Eric Spencer HARRISON 1874 1874 Victoria, Australia 0
Granddaughter Ruby Spencer HARRISON 25 Mar 1876 Victoria, Australia 1958 Richmond, Victoria, Australia 82
Granddaughter Alma Wills (twin) HARRISON 31 Mar 1882 Kew, Victoria, Australia 1960 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 78
Granddaughter Eileen Spencer (twin) HARRISON 31 Mar 1882 Kew, Victoria, Australia 1882 Beechworth, Victoria, Australia 0
Granddaughter Kate Harrison BAGGE 1878 Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia 1914 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 36

Nephew Robert Charles HOWE 27 Feb 1820 St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW 14 Jul 1875 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 55
Nephew Robertus Mansfield HOWE 12 Nov 1822 Sydney, NSW, Australia 26 Feb 1824 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1
Niece Annie Wesley HOWE 1824 Sydney, NSW, Australia
Nephew Alfred Australia HOWE 1825 17 Jan 1837 Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia 12
Niece Mary McLeay HOWE 21 Apr 1827 20 May 1827 0
Nephew William Lachlan Macquarie REDFERN 1819 Australia 1904 Westminster, London, England 85
Nephew Joseph Foveaux REDFERN 1823 1830 Sydney, NSW, Australia 7
Niece Sarah Elizabeth ALEXANDER 1835 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1905 Paddington, London, England 70
Niece Alice WILLS 06 May 1823 Camden, NSW, Australia 14 Apr 1824 NSW, Australia 0
Nephew William Henry WILLS 01 Dec 1827 abt 1828 1
Niece Catherine Spencer WILLS 24 Nov 1831 Ci, Sydney, NSW 27 Aug 1884 Geelong, Victoria, Australia 52
Niece Amelia WILLS 1854 Kensington, London, Middlesex, England
Nephew Arthur WILLS 18 Feb 1857 Hammersmith, Middlesex, England 14 Oct 1932 Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 75
Nephew Harry Spencer WILLS 13 Sep 1858 Brighton, Sussex, England 1914 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 56
Nephew Frederick WILLS 19 Jul 1860 St John's Wood, Middlesex, London, England
Nephew Charles Ernest WILLS 15 Nov 1861 St John's Wood, Middlesex, London, England
Niece Margaret Campbell ANTILL 27 Jun 1820 Sydney, NSW, Australia 22 Jul 1849 Camden, Oaks, Picton, Stonequarry, NSW 29
Nephew John Macquarie ANTILL 30 May 1822 Liverpool, NSW, Australia 1900 Picton, NSW, Australia 78
Nephew Henry Colden ANTILL 07 Apr 1826 Camden, NSW, Australia 1913 Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia 87
Niece Alice Sophia ANTILL 1827 Liverpool, NSW, Australia 1920 London, Middlesex, England 93
Nephew William Redfern ANTILL 1828 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1905 Picton, NSW, Australia 77
Nephew Thomas Wills ANTILL 1829 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 18 May 1865 Nelson, New Zealand 36
Nephew Edward Spencer ANTILL 20 Jul 1832 Picton, NSW, Australia 1917 Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia 85
Nephew James Alexander ANTILL 1834 Cobbitty, Narellan, NSW, Australia 1920 Rockdale, Sydney, NSW, Australia 86
Niece Selina Elizabeth ANTILL 1837 Cobbitty, Narellan, NSW, Australia 1924 Chatswood, NSW, Australia 87
Nephew Loftus Cliff ANTILL 06 Dec 1839 Stonequarry, Picton, NSW, Australia 1840 Stonequarry, Picton, NSW, Australia 1
Niece Sarah Eclipse HOWE 1824 At sea 1905 Callan Park, New South Wales, Australia 81
Nephew George Risden HOWE 1825 01 Jul 1889 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 64
Niece Mary Ann Cowell HOWE 17 Jun 1827 Sydney, NSW, Australia 20 Feb 1905 NSW, Australia 77
Niece Marion HOWE 1829
Nephew John Kiwi HOWE 1830 1860 Kawhia, Auckland, New Zealand 30
Niece Ann Risden HOWE 1832
Niece Eliza Frances HOWE 1834 13 Oct 1914 80
Niece Elizabeth Jane HOWE 1836 15 Dec 1916 80
Niece Emily HOWE 1840 1880 Sydney, NSW, Australia 40
Niece Maria Elizabeth LEE 09 Nov 1891
Nephew Thomas Wentworth WILLS 1836 Molongolo Plains, NSW, Australia 02 May 1880 Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 44
Niece Emily Spencer WILLS 25 Dec 1842 'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia 06 Dec 1925 "Molongolo", Kew, Victoria, Australia 82
Nephew Cedric Spencer WILLS 01 Dec 1844 'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia 23 Jan 1914 Springsure, Queensland, Australia 69
Nephew Horace Spencer WILLS 16 Jun 1847 Lexington, Victoria, Australia 08 Oct 1928 Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 81
Nephew Egbert Spencer WILLS 11 Nov 1849 Lexington, Victoria, Australia 11 Sep 1931 Kew, Victoria, Australia 81
Niece Elizabeth Spencer WILLS 07 Jan 1852 'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia 21 Nov 1930 Prahran, Victoria, Australia 78
Niece Eugenie (Duckey) Spencer WILLS 28 Jan 1854 Lexington, Victoria, Australia 08 Jul 1937 Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 83
Niece Minna Spencer WILLS 01 Mar 1856 "Bellevue", Geelong, Victoria, Australia 14 Feb 1943 Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 86
Niece Hortense Sarah Spencer WILLS 16 Aug 1861 Geelong, Victoria, Australia 02 Jul 1907 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England 45

Brother in Law Robert HOWE 30 Jun 1795 London, Middlesex, England 29 Jan 1829 Sydney, NSW, Australia 33
Sister in Law Sarah WILLS 23 Apr 1796 England Dec 1876 St Giles, London, England 80
Brother in Law Thomas WILLS 05 Aug 1800 Sydney, NSW, Australia 29 Jul 1872 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 71
Sister in Law Eliza WILLS 10 Sep 1802 Sydney, NSW, Australia 30 Sep 1858 St Leonards, North Sydney, NSW, Australia 56
Brother in Law Thomas Terry HOWE 02 Apr 1803 Sydney, NSW, Australia
Brother in Law Edward Spencer WILLS 16 Feb 1805 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1830 London, Middlesex, England 25
Sister in Law Mary Ann Risdon HOWE 01 May 1805 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1832 Kawhia, Auckland, New Zealand 27
Brother in Law George Terry HOWE 18 Dec 1806 Sydney, NSW, Australia 06 Apr 1863 Chippendale, NSW, Australia 56
Sister in Law Elizabeth Selina WILLS 30 Nov 1807 Sydney, NSW, Australia 18 Jan 1811 Sydney, NSW, Australia 3
Sister in Law Ann HOWE 06 Feb 1809 Sydney, NSW, Australia 10 May 1811 2
Sister in Law Sarah Risdon HOWE 27 Sep 1810 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1879 Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia 69
Brother in Law Horatio Spencer Howe WILLS 05 Oct 1811 Sydney, NSW, Australia 17 Oct 1861 'Cullin-la-ringo', Springsure, Queensland, Australia 50
Events in Capt. John HARRISON (1800 - 1869)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1800 Capt. John HARRISON was born Cumberland, England Obit 55
12 Feb 1831 31 Married Jane HOWE (aged 14) St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW Note 1 52, 55
11 Sep 1834 34 Birth of daughter Adela Ann HARRISON 55
16 Oct 1836 36 Birth of son Henry Colden Antill HARRISON Cj, NSW, Australia Note 2 52, 55
1838 38 Birth of son George Alfred HARRISON 54
1840 40 Birth of daughter Kate HARRISON Note 3 54
1842 42 Birth of daughter Alice HARRISON 54
1845 45 Birth of son Ernest HARRISON 54
1848 48 Birth of son Horace Washington HARRISON Avon, Victoria, Australia Note 4 52, 55
09 Feb 1869 69 Death of son Horace Washington HARRISON (aged 21) Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Note 5 55, 60
21 Jul 1869 69 Capt. John HARRISON died Williamstown, Victoria, Australia Note 6 55, 60
Death of son George Alfred HARRISON Note 7
Death of son Ernest HARRISON Note 8
Note 1: Reg No V18315134 3B/1831 OR V1831966 15/1831
Note 2: Reg No V1836484 20/1836 - John and Jane
Note 3: Wills (Lexington) Family Tree - 8 MArch 1840, elbourne
Note 4: REg No 15984/1848 - John and Jane
Note 5: drowned

The Ballarat Star 19 Feb 1869
Our Daylesford contemporary says:—The melancholy accident which terminated in the death of Mr Horace Harrison, will cause general regret. Mr Horace Harrison, who had distinguished himself both at the Scotch College and Melbourne University, was in training for the Presbyterian Church. His elocutionary abilities singularly fitted him for the pulpit, and his future career was looked forward to with much interest,

The Argus (Melbourne) 11 Feb 1869
HARRISON.—On the 9th inst., drowned whilst bathing, at Carngham, near Ballarat, Horace Washington, third son of John Harrison, Esq., late of Swan Water, aged twenty-one years.

The Argus (Melbourne) 11 Feb 1869
FUNERAL NOTICES
The Friends of the late Mr. HORACE WASHING TON HARRISON are respectfully Invited to follow his remains to the place of Interment, In the Kew Cemetery.
The funeral procession to move from his mother's residence, No. 161 Victoria-parade, Fitzroy, on Friday, February 12, at 11 o'clock a.m.
Note 6: Wills(Lexington) Family Tree - death 21 July 1869, Williamstown, Vic

SMH 23 July 1869
Captain John Harrison is dead. Thirty-five years ago he went to Sydney in a small craft ; and thirty years ago he made the overland journey from Melbourne to Sydney.

The Mercury (Hobart) 27 July 1869
DEATH OF CAPTAIN HARRISON.
[From the Age.]
Captain John Harrison, one of the earliest settlers of this colony, died at Williamstown on Wednesday night of bronchitis, in the sixty seventh year of his age. For some time previous he had suffered from asthma, and a few days ago he caught a severe cold, which aggravated his complaint; but it was only within a few hours of his dissolution that he or his attendants knew that he was beyond the hope of recovery. Captain Harrison emigrated from England to Sydney about thirty-six years ago, and was engaged for some time as master of a vessel. He then settled himself on shore, and in 1838 he and his family came overland to Port Phillip, and bought a station on the River Plenty, from which locality he afterwards removed to the upper Wimmera. He was known to his friends as a
man of great enterprise and indomitable perseverance. The part he took during the agitation for separation in 1850 and 1851, and the refusal of the colonists to admit convicts into Victoria, will be remembered by such as were in the colony at that period. He was also prominent in advocating the diggers' rights and in frustrating the attempt made to impose a heavy licence fee upon the goldfields in 1854. Captain Harrison went to reside at Williamstown in 1859, having accepted employment on the Victorian Railways as station master, an office which he retained until his failing health compelled him to resign. About three or four months ago one of his sons was accidentally drowned, and the disaster appeared to have given the old man a severe shock. The deceased was a native of Cumberland (England), and in his younger days had served as an officer in the British navy. He was married in Sydney, and he has left a widow and several grown up sons and daughters. The funeral of the deceased gentleman will take place at Williamstown on Saturday afternoon.
Note 7: Wills(lexington) Family Tree - death - 1913, Ballarat
Note 8: Wills (Lexington) Family Tree - 1937, Melbourne
Personal Notes:
Australian Dictionary of Biography


Harrison, John (1802–1869)

by Dorothy Kiers

This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, (MUP), 1972

John Harrison (1802-1869), sea captain, squatter, agitator and stationmaster, was born in Cumberland, England, son of George Harrison and his wife Anne. He joined the navy as a midshipman and was a lieutenant in H.M.S. Ganges when he retired about 18 to command his father's ships. Later he went to Sydney to join a relation, Henry Antill, near Picton. On 12 February 1831 at St Philip's Church, Sydney, he married Jane, née Howe, a relation of Horatio Wills.

Harrison visited England with his wife about 1833 and on the return voyage his father was drowned. He planned to grow sugar in Tahiti but in May 1835 his Friendship, carrying government stores, was wrecked on Norfolk Island. He sought compensation in land without success and in 1837 with his family overlanded to Port Phillip. They settled in 1838 on the River Plenty and built a homestead, but by 1844 were squeezed out by other squatters. Harrison searched for land in Gippsland but lost most of his cattle and in 1845 took up Swanwater, 70,000 acres (28,329 ha) near St Arnaud, where he ran sheep. After losing the use of his right arm in a shooting accident in 1850, he divided the run, sold it on terms and moved with his family to Fitzroy.

Active in democratic movements, Harrison had campaigned against increased taxation in March 1844 and in April attended the first meeting of the Separation Society. In June on Batman's Hill under a flag designed by Harrison with a white star centred on a crimson ground, militant squatters met to demand a clear policy on land tenure, while Harrison urged stockholders to form a pastoralists' society to fight against taxation and for separation. Always ready to air grievances in the press, his letter to the governor in Sydney in July 1845 declared that the proposed sale of crown lands by auction would enrich the wealthy but ruin poor squatters. In August he advocated more zeal for separation and in October sought better police protection and rural roads. At the first Legislative Council elections in 1851 the Victorian branch of the Australasian Anti-Transportation League campaigned in support of anti-transportation candidates and appointed Harrison as organizer on 29 July. A provocative and lucid speaker, he worked hard and travelled widely but his job ended in September when the elections began. Harrison took his two eldest sons to the goldfields but he could not dig and was soon agitating for better conditions. In December at Bendigo he presided over a large meeting in front of his tent to protest against increased licence fees. At Mount Alexander he was a delegate at a meeting of some 30,000 diggers and urged them to unite in the Victoria Gold Mining Association. With Dr W. Richmond he carried the diggers' protest to Melbourne and had some success. In October 1852 at Forest Creek he was a delegate from Bendigo at a big meeting which petitioned the governor on such subjects as police protection and a proposed export duty on gold. He joined the deputation to Melbourne, but the petition failed: extra police were sent to the area and the export duty was rejected.

Although Harrison's role as an agitator was often exaggerated by his enemies, he was undoubtedly outspoken. At a public breakfast for Edward Hargraves in December, he shocked all present by attacking the army and navy as inadequate safeguards for the colony and by hinting at republican measures. In the Argus, 25 May 1853, he appealed to the diggers to send the money they had collected for his wages. At a meeting in the Temperance Hall, Melbourne, a subscription list was organized because he had 'shown himself at all times a firm and faithful advocate of civil liberty and good order'. In September Harrison toured the country calling for the lands to be unlocked and the franchise extended to diggers. He had no direct part in the Eureka uprising, but on 7 December 1854 in Swanston Street spoke to the great gathering which repudiated the armed resistance of the miners at Eureka but supported a peaceful settlement and withdrawal of troops. In 1857 Harrison was again involved in the land question. At a meeting on 23 June he vehemently opposed the land bill which permitted the occupation rights of squatters, claiming that 'when the gold broke out the lands ought to have been thrown open to the people'. He represented Collingwood at the Land Convention which demanded free selection anywhere and abolition of auction and open pasturage.

At times Harrison had been an auctioneer and gold-buyer. In 1859 he joined the Victorian railways and became stationmaster at North Williamstown but asthma forced him to resign in 1864. Aged 67 he died on 21 July 1869 and was buried in the Williamstown cemetery. He was survived by his wife who died in 1879 and by seven children. Of his four sons, Henry Colden Antill Harrison, with his cousin Thomas Wills, was a founder of Australian Rules football.
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DEATH OF CAPTAIN HARRISON.
[From the Age.]
Captain John Harrison, one of the earliest settlers of this colony, died at Williamstown on Wednesday night of bronchitis, in the sixty seventh year of his age. For some time previous he had suffered from asthma, and a few days ago he caught a severe cold, which aggravated his complaint; but it was only within a few hours of his dissolution that he or his attendants knew that he was beyond the hope of recovery. Captain Harrison emigrated from England to Sydney about thirty-six yours ago, and was engaged for some time as master of a vessel. He then settled himself on shore, and in 1838 he and his family came overland to Port Phillip, and bought a station on the River Plenty, from which locality he afterwards removed to the upper Wimmera. He was known to his friends as a
man of great enterprise and indomitable perseverance. The part he took during the agitation for separation in 1850 and 1851, and the refusal of the colonists to admit convicts into Victoria, will be remembered by such as were in the colony at that period. He was also prominent in advocating the diggers' rights and in frustrating the attempt made to impose a heavy licence fee upon the goldfields in 1854. Captain Harrison went to reside at Williamstown in 1859, having accepted employment on the Victorian Railways as station master, an office which he retained until his failing health compelled him to resign. About three or four months ago one of his sons was accidentally drowned, and the disaster appeared to have given the old man a severe shock. The deceased was a native of Cumberland (England), and in his younger days had served as an officer in the British navy. He was married in Sydney, and he has left a widow and several grown up sons and daughters. The funeral of the deceased gentleman will take place at Williamstown on Saturday afternoon.
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