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| Name | HARRIS – John |
|---|---|
| Regiment (s) | 97th Regiment 1st Battalion |
| Regiment Number (s) | 30 |
| Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation | 5th April 1824 / 18 years 32 days / New Sarum (Salisbury) Wiltshire England Labourer |
| Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars | 5 Ft 5½ in Fair / Grey / Sandy / Right thumb partially disabled by whitlow |
| Overseas Service/Duration | East Indies – 11 years 32 days Mediterranean including Corfu – 7 years |
| Length of Service | 24 years 130 days |
| Rank/Date/Place of Discharge | Private / 8th August 1848 / Chatham Kent England |
| Campaign Medals | None |
| Intended Residence at Discharge | Not stated |
| Pension Districts | 1848 Trowbridge 1850-1869 Western Australia |
| Pension Paid | 1/0d per diem |
| Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland | 4th March 1850 Portsmouth Hampshire England |
| Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia | SCINDIAN 1st June 1850 |
| Date/Place of Birth | c1806 Pewsey Wiltshire England |
| Date/Place of Baptism | Not yet known |
| Father Date/Place of Birth | Not yet known |
| Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage | Not yet known |
| Siblings | Not yet known |
| 1st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism | UNKNOWN Letitia Charlotte |
| Date/Place of Marriage | Not yet known |
| Children by 1st Wife | William B 1831 Wiltshire England M NOONAN Mary 10th August 1853 Perth WA D 7 May 1906 Tegelup Wagin WA Buried at Arthur River (Saint Paul) Anglican Cemetery, Western Australia Daughter of EPG William Noonan |
| Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth | Not yet known |
| Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage | Not yet known |
| Land Grants Western Australia | Assigned Location P14 South Perth |
| Occupation after Arrival | Not yet known |
| Newspaper Articles | Perth Gazette 14th June 1850 |
| Departure from Western Australia | Not applicable |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial | bur 1st March 1869 Williams Western Australia Not yet known |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife | 1868 Western Australia |
| Will or Probate | Letters of Administration of Son William SROWA Cons 3458 1907/057 |
| Further Information | British Army Worldwide Index 1841 John Harris 30 Private 97th Foot location Corfu Discharge due to being worn out and right thumb partially disabled at the last joint by a whitlow. A John Harris married Charlotte Wood 1844-1846 Madras India. (Army Chaplains returns) If this was his wife it was not the mother of William as he was born in 1833. 3rd March 1850 son William, 17, received medical treatment during the voyage of the Scindian After the arrival of the Scindian at Fremantle Captain Henderson wrote a report listing the rank name, trade or calling, rate of pension, date of enlistment for 5 months service, marital status, and number of children for each pensioner. Sometimes the trade of calling differed from that recorded at the time of attestation: Private John Harris, farm labourer, 1/-, 21st January, married 1 child 7th August 1850 John Harris of the 97th regiment was one of the pensioners granted an allotment of 5 acres at South Perth, however due to the isolated location of the area that was only accessible by river the project was doomed to failure. Captain Bruce endeavoured to establish a firewood cutting enterprise which was a dismal failure. Some of the men obtained an allotment at Freshwater Bay but John Harris did not. 5-10km south of Arthur River is a brick chimney preserved on the eastern side of Albany Highway, all that remains of the homestead of some Harris descendants. In a field a few hundred metres away, on the western side of the highway, a memorial to five of William Harris & Mary Noonan’s children who died in three separate tragedies. The memorial is labelled ‘The Harris Five’ and is located near to where three of the children drowned in the creek. These five children would have been grandchildren of both the EPGs Harris and Noonan. |
