Birth: January-March 1843 Checkley, Staffordshire, UK
Father: Samuel Harris c1823-1893
Mother: Sarah ? c1821-a1851
Marriage: April-June 1862 Cheadle, Staffordshire, UK
Wife: Frances (Fanny) Burton c1843-1915
Death: April-June 1906 Dorking, Surrey, UK
William Harris c1864-a1881
Alice Harris 1865-a1881
Sarah Harris 1867-a1871
James Harris 1869-a1881
Samuel Harris 1871-a1881
Moses Harris 1873-1948
Mary Harris 1876-a1881
Vincent Harris 1878-a1891
Francis Harris 1881-a1891
Agnes Harris [Faulder] 1883-1965
Birth of William Harris in FreeBMD in January-March 1843 in Cheadle (17 41).
Entry in Ancestry Staffordshire, England, Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1837-2017 for William Harris born in Leek in 1843.
His brother was born in Checkley, Staffordshire in 1845.
In the 1851 census as William Harris aged 8, born in Checkley, Staffordshire, and living with his grand uncle William Philips, parents? (Samuel and Sarah) and brother (James) in New Road, Checkley, Staffordshire.
In the 1861 census as William Harris aged 18, born in Cheadle, Staffordshire, single, a sawyer, and lodging with Thomas Holland (aged 24, born in Girton, Nottinghamshire and a labourer), and his wife (Ann aged 25 and born in Newark, Nottinghamshire) in Sackvill Street, Ashton Town, Ashton under Lyne, Staffordshire.
Marriage of William Harris and Fanny Burton in FreeBMD in April-June 1862 in Cheadle (6B 331)
Entry in Ancestry Staffordshire, England, Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1837-2017 for the marriage of William Harris and Fanny Burton in 1862 Cheadle, Leek, Staffordshire.
His first son was born in Llanfair, Montgomeryshire in 1864 his daughter in Uttoxeter in 1865, and his daughter and son in Meir, Caverswall in 1867 and 1869.
In the 1871 census as William Harris aged 28, born in Cheadle, Staffordshire, a sawyer, and living with his wife (Fanny), two sons (James and William) and two daughters (Alice and Sarah) in Maer (sic - on the original) Lane, Caverswall, Staffordshire.
His daughter was born in Meir/Caversall in 1873.
In the 1881 census as William Harris aged 38, born in Cheadle, Staffordshire, a wood sawyer, and living with his wife (Fanny), six sons (Francis, James, Moses, Samuel, Vincent and William) and two daughters (Alice and Mary) in Caverswall, Staffordshire.
In the 1891 census as William Harris aged 48, born in Cheadle, Staffordshire, and living with his wife (Fanny), three sons (Francis, Moses and Vincent) and two daughters (Agness and Mary) in Dry Lodge Wood, Arundel Park, South Stoke, Sussex.
In the 1901 census as William Harri (sic - in the index, Harris on the original) aged 58, born in Cheddle (sic - in the index, Cheadle on the original), Staffordshire, an estate carpenter, and living with his wife (Frances) and daughter (Agnes) at Parkgate, Newdigate, Surrey.
Death of William Harris in FreeBMD in April-June 1906 aged 63 in Dorking (2A 107).
There are four entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Harris.
Checkley is 11 miles SE of Stoke on Trent and Meir and Caverswall are halfway between them.
William Harris was the father of Moses Harris, husband of Mary Jane Barton, first cousin twice removed of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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