Sherren Family Tree » Thomas Harris (1739-1806)

Personal data Thomas Harris 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Household of Thomas Harris

He is married to Elizabeth Sherren.

They got married on June 11, 1764 at Frome St Quinton, Dorset, Kingdom of England, he was 25 years old.Sources 3, 4


Child(ren):

  1. John Harris  ± 1765-± 1844
  2. Sarah Harris  1767-????
  3. Grace Harris  1769-????
  4. William Harris  1774-????
  5. Thomas Harris  1774-1851 
  6. Mary HARRIS  1777-1797
  7. Isabella HARRIS  1779-1798


Notes about Thomas Harris

Thomas was 67 years old when he died and he was buried beside Elizabeth.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris
1739-1806

1764

Elizabeth Sherren
1744-1792

John Harris
± 1765-± 1844
Sarah Harris
1767-????
Grace Harris
1769-????
William Harris
1774-????
Thomas Harris
1774-1851
Mary HARRIS
1777-1797
Isabella HARRIS
1779-1798
Henry Sherren Harris
1781-????

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Sources

  1. Dorset, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Ancestry.com
    Birth date: abt 1739 Birth place: Death date: abt 1806 Death place: Cattistock, Dorset, England
    / Ancestry.ca
  2. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1988, Ancestry.com, Place: Froome-St. Quintin, Dorset, England; Collection: ; BTs; Date Range: 1764 - 1764; Film Number: 1279497 / Ancestry.com
  4. Thea Clayton's book: The Sherrens of Broadmayne, The Sherren Family of Broadmayne, pg. 1/6
  5. England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Christening day May 19, 1740

  • The temperature on May 19, 1740 was about 5.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of marriage June 11, 1764

  • The temperature on June 11, 1764 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: betrokken omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
    • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
    • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
    • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Day of death September 18, 1806

  • The temperature on September 18, 1806 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1806: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 8 » Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes a British colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.
    • February 6 » Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
    • August 6 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire.
    • October 9 » Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
    • October 14 » War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
    • December 26 » Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.


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