Just wondering if anyone can shed any light on the origins of this family. They apparently claimed to be Welsh, although the Welsh connection seems a bit ambiguous. The birth details of Phillip have come to me second hand and I haven't been able to verify them.
PHILLIP HARRIS b 1799 Gold Hill Monmouth , England a Porter
Mary Ann EAMES b Bristol in the parish of St Nicholas 1802 /6
CHILDREN
Charles b about 1829 painter & Glazier m Louisa HERRIDGE 1851
William b about 1831 a baker m Alice
Francis b about 1833 servant
Philip b about 1836 errand boy
Mary Ann b about 1838 died 1861 of cancer not married
John b 1841 emigrated to New Zealand m Elizabeth BURKE
Sarah b about 1844
Ann b about 1848
Monmouth is right on the English-Welsh border and at the time it was part of England. Monmouthshire was for a long time in a weird limbo between England and Wales, where you would get laws saying things like "this applies to Wales and Monmouthshire" or "this applies to England and Monmouthshire", until in 1974 the government decided to stick it in with Wales once and for all.
