Bertie Harrison and William Henry Harrison 1881-82 Portsea

[Joy Dean]

Would anyone have access to baptismal parish registers, please, for Portsea / Portsea Island?

Bertie Harrison was born in 1881, birth registered December qr. Portsea Island and possibly died age 1, named Berty, death registration September qr. 1882 Portsea.

William Henry Harrison was born in 1881, birth registered December qr. Portsea Island and possibly died age 1, death registration June qr. 1882 Portsea.

Their mother's maiden name is Harrison.

I am hoping to find out that their mother is Emily Harrison. She was in "The Home Female Penitentiary" in Portsea Island in 1881. Three years later she married John Bessant, the marriage registered Portsea Island.

There is another Harrison child with mother's maiden name Harrison around that time, and in that area, a Bertha Ann  born in 1882, birth registered December qr. Portsea Island, but I have not, yet, discovered any more facts about her.

[osprey]

burials - in unconsecrated ground so perhaps not baptised
24 Aug 1882 William Henry Harrison 11 months son of Henry Harrison Wilton Terrace Stamshaw

10 Sept 1882  Bertie Harrison 1 son of Henry Harrison address Welton Terrace Landport

[softly softly]

Bertha Ann. Died 1942 Queensland Australia

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61189/images/45582_1831109331_1416-00248?pId=565985

John

[Joy Dean]

Thank you, both.

All three mysteries solved, many thanks.