The Harrison Family

Allied Lines: Adamson | Harper | Saunders | Glendinning | Hutchinson

Details drawn from the Glendinning Family Bible, the IGI, Parish Registers at Durham County Record Office and Memorial Inscriptions at St Cuthbert's Church, Billingham, Cleveland


visitors since February 15 1997
On December 30th 2000 Dan Shalloe made contact. He is also descended from this family and added some valuable data to the collection* - sadly neither of us can go back any further!
 
(1) Anthony Harrison: b. c. 1751 and bur. 21.3.1831 St Cuthberts (M.I.)
married Ann Adamson 16.12.1814 St Cuthberts.
(The M.I. is badly eroded and Ann's details are obscured).

(2) Children of Anthony Harrison and Ann Adamson
Anthony Harrison: bap. 30.10.1815 St Cuthberts
Farmer in Billingham (*the 1851 census has Anthony as "farmer of 55 acres with 4 fell mongers.")
bur. 21.12.1885 St Cuthberts (M.I.)
married Mary Harper on 18.8.1836 St Cuthberts(*bap. 13.8.1816 - daughter of Thomas Harper
and Elizabeth Saunders). Mary bur. there 20.6.1891 (M.I.)

George Harrison:bap. 14.8.1817 St Cuthberts

The graves of Anthony Harrison (1) left and Anthony Harrison and Mary Harper (2) right in Billingham Churchyard (picture taken in 1987) to the left of these graves is a broken memorial base to Thomas, Grace and Ethel Harrison (4) and next to them is a stone to Eleanor Lough died January 13th 1862 aged 66. Our family bible was originally owned by an Eleanor Lough (must be the same one) and her name and the date Dec. 2nd 1857 is inscribed on the first page. She must have passed it to Ann Harrison who, over the years, faithfully entered all the details of her growing family and the deaths of her parents.
Anthony Harrison and Mary Harper pictured in old age - from a small faded photograph found in the family bible

(3) Children of Anthony Harrison and Mary Harper
Anthony Harrison: bap. 18.8.1836 St Cuthberts (*died before 1844)

Ann Harrison: b. 17.6.1837 Billingham & bap. 8.7.1837 St Cuthberts
married Spark Mason Glendinning 6.11.1861 Billingham had issue - see: The Glendinning Family
d. 17.12.1921 Hartlepool Cleveland
 
For pictures of Ann Harrison and Spark Mason Glendinning go to The Family Face
 
Thomas Harrison b. c. 1840 bur. 24.1.1902 St Cuthberts (M.I.)
married Grace (?) b. c. 1833 had issue
bur. 26.9.1918 St Cuthberts (M.I.)

George Harrison bap. 23.1.1841 St Cuthberts m. there Jane Elizabeth Thompson
31.12.1862 - had issue Anthony (c. 1864 -) and John (c. 1870 -).
 
Anthony Harrison: (*bap. St Cuthberts 15.9.1844 bur. Wolviston 5.3.1890)
(*married Mary Jane Hutchinson daughter of John Musgrave Hutchinson and Mary Jackson (1847-May 1884) St Cuthberts on 11.6.1868.)
(*had issue John 1869, George Jackson Harrison 1871 - ancestor of Dan Shalloe, Mary Jane 1874, Anthony Hutchinson 1877, Ada Hannah 1879 and Annie 1882)
 
(*Anthony II and Mary Harper had other children - Elizabeth 1845/6, Christopher 1847, John 1849 and Mary 1851).

(4) Children of Thomas and Grace Harrison
Ethel Harrison b. c. 1879 bur. 20.10.1904 St Cuthberts (M.I.)
 
Harper
Children of Thomas Harper and Elizabeth Saunders who married at St Cuthberts 19.5.1807 (more from Dan Shalloe).
 
Robert bap. 1.11.1807
Elizabeth bap. 1.11.1812
John bap. 19.2.1815, d. before 1823
Mary bap. 13.8.1816 m. Anthony Harrison 18.8.1836 St Cuthberts and bur. there 20.6.1891 (see above)
Eleanor bap. 5.11.1820
John bap. 18 May 1823
 
The 1841 census for Billingham had a publican called Elizabeth Harper, aged 60, living with daughter Eleanor, aged 20, which ties in with the above. Elizabeth Harper is still there in the 1851 census, aged 73 (!) and entered as the innkeeper at the Black Horse.
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