HARRIS, Edward ⁶

   Cause of his death was old age.⁸

   Another name for Edward was HARRIES, Edward.⁷

  General Notes:

1851 Census:
Edward Harries, an agricultural labourer born in Ireland, was recorded as head of a household living at 32 New Street, Calton, Glasgow. He was 78 years old and lived there with his wife Mary, an unmarried son Henry, and a married daughter Susana along with her husband Hugh McCormick and their two sons Charles and John. Mary Harries was recorded as 50 years old and worked as a pirn winder. Like her husband and two children, she had been born in Ireland. Henry Harries was a single man aged 18 years. He worked as a labourer. His sister Susana McCormick was recorded as 24 years of age. Hugh McCormick, like his small sons Charles, aged 3 years and 'at home', and John aged 1 year, was born in Glasgow. Hugh was also a labourer.

When Edward Harris died in 1860 he was recorded as 87 years of age, on the information of his son, Henry Harris. Edward was a labourer by occupation and was a widower. His parents were deceased, and the informant could give only the name of his mother as Mary Harris, her married name. He did not know her maiden surname, nor did he know his grandfather's Christian name. He knew, however, that his grandfather had been a shoemaker.

According to the 1861 death certificate of his daughter Susan, Edward Harris was a journeyman brickmaker, and was deceased by that time.

Edward was a plasterer according to the marriage certificate of his daughter Mary in 1862.

When his son Charles died in 1879 Edward was recorded as a general labourer.

In 1883, when his son Henry died, Edward Harris was recorded in his death certificate as 'mason (deceased)'. ^{6 7 8 9 10}

  Medical Notes:

John Coats, MD, surgeon, who saw Edward on the 25 February 1860, certified his cause of death.

James Lynch, undertaker, certified that Edward's remains were buried in Dalbeth Cemetery Glasgow.

The informant of Edward's death was his son Henry Harris, who gave notice before the registrar on 27 February 1860 and made his X mark. ⁸

Edward married Mary CAMPBELL, daughter of John CAMPBELL and Mrs CAMPBELL MS UNKNOWN. (Mary CAMPBELL was born about 1795 in Ireland,⁷ died 19 April 1858 at 3.00 pm in 32 New Street, Calton, Glasgow, Scotland ⁸ and was buried in Dalbeth Cemetery Glasgow, Scotland ⁸.). The cause of her death was pleuritis over 5 days.⁸

Edward next married Sarah IRVINE in 1709.^{1 2} (Sarah IRVINE was born about 1825.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Helen (Fraser), married, in 1709, to James, eldest son of Sir John Gordon of Park, in Banffshire."

from Scots Peerage (vol 7)




"Gordon, James, of Park

Son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet of Park, and his fourth wife Helen Ogilvy, daughter of James, 2nd Earl of Airlie. Married twice, firstly, in 1709 to Helen Fraser, daughter of William, 11th Lord Saltoun and by her had William, John and Helen .... Died 15 December 1727 of apoplexy."

from Jacobites of 1715 ^{1 2}

Edward next married Frederick KANE about 1720.^{2 3 4 5} (Frederick KANE was born about 1790 and died after 1848.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret (Elphinstone) .... was married, secondly, to Sir James Gordon of Park"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)




"Gordon, James, of Park

.... Married .... secondly about 1720, Margaret Elphinstone, daughter of John, 8th Lord Elphinstone and widow of George Leslie of Balquhain, who died in 1715. By this second marriage he had one son, James Gordon of Cobairdy and three daughters, Died 15 December 1727 of apoplexy."

from Jacobites of 1715




"(Fetternear parish)

The oldest memorial is probably a defaced tablet fixed into a recess over the arch of the entrance gate. It is inscribed -

. . . Lord Elphinston hath in this year 17 - 9 re - aired and built anew in memory of her dear husband George Lesley of Balquain (Wt. a Son) herein interred, who leaving be hind him these children, James and Ernest, then infants, dyed at Fetternier in the 34th year of his age, June 17, 1715.

The first portion of the above inscription is entirely removed, but it is known that the lady who originally erected the monument was the Hon. Margaret, second daughter of John, eighth Lord Elphinstone, who, in 1706, married George Leslie, sixteenth baron of Balquhain. About five years after Mr Leslie's death, his widow married Sir James Gordon of Park, and it is alleged that a son of this marriage, James Gordon - afterwards of Cobairdv - acquired acquired considerable portions of land in Insch district, to the prejudice of the Leslie family."

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions




" .... the Honourable Margaret Elphinstone also induced her son, Ernest, Count Leslie, eighteenth Baron of Balquhain, to dismember the family estates. She had a locality, that is the revenue of certain lands for her jointure on the lands of Insch and Boddam, belonging to the Balquhain estates. After her husband's (George Leslie's) death, about 1720, she married Sir James Gordon of Park, by whom she had a son, James Gordon, styled of Cobairdy, and she prevailed on her son Ernest, when he succeeded to the Balquhain estates, to dispone part of the lands of Insch, and the lands of Boddam, to the said James Gordon, his uterine brother, which was in defraud of the deed of entail made by Count Patrick Leslie, fifteenth Baron, in 1700."

from Family of Leslie ^{2 3 4 5}