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NameEmily Priscilla Harris 
[3, Her birth, Q1 of 1846, Bradford Yk dist, vol 23, p. 206], [5, Birth cert no 126 of Bradford of 1846], [2, Vol I, pp. 661-2], [4, 1881 ref: RG11 Piece: 4345 Folio: 98 Page: 4], [82, No 504, p. 90 & no 649, p. 117], [11, J A Busfeild's family, pp. 77-8]
[3, Her birth, Q1 of 1846, Bradford Yk dist, vol 23, p. 206], [5, Birth cert no 126 of Bradford of 1846], [2, Vol I, pp. 661-2], [4, 1881 ref: RG11 Piece: 4345 Folio: 98 Page: 4], [82, No 504, p. 90 & no 649, p. 117], [11, J A Busfeild's family, pp. 77-8]Birth18 Dec 1845, Spring Lodge, Manningham, Bradford, Yorks [4, 1881]
Death16 Jul 1881, 4 Magdala Place, Edinburgh, Scotland [11, Notes on Skipton tree]
BurialFerrand vault, Bingley church, Yorks
GeneralYoungest dau., co-heir and eventual sole heir in her issue.
FatherAlfred Harris (1801-1880)
MotherAnna Elizabeth Dearman (1809-1876)
Spouses
1William Ferrand (born BUSFEILD) [2, Vol I, pp. 661-2], [82, No 504, p. 90 and No 649, p. 117], [4, 1881 ref: RG11 Piece: 4345 Folio: 98 Page: 4], [4, 1901, PRO ref RG 13/ 4071, for St Ives, Bingley.], [73, Cathcart article, Vol II, p. 529], [11, J A Busfeild's family, p.76], [3, His death aged 89, Q1 of 1927, Keighley dist, vol 9a, p. 291], [5, His death certificate No 433 of Keighley, Yorks]
[2, Vol I, pp. 661-2], [82, No 504, p. 90 and No 649, p. 117], [4, 1881 ref: RG11 Piece: 4345 Folio: 98 Page: 4], [4, 1901, PRO ref RG 13/ 4071, for St Ives, Bingley.], [73, Cathcart article, Vol II, p. 529], [11, J A Busfeild's family, p.76], [3, His death aged 89, Q1 of 1927, Keighley dist, vol 9a, p. 291], [5, His death certificate No 433 of Keighley, Yorks]FatherJohnson Atkinson Busfeild (1814-1882)
MotherMary Elizabeth Priestley (<1812-1894)
Marriage19 Apr 1865, Bingley Church, W Riding [2, Vol I, pp. 661-2], [3, Their marriage, Q2 of 1865, Keighley dist, vol 9a, p. 237], [5, Their marriage cert no 309 of Keighley, Yorks of 1865], [11, J A Busfeild's family, pp. 77-8]
Notes for Emily Priscilla Harris
April 2004, TFPL: Reference here must be made to Johnson Atkinson Busfeild's superb family history volumes, containing the source material from which he wrote his "Fragments". These volumes are currently held by his great-grandson David Ferrand who has been adding to them as the years go by.
Anyhow at the time of Emily's death, JAB was still alive and reasonably fit. So he included an account of her death, the only occasion, as he put it, in her life in which she caused any grief to anyone. She died in Edinburgh of puerperal fever and JAB and another doctor accused the one in attendance on her of causing her death from transference from another lady he was attending who had also died recenly from the same cause. Of course nothing could be proved. JAB and the widower, William, were obviously both crestfallen about the whole matter. On my next visit, if I can make one, I should photograph the five of so pages in which he describes the tumultous events. (Late 2010: done and now on my web-site.)
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At her birth, her father was a banker, her mother was Anna Elizabeth Harris formerly Dearman and the informant was her father.
The transcription of her birth record:
First name(s) Anna Elizabeth
Last name Dearman
Birth year 1809
Birth date 31 Oct 1809
Birth county as transcribed London, Middlesex
Father's first name(s) John
Mother's first name(s) Anna Sophia
Meeting place London, Middlesex
Monthly meeting -
Quarterly meeting London, Middlesex
County London, Middlesex
Country England
Archive reference RG6/801
Description LONDON AND MIDDLESEX: Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex: Births
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
The image of the Quaker monthly meeting adds:
Birth place Champion Hills
Birth parish St Giles, Camberwell
Father’s job: American Agent
Monthly Meeting Southwark
Witnesses on M.M.: Wm Perfect, Betty Hall(?), Ann Whitfield
Witness to QM: Joseph Neatby
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She is to be found with her parents in the 1851 census, aged 6, but not in 1861. All I could find of her, or possibly her in 1861 was an entry for an Emeline Harris who was a governess aged [sic] 18 and music teacher at a small girls school in Manchester and born in Kenilworth, Yorkshire. Might this have been her playing a bit of truant?
In 1871 she was a respectable married woman with her husband and 4 year old daughter.
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On her death certificate, she normally lived at Morland Hall, Nr Penrith. She was 35, both her parents were deceased and the cause of death was “Pregnancy and Delivery. Acute Chollericle (?), Diarrhoea (?), supermising ??????? after delivery; certified by Angus Macdonald Physician. The informant on 19th July at Edinburgh (who related that he went up promptly by train) was J A Busfeild, father-in-law, Upwood, Bingley, Yorkshire.
The death certificate gives the names of both Emily’s parents: Alfred Harris and Anne Elizabeth Harris nee Dearman (bless the Scottish practice of always recognising maiden names!).
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Paul Frecker reports that her and her father’s photographs were taken by Camille Silvy at his studio in London on 17th June 1862; this was ten months before her marriage in April the following year. She would have been 16 ½ at the time of the photo. (I’m slightly surprised that, at that age, her mother was not involved in the photography.)
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Anyhow at the time of Emily's death, JAB was still alive and reasonably fit. So he included an account of her death, the only occasion, as he put it, in her life in which she caused any grief to anyone. She died in Edinburgh of puerperal fever and JAB and another doctor accused the one in attendance on her of causing her death from transference from another lady he was attending who had also died recenly from the same cause. Of course nothing could be proved. JAB and the widower, William, were obviously both crestfallen about the whole matter. On my next visit, if I can make one, I should photograph the five of so pages in which he describes the tumultous events. (Late 2010: done and now on my web-site.)
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At her birth, her father was a banker, her mother was Anna Elizabeth Harris formerly Dearman and the informant was her father.
The transcription of her birth record:
First name(s) Anna Elizabeth
Last name Dearman
Birth year 1809
Birth date 31 Oct 1809
Birth county as transcribed London, Middlesex
Father's first name(s) John
Mother's first name(s) Anna Sophia
Meeting place London, Middlesex
Monthly meeting -
Quarterly meeting London, Middlesex
County London, Middlesex
Country England
Archive reference RG6/801
Description LONDON AND MIDDLESEX: Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex: Births
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
The image of the Quaker monthly meeting adds:
Birth place Champion Hills
Birth parish St Giles, Camberwell
Father’s job: American Agent
Monthly Meeting Southwark
Witnesses on M.M.: Wm Perfect, Betty Hall(?), Ann Whitfield
Witness to QM: Joseph Neatby
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She is to be found with her parents in the 1851 census, aged 6, but not in 1861. All I could find of her, or possibly her in 1861 was an entry for an Emeline Harris who was a governess aged [sic] 18 and music teacher at a small girls school in Manchester and born in Kenilworth, Yorkshire. Might this have been her playing a bit of truant?
In 1871 she was a respectable married woman with her husband and 4 year old daughter.
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On her death certificate, she normally lived at Morland Hall, Nr Penrith. She was 35, both her parents were deceased and the cause of death was “Pregnancy and Delivery. Acute Chollericle (?), Diarrhoea (?), supermising ??????? after delivery; certified by Angus Macdonald Physician. The informant on 19th July at Edinburgh (who related that he went up promptly by train) was J A Busfeild, father-in-law, Upwood, Bingley, Yorkshire.
The death certificate gives the names of both Emily’s parents: Alfred Harris and Anne Elizabeth Harris nee Dearman (bless the Scottish practice of always recognising maiden names!).
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Paul Frecker reports that her and her father’s photographs were taken by Camille Silvy at his studio in London on 17th June 1862; this was ten months before her marriage in April the following year. She would have been 16 ½ at the time of the photo. (I’m slightly surprised that, at that age, her mother was not involved in the photography.)
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Will notes for Emily Priscilla Harris
Her probate index:
BUSFEILD Emily Priscilla
Personal Estate £500
30 November [1881]. The Will of Emily Priscilla Busfeild (Wife of William Busfeild, Esquire) late of Morland Hall in the County of Westmorland who died 16 July 1881 at 4 Magdala-Place Edinburgh in North Britain was proved at the Principal Registry by the said William Busfeild of Morland Hall the sole Executor. Probate being granted under certain limitations.
[Folio Number] 792
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In her will of 29th March 1881, proved on 30th November 1881 she appointed her husband to be her sole executor. and she listed in her will:
1, Her husband: William Busfeild
2. Her daughter Emily Mary
3. Her son William harris Busfeild
4. Her father Alfred Harris
5. John Dearman Birchall and Alfred harris, co-executors of her father Alfred Harris’ will.
She inherited a right to the income and the power to devise the destination of a big chunk of her father’s estate. So in her will she made pfovision for whatever children she might have had who survived to the age of 21:
If one, then the whole of the trust share
If two, then 3/5 to th her eldes son and 2/5 for the other child.
If three children, then 3/7 to her eldest son and 2/7 each to the other two,
If four, then ⅓ of the whole to the eldest son and ⅓ of the remaining ⅔ (2/9 of the original) to be deived between the three other children.
If no sons reaches 21, then equally begtween her surviving daughters
.
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BUSFEILD Emily Priscilla
Personal Estate £500
30 November [1881]. The Will of Emily Priscilla Busfeild (Wife of William Busfeild, Esquire) late of Morland Hall in the County of Westmorland who died 16 July 1881 at 4 Magdala-Place Edinburgh in North Britain was proved at the Principal Registry by the said William Busfeild of Morland Hall the sole Executor. Probate being granted under certain limitations.
[Folio Number] 792
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In her will of 29th March 1881, proved on 30th November 1881 she appointed her husband to be her sole executor. and she listed in her will:
1, Her husband: William Busfeild
2. Her daughter Emily Mary
3. Her son William harris Busfeild
4. Her father Alfred Harris
5. John Dearman Birchall and Alfred harris, co-executors of her father Alfred Harris’ will.
She inherited a right to the income and the power to devise the destination of a big chunk of her father’s estate. So in her will she made pfovision for whatever children she might have had who survived to the age of 21:
If one, then the whole of the trust share
If two, then 3/5 to th her eldes son and 2/5 for the other child.
If three children, then 3/7 to her eldest son and 2/7 each to the other two,
If four, then ⅓ of the whole to the eldest son and ⅓ of the remaining ⅔ (2/9 of the original) to be deived between the three other children.
If no sons reaches 21, then equally begtween her surviving daughters
.
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Notes for William & Emily Priscilla (Family)
At their marriage, she was 19, he was of full age (in fact 27); he was a gentleman of Upwood, she was of Rushworth Hall and their fathers were both gentlemen. The witnesses were: Alfred Harris (her father), Henry Harris (prob her uncle), Caroline Mary Parkins, J A Busfeild (his father) and W E Surtees (cousin on his grandmother, Sarah Ferrand's side).