Complex sentence: He was the son of Henry Vowles (born 1816) and Mary Yeoman Harding (1812-1886), a descendant of the Harding family which had originally come from Pewsey, Wiltshire.
Split into simpler sentences: He was the son of Henry Vowles (born 1816) and Mary Yeoman Harding (1812-1886). The Harding family had originally come from Pewsey, Wiltshire.