This is a brief history of the first generation of the Harris family from Manchester,England toTasmania and then Victoria- Australia.
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Henry was sentenced at Devon for 7 years transportation, and arrived in New South Wales, per 'Tottenham' and was subsequently transported to Tasmania per 'Admiral Cockburne' arriving there 14th OCtober 1818. Henry was free by 1825, when he married Ellen Kennedy, nee McGrath. Henry and Ellen already had two known children by the time they married. Henry Harris appeared to have been a heavy drinker and was described as of being of bad character in one cencus report. He was charged with violence to his wife on several occasions.