Harriet Hare

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. & Anne Speight who notes:
Harriet Hare was a village girl from the River otter valley, east of Exeter in Devon. In 1851 Harriet and her sister were in Bath, England as lace makers - not sure of any detail of this, who they sold onto etc... Edward Coombes was born in Wliltshire, England was schooled in France and as a young man went to Australia gold prospecting etc. He was a trained surveyor, mining engineer. In mid 1850's Australian governemnt sent him to the 1855 Paris exhibition. In 1856 he crops up in Harpford (River Otter valley) and marries Harriet Hare.
How on earth would they have met? A seemingly huge difference in social class. Can this really be true?
Possibly (would love to find proof) Harriet might have been an expert lace maker - and with others (possibly including her sister) went to the Paris exhibition - in 1855 there were 2 or more 'schools' exhibiting Honiton Lace. Then maybe we have a 'love story'. Edward returns with Harriet to England, they marry in her home church and then emigrate to Australia ?

• connection. The link between Anne Speight who is linked in some way to Harriet Hare (1829)

& Annabel Combes who is her G G Grandaughter

& Robert is as follows:

Harriet Hare (1829) married Edward Combes (1830)
Her father was William Hared (1792)
His father was Thomas Hare (c1760) who married Anne Tilke (1759)
His father was William Tilke (c1720)
He had Joel Tilke (c1755)
He had Mary Tilke (1796) who married William Tilke (1790)
His father was Simon Tilke (1764) & he also had Joel Tilke (1796)
He had Samuel Tilke (1833)
He had Samuel Tilke (1857)
He had Alban Tilke (1897) who married Eleanor Pickles (1912)
Her father was Ernest Pickles (1887) who married Eleanor Saunders (1888)
Her father was George Sanders (1849)
His father was William Sanders (c1817) who married Harriet Aldous (1791)
Her father was James Aldous (1755)
His father was Richard Aldous (c1731)
His father was Richard Aldous (c1705)
His father was William Aldous (1645)
His father was William Aldous (1610)
His father was Stephen the Third Aldous & he also had Stephen the Second Aldous (1607)
He had Stephen Aldous (1636)
He had John Aldous (1681)
He had William Aldous (1710)
He had William Aldous (1749)
He had Zephaniah Aldous (1778)
He had Amelia Aldous (1818) who married James Peck
They had Charlotte Peck (1843)
She had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray
They had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Harriet married Edward Combes in 1856 in Honiton or Harpford, Devon England. (Edward Combes was born on 6 Sep 1830 in Wiltshire England and died on 18 Oct 1895 in Bathurst, NSW Australia.)