William Richard Harriss

M, b. 20 August 1882, d. 20 February 1961
  • William Richard Harriss was born on 20 August 1882 in Toowoomba, Queensland.
  • He was the son of Amos Harriss and Virginia Prewer-Docking.
  • William Richard Harriss was present when a family photo was taken at Rose Hill farm, Ravensbourne with Amos Harriss and Virginia Prewer-Docking in 1899.
  • William Richard Harriss appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1903 living at Ravensbourne. He was a labourer living at the Settlement.
  • He appeared on the Electoral Roll with Amos Harriss and Virginia Prewer-Docking in 1905 in Ravensbourne. Amos was a farmer and Virginia carried out domestic duties. Their son William was a labourer at Ravensbourne Settlement.
  • William Richard Harriss appeared on the Electoral Roll with Amos Harriss in 1909 in Ravensbourne. Amos was a farmer and Virginia carried out home duties as did their daughter Emma. Their son William was a labourer.
  • At the age of 28 years, 7 months and 14 days, William Richard Harriss married Elizabeth Barnes, daughter of Benjamin Barnes and Mary Batten, on 3 April 1911 in St Lukes Church, Toowoomba, Queensland.
  • William Richard Harriss and Elizabeth Barnes appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1913 living at Ravensbourne. William was shown as a labourer.
  • After the death of his father Amos in Ravensbourne, Queensland, his mother Virginia came to live with him; He died of a heart attack and left the running of the farm to Amos. Virginia later went to live with William in Toowoomba.
  • William Richard Harriss and Elizabeth Barnes appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1921 living at Ravensbourne. William was a labourer and Elizabeth carried out home duties. His brothers Amos and Nathaniel were a farmers at Ravensbourne and mother Virginia and sister Elsie carried out home duties.
  • William Richard Harriss appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1925 living at Ravensbourne. William was a farmer. His brothers Nathan and Amos also lived at Ravensbourne as did his mother Virginia.
  • He and Elizabeth Barnes appeared on the Electoral Roll between 1928 and 1935 living at Ravensbourne. William was a labourer and Elizabeth carried out home duties. His brother Amos was a farmer at Ravensbourne and mother Virginia carried out home duties.
  • William Richard Harriss and Elizabeth Barnes appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1943 living at Ravensbourne. William was a farmer and Elizabeth carried out home duties. Their son Amos was also a farmer.
  • William Richard Harriss and Elizabeth Barnes appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1949 living at Ravensbourne. William was a farmer and Elizabeth carried out home duties. They didn't appear on the roll in 1954.
  • William Richard Harriss died on 20 February 1961 in Queensland at age 78.
  • William was buried on 21 February 1961 in Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery. CE5A-009-0023.

Children of William Richard Harriss and Elizabeth Barnes

Lillian Myrtle Hart

F, b. 1892, d. 2 April 1973
  • Lillian Myrtle Hart was born in 1892. She was the daughter of Ely Hart and Caroline Giles.
  • At the age of 18 years, Lillian Myrtle Hart married Henry Crighton in 1910 in Queensland.
  • Lillian Myrtle Hart and Henry Crighton appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1930 living at Whichell's, Pechey. Henry was a farmer.
  • Lillian Myrtle Hart died on 2 April 1973 in Queensland.
  • Lillian was buried on 3 April 1973 in Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery. METH5-005-0023.

Children of Lillian Myrtle Hart and Henry Crighton

Mary Hart

F, b. circa 1825
  • Mary Hart was born circa 1825.
  • Mary Hart married James Brooks circa 1860.

Child of Mary Hart and James Brooks

Mary Hart

F, b. 1839, d. 23 March 1919
  • Mary Hart was born in 1839. She was the daughter of William Hart and Johanna Hayes.
  • Mary Hart married Denis Murphy circa 1860.
  • Mary Hart died on 23 March 1919 in Queensland.
  • Mary was buried on 24 March 1919 in Toowoomba & Drayton Cemetery. RC3-001-0052.

Children of Mary Hart and Denis Murphy

Meryl Mavis Hart

F, b. circa 1917, d. 21 June 1978
  • Meryl Mavis Hart was born circa 1917. She was the daughter of     Nicholas Judge Hart and
    Margaret Willey.
  • Meryl Mavis Hart married Alan George Plant, son of George Henry Plant and Annie Miller Richardson, circa 1935.
  • Meryl Mavis Hart died on 21 June 1978 in Queensland.
  • Meryl was buried on 23 June 1978 in Cabarlah Cemetery.

Norah Hart

F, b. circa 1880

Child of Norah Hart and William George Lammas

Hannah Hartfield

F, b. 1837
  • Hannah Hartfield was born in 1837 in Clliddesden, Hampshire.
  • At the age of 26 years, Hannah Hartfield married John Sparshott, son of Charles Sparshott and Charlotte Ives, on 10 August 1863 in Cliddeston, Hampshire.
  • Hannah Hartfield and John Sparshott appeared on the census of 2 April 1871 in Clliddesden, Hampshire. John was a 32 year oid publican and blacksmith born Warnborough married to Hannah 34, born Cliddesden; and their children Charles 7, Ann 5, Susannah 1 - all born Cliddesden.

Children of Hannah Hartfield and John Sparshott

Mary Jane Hartfield

F, b. 1870

Children of Mary Jane Hartfield and Charles Sparshott

Fredrick Hartge

M
  • Fredrick Hartge witnessed the burial of Mary Stuart on 24 December 1877 in Liverpool Cemetery, Sydney; Presbyterian Section.

Allen Harth

M, b. 1900, d. 1973
  • Allen Harth was born in 1900 in Queensland.
  • He was the son of Christian Frederick Harth and Helene (Lena) Ehrlich.
  • At the age of 24 years, Allen Harth married Emily Evelyn Woodland in 1924 in Queensland.
  • Allen Harth died in 1973 in Queensland.

Alma Isabell Harth

F, b. 1904

Ann Maria Harth

F, b. April 1880, d. 1 January 1881

Annie Beatrice Harth

F, b. 1898

Annie Elsie (Anna Louisa) Harth

F, b. 30 July 1895, d. 24 March 1982
  • Annie Elsie (Anna Louisa) Harth was born on 30 July 1895 in Goombungee, Queensland.
  • She was the daughter of Konrad Harth and Hermine Zeckomski.
  • At the age of 24 years, 1 month and 12 days, Annie Elsie (Anna Louisa) Harth married Marshall May on 11 September 1919 in Queensland.
  • Annie Elsie (Anna Louisa) Harth died on 24 March 1982 in Queensland at age 86.

Augusta Johanna Harth

F, b. 1877, d. 27 October 1959
  • Augusta Johanna Harth was born in 1877 in Queensland.
  • She was the daughter of Johann Harth and Wilhelmina Maria Charlotte (Marie) Kruger.
  • At the age of 17 years, Augusta Johanna Harth married William Cumner in 1894 in Queensland.
  • Augusta Johanna Harth and William Cumner appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1925 living at Goombungee. William was a farmer.
  • Augusta Johanna Harth died on 27 October 1959 in Queensland.
  • Augusta was buried on 28 October 1959 in Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery. CE9-002-0009.

Children of Augusta Johanna Harth and William Cumner

Bentley Harth

M, b. 17 May 1909, d. 2 January 2004
  • Bentley Harth was born on 17 May 1909 in Queensland.
  • He was the son of Christian Frederick Harth and Helene (Lena) Ehrlich.
  • At the age of 21 years, Bentley Harth married Constance Muriel Wheeldon in 1931 in Queensland.
  • Bentley Harth died on 2 January 2004 at age 94.
  • Bentley was buried on 7 January 2004 in Pittsworth Cemetery. LAWS1-006-0289.

Bright Georgina Harth

F, b. 1909, d. July 1996
  • Bright Georgina Harth was born in 1909 in Queensland.
  • She was the daughter of Konrad Harth and Hermine Zeckomski.
  • After their sister Emily's court case it appears that a number of her family members moved to Sydney - Dorothea and her husband Joseph Wood, and Bright. Later Ruby who eventually cared for Olga, moved to Wyong.

  • Bright Georgina Harth died in July 1996.
  • Bright was buried on 5 July 1996 in Field of Mars Cemetery, West Ryde, New South Wales. General Lawn 497.

Carl Herman Rudolph Harth

M, b. 18 August 1892, d. 1 December 1894
  • Carl Herman Rudolph Harth was born on 18 August 1892 in Queensland.
  • He was the son of Konrad Harth and Hermine Zeckomski.
  • Carl Herman Rudolph Harth died on 1 December 1894 in Queensland at age 2.

Cecilia May (Ciceriy) Harth

F, b. 1902, d. 3 February 1944
  • Cecilia May (Ciceriy) Harth was born in 1902 in Queensland.
  • She was the daughter of Johann Heinrich Harth and Anna Catherine Magdeline Peters.
  • At the age of 21 years, Cecilia May (Ciceriy) Harth married Herbert Henry Holden, son of Henry (Harry) Holden and Emiline Auguste Otto, in 1923 in Queensland.
  • Cecilia May (Ciceriy) Harth and Herbert Henry Holden appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1926 living at Silverleigh. Herbert was a farmer.
  • Cecilia May (Ciceriy) Harth and Herbert Henry Holden appeared on the Electoral Roll in 1937 living at an unknown place . Herbert was a farmer of Highland Plain. Cicely gave her address as Silverleigh. She carried out home duties.
  • Cecilia May (Ciceriy) Harth died on 3 February 1944 in Queensland.
  • Cecilia was buried on 4 February 1944 in Goombungee Cemetery. CE1-00L-0002.

Christian Frederick Harth

M, b. 1872, d. 1968

Children of Christian Frederick Harth and Helene (Lena) Ehrlich

Christian Nicholas Harth

M, b. 1895, d. 2 August 1916
  • Christian Nicholas Harth was born in 1895 in Goombungee.
  • He was the son of Johann Heinrich Harth and Anna Catherine Magdeline Peters.
  • Christian Nicholas Harth enlisted in the AIF on 8 September 1915 in Toowoomba. He was a 21 year old farmer, born Goombungee and gave his next of kin as his father J. H. Harth of Green Hill Goombungee. He was a private in the 2nd Pioneer Battalion and served in France.
  • Christian Nicholas Harth died in the field on 2 August 1916 in France of wounds received in action.
  • Christian was buried in Poziers Cemetery.

Cleve Cecil Harth

M, b. 1911

Dorothea Helena Harth

F, b. 1905, d. 28 February 1993
  • Dorothea Helena Harth was born in 1905 in Queensland.
  • She was the daughter of Konrad Harth and Hermine Zeckomski.
  • At the age of 23 years, Dorothea Helena Harth married Joseph Emmanuel Wood in 1928 in Queensland.
  • Dorothea Helena Harth witnessed the Note of Emilie Bertha (Emily) Harth; After their sister Emily's court case it appears that a number of her family members moved to Sydney - Dorothea and her husband Joseph Wood, and Bright. Later Ruby who eventually cared for Olga, moved to Wyong.
  • Dorothea Helena Harth died on 28 February 1993 in Sydney, New South Wales.

Edward Henry Harth

M, b. 1890, d. 3 August 1917
  • Edward Henry Harth was born in 1890 in Goombungee.
  • He was the son of Johann Heinrich Harth and Anna Catherine Magdeline Peters.
  • At the age of 26 years, Edward Henry Harth married Annie Ethel Holden, daughter of Henry (Harry) Holden and Emiline Auguste Otto, on 27 June 1916 in Congregational Church, Queensland. Annie lived at Highland Plain at the time.
  • Edward Henry Harth began military service on 3 July 1916. He gave his wife Annie Ethel of Goombungee as his next of kin. He was 25 years, 10 months old and was born in Goombungee. He was a farmer and contractor.
  • Edward Henry Harth was killed in action on 3 August 1917 in France. He was a private in the 4/41 Battalion at the time.
  • He's memorial is in Ypres.

Elise (Elizabeth) Harth

F, b. 24 December 1859, d. 23 December 1936
  • Elise (Elizabeth) Harth was born on 24 December 1859 in Ober-Mockstad, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.
  • She was the daughter of Konrad Harth and Margaretha Ulrich.
  • At the age of 21 years, 9 months and 20 days, Elise (Elizabeth) Harth married William Thomas Blatchley on 14 October 1881 in Toowoomba, Queensland. They left Toowoomba in 1886/1887.
  • Elise (Elizabeth) Harth died on 23 December 1936 in Diamantina Hospital, South Brisbane, at age 76.
  • Elise was buried on 24 December 1936 in Balmoral Cemetery, Morningside. Section 16 Grave 57.

Ellen Harth

F, b. 1875, d. 1875

Ellen Charlotte Harth

F, b. 1901

Elsie Irene Harth

F, b. 1898

Emilie Bertha (Emily) Harth

F, b. 26 June 1898, d. 1975

Emily Bertha Harth (1898-1975), daughter of Konrad Harth & Hermine Zeckomski. Photo thannks NZ Truth
  • Emilie Bertha (Emily) Harth was born on 26 June 1898 in Queensland.
  • She was the daughter of Konrad Harth and Hermine Zeckomski.
  • At the age of 17 years, 3 months and 1 day, Emilie Bertha (Emily) Harth married Ambrose Taylor on 27 September 1915 in Brisbane, Queensland. Amborse was a railway guard. They separated around 1921 and their chldren a son born in 1916 and daughter born in 1919 remained in the custody of their father for a number of years, at least until the murder trial in 1929. Later Bette joined her mother.
  • Cyril Douglas Gowlett - Cyril, a school teacher, was found dead in a room in the Australian Hotel. His friend, a married woman named Emily Bertha Taylor (nee Harth, wife of Ambrose Taylor) was found in another room in the hotel suffering from the effects of poisoning. She claimed they had a suicide pact (they ate chocolates laced with strychnine) because she could not get a divorce from her husband Ambrose Taylor and Cyril's family were against the marriage. She was charged with murder but later this charge was dropped and she was charged with attempted suicide. However this charge was also later dismissed.
  • On 13 November 1929 The Brisbane Courier reported on the murder of Cyril Gowlett " Emily Bertha Taylor (aged 31 years), on remand, appeared in the Police Court to-day, before Mr. F. C. M. Burne, P.M., to answer a charge that on October 15, at the Australian Hotel, she murdered Cyril Douglas Gowlett, a school teacher. Inspector Loch prosecuted and Mr. E. W. Cleary appeared for the defendant.
    Detective Sergeant Kiernan stated that at about 3.10 a.m. on October 15, he went to the Australian Hotel, and saw Donald Carey (licensee) and his partner, Mildred Deacon Taylor. He went with them to a bedroom upstairs. In a bed he saw the body of a young man, fully dressed. There was no indication of a struggle having taken place on the bed or in the room, and there was nothing to indicate the cause of death. Later he went to a bedroom on the western side of the building, and noticed that a bed in that room had been disturbed, as if some person had been occupying it. He saw on the chair near the side of the bed a tumbler about half full of a liquid, which he took to be water. On a dressing table in the room he saw a lady's handbag, in which he found a sealed letter with the words: "To be opened by the police when I die." The letter gave directions as to the burial of the writer. The letter was signed "Emily." On the floor, near the head of the bed, he found two pieces of tinfoil, with what appeared to be chocolate adhering to it. In a corner of the room, behind the dressing table, he found another piece of tinfoil, and a bottle containing water. Witness saw defendant at the General Hospital, and spoke to her, but she did not reply. He left that institution and returned to the Australian Hotel, where he made a search of the grounds, and found a flask, which appeared to have contained water, on the footpath In Neil-street. He found a piece of white paper wrapped around some tinfoil.
    A letter written by defendant to her sister was read, extracts being: "I am parting from this world, misjudged and misunderstood. I want you all to agree, and use every penny worth I possess. Wearing my things should remind you I am happy and better off, resting at last. There is an envelope with some money in it addressed to mum. Please give it to her for a Christmas present. Do not allow the Taylor family to claim one penny worth of my things. God bless you one and all. Love and good bye all. (Signed) Brokenhearted Em. P.S.-I want my watch buried with me please."
    Detective Kiernan added that in a drawer in a duchess he found a sealed letter, addressed, "Mum," which he opened, and found that it contained £6 in notes.
    At the hospital he saw defendant, and told her he was making inquiries concerning the death of Gowlett. She replied: "Yes; I understand he is dead. I wish I had gone with him, too." Witness said: "I understand you were lovers. Was there a pact between you to die together?" Defendant replied: "No; but I knew he would take his life and mine sooner or later." Witness asked: "Why did you arrive at that conclusion?" Defendant replied: "From remarks he made to me and my finding a letter in his brief bag addressed to another girl. When he returned to where I am staying, at my brother-in-law's, I accused him of writing the letter. I posted the letter I found in his brief bag after I had endorsed on the back of it that she had no right to come between me and Cyril Gowlett. Cyril was very upset when I accused him of writing to the girl, and he remarked that there was now nothing left only that they should die together. We went to Groom Park, and remained until about 11 o'clock. Cyril asked me whether I would go and stay with him at the Australian Hotel. I agreed. I left the park with Cyril, and I went back to Woods' house, where Cyril went inside. He got his suitcase, brief bag, and umbrella, and brought them with him. I remained on the footpath outside. We went to the Australian Hotel, where Cyril engaged separate rooms. After Cyril was shown his room he came to mine, and remained talking to me until about 1 o'clock. Cyril had some chocolates in a white paper packet, and he gave me some, which I ate. He also gave me some from the same packet in Groom Park earlier that night, and I felt a bitter taste from them. Cyril left the room at about 1 o'clock, and when he was leaving he had a packet containing about two or three chocolates in his hand. He also said that he would return again, but I cannot remember if he did or otherwise. Shortly after he left the room I became sick and cold, and my body and limbs began to twitch. After that I do not remember anything further until I was in hospital."
    Detective Kiernan said to defend- ant: "I am inclined to believe that you are misleading me, and I want to tell you that I do not believe what you say as regards Gowlett’s death. It was either agreed between you that you should die together, or that you knew how he came by his death." Defendant replied: "I know that my story is hard to believe, but, nevertheless, it is true." Witness said: "Do you not think that if Gowlett contemplated death he would leave a letter behind him for his mother or some other person?" Defendant re- plied: "No; he had no affection for his mother, and he would not make an explanation to anybody." Witness said: "I ascertained from your mother today that she found strychnine poison in your possession about a week ago, which you had for the purpose of poisoning yourself." Defendant said: "Yes; that is true. My mother found, and destroyed it. I promised her faithfully I would not think of taking my life in any other way; when I got that poison, Cyril and I drove to the quarry, and we were going to take it there, but we decided not to do so." He showed her a letter, the envelope of which was I addressed to the police. She looked at it, and said: "Yes; I wrote that letter yesterday afternoon, as I had a presentiment Cyril was going to kill me, and it was for that reason I wrote it."
    Defendant on another occasion said to witness: "Cyril and I agreed to die together on Monday night. For that purpose he placed strychnine in two chocolates, which he showed to mc on Monday, October 14. in the evening when he came to Woods' place. He had them inside his coat, and he returned them there again. Later that night, at about 9 o'clock, we went together to Groom Park for the purpose of taking the poisoned chocolates. After we had been talking there for some time Cyril decided if we took them in the park it might take some time to die, and we might be picked up by some person, and would not succeed in our object. He then asked me to go to the Australian Hotel, where he would book separate rooms, and that we could take poison there. I consented, and Cyril came to my room, where he remained until about 1 o'clock in the morning. He took from his pocket one of the poisoned chocolates. Cyril left the room, and I took the poisoned chocolate. Shortly afterwards I became sick and cold. Witness asked: "Where did Cyril get the poison, and what kind of poison was it?" Defendant replied: "I do not know; he did not tell me." Witness said: "From what you told me yesterday there is a lot to clear up." Defendant replied: "I want to assist you in the matter, Sergeant, and to tell you the whole truth."
    Detective O'Driscoll said to witness that Mrs. Taylor had told him that she purchased strychnine and chocolates, and gave one of them to Gowlett. Witness asked defendant if that were so, and she replied: "Yes, sergeant. I am now telling the truth. I am sorry for not telling the truth previously, but I was thinking of my mother. At the time my mother took the strychnine from me she did not get it all, as I had previously taken some of it from the packet and hid it in a tin box. It was that strychnine that I used to poison the chocolates with." On October 20, with Detective O'Driscoll, witness went to the hospital, where he saw defendant. O'Driscoll said: "We have now received information from the Government Analyst at Brisbane that Gowlett died from the effects of strychnine poison, and that you had taken strychnine poison. Do you wish to add anything further to your statement as regards that poison?" Defendant replied: "No. What I told you is correct."
    Mr. Cleary cross-examined witness at some length. He said he saw nothing to indicate that deceased had been carried and placed on the bed. When the first statement was taken from the defendant she appeared as if she had gone through an ordeal. Defendant had told him that deceased was worried, because she could not get a divorce so that they could be married. He had told her while teaching at Kingsthorpe that he threatened to take his life on two occasions. She told him that deceased frequently wrote to her from the country, and said that he could not live without her. He heard defendant say she put strychnine into the centre of a ball of chocolate, and that deceased had taken some of that strychnine and put it into a ball of chocolate he had.
    Detective Sergeant O'Driscoll save evidence of statements made to him by the defendant, and the court adjourned till tomorrow morning"

    During Emily Taylor's trial, Cyril's mother showed her animosity toward Emily a number of times stating - "She is absolutely to blame, the she devil....I do not know what to call that thing over there. She is not human.." she had told the defendant "That ends things between you and Cyril right here. God's book forbids divorced people getting married."
  • After their sister Emily's court case it appears that a number of her family members moved to Sydney - Dorothea and her husband Joseph Wood, and Bright. Later Ruby who eventually cared for Olga, moved to Wyong.
  • On 5 July 1947,her husband, Ambrose Taylor died in Brisbane, Queensland, at age 62.
  • At the age of 48 years, Emilie Bertha (Emily) Harth married Clement Pearce Guy in 1947 in North Sydney, New South Wales. Emily may not have been divorced from Ambrose and it was only on his death that she was free to marry.
  • Emilie Bertha (Emily) Harth died in 1975 in New South Wales.
  • Emilie was buried in Sandgate Cemetery, Newcastle.

Children of Emilie Bertha (Emily) Harth and Ambrose Taylor

Ernest Harth

M, b. 1896, d. 1981