Harriett Harsant was born in 1798 in the village of Wickham Market to Mary and Thomas Harsant, a surgeon there known also for his apparatus, instruments and machines, some of his own construction. She grew up with a younger sister, Mary Elizabeth, and younger still brother Charles who followed his father into a surgeon's career. He died prematurely, however.
At age 29 Harriett married the Reverend Robert Howlett. They had four sons, the first and last died as infants. Their older son Robert apparently inherited Harriet's father's inclination for technology. A bequest from her father at his death left Robert and his brother Thomas each £1000 plus he specifically gave Robert his "turning lathe and all the apparatus and tools belonging thereto." Thomas went on to be a farmer and Robert left a legacy of historic photographs in his abbreviated career and life.
Harriet's husband's positions as vicar during their early years together were at the Church of St James, of Dunwich, followed by the Church of Holy Trinity at Walberswick and Blythburgh, both in Suffolk. And then he was licensed to the united Perpetual Curacies of Longham and Wendling in Norfolk for over a decade. His next assignment was in Hopton, Suffolk. In 1851 and the next two censuses Harriet was not enumerated with Robert and sons, and on the 1871 census she was head of the house in Grundisburgh, Suffolk. She died soon after that census at age 73.
Her husband, son Thomas and his wife and children and her widowed sister Mary Elizabeth and her children survived her.
At age 29 Harriett married the Reverend Robert Howlett. They had four sons, the first and last died as infants. Their older son Robert apparently inherited Harriet's father's inclination for technology. A bequest from her father at his death left Robert and his brother Thomas each £1000 plus he specifically gave Robert his "turning lathe and all the apparatus and tools belonging thereto." Thomas went on to be a farmer and Robert left a legacy of historic photographs in his abbreviated career and life.
Harriet's husband's positions as vicar during their early years together were at the Church of St James, of Dunwich, followed by the Church of Holy Trinity at Walberswick and Blythburgh, both in Suffolk. And then he was licensed to the united Perpetual Curacies of Longham and Wendling in Norfolk for over a decade. His next assignment was in Hopton, Suffolk. In 1851 and the next two censuses Harriet was not enumerated with Robert and sons, and on the 1871 census she was head of the house in Grundisburgh, Suffolk. She died soon after that census at age 73.
Her husband, son Thomas and his wife and children and her widowed sister Mary Elizabeth and her children survived her.
Harriett Harsant was born in 1798 in the village of Wickham Market to Mary and Thomas Harsant, a surgeon there known also for his apparatus, instruments and machines, some of his own construction. She grew up with a younger sister, Mary Elizabeth, and younger still brother Charles who followed his father into a surgeon's career. He died prematurely, however.
At age 29 Harriett married the Reverend Robert Howlett. They had four sons, the first and last died as infants. Their older son Robert apparently inherited Harriet's father's inclination for technology. A bequest from her father at his death left Robert and his brother Thomas each £1000 plus he specifically gave Robert his "turning lathe and all the apparatus and tools belonging thereto." Thomas went on to be a farmer and Robert left a legacy of historic photographs in his abbreviated career and life.
Harriet's husband's positions as vicar during their early years together were at the Church of St James, of Dunwich, followed by the Church of Holy Trinity at Walberswick and Blythburgh, both in Suffolk. And then he was licensed to the united Perpetual Curacies of Longham and Wendling in Norfolk for over a decade. His next assignment was in Hopton, Suffolk. In 1851 and the next two censuses Harriet was not enumerated with Robert and sons, and on the 1871 census she was head of the house in Grundisburgh, Suffolk. She died soon after that census at age 73.
Her husband, son Thomas and his wife and children and her widowed sister Mary Elizabeth and her children survived her.
At age 29 Harriett married the Reverend Robert Howlett. They had four sons, the first and last died as infants. Their older son Robert apparently inherited Harriet's father's inclination for technology. A bequest from her father at his death left Robert and his brother Thomas each £1000 plus he specifically gave Robert his "turning lathe and all the apparatus and tools belonging thereto." Thomas went on to be a farmer and Robert left a legacy of historic photographs in his abbreviated career and life.
Harriet's husband's positions as vicar during their early years together were at the Church of St James, of Dunwich, followed by the Church of Holy Trinity at Walberswick and Blythburgh, both in Suffolk. And then he was licensed to the united Perpetual Curacies of Longham and Wendling in Norfolk for over a decade. His next assignment was in Hopton, Suffolk. In 1851 and the next two censuses Harriet was not enumerated with Robert and sons, and on the 1871 census she was head of the house in Grundisburgh, Suffolk. She died soon after that census at age 73.
Her husband, son Thomas and his wife and children and her widowed sister Mary Elizabeth and her children survived her.
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