Person:Robert Harry (3)

Robert Harry's origins have yet to be established. If the age quoted at his burial is correct, then he was born around 1754. His first confirmed sighting is on 5th November 1777 when he was married at St Ive in east Cornwall to a Sarah Grubb. Between 1778 and 1800 they appear to have had eight children together. The first seven were all baptised at St Ive, although the seventh child died as a baby. They then moved about ten miles south to Saltash, where their youngest daughter was baptised in 1800. Robert worked as a labourer.^[2]

Robert died in 1803 and was buried at Saltash's parish church of St Stephen by Saltash on 11th February 1803. It seems Sarah was left with the children to look after, the youngest of whom was less than three years old. It has yet to be established what happened to Sarah.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Church of England. Parish Church of St Stephens by Saltash (Cornwall). Parish registers for St Stephens by Saltash. (Truro: Cornwall Record Office).

   Burials in the year 1803 / Robert Harry 11th Febru[ar]y, 48 years [1754/5]

2. ↑ When Robert's son Robert married for the second time in 1837 he gave his father's occupation as labourer.