HARRIS, of Hayne in the Parish of Lifton
John Harris, brother of John Harris of Radford, married a daughter and heir of
Stone of Lifton and had issue William, and four daughters, married to Piper, Jackman,
Cole, Allen. William Harris, of Stone, married Thomasin. Daughter and co-heir
of Walter Hayne of Hayne, and had issue John, and Wilmot married to William Foster
of Hole in Devon. John (the king's sergeant-at-law in the time of Edward VI.,)
married Elizabeth, daughter to Michael Kelly of Radcliffe and Southweek, esq.,
and had issue William, John, Oliver, Anthony, Arthur, Alice, (married to John
Wise of Sydenham, esq.;) Wilmot, (to John Trevelyan, of Nettlecomb in Somerset,
esq.) William Harris, of Hayne, esq., married Mary. daughter of Sir Fulk Grevill,
of Beauchamp-Court, Warwick. knight, and had issue Arthur. Elizabeth, Blanch,
Ysod, Katharine. Arthur married Margaret. daughter and heir of John Davils, of
Mexland in Devon, esq., and hath issue (John, Arthur (recorder of Great-Torrington,
who married Elizabeth. sister to Colonel Giffard of Brightlegh, sans issue.) John
married first a sister of Sir Wyndham of Orchard-Wyndham, and secondly, Cordelia.
daughter to the Lord Mohun of Boconnock in Cornwall, and had issue Sir Arthur
Harris. bart.; who married a daughter of Sir …..Turner, of London. knight, and
died sine prole. The estate fell to Harris of Cornwall.
HARRIS, of Lanrest in Cornwall
John Harris married Ann, daughter of Becket. of Cornwall, esq., and of Joan his
wife, daughter Of William Totewil, and had issue John; She was secondly married
to Anthony Samuel. of Restormel in Cornwall. John Harris married, first Katharine,
daughter of ThomasTremayne of Collacomb, and had issue Elizabeth, (married to
John Varey of Varey;) Philippa, (first to John Prouz, of Comb-Martin, esq., secondly
to Jenkin Franklin of Wales;) Katharine, (to John Davis of Trevaster in Cornwall..)
secondly John married Jane, daughter of William Harris, and sister and heir to
Sir Cliristopher Harris, of Radford, knight, and had issue John, and Jane married
to John Dillon, fifth son of Henry Dillon, of Chymwel, esq.: thirdly he married
Thomasin, daughter of Copleston, a younger brother of Warleigh house, and had
issue Frances, married to Thomas Deswel, of Pendennis, Cornwall. JohnHarris of
Lanrest and Radford, esq, married Joan, daughter and heir of Robert Hert of Stoke-Climsland,
and had issue Christopher, John. Robert, Pearce, Cecily, (married to John Pollexfen
of Kitley;) Mary, (married;) Bridget, (married to Richard Hillersdon, of Membland,
esq.) Christopher. son and heir, married Gertude, daughter of Sir Bernard Grenvile,
of Stow in Cornwall, knight, and died sans issue. John, second son, and heir to
his brother. Married
HARRIS of Radford in the parish of Plymstock
Harris, of Hansford and Radford, married and had issue John. John
Harris. of Radford, esq., married and had issue Francis, and a daughter married
to Gawdy, of Gawdys-Hall, in the parish of Harleston. Francis married Philippa,
daughter of Sir Thomas Grenfield, of Stow in Cornwall knight, and had issue William;
(William) who married Katharine, daughter and co- heir of Henry Esse. (alias Trecarrell,)
of Trecarrel in Cornwall, and had issue Sir Christopher, and Jane married to John
Harris of Lanrest. Sir Christopher Harris, of Radford, knight, married, first
Barbara, daughter of John Arscot, of Dunsland, esq., sans issue; secondly a daughter
of Sydenham of Somerset. the relict of Sir Henry Knyvet. of Chotleton in Wiltshire,
knight, widow first of John Fitz. of Fitz-Ford, Tavistock, esq., sine prole; thirdly
he married Frances, daughter of Thomas Southcot, of Bovey-Tracey, esq., the relict
of Otho Petre, of Bowhay in Exminster, esq. (The above detail is taken
from The Kings England Book series (On Devon), Arthur Mee, Caxton Publishing,
London, England. More details of the Harris families of Radford, Lanrest and Hayne,
can be found in Ivy M Langdons book "The Plymstock Connection" published by Westcountry
Books, Tiverton, Devon).
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