Honor (Honour) Harris

- 1790

• Name	Honor (Honour) Harris
  Gender	Female
  Legal,Law,Arrest	20 Feb 1768
  	another John Harris, who had already inherited the house at Pickwell, near Barnstaple, for which town he was MP. John married Dorothy Herbert, sister of Henry, 1st Earl of Powis, and left an only surviving daughter, Miss Honor Harris of Pickwell, on whose behalf the entail appears to have been broken, perhaps for lack of male heirs, since she seems to have inherited all her father's estates, including Wortham
  Residence	1776	Pickwell Manor, Devon
  	The Harris Family monument dates to 1776 and was erected by Honour Harris in the Pickwell Chapel to her parents Dorothy and John Harris (MP for Barnstaple) and their three children who had died in infancy. On Honour Harris's death a cameo carving of her was placed on the monument.[10]
  Legal,Law,Arrest	1787
  	Folder: 'About the Pickwell lunatic 1787', containing notes on Miss Harris of Pickwell; owners of Ford Abbey, Little Fulford, Pickwell and Luscott and accounts of trial by writ of right, John Luke vs. Mrs Honor Harris (printed), [18th century] https://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/3704M/FZ/21
  Probate	7 Aug 1790
  	left an only surviving daughter, Miss Honor Harris of Pickwell, on whose behalf the entail appears to have been broken, perhaps for lack of male heirs, since she seems to have inherited all her father's estates, including Wortham. According to two early 19th-century histories of Devon, Lysons' and the Supplement to Risdon's Survey, on her death in 1790, the old Harris, or perhaps even Dinham, estates in Cornwall went to a Harris cousin, while she left Pickwell and the other Devon properties to a Mrs Middleditch.
  Death	7 Aug 1790	Pickwell Manor, Devon
  Association	Maria Harrup/MIDDLEDITCH/MACKENZIE (Relationship: Miss Honour Harris, of Wo)
  Person ID	I3864	AHP
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	John Harris, of Pickwell, Esq,   b. Abt Sep 1703, Georgeham, North Devon, Devon bur. 20 Feb 1768, Georgeham, North Devon, Devon (Age ~ 64 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Dorothy Herbert/HARRIS, sister of Henry, 1st Earl of Powis,   b. Abt 1705, Shropshire
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	30 May 1730	St James, Paddington, London
  Age at Marriage	He : 26 years and 8 months - She : ~ 25 years and 5 months.
  Histories		Marriage settlement of John Harris and Dorothy Herbert 27 May 1730
  		Honor (Honour) Harris; Elaborate monument on east wall of south Pickwell side chapel to parents John and Dorothy and three children who died in infancy; 1776 Elaborate monument on east wall of south Pickwell side chapel 1776 licence granted to Honor Harris to erect monument in Pickwell Chapel to her parents John and Dorothy and three children who died in infancy. Honor +++ was their only surviving child and did not marry living into old age. - carved portraits of John Harris 1703- 1768 MP for…
  Family ID	F695	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Histories » Slide Show		John Harris, the eldest son, succeeded to Wortham and Pickwell Harris of Wortham and Pickwell
  		The Harris Family erected 1776 Honour Harris in Pickwell Chapel to her parents Dorothy and John Harris The Harris Family monument dates to 1776 and was erected by Honour Harris in the Pickwell Chapel to her parents Dorothy and John Harris (MP for Barnstaple) and their three children who had died in infancy
  		Extracts from Georgeham Register, which show that the family were at Georgeham from 1679 to 1790
  		Honor (Honour) Harris; Elaborate monument on east wall of south Pickwell side chapel to parents John and Dorothy and three children who died in infancy; 1776 Elaborate monument on east wall of south Pickwell side chapel 1776 licence granted to Honor Harris to erect monument in Pickwell Chapel to her parents John and Dorothy and three children who died in infancy. Honor +++ was their only surviving child and did not marry living into old age. - carved portraits of John Harris 1703- 1768 MP for…