The Henry Harold Harrison Family

St. James’ is the parish church for the Poolstock district, which was home to many members of the Harrison family for the better part of a century. The church was consecrated in 1866.

Family baptisms that took place at St. James included: Alice Harrison (1870), Jane Harrison (1878), Ellen Harrison (1880), John Harrison (1883), Elizabeth Harrison (1885), Henry Harold Harrison (1886), Roland Woods (1897), Gladys Woods (1902), Margaret Harrison (1902), Edna Harrison (1904), Nellie Harrison (1904), Joseph Harrison (1906), Gladys Harrison (1909), Annie Harrison (1910), Thomas Harrison (1912), Edward Harrison (1915), Elizabeth (Bessie) Harrison (1918),

Family marriages that took place at St. James included: Edward Harrison and Martha Mason (1876), Francis Whitfield and Elizabeth Harrison (1895), Henry Harrison and Elizabeth Donahue (1900), John Harrison and Ada Louisa Lowe (1903), William Wright and Margaret Harrison (1927), John Darbyshire and Doris Whitfield (1929), Lancelot Britnell and Ellen Whitfield (1934), Alfred Coxhead and Annie Harrison (1939), Edward Harrison and Annie McEwan (1939)

Many children in the Harrison and related families attended school at the St. James parish school. The church also served as a venue for community social events and gatherings. Doris Whitfield wrote a verses about such events including The Congregational Tea Party and the vicar’s annual Lantern Show.