1833
Baptised
21 April 1833 at Laxton
April 21st 1833, Laxton, East Yorkshire (Parish Records)— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
Harriet Wainman
1833 – 1907
✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-04
Harriet Wainman was baptised at Laxton on the 21st of April 1833, the youngest of the eleven children of David Wainman — born at Hive, by Gilberdyke — and Elizabeth Bowler of Gilberdyke. The Wainmans had been Laxton people for a generation: her ten brothers and sisters were christened there and at Eastrington across twenty-three years, and the 1841 census packs the household tight around their labourer father.
At eighteen she was house servant in John Hill's farmhouse on Front Street — where the farm servant was a young man from the Eight and Forty named Woodall Harrison. They married at Howden Minster that September, 1851, she a minor, her mark beside his; and the rest of her record is the long middle of a labouring marriage: ten children at Laxton between 1852 and 1873, the first dead in his first month, the last — Charlotte — at a year old. In her sixties the house filled again: the 1891 census finds her and Woodall raising three of their son John's children on Howden Road, and beside them Mary Hannah's Dewsbury-born daughter, a second Charlotte, brought up as their own.
She died on the 25th of November 1907 at her daughter Ann Elizabeth Waldock's house in Laxton, and was buried at Laxton three days later, aged seventy-four — exactly the age her font date gives her. The Hull Daily Mail carried the family's notice: "Harriett, the beloved wife of William Woodall Harrison."
Composed from validated records · 2026-07-04
- Baptism
- April 21st 1833, Laxton, East Yorkshire (Parish Records)
- Marriage
- September 6th 1851 to Woodall Harrison in Howden Minster
- Death
- November 25th 1907
- Burial
- November 28th 1907, Laxton aged 74 years
- Parents
- David Wainman born Hive, Gilberdyke, East Yorkshire Elizabeth Bowler born Gilberdyke, East Yorkshire
- Siblings
- Betty Wainman baptised January 16th 1810 Eastrington Mary Wainman baptised March 18th 1812 Eastrington Ann Wainman baptised December 28th 1813, Laxton William Wainman baptised August 6th 1815, Laxton Thomas Wainman baptised August 11th 1817, Laxton Charlotte Wainman baptised September 27th 1818, Laxton David Wainman baptised March 26th 1820, Laxton John Wainman baptised March 23rd 1823, Laxton Emanuel Wainman baptised January 30th 1825, Laxton Sarah Wainman baptised April 16th 1829, Laxton Harriet Wainman baptised April 21st 1833, Laxton
- Children
- John Woodall Harrison baptised January 4th 1852, Laxton* Ann Elizabeth Harrison baptised March 20th 1853, Laxton Sarah Harrison born February 24th 1855, died February 12th 1890 John Harrison born December 4th 1856, baptised January 18th 1857, Laxton Robert Harrison baptised November 27th 1859, Laxton Martha Harrison born October 31st 1862, baptised November 30th 1862, Laxton Mary Hannah Harrison baptised November 12th 1865, Laxton Harriet Harrison baptised March 28th 1868, died April 23rd 1932 Sarah Ann Harrison baptised August 26th 1870, Laxton Charlotte Harrison baptised May 17th 1873, Laxton *this is the only baptism in which Woodall Harrison is referred to as William Woodall Harrison
- 1841c
- Living with family in Laxton David Wainman, 1781 born Yorkshire Elizabeth Wainman 1786 born Yorkshire Ann Wainman, 1841 born Yorkshire David Wainman, 1821, born Yorkshire, Ag. labourer Elizabet h Wainman, born Yorkshire 1836 Hannah Wainman, born Yorkshire 1832 Harriet Wainman 1833 born Yorkshire Mary Wainman, 1816, born Yorkshire, Farm Mary Wainman, 1834, born Yorkshire Sarah Wainman, 1829, born Yorkshire Thomas Wainman, 1821, born Yorkshire, Ag- Labourer Occupation of father: Agricultural labourer
- 1851c
- Living in Front Street, Laxton as House Servant to John and Sarah Hill Also working and living there was Woodall Harrison
- 1851
- Marries Woodall Harrison in Howden Minster
In your grandmother’s words · from her notebook
Family
Parents
The children of David & Elizabeth
Marriage
Children
Life
Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred
1841
Census · 1841
1841
Living with family in Laxton David Wainman, 1781 born Yorkshire Elizabeth Wainman 1786 born Yorkshire Ann Wainman, 1841 born Yorkshire David Wainman, 1821, born Yorkshire, Ag. labourer Elizabet h Wainman, born Yorkshire 1836 Hannah Wainman, born Yorkshire 1832 Harriet Wainman 1833 born Yorkshire Mary Wainman, 1816, born Yorkshire, Farm Mary Wainman, 1834, born Yorkshire Sarah Wainman, 1829, born Yorkshire Thomas Wainman, 1821, born Yorkshire, Ag- Labourer Occupation of father: Agricultural labourer
— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1851
Census · 1851
1851
Front Street, Laxton — John Hill, head, 38, farmer; Sarah Hill, wife, 34; three infant children — Woodle Harrison, farm servant, 21, born Eight & Forty — Harriet Wainman, house servant, 18, born Laxton.— The 1851 census — in service at the Hills'
Confirmed in index record Evidence
Found in an index or transcript — the original page not yet read:
- The 1851 census — in service at the Hills' — HO 107/2358, folio 370, Laxton (read via FamilySearch, 4 July 2026). House servant at eighteen, in the farmhouse where her husband-to-be was farm servant. index entry — original not yet seen
1851
Married Woodall Harrison
6 September 1851 at Howden Minster
Sept. 6th 1851 — Woodal Harrison, of full age, Bachelor, Husbandman, Kilpin, [father] Robert Harrison, Labourer — Harriet Wainman, Minor, Spinster, Laxton, [father] David Wainman, Labourer — married in the Parish Church after Banns. Woodal Harrison's mark ✗ — Harriet Wainman's mark ✗ — in the Presence of: Ann Edmondson, Henry Beck.
— Marriage — Howden Minster (1851)
Sept. 6th 1851 — Woodal Harrison, of full age, Bachelor, Husbandman, Kilpin, [father] Robert Harrison, Labourer — Harriet Wainman, Minor, Spinster, Laxton, [father] David Wainman, Labourer — married in the Parish Church after Banns, by me, Wm Hutchinson, Curate. Woodal Harrison's mark ✗ — Harriet Wainman's mark ✗ — in the Presence of: Ann Edmondson, Henry Beck.
— Marriage — Howden Minster (1851)
Read at the image record Evidence
Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:
- Marriage — Howden Minster (1851) — Howden Minster marriage register, PE 121/22 page 31, entry no. 62 (East Riding Archives; findmypast image ...PE-121-22-VERS-1537-1900/00033), read 4 July 2026. She married at eighteen — "Minor" in the register — six months after the census that put her and Woodall under the Hills' one roof. read at the image
- Marriage — Howden Minster (1851) — Howden Minster marriage register, PE 121/22 page 31, entry no. 62 (East Riding Archives; findmypast image GBPRS/YORKSHIRE/13-0743_GB-YOR_PARISH-REGISTERS-E-PE-121-22-VERS-1537-1900/00033), read 4 July 2026. Every field of Mum's transcription holds — the trade, the minority, the marks, the witnesses. read at the image
1907
Died
25 November 1907
Harrison.—November 25th, at Laxton, the residence [of] her daughter, A. Waldock, Harriett, the beloved wife [of] William Woodall Harrison. Interred Laxton, November 28th, at [3] p.m.— Hull Daily Mail — the death notice (1907)
Read at the image record Evidence
Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:
- Hull Daily Mail — the death notice (1907) — Hull Daily Mail, Wednesday 27 November 1907 (British Newspaper Archive via findmypast), read 4 July 2026 — Mum's transcription confirmed word for word. read at the image
1907
Buried
28 November 1907
No. 431 — Harriet Harrison — Laxton — November 28th 1907 — 74 years — A. A. Slipper (Curate).— Burial — Laxton register (1907)
Read at the image record Evidence
Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:
- Burial — Laxton register (1907) — Laxton burial register, PE 91/4/2 (East Riding Archives; findmypast image ...PE-91-4-2-VERS-1537-1900/00029), read 4 July 2026. read at the image
Our research
The Wainmans of Laxton
Open research · Laxton, Hive & Gilberdyke
- A pass of its own, waiting. Mum's notebook carries the Wainman line onward: David of Hive (1784–1858), Levi (1737–1787), and a William Wainman born about 1693 — seven Wainman pages in all. Unbuilt, and rich.
- Elizabeth Bowler of Gilberdyke. Her mother's surname already stands elsewhere in this archive — the Bowlers appear on the Drewery side of the family too. Coincidence of a local name, or a crossing of lines: unexplored.
- Her baptism register. Laxton, 21 April 1833 — Mum's parish-record reading; the Laxton baptism books are not online and join the Treasure House list.