Emma Oaten (1840-)

Biography
Emma OATEN was born 2nd August 1840 at East Reach, Taunton. On 5th November 1859, at the Church of St. Michael, Bristol, she married William HARRIS, a shoemaker by trade. Following the example of her sister Eliza, Emma, her husband William and their daughter Helena Anne, then aged three years, decided that the U.S.A. would offer better opportunities. They sailed from Liverpool on the “Alexander Marshall” and arrived in New York on 17th July 1868. The family settled in Nashville. Tennessee, where in 1872, their son Frederick was born.

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