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Harris's all over the place. I am particularly interested in my grandfather - my father William Oliver Harris, known as Olly. Down in the family tree as the 'child with the withered arm'. His father was 'Teddy' - the 'Wild One' of the Harris bunch, on this line of the tree. Have found some relatives in Kent, know there are others in Ipswich and over the South of England. Teddy Harris was apparently injured on a Merchant Ship in the second world war and died after being put ashore in Liverpool. My father won't really talk about his past, it actually sounds pretty horrific. Once to try and get maintenence from Teddy, his mother Hannah had to go to the workhouse for two weeks and work in the laundry. My father remembers being put in the men's quarters with all the tramps etc., where the men had to stoke the boilers to keep the laundry fires burning. He must have been about 4 years old then, but insists that if a child was weaned, it was taken from its' mother and placed in the men's quarters. His mother, Hannah later died from TB. He did not find out about this father's death for two years.