A photograph of three generations of Harrisons taken in 1914 prompts a look at my father’s family who may have lived in Oxfordshire for a very long time. Let’s start with the gentleman with the beard, that’s Nathaniel Harrison my great grandfather, an Oxford man. Town not gown. I can see my father in Nathaniel’s face as he looks out at us from the past, with his wife Maria Francis by his side and his eldest son, my grandfather in the boater, Nathaniel William and his family on his right. Born in 1836, Nathaniel with the beard worked as a rent collector and clerk, then a coal merchant and finally a chiropodist. He lived with his wife Maria Francis in Pembroke Street, Cowley where...
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