On the 1881 census Harriet's mother Elizabeth, with a grandson Edward S Alcock, is listed as head of a separate household to the couple and their children at number 37 Navarino Road in Hackney. Harry and Harriet started their married life in what may have been the Alcock family home. Witnesses to the marriage of Harry and Harriet Witnesses to their marriage were his father and his brother-in law. Harry married his brother-in-law, Stephen Stiles Alcock's, sister, Harriet Alcock on the 24th July 1876 at St John the Baptist Church in Islington. Annie's middle name from her mother and Harry's and his mother's middle name from his maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Coleman. Harry's sister Marion's middle name appears to have come from her paternal grandmother, Susanna Ring. It appears to have been a tradition when naming children within the Richardson families to use maiden surnames of previous generations. The 1861, 18 census for his parents show that Harry was one of at least six children his known siblings were Florence Ellen Richardson, Marion Ring Richardson, Annie Boys Richardson, George Clarke Richardson and Edith Constance Richardson. He was the son of George Cavendish Richardson and Ellen Coleman Boys. Harry Coleman Richardson was born in 1852 in London, England.
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