BEALES, Harriett

1868 - 1946

Harriette Elizabeth Parnall Beales was born at Barton Mills, Mildenhall, Suffolk on 3 October 1868, only daughter of William Beales (1823-2 September 1888), a farmer of Barton Hall, Suffolk, and his wife Sarah James (1842-2 June 1907), youngest daughter of John James of Trehiddion, Llansteffan, Carmarthen, a Trinity pilot, who married at St Stephen's Church, Islington on 1 January 1868. In 1881, Harriett[e] was a 12-year-old scholar, living at Wamhill Street, Mildenhall, with her parents, 57-year-old William and 39-year-old Sarah, who was born at Stepney, London, with Harriett's sibling brother Henry James 1, who was born at Mildenhall, they had another son Walter Gentlemen, born at Mildenhall in 1869. As Miss Beales of Wamill Hall, she exhibited at the Bury St Edmunds Fine Art Society in 1882, she was a junior. On the death of her father in 1888 who was then a clothing manufacturer, they moved to Verandah House, The Street, Worlington, Mildenhall where they were living in 1891. Her mother died at Kent House, 28 Clapham Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk in 1907 when Harriett was a widow. Harriett Elizabeth died at 28 Mayfield Road, Sanderstead, Surrey on 18 February 1946.