This is my Harman family, from Sussex. I would be interested to know from where the name "Sargent" originated. Perhaps there was a great patriarch who founded the family, or perhaps there was a female Sargent who ensured the name was perpetuated by her descendants.

I have an admittedly distant claim to fame with this family which comes from Martin Coles Harman, my 4th cousin.

In 1925 he bought Lundy Island which is a tiny island in the Bristol Channel. Martin Coles Harman was a 'character' who firmly believed that Lundy was a self-governing dominion of the British Empire recognising King George as its head. He printed Lundy stamps and issued Lundy coins with his own head on them.

Descendants of Sargent Harman

Generation No. 1

1. SARGENT 1 HARMAN was born 1697, and died September 1776 in Southover, Lewes. He married JOANNA PLAW 25 November 1722 in St.Nicholas Brighton.

Child of SARGENT HARMAN and JOANNA PLAW was:

2. i. SARGENT 2 HARMAN, b. 1723.

Generation No. 2

2. SARGENT 2 HARMAN (SARGENT 1) was born 1723. He married MARY CHEAL 26 December 1755 in St. John the Baptist Church, Lewes.

Child of SARGENT HARMAN and MARY CHEAL was:

3. i. SARGENT 3 HARMAN, b. 1756.

Generation No. 3

3. SARGENT 3 HARMAN (SARGENT 2, SARGENT 1) was born 1756. He married MARY HOWELL 12 March 1780 in St Nicholas Brighton.

Children of SARGENT HARMAN and MARY HOWELL were:

4. i. SARAH 4 HARMAN, b. 31 January 1790, Brighton; d. 11 April 1846, West Ham.

5. ii. SARGENT HARMAN, b. 06 November 1783, Countess of Huntingdon Chapel, Brighton

Generation No. 4

4. SARAH 4 HARMAN (SARGENT 3, SARGENT 2, SARGENT 1) was born 31 January 1790 in Brighton, and died 11 April 1846 in West Ham, of bronchitis. She married THOMAS SHALES 28 September 1819 in St. Nicholas Church Brighton. He was born 1784, and died 23 January 1838 in Stratford, of diseased liver. Children of SARAH HARMAN and THOMAS SHALES are on the Shales family page.

5. SARGENT 4 HARMAN (SARGENT 3, SARGENT 2, SARGENT 1) was born 06 November 1783 in Countess of Huntingdon Chapel, Brighton. He married SALLY SAUNDERS 17 December 1804 in St Nicholas Brighton.

Child of SARGENT HARMAN and SALLY SAUNDERS was:

i. SARGENT 5 HARMAN, b. 17 June 1809, Countess of Huntingdon Chapel, Brighton; d. December 1846, Lewes; m. MARY TERRY, 23 October 1826, Litlington.