Career
He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1825 and returned to London, England in 1841. He had numerous jobs including a soldier, clerk, a tutor and a timber-getter. He travelled mostly around the Hunter Region, the Shoalhaven, Illawarra and Bathurst in New South Wales.
In 1851 he emigrated to the United States.
He emigrated to Berlin, Ontario on the outbreak of the United States. civil war in 1861 and died in Copetown, Ontario on 1 February, 1874. Alexander Harris married Ursula Carr.
They had several children including a son, Robert Carr Harris, who was born in 1843. Alexander Harris" grandson Grant Carr-Harris wrote the biography "The secrets of Alexander Harris" in 1961.
Grant Carr-Harris also wrote "Carr-Harris - history & genealogy" (Toronto 1966).
Captain Ernest Dale Carr-Harris R.E., who died on 3 November 1914 at 36 years of age, was commemorated on page 565 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.