Sarah Ann Humpleby (née Bascom)

Daughter of James and Mary Bascom of Barbados. Married Thomas Harris, merchant of Barbados, at St Thomas Church, 28 February 1790. [Shilstone mistakenly gave the year as 1780.] Thomas Harris died 12 April 1803, leaving all his estate to Sarah Ann. She then married John Humpleby, St Michael church, Barbados, 30 May 1805. He died in 1814, leaving the residue of his estate to Sarah Ann who was sole executrix.

According to Olive Inniss, great-niece of Sarah Ann Humpleby, Thomas and Sarah Harris were in France during the Revolution, escaping 'in the costume of French peasants', with Sarah Ann Harris 'in the disguise of a fruit seller'.

She was the founder of the Ladies' Association for the Relief of the Indigent Sick and Infirm.

She died in Barbados 13 June 1850. Under her will various bequests to relatives and to the Ladies' Association with the residue being left to her 'beloved daughter-in-law, Thomasin Humpleby', who had married John Humpleby jun., 1828. Her executors were Thomasin Humpleby, Conrade Adams Howell and her nephew, Joseph Straghan Bascom.

E. M. Shilstone, 'John and Sarah Ann Humpleby' in James C. Brandow (comp.), Genealogies of Barbados families: from Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society (1983), pp. 360-63; marriage to Harris: Caribbean Marriages, 1591-1905, FamilySearch.