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View Full size image	Title: Research Note: Rooms of Benares Identifier: 2005.1.123.13 Donor: Geoffrey and Kathleen Sayers Item Date: 1970-1975 Creation Date: 2011 Location: Benares Historic House
Conditions of Use: See Terms of Use & Privacy Statement. Description: A piece of paper containing typewritten information about the rooms in Benares: the kitchen, upstairs folding doors, and the privy. Hand printing in uppercase letters in blue ink mentions prayers and scripture reading daily after breakfast. Use of the back kitchen as a ballroom is mentioned. The reverse is page of copied, typed information about how insurance rates are determined. The paper left edge is ragged from being torn. This item is part of a box of original papers, transcripts, research notes, and newspaper clippings compiled and transcribed by Geoffrey and Kathleen Sayers between 1970-1975. The notes and transcripts were written on the backs of papers related to Geoffrey’s job in Insurance. Geoffrey's great grandfather Captain James Beveridge Harris purchased Benares in 1837. Captain Harris and his wife Elizabeth (nee Molony) had 8 children but only one surviving son; Arthur, who inherited the house and property. Arthur and his wife Mary (nee Magrath) had two daughters, Annie and Naomi. While Naomi spent her entire unwed life at Benares, Annie was married to Beverley Sayers. Their three children, Geoffrey Harris Sayers, Dora Sayers Caro and Barbara Sayers Larson, donated the home and many of the original furnishing to the Ontario Heritage Foundation (now Ontario Heritage Trust, or OHT) upon the death of their aunt, Naomi Harris in 1968. It was restored and fully furnished with Harris Family items and opened to the public in 1995. Copyright: Museums of Mississauga Rights & Permissions: Museums of Mississauga Related Links:    Museums of Mississauga Home Page    Virtual Museum of Canada    Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)