General Notes

Matthew was born probably in Uldale between 1577 and 1590, but probably well before 1590 as he was apparently of legal age by 1611, as noted below. Date and place of his death are unknown.'The name of his wife has not been found.
Matthew first appears on the Uldale manorial tenants' list of 1611. He was an adult when he was listed with his father and uncle John Harriman on the lists of 1611 and 6 September 1612; he also served as a juror for these years, indicating he was then a copyhold tenant. He next appears on the tenants' list in February 1615, and again served as juror.The manorial records are sporadic after 1615 and Matthew is not found in them there-after. In his father's will of 5 October1612 Matthew and his stepmother, Janet Harriman, were named executors of his father's estate. As Leonaid's only apparent surviving child, Matthew would likely inherit the copyhold tenancy formerly held by his fathet and grandfather. He was undoubtedly the Matthew Harryman who owed money to the estate of Janet Harriman in 1613/14, as noted above.
Parish registers for Uldale do not exist for this period, preventing certain identification of Matthew's wife and children. No will or inventory his been found for him or his wife in the records of the Consistory Court of Carlisle. The records of intestate estates after 1608 and most inventories after 1620 are missing for this court, as are the act books prior to 1665. No Harrimans were found in the earliest extant Uldale parish register,dated I642-1698, suggesting Matthew and/or his wife died or lift Uldale befor 1642.

Missing parish registers and probate records prevent identifying Leonard and John Harriman of New England as sons of Matthew Harriman with certainty. However, as has been shown, of the children of Matthew and Isabel (Shepard) Herryman only Leonard and his brother John Harryman were found in the later records of Uldile. John Harriman by his will confirmed he had no children, leaving Leanords son Matthew as the only surviving child of the third generation. Therefore Matthew is the only possible candidate among the Uldale Harrimans to be the father of Leonard and John. Onomastic evidence- the repetition of the names Matthew, Leonard, and John in the New England Harriman families- supports this conclusion.
Leonard named his first son John and his second son Matthew. John had only two children- a son John and a daughter Elizabeth. His son John named a son Leonard, and his daughter Elizabeth had a grandson named Leonard- a Christon name quite uncommon in New England. Thus it is concluded that Leonard and John were probably the children of Matthew Harriman of Uldale. Source: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 150: Jan 1996.