Born: 6 April 1851
Father: Christian Asquith Mother: Susannah Asquith nee Smith

Married: Wong Gye 6 May, 1869 (Melbourne, Australia)

Children: Henry Walter WONG GYE, Albert Ernest WONG GYE, Arthur WONG GYE, Charles StPatrick WONG GYE, Elizabeth Emma WONG GYE, William WONG GYE, Susan WONG GYE, George WONG GYE, Robert WONG GYE, Edmund Evelyn WONG GYE, Ethel Rose WONG GYE, Amy Iris WONG GYE, Francis Gordon WONG GYE, Amelia Harriet (Milly) WONG GYE

Died: 6th September,1931

The youngest of 14 children (though there is some suggestion that Susan and Christian had up to 22 children), Harriet Asquith was born and raised at 50 Wellington Street, Richmond, Melbourne. Her father, Christian and her mother, Susannah, were both transported convicts who settled in the 1840's in Melbourne after being freed in Hobart. Harriet was only six when her father died and was raised by her mother. Her occupation at the time of her marriage was listed as 'needlewoman'.

Harriet was 18 when she married Wong Ah Gye, an older, educated Chinese man. Her older sister, Elizabeth, also married a Chinese man, Ah Yet, eight years later. It would have been highly unusual for white women to marry Chinese men at this time and Harriet and Wong must have endured no small amount of prejudice. They subsequently emigrated to New Zealand where they settled in Clyde, Otago.

Harriet would have had little time for anything more than raising her family which was large. She appears to have lived a quiet and respectable life and died in 1931 at the age of 80.

There is no evidence that she was a spiritual woman.