He travelled mostly around the Hunter Valley, the Shoalhaven, Illawarra, and Bathurst in New South Wales.
They had several children including a son, Robert Carr Harris, who was born in 1843.
All of Robert Carr Harris's sons and two of his nephews were cadets at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
Lorne Carr-Harris was the goalie on the British ice hockey team which won the bronze medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chemoix, France.
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.