Harriet Ann Heron (née Buttress, c. 1836 – 28 October 1933) was an early settler and business owner in Central Otago, New Zealand, and one of the few women who lived in gold mining camps during the Otago gold rush.
Bowbyes drowned at Timaru in 1860, and in the following year she married Henry Heron and moved to Dunedin.
[1] Heron and her husband initially lived in Tuapeka, where they ran a butcher's shop.
For some time she ran the store single-handed as her husband went to Wetherstones to work on a gold mine, and then to the Clutha River area.
Heron sold the business and joined her husband at the mining site, located at Fourteen Mile Beach.