Harriett was born on the 6th of June, 1886 in the tiny community known as Waaia, on the outskirts of Nathalia, Victoria, Australia.

Her father, James Henry Tuckett is the youngest of eleven children born to immigrant ancestors, George Richard Tuckett and Harriet Wyatt.

Her grandfather, George Tuckett was born in 1808 at Widecombe on the Moor, Devon, England. George and Harriet Wyatt married at Harberton, Devon in 1829. They immigrated to Sydney Australia in 1841 with their six children.

Spending ten years in and around N.S.W, they moved to Northern Victoria, Australia in the Donelly District -  a new and rich gold mining area. Their family had increased, with five more children being born in Australia.

George was an agriculturist. He grew up on the family farm in England and as such he was an experienced farmer He died at the age of sixty-nine on the 21st of January, 1877 in Echuca, Victoria. George and his wife, Harriet are both buried in Moama, which is located next to Echuca, but is over the state border into New South Wales. 

The marriage of Edmund, son of Mr. And Mrs. R Trewin of Tallygaroopna, Victoria: and Harriet, third daughter of Mr and Mrs Tuckett of Waaia, took place in the drawing-room at ‘Claremont’, Waaia, on Thursday, the 22nd June, 1905. The Rev. G. Gladstone, Incumbent of the Holy Trinity Church, Nathalia, performed the ceremony. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a handsome trained gown of ivory silk. The full skirt fell in folds and had a ruched flounce at the foot. It was beautifully trimmed with narrow, satin ribbon chiffon ruching. It was also finished off with cream ribbon and accordion-pleated chiffon ruching. Harriet wore an exquisite wreath veil and carried a shower bouquet. She also wore a gold watch and chain - a gift from the bridegroom. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Edie Tuckett and Miss Trewin, sister of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids wore dresses of blue silk voile, trimmed with cream satin and handsome twine lace. They wore black picture hats and gold daggers, a gift from the bridegroom. The bride’s traveling dress was a pretty blue coating cloth, trimmed with accordion-pleated glase silk and a blue braid, a stylish hat and shaded blue chiffon with shaded blue plumes, and a set of sable furs - the gift of her mother.

Harriett and Edmund had five children: James Richard Stanley (1906); Reginald Edmund (1908); Erica Daphne (1922), Lloyd George (1925), Gordon Wilfred (1928). The family moved to Greenthorpe, NSW where they had a small farm. Edmund worked as the local blacksmith. Three years after their youngest, Gordon was born, Edmund died from Bowel Cancer. This was in 1931.