The death of Harriet Lilian Alwynna Barrett (daughter of Joseph and Harriet Lyall of UK), wife of Francis Cecil Barrett, is recorded in hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) on 5 April 1955, at the age of 60. Her residence was given as 5 Rochester Road, Malindela (today Marindera) and her adult children were named as Francis Cecil Barrett; Harriet Margaret Volk (nee Barrett); and Peter Wilson Barrett. Source: Zimbabwe Death Notice 486/55.
Harriet was born in Gateshead in early 1889 to Joseph Lyall and Harriet Stephenson (nee Wilson), who had married in early 1888. The family appears in the UK up to the 1901 census and then seems to disappear from the UK, and there is no trace of the marriage of Harriet Lilian to Francis Cecil Barrett.
Joseph and Harriett emigrated to Rhodesia on 21 May 1926, on board the Kenilworth Castle.