John Harmer Coe was born in 1807 in Spixworth and was the son of John Coe (1768) and Catherine Everett. He married and died before 1838. He had at least one daughter: Emily (1829).

Sources
• 1. Norfolk Transcription Archive. Births (Parish Registers): Spixworth, 1807, John Harmer Coe. Father: John. Mother: Catharine, late Catharine Everett.