John Hardick

GEDCOM Note

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FAMILY HISTORY of the Hardick Family

John was born between 1824 and 1828 in Bath. He left home before 1851 and started work as a labourer, moving to Lower Dover Street in Walcot where he was sharing the house with a widowed laundress called Elizabeth Dew aged 29, also a Bathonian. Later in 1851 he married Elizabeth in the church of St Swithins in the Paragon in Bath.

According to the 1861 census, when they were living at 7 Princes Buildings, Lyncombe & Widcombe they had a 13 year old daughter called Ann, but she does not appear on the 1851 census and there is no record of her birth in either the local or GRO registers. Ann does not seem to be recorded in later censuses either. Elizabeth died early in 1862 and John remarried that same year to Amelia Hendy, born 1821 in Bath.

They had moved to 3 St George's Place, Lyncombe & Widcombe by the time of the next census with John still working as a labourer and Amelia's occupation was recorded as laundress. Also in the household was James Hendy, nephew of John. Therewas at least one more change of address before the 1881 census to 5 Charles's Place, Lyncombe & Widcombe and John was a mason's labourer, with Amelia still taking in washing to help with the household finances. There was an entry in a directory for 1885 showing John, a labourer, living at 4 Charles Place, Dolemeads, Bath, next door to their last recorded address.