HARDY family to New York 1890 - 1893 (COMPLETED)

[shellyesq]

The actual image says the cause of death was "consumption of the lungs and bowels."

[Foffie]

Thanks so much for this information - it's the last piece of the puzzle for me! 

I'm also grateful to Paul who first posted the information about the family moving to the US.  Without these details, I doubt I would have found out where and how William Hardy died. 

Foffie 

[atlantikman]

Hello All,

Yes that appears to be him - Telegraph Operator and Signalman are both occupations related to the Railways - I found this link to a pdf which would explain much:

http://home.mindspring.com/~railroadstories/scrapbook/popular/19091100mistakes.pdf

William's first marriage to Margaret Turner ended when she appears to have died soon after childbirth.  Their first child Ann Hardy was born in 1880; their ?second? child Margaret Turner Hardy (note the mother's maiden name) was born/died in JFM 1883.  Soon after I find in the indexes a Margaret Hardy died in AMJ 1883. So he married again about a year later.  I will probably order his first marriage Cert soon, just to see if it mentions his father's name!

Best wishes and many thanks.
Paul.

[Webbley]

Thank you all for the information given on this thread.

William Hardy is my 3rd Great Grandfather. Like others I was stuck until finding out he passed away in the US. I am really struggling to get any information on Ann Hardy his mother etc so if anyone would be so kind as to help me with this, I would really appreciate it.

[Foffie]

Hi Webbley

Just read your post re William Hardy.  Like you, I have tried to find out about his mother, Ann, but without much success.  Apart from what seems to be her baptism in Usworth, Co Durham at the beginning of 1837, and being mentioned on William’s birth certificate, the only other references I can find to her are on three census returns:

•   1841 – 4 years old living with her parents and siblings in Washington, Co Durham.
•   1851 – 14 years old living with her mother, step-father and various siblings in Hetton Le Hole, Co Durham.
•   1861 – 24 years old (unmarried) living in Usworth, Co Durham with her mother, step-father and others, including her 3-year-old son, William Hardy, and 9-month-old Elizabeth Hardy – her daughter perhaps? 

She seems to disappear from later censuses but I haven’t been able to ascertain whether this was due to death or a change of surname as a result of marriage.  As the family was living in the Chester Le Street area of Co Durham at the time of the 1861 census, I tried searching for her death in that region between 1861 and 1871.  This yielded two Ann Hardy deaths registered in Chester Le Street but the death certificates are those of a 9-year-old and a baby of a few months – so, not our Ann Hardy!