Richard Hardy (abt. 1577 - abt. 1645)

Born about 1577 in Wetwang, East Riding, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Wilson) Hardy — married 1602 in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died about 1645 at about age 68 in Isle of Wight, Virginia

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Biography

Richard was born in 1567 at Wetwang, Driffield, East Riding, Yorkshire, England^[1]

He was the son of Michael Hardy b 1530 and Alice Shelton (Allison Skelton), daughter of Matthew Skelton. He was called Richard Hardy of Hounslow Beacon. The correct spelling of Hunslow is Hounslow. Richard was seated in Hounslow, Greater London. Hounslow is a borough of Greater London.

Family

Richard married Alice Wilson, the daughter of Robert Wilson (d 1622) in 1602 at Yorkshire, England. ^{[citation needed]}

1. Alice Elizabeth Hardy ^{[citation needed]}
2. George Hardy
3. Mary Hardy ^{[citation needed]}
4. John Hardy
5. Jacquette Hardy ^{[citation needed]}

Marriage Note

There is a marriage registered for Richard Hardy & Isabell Wilson.

Citation: West Yorkshire Archives Service

Ref: D5/1

January 30, 1599

St. Peters Church. Birstall, Yorkshire.

The church is 54 miles from Wetwang.

Isabell married Richard Hardy on 30 January 1599 in Birstall, St Peter, Yorkshire, England.^[2] Browning-5288 18:44, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Research Note

None of the pedigrees that John S. Wurts, (Magna Charta, Brookfield Publishing Company), references come with any annotations, footnotes, or endnotes. Richard's children, except John and his brother George, are from John S. Wurts pedigree in Wurts Vol VII pp.2133-37 which contains many errors and confusion and uncertainties. Their profiles (Alice, Mary, Jacquette, Michael) have no sources.

Place of residence - Richard is said to be of Hunslow Beacon, Yorkshire, (com. Eborum) in the family pedigree in Dugdale's Visitations. This is an alternate spelling of Hunsley Beacon in the parish of Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, about 20 miles from Wetwang where he was born. The main landowner and lord of the manor was John Northend.^[3] The spelling Hunslow is occasionally used in the Rowley register e.g. burial of Susannah wife of Richard Hardy of Hunslow 18 October 1669^[4] The following year there is the burial of Richard Hardy of Hunsley, aged 83 years, on 17 November 1670, so born about 1587.^[5] Possibly this Richard?

Sources

1. ↑ The visitation of the county of Yorke, begun in a Dni MDCLXV. and finished a Dni MDCLXVI Author: William Dugdale. Publisher: Durham Pub. for the Society by G. Andrews 1859. Page: 68.
2. ↑ Marriage: "West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812"
   West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: WDP5/1/1/1
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2256 #21493252 (accessed 18 November 2021)
   Isabell Wilson marriage to Richard Hardy on 30 Jan 1599 in Birstall, St Peter, Yorkshire, England.
3. ↑ Gleanings from English records about New England families, page 85, https://archive.org/details/gleaningsfromeng00emme/page/n185
4. ↑ Yorkshire Burials, Find my Past, East Riding Archives & Local Studies Service Archive reference PE 62/2 https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FYORKSHIRE%2FBUR%2F204416881
5. ↑ Yorkshire Burials, find my Past, Rowley, East Riding Archives & Local Studies Service Archive reference PE 62/2, https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FYORKSHIRE%2FBUR%2F204416894

• Visitation of Yorkshire, Hardy of Wetwang

• https://archive.org/stream/dugdalesvisitati03dugd_0#page/428/mode/2up/search/hardy

• Historical Southern Families. Volume IV

• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Online publication - Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188621536/richard-hardy: accessed 23 December 2022), memorial page for Richard Hardy (1577–1645), Find a Grave Memorial ID 188621536, citing St. Luke's Cemetery, Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA; Maintained by John Wilhite (contributor 48140210).

• "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHXZ-PHW : 21 September 2022), Richard Hardy in entry for Alice, 14 Feb 1669; Burial; citing , p. , Warwick County Record Office, England; FHL microfilm 549,656.