Helen's birth was registered in the September quarter of 1879 in the Tenbury district of Shropshire, England. The mother's maiden surname is recorded as Jones.[1]
In the England 1881 census, Helen, 2, is with her mother Jemima (Jones) Hardwick, visiting the Caldwell family in Hopton Wafers, Shropshire, England. [2]
Helen married Jim Gardner on 18 Feb 1897 in Los Angeles, California, United States.[3]
In the 1900 USA census. they are on Catalina Island, where Jim, 36, was a Boatman. Their son Charles Hurst Gardner, age 3, born in Tent City, Avalon, Catalina, is there with them. The census gives Helen's year of immigration to the USA as 1881. [4]
Helen Gardner died on the 15th of February 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA. The death record gives her date of birth as the 30th of June 1879. [5]
Sources
↑ GRO reference: Hardwick, Helen, 1879, Sept Quarter, Tenbury, Vol. 06c. Page 268. Mother's maiden surname: Jones. GRO index online
↑ "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27J-555T : 13 December 2017), Helen Hardwick in household of Thomas Caldwell, Hopton Wafers, Shropshire, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 17, Piece/Folio 2626/59, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,911.
↑ "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL7X-VJQ : 8 December 2017), James T B M Gardner and Helen Hardwick, 18 Feb 1897; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 1,033,144.
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9PK-5PC : accessed 20 December 2018), Helen Gardner in household of James T B M Gardner, Catalina Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 101, sheet 4A, family 127, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,091.
↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP4D-FL9 : 26 November 2014), Helen Gardner, 15 Feb 1964; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
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