Their first daughter Elizabeth Ann died in childbirth in Dec 1932.  This was followed four years later by her husband, leaving the three grandchildren as orphans in 1936.

William’s son-in-law died in Boston, so he probably took his family back there from Beaminster where he had been living.  If so, who might have looked after the children on his death?  Possibly one of his wife’s siblings or his mother-in-law Fanny Maidens, though by 1939, William Maidens was a widow and living in a workhouse.

Anyhow William and Fanny’s children were

Name              Birth         Married to                 Marriage date      Marr District

Elizabeth Ann     Q1 of 1910    Theo Harding               1928               Boston

Jonathan W        Q1 of 1912    ELSIE DAUBNEY              Q3 of 1943         Spilsby

Eliza E           Q4 of 1913    Poss Frederick W Beddall   Q1 of 1940         Luton

James W           Q2 of 1915    Elsie J Smith              Q4 of 1939         Boston

Violet E          Q3 of 1919

Margaret J        Q1 of 1923

Hilda J           Q4 of 1926    Walter T Morton            Q1 of 1937         Boston

But none of this leads to any Harding or other household that is recognisable.

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His probable death index:

First name(s) WILLIAM
Last name MAIDENS
Gender Male
Birth day -
Birth month -
Birth year 1881
Age 82
Death quarter 3
Death year 1963
District BOSTON
County Lincolnshire
Volume 3B
Page 18
Country England
Record set England & Wales deaths 1837-2007
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Their marriage index:

First name(s) WILLIAM
Last name MAIDENS
Marriage quarter 2
Marriage year 1909
Registration month -
MarriageFinder™ WILLIAM MAIDENS married
FANNY GARWELL
District BOSTON
District number -
County Lincolnshire
Country England
Volume 7A
Page 986
Record set England & Wales marriages 1837-2008
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