GeneralSaid to be of Baraset, Alveston, Warks.
Spouses
ChildrenHenry (1794-1862)
Notes for William Harding
The following Hardings were all the children of William and Harriet and baptised within 100 miles from Warwickshire:
Name Bapt date Bapt Place Birth date
William Harding 12 Mar 1786 Britwell Salome, Oxon
Hannah Harding 30 Sep 1787 Britwell Salome, Oxon
John Harding 9 Aug 1789 Britwell Salome, Oxon
Harriet Maria Harding 30 May 1790 St Edmund, West Kingsdown, Kent
Catharine Harding 10 Nov 1791 Hampton Lucy, Warks
Charles Harding 10 Nov 1792 Hampton Lucy, Warks
Charles Harding 14 Sep 1793 Hampton Lucy, Warks
Henry Harding 2 Nov 1794 Hampton Lucy, Warks
John Harding 17 Nov 1795 Hampton Lucy, Warks
Harriet Harding 21 Nov 1796 Hampton Lucy, Warks
Elizabeth Octavia Harding 9 Apr 1798 Hampton Lucy, Warks
Francis Harding 8 Aug 1800 Hampton Lucy, Warks 28 Apr 1799
Jane Harding 20 Oct 1801 Alveston, Warks 27 Sep 1801
Edward Harding 23 Feb 1803 Alveston, Warks 22 Nov 1802
Edward Harding 13 Sep 1804 Alveston, Warks
Sophia Harding 19 Jan 1908 Alveston, Warks
Sophia Harding 23 Jun 1810 Alveston, Warks
These all look like being members of the one family, though with a house move around 1801.
From the will of Henry Harding it seems that his eldest brother was in fact named William Judd Harding. It sounds as if William Judd was shildless or son-less and that the next brothers, John, Charles and Charles had all died or also had no children as Henry harding was expecting his son William to inherit Baraset, which he did but then sold (because he could not afford to run it?).
Additionally there was a Charles born in 1812 in London to a William-Davis and Harriet Harding and an unnamed child in 1813 in Gloucester but to William and Harriet Harding.
25 years of child rearing.
From the repeated use of some of the forenames, it looks like there were a few infant deaths for John, Charles, Harriet, Edward, and Sophia. These are more difficult to nail down as Harding is relatively common as a surname so I searched on in the above baptism locations plus five miles around, but no such deaths could be found.
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He is reported to have been of Baraset, Alveston, Warks and certain this address appears in records for his descendants. Assuming this was correct for him this make it far easier to identify his birth family.
Further his father is said to have been Judd Harding. From this there are two births of William Hardings with a father of Judd Harding:
Bapt date Bapt place Mother's forename
14 Apr 1754 Deritend and Bordesley, Warks Sarah
22 Feb 1759 Tanworth in Arden, Warks Elizabeth
So: Did Judd have two marriages?
Not that I can see: there was one, his father's?, in 1724 to Rebecca Townsend and another in 1753 to Elizabeth Hunt. Judd might still have been the father of the first William. There was only one Judd baptism from 1715 to 1735, and that was on 17 Mar 1726 and his father was another Judd, very probably the man who married in 1724.
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Assuming that Elizsbeth was the wife of Judd and the mother of William who married Harriet Sweedland, the siblings of Judd can be located. They are listed in the Notes for William's presumed father, Judd.
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Notes for William & Harriet (Family)
From "A copy of the Register of Marriages, Baptisms and Burials for the Town of Calcutta in Bengal during the year of our Lord 1784:
November 1784
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7th(?) Mr William Harding Factor in the honble company's Service & Miss Harriet Sweedland.
(transcribed by me from a somewhat illegible image of a register.)
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