Joseph Hardy, Jr.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carpenter

Family/Spouse: Sarah Hardy. Sarah was born about 1844 in _______, _______, England, United Kingdom; died in ? in (unknown). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Hardy was born about 1868 in _______, _______, Massachusetts, United States; died in ? in (unknown).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Book-Binder, Cotton Mill Worker
• Census: 13 Jun 1870, Town of Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States
• Immigration: 1874, _______, _______, _______, United States
• Residence: Mar 1880, Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States
• Naturalization: 8 Mar 1880, Manchester, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, United States
• Census: 9 Jun 1880, Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States
• Residence: Jun 1900, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
• Census: 2 Jun 1900, Ward 2, Boston City, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
• Residence: Sep 1903, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States

Notes:

According to [Fairbanks-1978] Joseph Hardy was living in Hadfield, Derbyshire, England at the time of his marriage to Mary Firth. Hadfield is now considered part of Greater Manchester.

[Fairbanks-1978] mentions that Joseph Hardy died after 1911 in East Boston, but this is contradicted by by Joseph Hardy’s death certificate which lists him as living at a private residence at 30 Jenkins Street in Boston. [NEHGS-1903a] also notes that Joseph Hardy’s usual residence was Lowell, Massachusetts.

Joseph Hardy’s death certificate lists his age as “83 years, 2 months, 12 days”. This produces a calculated birthdate of 19 July 1820.

A second set of 1870 census entries may exist for Joseph Hardy and his second wife, Mary (Firth-Chadwick) Hardy. On 11 Aug 1870, a Joseph and Mary Hardy, both born in England and having correct approximate ages, were enumerated in Ward 5, Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts. It appears that they may have been visiting Joseph’s son (by a previous marriage) and daughter-in-law. Joseph and Mary had already been enumerated in June in Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, the location of the China Mill where Joseph worked with his son-in-law, Samuel Lowe.

During the enumeration of the 1900 US Federal Census, Joseph Hardy is listed as a servant in the household of Mary A. Pendleton in Boston.

Residence:
64 Haynes Street

Residence:
30 Jenkins Street

Buried:
Lowe Family Plot

Joseph + (unknown) Hardy. (unknown) was born in ? in (unknown); died before 1864 in (unknown). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This spouse of Joseph Hardy is inferred from the presence of a grown son, a wife, and a likely grandchild living in the Hardy household in 1870. Since there is no chance the Joseph Hardy Jr. could have been the child of Joseph Hardy and Mary (Firth-Chadwick) Hardy, Joseph Hardy must have been married once before in England before marrying Mary (Firth) Chadwick and emigrating to the United States.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: laborer