9. HARDY-CARLETON

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Alan March’s Family History

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 JOSEPH HARDY and BRIDGET CARLETON (9)

 

JOSEPH HARDY is the second of that name in this Lincolnshire ancestry. We find this farming family in the village of Horbling, on the edge of the Fens.

Baptism. St Andrew, Horbling
1693 Dec 26  Joseph the sonne of Joseph & Elizab Hardie.
His mother was Elizabeth Dexter, from the nearby village of Rippingale.
He was the youngest of five children and the second son.

In 1691, a school was endowed in Horbling by Edward Brown, who also bequeathed a fund for apprenticing children. We do not know whether Joseph benefited from either of these.

 

BRIDGET CARLETON. No baptism has been found for Bridget. She was married in Horbling, but is the first of that surname to appear in the Horbling register. Her baptism is probably in a parish whose registers do not go back to the 17th century or have become unreadable. In the early registers there were many Carletons in the nearby villages of Sempringham, Aslackby and Donington.
Since she married in Horbling, she was very probably living there by then.

 The couple married in 1715, a year after George I took the throne as the first Hanoverian king.

Marriage. St Andrew, Horbling.
1715 Apr 28  Joseph Hardy & Bridget Carleton

We have the baptism of four children in Horbling.

Baptisms. St Andrew, Horbling.
1715/6 Jan 27  Elizabeth
1717 Oct 19  Joseph
1720 May 23  John. He was buried on May 30, aged one week.
1721/2 Feb 3  Mary

In addition, there is believed to be another son Thomas, whose baptism had not been found, but who was of Horbling when he married, and brought up his children there. He named two of them Joseph and Bridget, an uncommon association of names.

One of the features of Horbling is a spring that rises 150 yards (137.2 m) north from the church on Spring Lane. Clear water bubbles up through the rocks. The well is ancient, and may have a been a reason for the village being founded here. It would have been considered a sacred well. The water was used to fill the church font, where the Hardy children were baptised.

In 1711, the village constables paid for the construction of an open cistern around the spring, from which water was fed into three surrounding troughs.

Bridget’s youngest child was still eight when her mother died.

Burial. St Andrew, Horbling.
1730 Dec 26  Bridget wife of Joseph Hardy

It is probably this Joseph Hardy who married again in 1733.

Marriage. St Andrew, Horbling.
1733 Jun 7  Joseph Hardy and Mary Billding

We have not been able to find anything further about Mary Billding.

This second wife also died.

Burial. St Andrew, Horbling.
1735 Oct 8  Mary wife of Joseph Hardy.
She left no children.

There is another marriage in 1759 between Joseph Hardy of Horbling Farmer and Ruth Leek of Horbling spinster. We have been unable to find Ruth’s baptism. This could be a late third marriage for Joseph Hardy senior, or a marriage for his son Joseph. That, too, is problematic, since he would have been 42.

There is a burial for Joseph ten years later.

Burial. St Andrew, Horbling.
1769 Jan 6  Joseph Hardy  Farmer
If we have the right Joseph Hardy, then he was 75.

Ruth, who may or may not be his third wife, died in 1786.

Burial. Horbling.
1786 May 14  Ruth Hardy (B or R)
This following letter occurs against several burials of women around this time, but not elsewhere. It could, perhaps, stand for Relict (widow).

 

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