Birth: Circa 1862 England, UK
Father: Harry Hardy c1842-a1880
Mother: Mary ? c1844-a1880
Marriage: 1885 Illinois, USA
Wife: Maud (Maude) Maltby 1867-1952
Death: 26 April 1954 Spring Valley, Bureau, Illinois, USA
Buried: Miller Cemetery, Spring Valley, Bureau, Illinois, USA
Ella Hardy [Mills] 1886-1970
Edna M Hardy 1887-1983
Florence Elizabeth Hardy [Moore] 1889-1992
Nettie Fay Hardy [Pfeiffer] 1892-1980
Leona Blanche Hardy [Kent] 1895-1989
Bernice Aurel Hardy 1897-1906
William Clifford Maltby Hardy 1899-1976
Lyda L Hardy [Bungey] 1904-1991
Although born in England I cannot find him or his family in the 1861 and 1871 censuses.
In the 1880 census as William Hardy aged 15, born in England, and living with his parents (Harry and Mary), brother (Harry), and four sisters (Anna, Lilly, May and Nellie) in Baker Avenue, Joliet, Will, Illinois.
His first daughter was born 20 February 1886 in Illinois, second on 29 November in South Dakota in 1887, third on 7 December 1889 in raceville, Grundy, Illinois, fourth in 1892 in Spring Valley, Illinois, fifth on 13 SEptember 1895 in Illinois, sixth in May 1897 in Illinois, and son on 29 October 1899 in Spring Valley.
In the 1900 census as William Hardy aged 38, born in England in February 1862, married in 1885 with seven children all living, and a deputy sherriff living with his wife (Maud), son (William C), and six daughters (Burnice, Edna, Ella, Florence, Leona, and Nettie) in Cleveland Street, Hall, Bureau, Illinois.
His daughter was born on 9 December 1904 in Bureau, Illinois.
In the 1910 census as William Hardy aged 48, born in England, immigrated in 1880, married for 24 years, a post master for US Mail, and living with his wife (Maude), son (William), six daughters (Edna, Ella Mills (married), Florence, Leona, Lyda and Nettie) in an owned house in Spring Valley Ward 5, Bureau, Illinois.
In the 1920 census as William Hardy aged 55, born in England, immigrated in 1880, naturalised in 1893, a post police?, and living with his wife (Maude), son (William C) and two daughters (Edna M and Lydia L) in a rented house at 815 Newport Avenue, Chicago Ward 23, Cook (Chicago), Illinois.
I cannot find him in the 1930 census, but his wife was married and living with her daughter Leona Kent and family in Chicago. In the 1940 census his wife was widowed.
However there are two entries in Find A Grave, one for William A Hardy born in 1860 and died in 1954, buried in Miller Cemetery, Spring Valley, Bureau, Illinois, USA, "Father/William A Hardy/1860 1954", and another for Maude Maltby Hardy born in 1867 and died in 1932, also buried in Miller Cemetery, Spring Valley, Bureau, Illinois, USA, "Mother/Maude Maltby Hardy/1867 1952",
There are thirty entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William A Hardy.
William A Hardy was the father of Lyda L Hardy, wife of Herbert Horace Bungey, grandson of Caroline Fox, wife of Alfred Luff, my half first cousin twice removed.
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