John Harding

1744 - 1798  (~ 54 years)

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• Name	John Harding
  Gender	Male
  Christened	21 Oct 1744	West Dean, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  	John's parents are given as John & Dinah in the WFHS transcript, however he fits naturally into the sequence of children of John & Sabina, and there is no indication that there is more than one Harding family in West Dean at this time. Possibly the entry really says Binah, as a shortened form of Sabina.
  Buried	22 Nov 1798	Beaulieu, Hampshire, England   [2]
  Person ID	I3008	Richard's Genealogy
  Last Modified	20 May 2018

  
  

  Father	John Harding,   bp. 16 Mar 1717/18, Cholderton, Wiltshire, England
  Mother	Sabina Williams,   bp. 19 Jul 1721, Pitton and Farley, Wiltshire, England ,   bur. 25 Aug 1786, East Tytherley, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Married	7 Oct 1742	Winterslow, Wiltshire, England   [1, 3]
  	The marriage licence was granted on 5 Oct 1742 for a marriage in West Dean or Winterslow. The groom was a batcher, aged 25, a thresher of West Dean; the bride was a spinster, aged 21 of West Dean. [3]
  Siblings	10 siblings
  1. Sabina Harding,   bp. 6 Mar 1742/43, West Dean, Wiltshire, England ,   bur. 18 Jan 1779, Mottisfont, Hampshire, England 2. John Harding,   bp. 21 Oct 1744, West Dean, Wiltshire, England ,   bur. 22 Nov 1798, Beaulieu, Hampshire, England 3. Thomas Harding,   bp. 10 Aug 1746, West Dean, Wiltshire, England 4. Daniel Harding,   bp. 20 Mar 1747/48, West Dean, Wiltshire, England 5. Robert Harding,   bp. 11 Jan 1749/50, West Dean, Wiltshire, England 6. Alexander Harding,   bp. 29 May 1752, West Dean, Wiltshire, England 7. Mary Harding,   bp. 6 Oct 1754, West Dean, Wiltshire, England 8. Elizabeth Harding,   bp. 19 Sep 1756, West Dean, Wiltshire, England ,   bur. 29 Aug 1824, East Dean, Hampshire, England 9. Lydia Harding,   bp. 18 Oct 1758, West Dean, Wiltshire, England 10. Hannah Harding,   bp. 1 Jan 1761, West Dean, Wiltshire, England 11. Jonas Harding,   bp. 24 Jun 1764, West Dean, Wiltshire, England
  Family ID	F833	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary White,   b. Est 1745,   bur. 11 Jun 1785, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England  (Age ~ 40 years)
  Married	10 Apr 1779	Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  	The WFHS transcript gives John's abode as "Out of Wiltshire" and adds a note saying "John is of East Dean". Mary was a "spinster of this parish".
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Harding,   bp. 26 Dec 1780, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England ,   bur. 27 Jul 1862, Hamworthy, Dorset, England  (Age ~ 81 years) + 2. William Harding,   bp. 20 May 1782, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England ,   bur. 7 Mar 1860, East Boldre, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 77 years)
  Last Modified	20 May 2018
  Family ID	F832	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Peckham,   b. Abt 1746,   bur. 14 Dec 1817, Beaulieu, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 71 years)
  Married	14 Nov 1790	Beaulieu, Hampshire, England   [4]
  Last Modified	20 May 2018
  Family ID	F835	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  John's son William moved to Beaulieu, and as there is no sign of a burial for John in Whiteparish, it seems probable that he also moved to Beaulieu sometime after his wife's death in 1785. In 1790, a John Harding married a Mary Peckham in Beaulieu, and seem not to have had children. There are burials in Beaulieu for a John in 1798, and in 1817 for a Mary who was aged 71, so born c1746. As there are were no other recorded Hardings in Beaulieu at the time, it seems likely these are the burials of the couple who married in 1790. May would have been 44 when she married, which suggests a second marriage; and it is unlikely John was significantly younger. It therefore seems very likely that after the death of Mary (née White) in Whiteparish, he moved to Beaulieu and remarried. This also explains the otherwise unexplained marriage in 1810 of a Sarah Harden and Charles West in Beaulieu. It is William's sister. This means that all of the late-18th / early-19th century register entries at Beaulieu can be explained in terms of this one family. [2, 4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S144] Wiltshire Parish Registers CD, volume 5, (Wiltshire Family History Society). [S35] Hampshire Burial Index, 1400–1841, Hampshire Genealogical Society. [S145] Sarum Marriage Licence Bonds, Wiltshire Family History Society. [S14] Hampshire Marriage Index, 1754–1837, Hampshire Genealogical Society.