Biography of JOHN HARDING
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Biography of JOHN HARDING
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John Harding was born in the village of Harpford in Devon and baptised there on 12 June 1803. He was son of John and Charity Harding and one of their three known children. He married Mary Ann Cox in her home parish of Sidbury on 7 April 1825 and settled with there with her.
Their son James was born there in 1825, followed by Robert in 1827, Elizabeth in 1830, Thomas in 1834 and Henry in 1835. Ernest Augustus was born in 1838 and his birth certificate give John's occupation as that of a labourer. George was born in 1840 and his birth certificate shows John as being a Hunt man. The family were living in Church Row in Sidbury when recorded in the census of 1841 although the eldest sons, James and Robert, were recorded as being in Colford. John and son Thomas were registered at Core Moor which is probably where they were working as Hunt men.
The family moved to Crawley near Winchester where son Harvey was born on 23 May 1844. Some of the family were back in Devon at Core Hill according the census of 1851 but Thomas, Augustus and George remained in Littleton employed as stable boys at the training stables of My William Dilly. Race horse training grew in Littleton from the mid 1800s as it was adjacent to Winchester Race Course on Worthy Down.
The census of 1861 shows that John had progressed to being a farmer of 30 acres at Stoford. Herman and Charity were still living with them also grandsons John and Thomas Podbury, children of their daughter Elizabeth. Their father had died and Elizabeth had taken a job away from home. By 1871, John and Mary Ann were living alone in Higher Woolbrooke.
John passed away in 1876 then Mary Ann the following year.
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