Biography of George HARDING
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Biography of George HARDING
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George Harding was born on 31 December 1840 in Sidbury, Devon, son of John and Charity Harding. He was baptised there on 16 January 1841. The 1841 census shows George with his mother and some of his siblings in Church Row in Sidbury. His father and two brothers were recorded elsewhere in the area when the census was taken, probably due to their work.
Within a couple of years, the famiy seem to have moved to Crawley in Hampshire. By the time the census of 1851 was taken, George along with his brothers Thomas and Ernest were working as stable boys in Littleton, Hampshire at the stables of trainer William Dilly. However, in 1861, the census shows him lodging with Charles and Mary Gooding in Temple Street in Sidmouth, Devon, the town where his brother Harvey was an apprentice chef.
Soon after George found his way to London and, in 1862, he married Ellen Morris in the Congregational church in Blackheath, Lambeth, Kent. She was a nurse who had originated from Madeley in Shropshire. They were living at Blackheath when daughters Gertrude E, Florence Beatrice, Minnie Selina and Emily Stirling were born between 1863 and 1868. The census of 1871 shows that George was a coachman in Kensington and he and his family were living at 8 Queens Gate Place Mews. The household supported domestic servant Mary Ann Martin from Derbyshire and also included Robert Carter, a grocer who was a boarding with them. Son George Douglas was born there in 1874.
Daughter Dorcas Mary Stewart was born in Bath in 1878 but daughter Emily died there the following year aged 11. The 1881 census records that the family were living at 14 Royal Crescent Mews in Bath, Somerset and was employed as a coachman. Boarders Robert Ward and John Preston are also shown as being resident. Daughter Blance Homill was born there in 1882. The census of 1891 finds George and Ellen visiting job masters foreman John Kilsby and his wife Sarah at 2a Ecclestone Street, Belgravia, Middlesex.
The 1901 census records the George and Ellen at 21 Ash Grove in Hendon, Middlesex and he is now a Job master's foreman'. Daughters Minnie, Dorcas and Blanche are at home with them. According to the census of 1911, only Dorcas remained with her parents. George is a Job master yard foreman in a livery stable.
George died in 1915 in the Willesden registration district and Ellen the following year.
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