The Hardy Family

Occasionally a real treasure from the past arrives in front of me in the form of something that belonged to one of my ancestors. My sincere thanks is owed to Lorraine Spencer for recently passing to me the three books in which Charles Hardy kept his newspaper clippings over the period of 1880 until 1909. I consider it a great privilege to be able to touch some items that I know my great great grandfather put together and regularly looked at during his latter life. The books

When Lorraine Spencer sends me some family history documents I now know that there will be another great story awaiting me. In this case it is the story of William Spencer the brother of Thomas Spencer and an uncle of Edmund Spencer. William was the second son of Thomas and Katherine Spencer. He was born at Knossington on 16 May 1830 two years after his brother Thomas. As can be seen from the reference above he became a church minister. He also attained a Doctorate of Divinit

Kate and her son Eric Spencer Macky in 1881 The story of Kate Spencer unfolded for me during a quest to find out more about Edmund...

The above painting is of the village of Knossington. The white "hoop" shape that can be seen on the left is the well known whale bones...

Ada Susanna Hardy/Spencer This is the story of Ada who was the seventh born of the eight children of Charles and Alice Hardy and her...

Russell and Gwenda on their wedding day. My mother's sister Gwenda married Russell Collins on 17 March 1945. My mother and Gwenda had a...