Richard HARDAKER

Abt 1742 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Richard HARDAKER
  Birth	Abt 1742
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I270	Hardaker One-name Study
  Last Modified	24 May 2016

  
  

  Father	Richard HARDAKER,   b. 1704, Yeadon, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Alice HOLDSWORTH,   b. Abt 1712, Northowram, Yorkshire, England d. 1786 (Age ~ 74 years)
  Marriage	20 Dec 1733	Halifax St John, Yorkshire, England   [1, 2]
  	Halifax register: Richard Hardacre of Guiseley psh (parish) ?clothier?, Alice Holdsworth of North'm spr (spinster). Northowram Register: Richd. Hardacre of Crag and Alice dr. Solomon Holdsworth of Northourum mar. Dec 20.
  Notes	The marriage of Richard and Alice was recorded in Oliver Heywood's Nonconformist Register and also in the register of Halifax church, from this we can be confident that they were nonconformists. In those days, that almost certainly meant that they were Quakers, Presbyterian or Baptists. The Quakers married in the faith and good Quaker records were kept. Since Richard and Alice's marriage is not in the Quaker records of the time we have grounds to suppose that one or both of Richard and Alice were either Presbyterian or Baptist. Alice's family came from Northowram which was strongly Presbyterian due to the influence of Oliver Heywood who lived there for many years. We also know that Richard was "of Guiseley", and we have reason to believe that the couple returned to the Guiseley area following their marriage. We believe that Richard and Alice were part of the congregation at the Buckstone Baptist chapel between around 1735 and 1760, and quite possibly named their children there. With no known birth/death records for Buckstone chapel prior to about 1750, it is probable that Richard and Alice had a number of children for whom we have no record.
  Family ID	F177	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Betty OVEREND,   b. 1743, Calverley, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	17 Jan 1770	Calverley St Wilfrid, Yorkshire, England   [3, 4]
  	Richard Hardaker, Worstedman of Guiseley parish and Betty Overend, spinster of Calverley parish. Richard and Betty both signed their names. Witnesses were Samuel Overend & William Hardaker.
  Children	1. Samuel HARDAKER,   b. 16 Feb 1771, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. 13 Mar 1861, Wrose, Yorkshire, England (Age 90 years)   2. Richard HARDAKER,   b. 2 Oct 1772, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   3. Timothy HARDAKER,   b. 12 May 1775, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. Abt 1832 (Age 56 years)   4. John HARDAKER,   b. 19 Apr 1780, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. 28 Jun 1870, Idle, Yorkshire, England (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F44	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2017

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 17 Jan 1770 - Calverley St Wilfrid, Yorkshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Marriage of Richard Hardaker and Betty Overend 1770 Richard described as a "Worstedman". Witnesses were Samuel Overend (probably Betty's brother) and William Hardaker (most likely a brother, or possibly father or uncle)

  
  

  Histories		Link to: Baptist Beginnings in the West Riding (Buckstone Baptist Chapel) Richard Hardaker (#727; #270), recorded the births of his four sons at Buckstone Baptist Chapel. The congregation was believed to have evolved from the group of Puritans who worshiped in secret under the lee of Buckstone Rock, Rawdon, among whom John Hardaker (#7), son of Roger who died in 1667, was a leading light.
  		Research on Richard Hardaker of Rawdon - A 30 Year Old Puzzle Solved This paper presents a new theory that we think finally Solves the long standing problem of the ancestry of Richard Hardaker who married Betty Overend in 1770.

  
  

• Notes

  Same person in "Our Family Tree": http://hardakerfamily.id.au/getperson.php?personID=I727&tree=tree1

  
  

• Sources

  [S479] WYAS via Ancestry.com (Reliability: 2). West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Old Reference Number: D53/1/10; New Reference Number: WDP53/1/1/10 [S195] Revs Oliver Heywood & T. Dickenson; Edited by J. Horsfall Turner, Northowram Register, (Brighouse [Eng.] : J. S. Jowett, printer, 1881), Page 226 (Reliability: 2). [S86] IGI M007253 & Copy of register entry. [S373] www.calverley.info, www.calverley.info, http://calverley.info/cal_mar_1761.htm (Reliability: 2).