John Bertram HARDAKER
1896 - 1985 (88 years)-
Name John Bertram HARDAKER Birth 2 Oct 1896 71 Leeds Road, Thackley, Yorkshire, England [1] - Son of John Lee Hardaker and Rachel Stansfield Hardaker formerly Brown, John Lee a commercial traveller. Registered at Idle on 14 November 1896.
Gender Male Census 1901 71 Leeds Road, Idle, Yorkshire, England [2] Death 31 May 1985 Leeds, Yorkshire, England [1] - He died at 3 Barthorpe Cescent, Chapel Allerton, Leeds with his wife Edith and some of his family around him. He was recorded as a lining manufacturer's manager (retired). He was certified to have died of myocardial degeneration, congestive heart failure and bronchitis. Death was certified by his GP, Dr D A House. His last words were to ask his wife Edith to give him a cuddle. I do not know whether she did. The death was registered by Edith at Leeds on 31st May.
Person ID I33 Our Family Tree Last Modified 21 May 2017
Father John Lee HARDAKER, b. 4 Apr 1859, Idle, Yorkshire, England d. 1 Dec 1938, Wrose, Yorkshire, England (Age 79 years) Mother Rachel Stansfield BROWN, b. 8 Jul 1864, Thackley, Yorkshire, England d. 20 Jul 1940, Wrose, Yorkshire, England (Age 76 years) Marriage 7 Jun 1893 Upper Chapel, Idle, Yorkshire, England [3] - The marriage was registered at North Bierley, Bradford, Yorkshire. He was 34, a widower, a commercial traveller of New Street, Idle, son of Samuel Hardaker, deceased, a woolle cloth manufacturer. She was 28, a spinster of 71 Leeds Road, Thackley, Idle, daughter of Edward Brown, a joiner. Witnesses were L Barker and Mary J Galloway. The presiding minister was John Gleason.
Family ID F508 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Edith Clare BALL, b. 14 Dec 1908, 185 Highgate, Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England d. 28 Jan 1998, St James University Hospital, Leeds, Yorkshire, England (Age 89 years) Marriage 1 Sep 1933 Eccleshill St Lukes, Yorks, England [1] Children 1. John Brian HARDAKER, b. 20 Sep 1935, Bradford, Yorkshire, England d. 10 Oct 2023, Armidale, NSW, Australia (Age 88 years) 2. Living 3. Living Family ID F10 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 14 May 2016
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Event Map Census - 1901 - 71 Leeds Road, Idle, Yorkshire, England Marriage - 1 Sep 1933 - Eccleshill St Lukes, Yorks, England Death - 31 May 1985 - Leeds, Yorkshire, England = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend : Address : Location : City/Town : County/Shire : State/Province : Country : Not Set
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Photos Our Family History - John Bertram Hardaker (1896 - 1985)
John (Jack) Bertram Hardaker
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Notes - Known as Jack. Born at 41[?], Leeds Rd, Thackley (parents home at time. He attended Thackley Primary School and then Belle Vue Grammar School, Manningham Lane, Bradford.
In about 1912 he got a job with Wm Rees and Co Ltd in Bradford, a textile firm, where he working in the sample room, making patterns of the cloths the company had for sale. In 1916 he volunteered to join the Army to fight in the First World War, retuning to Wm Rees and Co after the war.
He married in 1933. He and Edith were living at 45 Norman Drive, Eccleshill at time of marriage, Edith's parents having both died. Witnesses were Leonard Hutchinson, John Thomas Ball and Elizabeth Gowan. Leonard Hutchinson was a friend of Jack's. John Thomas Ball was Edith's uncle, eldest brother of her late father, and Elizabeth Gowan was a friend of Edith's, I think from her college days (if not earlier).
He left Wm Rees and Co in 1961 to join the textile business started by his brother Richard - R Hardaker and Co Ltd, initially in Bradford. He worked there through the Second World War and retired in 1961.
He died at home at 3 Barthorpe Crescent, Chapel Allerton, Leeds with his wife and some of his family around him. He was cremated at Airedale & Wharfedale Crematorium, Rawdon.
Same person in "Hardaker One-name Study": http://hardakerfamily.id.au/getperson.php?personID=I502&tree=tree3
- Known as Jack. Born at 41[?], Leeds Rd, Thackley (parents home at time. He attended Thackley Primary School and then Belle Vue Grammar School, Manningham Lane, Bradford.
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