Roger HARDAKER

Yes, date unknown - 1667

• Name	Roger HARDAKER
  	See note below.
  Birth	Yes, date unknown
  Gender	Male
  Death	Apr 1667	Rawdon, Yorkshire, England
  Burial	18 Apr 1667	Guiseley St Oswald, Yorkshire, England   [1, 2]
  	Rodger Hardaker of Rawdon
  Person ID	I4	Hardaker One-name Study
  Last Modified	14 Feb 2023

  
  

  Family 1	Ann WALKER,   b. Yes, date unknown   d. Abt 1636, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England
  Marriage	11 May 1631	Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire, England   [3]
  Children	1. Essabell HARDAKER,   b. 1632, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   2. Un-named HARDAKER   d. Mar 1632, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England   3. John HARDAKER,   b. 1634, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   4. An HARDAKER,   b. 1636, Horsforth, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 May 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Alice MARSHALL   bur. 27 Nov 1678, Otley Church, Yorkshire, England
  Marriage	22 Nov 1636	Guiseley St Oswald, Yorkshire, England   [4]
  Children	1. John HARDAKER,   b. 1638, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. 1692, Tong, Birstall, Yorkshire, England (Age 54 years)   2. Mercy (Mary) HARDAKER,   b. 1641, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   3. Henry HARDAKER,   b. Abt 1643, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   4. Rodger HARDAKER,   b. 1645, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. 30 Oct 1725, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England (Age 80 years)   5. Richard HARDAKER,   b. Abt 1646, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. 22 Aug 1708, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 62 years)   6. Dorithe HARDAKER,   b. 1647-1648, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England bur. 4 Jan 1649, Guiseley St Oswald, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 1 years) + 7. Joshuay HARDAKER,   b. 1651, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. 1712 (Age 61 years)   8. Grace HARDAKER,   b. 1652, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. 1726, Otley, Yorkshire, England (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F3	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Mar 2017

  
  

• Event Map		Marriage - 11 May 1631 - Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire, England Marriage - 22 Nov 1636 - Guiseley St Oswald, Yorkshire, England Death - Apr 1667 - Rawdon, Yorkshire, England Burial - 18 Apr 1667 - Guiseley St Oswald, Yorkshire, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Marriage of Roger Hardaker and Ann Walker 1631
  		The Indictment of Roger and Alice - 1656 From: Quarter Session Records, Yorkshire, England, 1637-1914. We think it says: Transfer - And that Roger Hardaker late of Rawden in the county of York clothier and Alice wife of the said Roger on the twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and fifty six with force and duress exeunt [?] Rawden aforesaid in the west riding of the said county. The possible 'exeunt' is the hardest word to read. If we have it right, it is Latin for 'they leave', here perhaps 'they leave for'. [From Google: Latin exeunt (“they leave”), the third-person plural present active indicative of exeō (“leave”). The actual word looks like 'xeult' to me, which might be a misspelling of exeult??] If I am right, the Court seems to be saying that Roger and Alice who used to live in Rawdon are are forced to leave 'somewhere' at risk of something nasty happening (duress). It cannot be Rawdon that they are obliged to leave as evidently they were no longer there, being 'late of Rawdon'. I conclude that they are being sent back (transferred) to Rawdon. But that is speculative and a Latin scholar might be able to confirm or contradict this interpretation. Note that, if this is the right interpretation, it worked, for in his will of 1667 Roger describes himself as 'of Rawdon'. The question arises of where they were if they were not in Rawdon. There is not much to support it but I wonder if they could have been at Tong, where some of the family turned up some years later. In any event, it was not at all unusual for people who had left their home parish to be sent back. The reason was that, under the Poor Laws of the time, the parish was responsible for poor relief (social welfare, insofar as such a concept existed). So if you were 'not of this parish' and looked as if you might be in want of 'support' owing to lack of income or illness, disability, old age or infirmity, you would be quite likely to be sent back home.
  		Map of the Guiseley parish area, mid-late 1700s

  
  

  Histories

  Research on The Hardakers at Rawdon and Surrounding Areas: The Early Generations The first Hardakers apparently arrived at Rawdon early in the seventeenth century. It seems likely that the family originated in Ribblesdale, in and around the Forest of Bowland. The surname was probably originally a place-name. There are a couple of hamlets at Newby, near Clapham, in the shadow of Ingleborough Hill and in upper Ribblesdale, which are now called Upper and Lower Hardacre. These might well be what remain of the place concerned.

  
  

• Notes

  P List has a son Richard b 4 Jul 1633, but queried. The only candidate for Roger's birth I can find is son of Stephen at Long Preston christened 7 November 1591. He is possible but unlikely. He was born a bit too early for a man who first married in 1631. Moreover, the failure to name any son Stephen does not support the notion that this was the right birth.

  
  

• Sources

  [S512] W.E. Preston & J.H. Rowe, Preston & Rowe, (Bradford, 1913) (Reliability: 2). [S479] WYAS via Ancestry.com (Reliability: 2). West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: RDP29/1/4 Incorrectly transcribed as Badger Hardaker, buried 10 Apr 1667 [S56] IGI A458227, Films 455352 & 458227, Lumb. Register says Roger of Rawdon. [S57] IGI A455348, film 455352, ECH's trans, P & R..