Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Ethel Mary Hardman

d.09/07/1955

Second wife of James Hardman who remarried following his death

Relatives

James Hardman (760) — husband

• Melanie Hilton

Plot 760 Ethel Mary Hardman (née Harrowell) (1888-1955)

Ethel was born in Berkhamsted on 14 September 1888 to Lizzie and William Harrowell. Her father was a builder and she had three older sisters and six older brothers, with her eldest sibling born twenty years before. The large family was finally completed with a younger brother for Ethel.

By 1901 the Harrowells were living at 6, Clarence Road with only five of the children still at home.

In 1908, when she was only twenty, Ethel married James William Hardman in West Ham. He was a widower and engineer 43 years her senior His wife had died the previous year and his three sons, who had all left home, were older than Ethel.

In 1911 the Hardmans were living at 72, Byron Avenue, Manor Park, London. At some point before June 1921 the couple had moved to 3, Montague Road, Berkhamsted where James died, aged 79, in 1925.

On 4^th September 1936 Ethel married Walter Rickard, a widower whose wife had died in 1929, in Berkhamsted. The Bucks Examiner reported the wedding “…of one of Berkhamsted’s best-known tradesmen…who, until a few weeks ago, was proprietor of an old established hairdresser’s establishment in the High Street… His bride, Mrs Ethel Mary Hardman…[has for many years] been associated with the Berkhamsted Tennis Club, serving on the committee for several seasons. She wore a picture hat to match her gown of silver and blue…” The couple honeymooned in Eastbourne.

In 1939 they lived at “Hardrick”, Shootersway, Berkhamsted.

Walter died in 1941 and was buried with his first wife, Minnie, in this cemetery.

Ethel died 9 July 1955 and was laid to rest here with James, her first husband.

James Hardman (760)

1845 –09/02/1925

An Engineer

Relatives

Ethel Mary Hardman — wife

• Melanie Hilton

Plot 760 James William Hardman (1845-1925)

James was born in 1845 in the parish of St Luke’s, London to James and Ann (née Vaughan) Hardman. His father was a “watch wheel finisher” and he was the second of their three children and their only son.

In 1851 the Hardmans lived at 26, Pear Tree Street, Clerkenwell.

His mother died in 1853 when James was eight and his father remarried in 1860. James became an engineer and in 1861 was living with his father, step-mother and his sisters in Norfolk Street, Tower Hamlets.

On 20 May 1866 James married Lucretia Ann Padden at St Michael and All Angels in Bromley.

The 1871 census records the couple living at 15, Walker Street, Bromley with their two sons James (1867) and William Henry (1869). James was an “engine fitter at works.”

George Edward was born in 1871 and Frederick Charles in 1879.

By 1881 the family were living in Claude Road, Camberwell and James was an engineer in a collar factory. Sadly, little Frederick Charles died the following year.

James and Lucretia moved to 39, Two Waters, Hemel Hempstead, where they were recorded living with son George in 1891. Both father and son gave their occupations as “engineer”.

They moved back to London and in 1901 James and Lucretia were living in East Ham, sharing a house with George, now married, his wife and their young son. James was an “engineer’s fitter”.

Lucretia died aged 65 in West Ham in 1907.

The next year James married Ethel Mary Harrowell, from Berkhamsted. She was 42 years younger than he was.

In 1911 they were living at 72, Byron Avenue, Manor Park, London but by June 1921 the couple had moved to 3, Montague Road, Berkhamsted where James died, aged 79, in 1925.

Ethel remarried in Berkhamsted in 1936. She died in July 1955 and was buried here with James.