Dr. W. E. Hardy ²

Marriage (1): Florence Van Breda
Buried: Wynberg, Cape Province, South Africa

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Spouses/Children:

1. Florence Van Breda

bullet Burial Notes:

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT Genealogical Society of SA, Peter Holden
DESCRIPTION Hardy, Col. WE - Gravestone.
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REMARKS St. John's Cemetery, Wynberg, Cape Town.
SUMMARY + Col. WE Hardy. Aged 93 years. Husband of Florence Hardy.

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• General Comment. Married Dr. Hardy - the "colonel who was thought to have been an outstanding person. He was in Ladysmith through the siege in the Boer War and was said to have deserved a V.C." AJvR called on her many times in the 1960's at her home in Mains Avenue, Kenilworth, and enjoyed her tales of her parents and her grandparents in Kimberley and on the Hauptville farm at Wynberg. Her wedding dress came from London, and was on display before the wedding. She left AJVR a lovely square dining table with two half-rounds to go on each end. (These are now in the possession of AJVR's son Peter)

• Military. I should like, in conclusion, to bring to the notice of the General Officer Commanding the gallant conduct displayed by Captain W. E. Hardy, R.A.M.C., both on this occasion and also at the battle of Talana Hill. During the retreat to-day and after the troops had left the position Captain Hardy remained attending to and bringing in the wounded under a very heavy fire directed at him from several points.

(Signed) E. C. KNOX, Major,

http://www.angloboerwar.com/books/27-burnett-18th-hussars-in-south-africa/695-burnett-chapter-05-ladysmith-during-the-siege

W. married Florence Van Breda, daughter of Servaas Van Breda and Anna Elizabeth Van Ryneveld. (Florence Van Breda was born in 1881,² died on 20 Jan 1974 ² and was buried in Wynberg, Cape Province, South Africa.)

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Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years

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