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First, Hardwick Walker (Hardige or Hardridge)the 1st,wife Mary Walker signed her name with an "X" and had not done so previously. Secondly, Hardwick was missing in the 1790 census - I looked all over for them even including Barbados (?Tory), even though he was Lt, without a captain for his militia group and appears to have become Captain during the Revolution even at his age. I was determined to figure out how Hardige missed the 1790 census. By going down Hawtree Creek families with the Census records, I found his family details recorded but "name not readable because of the fold,". I could identify him and Hardige, Jr for the census, but no wife. Next, he was approaching 70, had a young son b. 1782 and needed help and m. a local widow. I originally had looked at the Colclough family because of belief that Hardige was related to Rachel Colclough and recognized name/pattern/availability. However, I spent weeks,at that point and eliminated each widow named "Mary" as the possible 2nd wife; Also he couldn't attract another younger wife at his age with a small child. I knew that she was Mary Roger Colclough upon looking at who came to the estate sale (1794-7 Warren Co NC), for the most part Mary Rogers Colclough's children. AT Hardige's death, his Walker relatives were few but most had moved away - perhaps Hardige's sons Benjamin, John, and Thomas, moved off after their mother died. wrw
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