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Hi Everyone,
I've recently been trying to validate the marriage of John Hardy and Mary Stanley. I've noticed that almost every family tree I have found on the Hardy Lineage has this marriage listed, but often with no documentation.
I recently went to my local library and looked up the Stanley lineage, the Pole lineage and the Neville lineage (all Noble family lines the Hardy family is supposedly connected to) in Burke's Peerage & Baronetege. Unfortunately, I found no documentation of Mary Stanley marrying John Hardy; no documentation of Margaret Pole marrying a John De Hardy. I also looked at the records for the Lord Mayor of London, which can now be viewed online. It has no John Hardy ever listed as a Lord Mayor of London, although there is a John Hardy listed as a Sheriff of London.
After this discovery, I went back to various Hardy genealogy sites to try and figure out where the information about the Hardy family's distant relationship to British royalty is coming from. I found that every documented source I found was the book by James E. Kibbler, Fields of Our Fathers, which is NOT a historical record, it's a historical fiction novel!
It's looking more and more like the information many of us have on the Hardy lineage is undocumented, unsourced and therefore unverified as positive fact.
Any information you can give me to the contrary would be much appreciated. I'm just trying to do good solid research and find out the truth! Please feel free to pass this email along to anyone else who may be researching the Hardy line and could provide documented and sourced information, or may be interested to know what I've found so far in my own search.
Thanks!
Lara Gwaltney
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