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As a newbie to genforum I have read with interest the John Hardy/Lord Mayor/royal ancestors controversy under the names Hardy and Stanley but have seen no mention of the 1665 Heralds Visitations in Yorkshire. This is readily accessible on the Yorkshire pages of the GENUKI site and page 68 has a tree covering 4 generations of ‘Hardy of Wetwang’ complete with description of the family arms.
The ‘heralds’ would appear to have got their information from the then title holder, William, born in 1610 and the great-grandson of the John Hardy who appears on so many on-line trees. I assume this not only because he was the logical person to speak to them but also because there are only 4 dates on the tree: the age of William (55 in 1665), the year his father died (ie when William inherited the title) and the ages of William’s two eldest children.
While William seems confident of the names of his siblings and aunts and uncles he is less clear on the earlier generations and grandfather Michael is described as being “descended from ..... Hardy, sometime Lord Mayor of London”. One would think that if it was Michael’s father who was the Lord Mayor then William would know this. His phrasing makes it sound like a family legend and indicates there may indeed have been a Lord Mayor on the family tree but perhaps several generations earlier. The Lord Mayor might even have been on a female line which could explain why no one can find any record of a Lord Mayor called Hardy – family legends usually have some truth without being exactly accurate.
Discounting private submissions I can only find 2 events on the IGI that correspond to the people on this tree – the marriage of Anne Hardy to Christopher Cross in Huggate in 1588 and the marriage of William Hardy to Emme Nicholson in 1635 in York. I presume this is because most of the events took place in Wetwang for which the records have either been lost or not yet transcribed?
Has this Herald’s tree been debated by those interested in this family? Has anyone further information?
Susan
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