William HARDIMAN

Farmer, Carrier, Hotelier

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Minnie HARDIMAN Sarah Jane HARDIMAN William Cummings HARDIMAN (1870 - 1887)	William HARDIMAN + Charlotte Jane PRATT (1846 - 1920)

m. 1868 Charlotte Jane PRATT (1846 - 1920) at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Children (3):

Minnie HARDIMAN

Sarah Jane HARDIMAN

William Cummings HARDIMAN (1870 - 1887)

Adopted Children (1):

Martin James PRATT HARDIMAN (1882 - 1950)

Grandchildren (2):

Raymond James HARDIMAN (1912 - ), Eileen Myra HARDIMAN (1916 - )

Events in William HARDIMAN's life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
		Birth of daughter Minnie HARDIMAN	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia		69
		Birth of daughter Sarah Jane HARDIMAN	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia		69
1868		Married Charlotte Jane PRATT (aged 22)	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia		71
1870		Birth of son William Cummings HARDIMAN	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia		69
1882		Birth of adopted son Martin James PRATT HARDIMAN	Old Junee, New South Wales, Australia
01 Feb 1887		Death of son William Cummings HARDIMAN (aged 17)	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia		69
1920		Death of wife Charlotte Jane PRATT (aged 74)	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia		71
01 Nov 1950		Death of adopted son Martin James PRATT HARDIMAN (aged 68)	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
		Death of daughter Minnie HARDIMAN	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia		69
		Death of daughter Sarah Jane HARDIMAN	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia		69

Personal Notes:

Charlotte Jane nee Pratt was born at Narellan. At age 17 she and the family followed alongside their bullock-drawn wagon from Campbelltown to Old Junee. They took up land at "College Farm" 2½ miles from the Old Junee Hotel where they grew the first wheat in the district. Charlotte worked as a domestic servant for Mr W Hammond of "Wyoming Station" where the family lived in the house with Mr Hammond as his wife had died. Chalotte married William Hardiman and moved with him to their land on the Albury Road, and at Uranquinty where Charlotte was able to use managerial skills which she had learnt from her brothers to help her husband run the hotels which he had licences to. William and Charlotte also reared her nephew, Martin James Pratt, 13th child of her brother, George Pratt and his wife Esther nee Pacey. Esther died at the birth of Martin. Martin James Pratt took the surname Hardiman.

William Hardiman was a carrier. He married Charlotte Jane nee Pratt. The couple owned land at Ashmont, but the railway was to go through their land, so they bought where the Albury Road now comes in. They built their house there. They then gained a hotel licence and opened The Junction Hotel, where the Starlight Service Station now is. They also lived at Uranquinty and built the Uranquinty Hotel, one of the first buildings there. William also gained title to land called ‘Claremont’ at Sandy Creek near the school.

Source References:

71. Type: Book, Abbr: Wagga Pioneers, Title: Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District, Auth: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Publ: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Date: 2004, Locn: http://www.waggafamilyhistory.org.au/

- Reference = 332 (Name, Notes)

- Reference = 332 (Marriage)

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.

My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).

I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
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