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Harriet Pratt (1819–1847)
Harriet Hardwick (1847–1896)

1819–96

Housekeeper and cook. Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, daughter of Philip Pratt, gardener, and his wife Susan. Mother of Charles Purdie Pratt. Married James Hardwick, agricultural labourer, and gardener and coachman to Anthony Rich from at least 1871, at Bramford parish church, Suffolk, in 1847. In Bramford, 1851 and 1861. Staymaker, 1851. Employed by Anthony Rich from at least 1871.

Sources

Certificate of marriage, 11 July 1847, Bosmere and Claydon, Suffolk, and certificate of death, 19 October 1896, Peckham, Camberwell, London (General Register Office, England)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed March 2019)

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1043/14/47/10), 1851 (HO107/1797/601/17), 1861 (RG9/1157/83/11), 1871 (RG10/1107/94/22)

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