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For Malcolm M Hardy or Mac

Posted by Allan C. on 15/10/2025, 9:40 pm

Mac in an earlier thread you said that you didn’t know your Hardy Grandfather.

Do you know his name or did you mean never knew him ?

Your Dad Charles and Mum Nancy living on Blue House Road on the 1939 Records.

Your Hardy line can be traced back to 1723 which would be your 5th Great Grandparents.

There is a large Family Tree on Ancestry In fact there are 9 trees!
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If you wish to know more get my e mail address off Norman.

Allan C.

Re: For Malcolm M Hardy or Mac

Posted by Mac Hardy on 16/10/2025, 2:22 pm, in reply to "For Malcolm M Hardy or Mac"

Thanks for the info Allan, yes I know his name but never met either of my grandfathers. I have another tail about my maternal grandad which I will pass on later and if Norman can provide me with your details I would be grateful. I also lived in Blue House Road, born in 1940.

Re: For Malcolm M Hardy or Mac

Posted by Mac Hardy on 17/10/2025, 12:50 pm, in reply to "Re: For Malcolm M Hardy or Mac"

I never knew either of my Grandfathers, I have mentioned George Hardy above but never knew my paternal grandfather either, I knew he was a Painter and the following is so special, when I worked at Hawthorne Leslies I often had to go into the Paint Shop to request work to be done, every time I went in I used to admire a beam where a poem was written in wonderful script, years later I was talking to my Daughter in Laws father who had also been a painter and happened to mention this, he went quiet and said, “Do you know who did that “ obviously not, he told me it had been done by my grandfather and I never knew until that time ,

Mac

Posted by Allan C. on 17/10/2025, 6:28 pm, in reply to "Re: For Malcolm M Hardy or Mac"

Some years ago Barrie Cram sent me part of his father Davy Crams memoir of going to the Rings to try to get work in Leslie’s.

It appears that in 1937 my Grandfather Allan took him under his wing and managed to get Davy away from the machine operator that he had been placed with, who treated Davy like a skivvy it appears.

It was great to read what Davy wrote about Grandfather, things that you could never find out.

Regretfully these type of memories get lost in a short time and very rarely written down.

I never got to read Daly’s full memoir.

Re: Mac

Posted by Mac Hardy on 19/10/2025, 12:24 pm, in reply to "Mac "

Found some very useful information, George Hardy was our Great Grandfather and Station Master at Hebburn, he later become overseer of poor rates for Hebburn and Monkton, he was also a Freemason and founder of Thee Perseverance Lodge and became Grand Master, it appears he was active in many other organisations in the town, pity I never knew him but regularly visit his grave in Hebburn . Our Grandfather, who I never knew or met was Anthony Williams Hardy who apparently is buried in the same grave as Great Grandfather George

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