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Daft Bat

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I hope that you have had/are having a great Christmas. :)

Meanwhile, here is something from my friend Tim for you to get your teeth into - if you want a slight diversion.

Tim's email says... it will date from about 1820 ...only one silhouette recorded by Mr Harding ...don’t know where he was born, died or worked .....the place name might just help us.....

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I read this as being:
Cut by Mr Harding
94 ???????????

With the name Elizabeth Westropp underneath - but what could the ??????? be?

All help gratefully received. :)

 
:confused:

It's a difficult one. I keep reading an abbreviated form of Southall.

So'- something. :shrug:
 
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There was a Edward J Harding (1804-1870) who did portraits in Cork, Ireland

He is entered as 'Harding, Edward J (drawing) of 11 South Mall in the Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory Of Ireland (1870)

He did do Silhouettes as can be seen in this article.

Code: 
 http://www.profilesofthepast.org.uk/mckechnie/harding-mckechnie-section-1

There is also a will for an Elizabeth Westropp who was of Patricks Hill Cork and died in 1836.

(snap @Archie's Mum )
 
He was also at the same address in the Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory Of Ireland of 1846
 
Not asked for but I have some free time at last :)

Done a bit of research on this.

Edward Harding married Charlotte Roche in 1832 in Cork.

Charlotte was the daughter of John and Lydia Roche nee Abbott, who married in 1812 in Cork.

Charlotte, so she says, was born in Fermoy, Cork, Ireland c1814

John Roche was born in Cork c1784, he had been in the 58th Foot Soldiers at St. Anns Cork in 1805. Lydia had been born in Bath, Somerset c1794

After the death of Edward in 1870, Charlotte came over to England to live with her Widowed mother and her brother Edward.

They can be found on the 1871 census
Shorters Hill Road Blackheath Terrace, Greenwich, London
RG10
Piece number 760
Folio 33
Page 16

Lydia, Charlotte's mother died on the 17th June 1884 at Robertson Terrace, Hastings, she was 91. (in the papers) It reads ' the widow of the late J Roche, Cork'

Charlotte died at 13 Robertson Terrace on 13th February 1880, aged 66, cause of death Congestion on heart, kidneys and lungs. Widow of Edward Harding Artiest.
 
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