If I get this right, Ann (UNKNOWN ) married : (1) Richard Ashman (2) Henry Hardy (3) Wm. Forester Since I am on the mailing list for [email protected] I also received the following informaton on the records in Leicestershire County, England : (1) Search Parish records (2) Find the manor the family lived in (3) Email the Leicester Record Office to find if any records exist (4) Manor court records may well be the only way to trace the Hardy family at that time period due to the 1640's had a civil war and records are hard to trace. Marianne Dilllow [email protected]

Just rediscovered this little gem. Agree that Ann married first, Richard Ashman; second, Henry Hardy; and third, William Forester. In 1702, Anne Hardy, the wife of a Charles County justice "upon a difference between her and her husband petitions that she with her children may be permitted to live upon her own land and to be allowed a sufficient maintenance to subsist upon". Two of the justices were appointed to try to compose the couple's differences. The two continued to argue, however, disagreeing particulary about the treatment and discipline of Anne's children by a former husband. In 1703 she complained of Hardy's "harsh and ill usage of her children and desires that they may be taken away from him and that they may all be bound out to trades." She finally petitioned in 1706 that "through his harsh and ill usage she is not able to live and cohabit with him and therefore desires with the approbation of the Court she may live from him and that the Court would order her a competency for a separate maintenance". Hardy agreed to a separation and "propounds to allow her 1500 lbs. of tobacco yearly and every year during her natural life and doth promise and engage to deliver her her necessary utensils and clothing and she is now possest with according to the degree of his wife". This "mutual agreement of boath parties" was approved by the Court. Marriage and Family by Lorena S. Walsh, "The Chesapeake in the 17th Century". Linda Reno ----- Original Message ----- From: "marianne dillow" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:29 PM Subject: [MDCHARLE] HENRY HARDY/ ASHMAN / COMPTON / FORESTER > If I get this right, Ann (UNKNOWN ) married : > > (1) Richard Ashman > (2) Henry Hardy > (3) Wm. Forester > > Since I am on the mailing list for [email protected] I > also received the following informaton on the records in Leicestershire > County, England : > > (1) Search Parish records > (2) Find the manor the family lived in > (3) Email the Leicester Record Office to find if any records exist > (4) Manor court records may well be the only way to trace the Hardy > family at that time period due to the 1640's had a civil war and records > are hard to trace. > > Marianne Dilllow > [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message