William Hardisty/Hardesty

Born abt 1577

Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire

Arthur Hardisty/Hardesty

Born 1605

Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire

Thomas Hardisty/Hardesty

Born 04/09/1641

Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire

Arthur H Hardisty/Hardesty

Born 05/12/1675

Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire

Marriage Certificate

Marriage Certificate

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Died 02/08/1658

Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire

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Henry Hardisty/Hardesty

Born 18/10/1701

Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire

Henry Hardisty/Hardesty

Born 21/01/1738/9**

 Whixley, Yorkshire

Thomas HARDISTY*

Born 10/11/1771

Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire

Thomas HARDISTY*

??/??/1825

Harrogate, Yorkshire

Married 01/03/1729/30**

Whixley, Yorkshire

Married 23/10/1768

Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire

Married 07/10/1805

Ripley, Yorkshire

Married 06/10/1845

Harrogate, Yorkshire

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Died 04/04/1842

Harrogate, Yorkshire

Died 24/07/1911

Harrogate, Yorkshire

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George Farrah HARDISTY*

Born 31/03/1848

Knaresborough, Yorkshire

Stephen George Charles HARDISTY*

 Born 19/12/1871

Ipswich, Suffolk

Douglas Kenneth HARDISTY*

 Born 03/07/1899

Wood Green, London

Keith Abbott Manning HARDISTY*

 Born 21/10/1932

Rio de Janeiro

Married 31/10/1870

Southampton

Married 13/08/1898

St Alban's, Hertfordshire

Married 11/04/1931

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Married 18/06/1966

Westminster, London

Died ??/12/1878

Malta

Died 14/03/1942

Dulwich, London

Died 23/02/1944

Lewisham, London

Died 13/02/2001

Brighton, East Sussex

 

* Surnames in UPPERCASE indicate proven spellings.

** Beginning in 45 B.C., many parts of the world used the Julian calendar to mark the passage of time. According to the Julian calendar, March 25 was the first day of the year and each year was 365 days and 6 hours long. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII determined that the Julian calendar was incorrect: each day was just a little bit too long. This meant that the human calendar wasn't keeping up with nature's calendar, and the seasons kept arriving slightly earlier in the year. To solve the problem, Pope Gregory XIII created the Gregorian calendar.  As you know, this new calendar changed the first day of the year from March 25 to January 1. Pope Gregory also had everyone jump ahead by 10 days to make up for the days that were lost when the world was using the old Julian calendar. 

The practice of writing double dates resulted from this switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, and also from the fact that not all countries and people accepted the new calendar at the same time. For example, England and the American colonies didn't officially accept the new calendar until 1752. Before 1752, the English government still observed March 25 as the first of the year, but most of the population observed January 1 as the first of the year. For this reason, many people wrote dates falling between January 1 and March 25 with both years.