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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 20,615 Send Message	Heather	Report	30 Jul 2008 20:33
	Buy the certificate to get further back.
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 38 Send Message	Marilyn	Report	30 Jul 2008 20:29
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 38 Send Message	Thanks for that information, its gratefully recieved and will enable me to proceed with my research
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 20,615 Send Message	Heather	Report	30 Jul 2008 18:01
	Buy the marriage cert and you will have both sets of fathers and their occupations. From there you can move backwards through census and certificates. Use the following ref and pay £7 at GRO online Marriages Dec 1871 Johnson Hardaker Keighley 9a 359 He doesnt appear to have been registered at birth - you could try to find a birth cert of one of the siblings. You havent said which census you have him on 1871 Name: Hardaker Johnson Age: 28 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Relation: Son Mother's Name: Sarah Gender: Male Where born: Bingley, Yorkshire, England Civil Parish: Bingley Ecclesiastical parish: Holy Trinity Town: Bingley County/Island: Yorkshire Country: England Street address: Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Disability: View Image Registration district: Keighley Sub registration district: Bingley ED, institution, or vessel: 9 Household schedule number: 123 Household Members: Name Age Hardaker Johnson 28 Sarah Johnson 57 Sarah Johnson 10 1861: Name: Hardaker Johnson Age: 18 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Relation: Brother Mother's Name: Sarah Gender: Male Where born: Bingley, Yorkshire, England Civil Parish: Bingley County/Island: Yorkshire Country: England Street address: Occupation: Condition as to marriage: View Image Registration district: Keighley Sub registration district: Bingley ED, institution, or vessel: 8 Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 85 Household Members: Name Age Hardaker Johnson 18 Martha Johnson 22 Samuel Johnson 20 Sarah Johnson 50 Sarah A Johnson 10 Mo 1851: And poor little devil is already working in a factory. Mum says she is a widow. Name: Hardacre Johnson Age: 8 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Relation: Son Mother's Name: Sarah Gender: Male Where born: Bingley, Yorkshire, England Civil Parish: Bingley County/Island: Yorkshire Country: England Street address: Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Disability: View Image Registration district: Keighley Sub registration district: Bingley ED, institution, or vessel: 1j Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 77 Household Members: Name Age Hardacre Johnson 8 Samuel Johnson 10 Sarah Johnson 40 Thomas Johnson 6 1841 and dad is John John Johnson 25 Sarah Johnson 25 Sarah Ann Johnson 3 Wm Johnson 5 Samuel Johnson 1
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 38 Send Message	Marilyn	Report	30 Jul 2008 17:54
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 38 Send Message	looking for siblings/parents of his or any more information on there move to America
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 815 Send Message	Langdon Lass	Report	27 Jul 2008 18:13
	For reference this looks like Hardaker and his family in 1881. LL 1881 England Census about Hardaker Johnson Name: Hardaker Johnson Age: 38 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Sarah Gender: Male Where born: Bingley, Yorkshire, England Civil Parish: Bingley County/Island: Yorkshire Country: England Street address: 5 Johnson Street Condition as to marriage: Married Education: Employment status: View Image Occupation: Tailor Registration district: Keighley Sub registration district: Bingley ED, institution, or vessel: 7 Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Albert Edward Johnson 5 Francis Henry Johnson 7 Hardaker Johnson 38 Robert William Johnson 1 Sarah Johnson 37 View Original Record View original image
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 16,612 Send Message	Julie	Report	27 Jul 2008 18:12
	When you say looking for any info apart for his marriage & childrens births which you have, what are you after
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 38 Send Message	Marilyn	Report	27 Jul 2008 18:09
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 38 Send Message	Looking for any information on Hardaker Johnson born Bingley, West Yorkshire who married Sarah Duxbury of Bingley they had 3 children that I know off being Albert Edward Johnson abt 1876, Francis Henry Johnson abt 1874 and Robert William Johnson abt 1880. It looks like they emigrated to America in 1891

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