William Quartus Harding's third son, Charles Harding married Ellen Willock whose mother, Anne, was a sister of the 1st Sir Robert Peel and thus an aunt of Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt (1788-2.6.1850), Prime Minister 1834-5 and 1841-46.
This linked attached article from the Peel Society illustrates the huge number of descendants of an earlier Peel. It refers to Anne as "little Anne" having been written about in the first of the two articles (which we don't have but could be sought). Both the Harding and Peel families were prominent in manufacturing and banking in and around Tamworth.
This page includes.
1. Extracts from family trees and an extract from a History of Blackburn about Robert "Parsley" Peel, the father of the 1st Bt and grandfather of the future Prime Minister
2. Eight letters the originals of which are held and linked here - Two from Sir Robert Peel 1st Bt, Three from Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt when Prime Minister and three from John Peel b. 1798, Dean of Worcester and one of 5 brothers of Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt. All but one (which is "cross-hatched" and therefore hard to interpret) are included in text on this page, albeit sometimes it has not been possible to be certain of complete accuracy, The links show the original hand writing in some cases but so far it has only been possible to show all the letters etc on the one link rather than just the individual document for each link.
3. Address to the Electors of Tamworth in 1834 by Sir Robert Peel linked here.
4. Scurrilous verses about the 1st Sir R Peel (father of the future prime minister).
5. Timeline 1750 to 1875 for Peel Connection
More information on the Peel family could be found on or linked to the Peel Society web site.
A link to an article on the Barton Mills which referred to the Peels mills including the Peel, Harding mill at Fazeley where they issued silver tokens in place of cash when there was a currency shortage no longer works. It would be worth tracking down.
The pedigree below starts two generations before the Prime Minister:
Robert "Parsley" Peel 1723-1795 of Peel Fold m Elizabeth Howarth. 8 Children - 7 sons and 1 daughter. 1-8 (see More on Parsley Peel below)
1. William 1745-1790. He had 8 sons and 3 daughters
2. Edmond 1748-1776
3. Sir Robert (1st Bt) 1750-1830 see below
4. Jonathan 1752-1885 (per article written in 1852!). He married twice and had 17 children
5. Anne (referred to as “Little Anne” in an article) d 1826 m 1. Rev Borlase Willock (Willcock per article). m2. Rev George Park. Issue from 1st marriage. See under Anne, only surviving daughter of Mr Robert Peel of Peel (or Peelfold) below.
6. Lawrence b1755
7. Joseph b1766
8. John b? Said to have succeeded to his Father’s business
Sir Robert Peel (1st Bt) 1750-1830 He set up a business in Bury, built the town of Fazeley and provided employment in Tamworth. Became MP for Tamworth in 1790. The 1st Sir Robert Peel founded the Tamworth Savings Bank in 1823. It existed until 1897. See below under Scurrilous Verses for what some people thought of him! In 1797 he made a voluntary contribution to the government of £10,000. In 1798, he raised six companies of volunteers. In 1801 he was made a baronet.
He married (1) Elizabeth Yates (2) Susannah Clerk 9 children 6 sons and 3 daughters 1-9 below from 1st marriage, no issue from 2nd
1. Sir Robert Peel (2nd Bt) see below
2. William Yates b1789
3. Edmond Yates b1791
4. John b1798. Dean of Worcester. Corresponded with Mrs Charles Harding, see below
5. Jonathan b1799
6. Sir Lawrence b?
7. Mary b?
8. Elizabeth b? d 1828
9. Harriet Eleanora
Sir Robert Peel (2nd Bt) was Prime Minister 1834-35 and 1841-46. Tory. Sometimes known as “Orange Peel”. Born 1788. Became MP for Cashel in Ireland in 1809 and then for the University of Oxford in 1817. For most of 1822 to 1830 he was Home Secretary. He is often referred to as the founder of the modern police force (through the Metropolitan Police) in 1828. He was Prime Minister first, from November 1834 to April 1835 and returned in 1841. He initially resisted the abolition of the Corn Laws but eventually proposed there abolition around 1845 (which act was passed in 1849). He resigned in the latter part of the 1846 parliamentary session.
He married Julia, dau of General Sir John Floyd Bt 8.6.1820. He died in riding accident aged 62 in 1850. They had 7 children - 5 sons and 2 daughters 1-7:
1. Sir Robert Peel MP (3rd Bt) for Tamworth b1822
2. Frederick b1823. MP for Bury
3. William b1824
4. John Floyd b1827
5. Arthur Wellesley b1829
6. Julia b?
7 Elizabeth b?
Anne, only surviving daughter of Mr Robert Peel of Peel Fold
m 1 Rev Borlase Willock (1757-1802) 1786 at Burton on Trent where Mr and Mrs Peel lived m2 Rev George Park 1814.
3 children from 1st marriage - 2 sons and 1 dau 1-3
1. Robert Peel Willock (Guy Harding has a silhouette of him), Manchester Postmaster, m Marianne Wilson. 2 sons 3 dau (a)-(e)
(a) Marianne Willock m Charles Garnett
(b) Ellen Frances Willock m Robert Garnett. 5 sons, 2 dau (i)-(vii)
(i) Albert Peel Garnett.b 11.4.1837
(ii) Emily Garnett.b 7.9.1838
(iii) Robert John Garnett.b 9.5.1840
(iv) Frederick Garnett.b 7.3.1842
(v) Herbert Garnett.b 3.4.1843
(vi) Edmund Garnett.b 29.9.1845
(vii) Frances Garnett.b 23.11.1847
(c) Robert Peel Willock
(d) Isabella Willock m B North Arnold MD
(e) William Borlase Willock
2. William Willock m Elizabeth Peel. 1 son, 1 dau (a)-(b)
(a) Elizabeth Willock m John Fletcher (son of Col Fletcher of the Hollins near Bolton Lancs, celebrated for his active loyalty and patriotism d 1832). 2 sons, 3 dau (i)-(v)
(i) Herbert Fletcher b 25.4.1842
(ii) Alice Fletcher b 8.9.1843
(iii) Edith Fletcher b 9.1.1845
(iv) Helen Fletcher b 22.5.1847
(v) Walter b 19.12.1849
(b) Rev William Wellington Willock. 1 son, 2 dau (i)-(iii)
(i) Charlotte Willock m Thomas Peel. Ellen Harding, daughter of Charles and Ellen nee Willock Harding, left “to my dear cousin Charlotte Peel Widow of Thomas Peel and now residing at the house of John Fletcher, Waterhed House, Windermere £200.”.
(ii) Alicia Willock
(iii) Edmund Willock
3. Ellen Willock m Charles Harding of Fazeley, nr Tamworth 24.2.1807
Extract from a history of Blackburn about Robert "Parsley" Peel, father of the 1st Baronet and his daughter Anne
"It was while living at Fish-lane, sometime Between 1755 and 1760, that Mr. Robert Peel made his first experiments in block-printing. The process was conducted with secrecy in the first instance ; and the printed pieces were ironed, instead of being put through a calendar, by his wife. On one occasion, Mr. Peel was in the kitchen, making some experiments in printing on handkerchiefs, and other small pieces, when his only daughter [Anne], then a girl, afterwards Mrs. Willock, brought him in from their "garden of herbs " a sprig of parsley. . . She pointed out and praised the beauty of the leaf, and said she thought it would make a very pretty pattern. He took it out of her hand, looked at it attentively, praised it for its beauty, and her for her taste, and said he would make a trial of it. She, pleased not to be pooh-poohed as discoverers amongst juniors often are, lent her aid with all..."
2. 8 letters (A. to H. below) the originals of which are held - Two from Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt when Prime Minister, one from his father, Sir Robert Peel, 1st Bt and the other from another member of the Peel family
Scanned copies of the originals are attachments. As they are hard to read, what follows are attempts to interpret them
on her engagement to Rev George Park. She was then the widow of Rev Borlase Willock. Their daughter, Ellen Willock, married Charles Harding who was one of William Quartus Harding's sons. Copy of original follows
My Dear Sister
I was favoured with your very affectionate letter. I think no one has a greater right than your self to take the step you propose and from all I can learn the gentleman is a worthy sensible man. I dislike the most your being placed at so great a distance from your friends. Your children here, to whom I have ever felt attached, are doing very well and the commercial prospects are so much improved of late that if I mistake not they will all soon be independent if not in affluent circumstances. You say nothing of visiting Staffordshire soon. I should with this family be happy to see you here. If married I shall be glad to be introduced to my new relation and make my best respects to him and believe me dearest sister yours affectionately,
Robert Peel
Tamworth February 3rd 1814
(husband of Ellen nee Willock, son of William Quartus Harding and brother of William Quintus Harding). Ellen was daughter of Rev Borlase Willock and his wife Anne Peel the only sister of this, the 1st Sir Robert Peel. Copy of original follows.
London 15 March 1819
My Dear Charles
I am very sorry for what his happened at Fazeley but knowing how intimately the Tamworth Bank and your Firm were connected after their failure I cannot conceive any better course could be pursued than the one likely to be adopted. When your mind is sufficiently disengaged to attend to your ? pursuits I shall be glad to hear from you and to assure my Dear ?Mrs Harding and yourself that your altered situation has not weakened my attachment for the welfare of your Family. I am persuaded you will use your best endeavours to make the most of the Partnership Estate for the benefit and satisfaction of your creditors – should the affairs of the Bank get into able and respectable hands I should hope your Fazeley ?concern will not be very deficient Dear Charles.
Yours Robert Peel
[assumed to be Charles Harding, husband of Ellen nee Willock who was Sir Robert's 1st cousin]. Copy of letter follows
[The Poor Law amendment act was passed in 1834 following which Boards of Guardians administered the Poor Law. They were elected. Therefore this letter could have been sent on any date from 1835 onwards]
Mr dear Sir
I had not received so full an account of the Elections under the Poor Law act as you have been good enough to send to me. The choice of Guardians is, generally speaking, a good one, but I should have thought Sobriety was one of the qualifications of an assessor, unless indeed there was thought some fitness in making a man an assessor who was too drunk to stand.
The President of the Board of Trade has brought in a bill on the subject of labour in cotton factories, modifying the provisions of Lord Althorpe’s act. The discussion upon it has been postponed until after the recess.
I enclose a parliamentary paper connected with this subject and the ground-work probably of Mr Sandall? Thompson’s bill, which (if you have not seen it) may be interesting to you.
Give my kind regards and Lady Peel’s to Mrs Harding, and all of your family who are with you.
Very faithfully yours
Robert Peel
Whitehall March 31
who was married to the daughter (Ellen) of the sister of the first Sir Robert Peel. Ellen is therefore the first cousin of the writer ie 2nd Sir Robert Peel who was Prime Minister 1835-36 and 1841-46. He resigned on 29th June 1846. Copy of original follows
Feb 5 th 1846
My dear Sir
I felt assured that the commercial policy which I have felt it my duty to recommend to Parliament, would meet with your cordial approbation.
I believe when there shall have been time for the dispersion of the mists which are raised by passion prejudice and mistaken views of self-interest – there will be a very general and cordial approbation of that Policy.
It was my wish to have Counselled the adoption but? in a private capacity and which such capacity to have given to others a decided support.
But it has been ruled otherwise – and I had no alternative but to originate and propose as the Minister of the Crown the measures I felt to be necessary for the public welfare.
I cannot think that the particular Community which I represent has greatly flourished under a system of restriction and prohibition.
I trust their interests will not be injured by the contemplated change. But of this I am surer? that it was not for the advantage of agriculture for the security of property or for the character and Honour of the aristocracy - to enter upon such a conflict as that which must have been entered upon - if it were determined as a permanent system to restrict by laws the importation of food.
This country would not tolerate a recurrence of the sufferings and privations of 1841 and 1842.
I believe it better to make the inevitable change in a time of comparative calm and quiet. Than? ? be compelled to make it in a season of commercial and manufacturing distress? and avoid the clamours of a starving population, imputing their sufferings, whether guilty or not, to legislative interference for interested? objects with the supply of food. Believe me my dear sir
With kind regards to your family
Very faithfully
Robert Peel
[This extract from the Wikipedia entry for Sir Robert Peel describes the context of this letter. It was written on 5th February 1842. The Corn Laws were repealed on 15 May 1942 following which Sir Robert resigned on 29th June 1842.
"The most notable act of Peel's second ministry, however, was the one that would bring it down.[43] This time Peel moved against the landholders by repealing the Corn Laws, which supported agricultural revenues by restricting grain imports.[44] This radical break with Conservative protectionism was triggered by the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849).[45] Tory agriculturalists were sceptical of the extent of the problem,[46] and Peel reacted slowly to the famine. As realisation dawned, however, he hoped that ending the Corn Laws would free up more food for the Irish.
His own party failed to support the bill, but it passed with Whig and Radical support. On the third reading of Peel's Bill of Repeal (Importation Act 1846) on 15 May, MPs voted 327 votes to 229 (a majority of 98) to repeal the Corn Laws. On 25 June the Duke of Wellington persuaded the House of Lords to pass it. On that same night Peel's Irish Coercion Bill was defeated in the Commons by 292 to 219 by "a combination of Whigs, Radicals, and Tory protectionists".[47] Following this, on 29 June 1846, Peel resigned as Prime Minister".][48]
28.12. ?1849 2nd Sir Robert Peel (clear from the signature which is identical to that shown by Wikipedia) to Mrs Harding (1849 pencilled in but by whom? if so it would have been 8 months before his death and 3 years after the end of his 2nd tenure as Prime Minister. Mrs Harding would have been his 1st cousin, Ellen, daughter of Rev Borlase Willock and his wife Anne Peel the only sister of the 1st Sir Robert Peel). Copy of original follows
Drayton Manor
My dear Mrs Harding
Mrs? Jonathan Peel has very kindly sent me a copy of the memoir to which you refer. It is very well drawn up and very wisely does not attempt to embellish the plain Truth.
I ?take an early opportunity to sending the volume to you and would be much obliged to you to supply any deficiencies which you may observe in it.
Our own branch of the family seems quite incomplete.
With my best wishes for many happy Returns of the season for you and yours
Believe me ever very faithfully yours
Robert Peel
no date shown but said to have been written on the day of his marriage ie 1824. Copy of original letter included here. John Peel b. 1798 was the 4th son of the 1st Sir Robert Peel and therefore brother of the 2nd Bart and Prime Minister. He became Dean of Worcester. He married in 1824 Augusta daughter of John Swinfen. An article in the Instructor in 1852 includes “After an absence of 40 years from bury, he was present at the inauguration of Sir Robert Peel’s statue, 8th Sept. 1852. His address on the occasion was alike eloquent and affecting”.
I cannot leave Drayton my dearest dearest Mrs Harding on this occasion without writing a few lines to thank you for all your kindness and affection. There is no one in this world on whose attachment I rely with such implicit confidence as on yours. and I believe that no change of circumstances in distance will ever obliterate the remembrance of you from my heart. I cannot thank you as I would. I can only endeavour to express the feelings of my heart.
Pray, my dearest Mrs Harding, never let me find any change in you. It is now ? o,clock and I must conclude this short and ill-written note. I am almost sad that I did not see you yesterday. I fear I could not calmly have said God in Heaven bless you and all that belongs to you but that he may is the most fervent wish and prayer of dearest dearest Mrs Harding.
Your ? and grateful
John Peel
Thursday ?
No date shown but said to have been written soon after his marriage. Copy of original included here.
Mr dearest Mrs Harding
I cannot leave England without writing to thank you for the very very kind ? I received from you at ?. If I were addressing anyone in whose affection and friendship I had less reliance or whom I had less sincerely then I do you I should fill my letter with apologies for not having ? it sooner but you I know we attribute my silence to its proper cause – the ? of my situation and the changes for place and will not suppose I love you less because I did not answer your letter the day I received it.
On Monday next we set out on our continental excursion. I do not intend to be absent more than two months and after that time I trust I shall have the pleasure of seeing you as we intend coming immediately to Drayton. I am very anxious to procure a living and have employed several people to make enquiries for me during my absence and I trust that when I return my search will prove effective. Remember my dearest Mrs Harding that when I have a house of my own there is no one will be welcomed with such heartfelt pleasure as yourself.
? of course have heard of Edmund Westrupp?’s intended marriage with ?? She is to have £1,500 a year settled on her and a furnished house. This is an excellent example of which I used continually to tell you – that a woman on the point of marriage never thinks of anything but her widowhood. Then her joy begins – jointures, and houses and servants and carriages ? anyone to continue? Or contradict. It certainly is a much enviable state and suggests ? seeing consoling reflections to husbands in ?
I believe no woman ever married yet, but for the chance of being a widow and if looks are any ? Miss ? is likely speedily to arrive at the consummation so ? wished for. I wrote to Sir Robert the other day at ? but they tell me he is at Drayton. I hope my letter will be forwarded to him.
Augusta desires me to say many things that are kind to you from her and to express her wish of being a great friend of yours.
I wish if you are ever in a ? ? you could send a letter containing all your news to the Poste Restante, Lausanne.
Pray remember me most kindly to Mr Harding and all your ?? assembly and believe me always dearest Mrs Harding, your sincere friend.
John Peel
The incumbent priest in Hawkshead was the Revd George Park who married Ann nee Peel, the widow of Borlase Willock. Borlase and Ann's daughter Ellen married Charles Harding so the Mrs Harding referred to is likely to be her. John Peel is likely to be the same John Peel who wrote the earlier letters above and who became Dean of Worcester in 1845. George III died in 1820 and would be the "poor old king" referred to. "His Majesty" referred to in the first few lines is therefore George IV who in fact died in 1830 ie two years after this letter was sent. Copy of original follows here.
“by Mr Wyattville – The new alterations appear judicious but I cannot say I admire his Majesty’s taste in the selection of furniture for it is in my opinion rather gaudy than magnificent. But if any envy of royalty could be caused by the inspection of the present King’s apartments (which I am sure was not in my head) it must entirely subside ..a view of those which were allotted to the late one. These are never shown. Mr Wyattville? however ?? this the rule at my earnest entreaty. I cannot describe to you the wretchedness of the room in which the poor old King died - low dark empanelled? with worm eaten oak. It looked more like a dungeon than a royal bedchamber. The bed stands in a ?? and looks dismal and not very clean. I couldn’t help comparing it with the room which the present King is asleep in which is all gold and silk – we went afterwards to see the Giraffs at Virginia Water. I ought not to have remarked ?? – as my own is infinitely worse but I am in a great hurry. I should like to have an hour’s conversation with you above all things – he went the other night to Pasta + Sontag? In Tancredi. I never saw anything so magnificent and wished I ? .. for you? At the conclusion the whole house stood up and amid deafening shouts called for there” [Its not clear if it starts as shown. At the end, it looks as if there should be another page]
It is cross hatched and we can't decipher it.
Held at the Taylor Institution Library of the University of Oxford, are what are described as " ... some 51 letters to members of the Harding family, especially to Mr and Mrs Charles Harding from members of the Peel family including the 1st, 2nd and 3rd baronets. They are in a collection of correspondence addressed to and collected by the Peyton and Harding families. Reference GB 486MSS> Octavo E. 17-25. These papers were donated Miss Herma Fiedler, daughter of Hermann Georg Fiedler formerly curator of the Taylor Institution. See Fiedler connection
At the time, Sir Robert Peel had become for the first time Prime Minister and was addressing his constituents ahead of a general election. His address is attached. Compared to any equivalent address made by a politician, it is notable for it making no reference to any political party and is entirely about his views now and in the past. Copy of original included here.
These scurrilous verses were written at a time when the bank of Harding, Willington and & Co was in financial difficulty. They accuse the 1st Sir Robert Peel who was then MP for Tamworth of giving the impression that it was solvent and supported by him. When as a result of his apparent support the pressure eased on the bank, he withdrew his money. The bank then went bust. This bank was one of several that the Harding family part or wholly owned. See the page on banking.
“Tamworth Bank. 1820 Election Verses
I sing not of a Man of Arms,
Of one who dares fierce war’s alarms
But one who Charity’s sweet charms,
Have taught for all to feel;
Of one, who, if perfection lies
On earth, so far beneath the skies.
Was sent from Heav’n to feast our eyes,
I sing Sir Robert Peel.
When Harding, Willington, and Co.,
Once found their coffers running low,
Sir Bobby half afraid,
A creditor to large extent;
He on Security was bent
And preferr’d thus his aid;
“The Country know I roll in wealth,
Can give a crippled Banker health
If I but lend a hand;
Then to the bank he quickly hied,
Behind the Counter in a stride
Sir Bobby took his stand.
Demands came in, demands were paid,
and fresh deposits fearless made,
(When Bob was thought t’uphold the Trade,)
The Payments far exceeding,
Till Bob his keen Eye cast about,
The helpless firm began to pout,
FOR BOBBY DREW HIS BALANCE OUT,
His friends no longer heeding.
“The Customers ne’er dreamt of this,
For when they saw Sir Bobby’s phiz,
Cheer up, they cried and all was bliss,
Our Cash, we safe embark,
A Tamworth Note was still preferr’d
To Harry Hases’s flimsy word,
Whose imitation oft occurr’d,
In spite of water mark.”
A reference to forgeries which had greatly weakened the Bank’s credit, and for which Sir Robert Peel was certainly not responsible).
Soon tho’ too late, they to their cost,
Heard Bank had stopt and all was lost;
That Bon was all Finance,
More wily far than other Folk,
He kept his cash within his poke,
But lost his countenance”
When Sir Robert, shortly afterwards issued an address announcing his retirement, and admitting that he had lost its confidence, Tamworth went delirious with joy".
1727 George II ascends to throne d1760
1743 Henry Pelham Prime Minister
1750 Wm Quartus Harding born d1802
1754 Newcastle Prime Minister
1754 Anne Peel only dau of Robert Peel (father of 1st Sir Robert Peel Bt), born
1756 Devonshire Prime Minister
1757 Newcastle Prime Minister
1760 George II died,
1760 George III ascends throne
1762 Bute Prime Minister
1763 Grenville Prime Minister
1765 Rockingham Prime Minister
1765 Sir Robert Peel 1st Bt born
1766 Chatham (William Pitt the Elder) Prime Minister
1768 Grafton Prime Minister
1770 Lord North Prime Minister
1776 Wm Quartus Harding married
1778 Wm Quintus Harding born
1782 Rockingham Prime Minister
1782 Shelbourne Prime Minister
1782 Charles, son of Wm Quartus Harding born 26.11.82 d1868. Married Ellen Willock of Bole Hall, Warwickshire. Ellen was daughter of Rev Borlase Willock and his wife Anne Peel, the only sister of the first Sir Robert Peel Bt
1783 Portland Prime Minister
1783 Pitt the Younger Prime Minister
1786 Anne Peel (sister of Sir Robert Peel 1st Bt) married Rev Borlase Willock
1788 Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt and future Prime Minister born
1790 Sir Robert Peel 1st Bt elected as MP for Tamworth
1800 Wm Quintus Harding married d1870
1801 Addington Prime Minister
1801 Sir Robert Peel 1st Bt created a baronet
1802 Wm Quartus Harding died
1804 William Pitt the Younger Prime Minister
1806 Grenville Prime Minister
1806 Wm Sextus Harding born
1807 Portland Prime Minister
1807 Charles Harding and Ellen Willock married 24.2.1807. Ellen was the daughter of Rev Borlase Willock and Anne Peel the only sister of the first Sir Robert Peel, married
1807 Anne Harding, dau of Charles and Ellen Willock & future wife of Wm Sextus Harding, born
1809 Spencer Percival Prime Minister
1809 Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt becomes MP for Cashel, Ireland
1812 Liverpool PM
1814 Letter from Sir Robert Peel 1st Bt to his sister Anne on her intention of marry Rev. George Park
1817 Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt changes to become MP for University of Oxford
1820 George III died
1820 George IV ascended throne
1820 Date of “Tamworth Banks Election Verses”
1822 Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt Home Secretary to 1830. Regarded as the founder of the modern police force (through the Metropolitan Police) in 1828.
1826 Anne Peel sister of Sir Robert Peel 1st Bt and mother of Ellen Willock died
1827 Canning Prime Minister
1827 Goderich Prime Minister
1828 Wellington Prime Minister
1828 2.8.1828. Letter from John Peel to Mrs Harding (Ellen nee Willock, wife of Charles Harding)
1830 Sir Robert Peel 1st Bt died
1830 Grey Prime Minister
1830 George IV died
1830 William IV ascended throne
1834 Lord Melbourne Prime Minister
1834 Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt Prime Minister 1834-35, 1841-46
1835 Wm Sextus Harding married d1896
1835 Lord Melbourne Prime Minister
1836 Annette Harding born d1910
1837 William IV died
1837 Queen Victoria ascended throne
1838 Wm Septimus Harding born
1841 Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt Prime Minister for 2nd time until 1846
1845 Sir Robert Peel proposed abolition of Corn Laws
1846 5.February Letter from Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt to Charles Harding of Bolehall about the repeal of the Corn Laws
1846 31 March no year shown so may not be 1846. Letter from Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt to Charles Harding of Bolehall
1846 15 May. Corn Laws repealed
1846 29 June. Sir Rbt Peel resigned as Prime Minister in later part of parliamentary session.
1846 Lord Russell Prime Minister
1850 Sir Robert Peel 2nd Bt died
1852 Earl of Derby Prime Minister
1852 Lord Aberdeen Prime Minister
1855 Lord Palmerston Prime Minister
1866 Wm Septimus Harding married d1926
1868 Charles Harding died
1870 Wm Quintus Harding died
1872 Ellen Harding nee Willock died . Referred to as being aged 84 though born in 1782
1879 Lawrence Harding born d1966
1896 Wm Sextus Harding died
1901 Queen Victoria died
1908 John Grosvenor Lawrence Harding born d1996
1910 Edward VII died
1910 Annette Harding died
1915 Wm Septimus Harding died
1937 Nicholas Harding born
1974 Samuel Harding born (siblings, Jessica b1968, Clarissa b1970, Alexandra b1972)
2004 Sonny Harding born (siblings, Amber, Edward. Cousins, Max, Katie, Sally, Alexander, William.