Cudgegong Valley History Project

DEATH OF MRS. HARDWICK.

Quite a gloom was cast over the community of Rylstone on Friday last, when the news was received that Mrs. Rebecca Hardwick, relict of the late John William Hardwick, had passed away on Thursday night, at her daughter's home at Haberfield, after a lingering illness which had afflicted her for two years. Mrs. Hardwick, who was 74 years of age at the time of her death, was a native of Hampshire, England. She came to Australia with her parents when a child, and has been a resident of Rylstone for over 50 years. The bereaved relatives include five sons and two widowed daughters, namely, - Messrs George Hardwick (Rylstone), E. F. Hardwick (Sydney), W. B. Hardwick (at present on a voyage to England), Harold Hardwick (Mudgee), Reginald Hardwick (Sydney), Mrs. White (Haberfield), and Mrs. James. The funeral services were conducted at the Rylstone cemetery yesterday afternoon by Rev. J. B. Penman, of Mudgee, in the presence of a large concourse, and a panegyric of the late Mrs. Hardwick was preached by the Rev. Penman in the Rylstone Methodist Church last evening. Mudgee Guardian, Thursday 14 April 1910, p. 17. Rebecca Hardwick Obituary

DEATHS HARDWICK. October 16, 1941, at a private hospital, Manly, Edward Farrar, late of Rylstone, dearly beloved husband of Alberta, of Cole Street, Harbord, and dear father of John William Farrar, Ilma Kathleen, and Edward Kingsley, aged 83 (Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 17 October 1942, p. 16).