Mary Ann Hardy

1856 -

• Name	Mary Ann Hardy
  Birth	06 Oct 1856	Oaks, Tasmania, Australia
  Christening	21 Dec 1856	Patterson Plains, Tasmania, Australia
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I272216492793	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Martin Hardy,   b. Abt 1832   d. 07 Jan 1868, Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia (Age 36 years)
  Mother	Mary Ann Peck,   b. 03 Jun 1833, Pattersons Plains, Tasmania, Australia d. 10 Dec 1899, Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	08 Oct 1854	Patterson Plains, Tasmania, Australia
  Family ID	F353	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joshua Jeremiah Peck,   b. 23 Nov 1837   d. 02 Nov 1904 (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	16 Feb 1870	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
  Family ID	F354	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  MARY ANN HARDY was the 2nd eldest of the Hardy children having been born on 6th October 1856. On 16th February 1870, whilst only 13 years old, she married her cousin, Joshua Jeremiah Peck of Paterson's Plains. Joshua Jeremiah Peck, the second eldest son of Thomas Peck, was 32 years old. In July 1885 Joshua Jeremiah Peck petitioned the Supreme Court of Tasmania to divorce Mary Ann on the grounds that, during November 1884, she committed adultery with Edward Swenston, a lodging house keeper from Alberton in North West Tasmania. In his petition Joshua stated that after his marriage he and Mary Ann had resided in “Patersonia”, and that there was “no issue of our said marriage”. He also stated that since November 1884 Mary Ann had “lived and cohabited with the said Edward Swenston at Swenston’s Temperance Hotel at Alberton and calls herself and is treated as the wife of the said Edward Swenston” Joshua and Mary Ann’s divorce was finalised on 13th May 1886. Joshua Jeremiah Peck later married Maria Donaldson in 1888. They had 6 Children together between 1887 and 1898.