Agent TypeFamilyIdentifierUMA-AG-000000312Activities & OccupationsMerchants, fruit and produceHistoryWilson Hardy commenced distribution of fruit to the gold- fields during the 1850's, expanding to serve other regions of Victoria. From the early 1860's until Hardy's death in 1871, the firm operated from Melbourne's Western Market. Hardy's widow, Mary-Anne nee Tankard daughter of Mathew Tankard, and daughters lived together until the 1930's. His son was a drover in Central Queensland in the 1880's, later working as a miner on the Western Australian Murchison goldfields, where he died of typhoid.
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