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I've always been curious about the Hardcastle line. My parents married in Missouri and had my sister Sue and I, and then after they divorced my mother moved to California, remarried (to a Woodall), and had 4 more children. My late sister Janice (died from smoking) did some remarkable research about the Woodalls as well as my mother's Shoemaker line, but nothing about my own little Hardcastle line. In 1991 I drove about 7,000 miles solo around the U.S. and spent a week in Missouri, and as a lark did my best to find ANY Hardcastles (had been told that my biological father, Millard Wesley Hardcastle, had died in his early 60s), and burned up the phone lines calling just about every Hardcastle from Joplin to Springfield, without any luck. So, for me, I'm the last of the Hardcastle-named line, although my sister has children and grandchildren and even a great grandchild who are part of the original Hardcastle line but without the name. So I've long thought about doing a search too. Who knows? My biological father could have left more children for all I know.
Interestingly, although I've only met one other Hardcastle in my life (the cafeteria lady when I was in the 7th grade was a Hardcastle), I did speak to a Ron Hardcastle who also lived in Southern California and came from the midwest, and, coincidentally, his father had also been named after a president of the U.S. When I spent a month in London when I was in my mid 20s I found PAGES of Hardcastles in the phone directory! Lots of Hardcastles in Britain!
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