Clara Julia Marchant

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Clara married Charles Walker Wilson 10 Sep 1878, Landour, India . Charles (son of William Alexander Wilson and Margaret or Ann Walker) was born ca 1846, India; died 26 Mar 1906, Simla, Himaachal, Pradesh, India. [Group Sheet]

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1940 United States Federal Census
Name: C G Hardinge
Age: 58
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1882
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: India
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: Mission, San Bernardino, California
Owned home, valued $5000
Street: Central
House Number: 360
Inferred Residence in 1935: Adelaide, Australia
Residence in 1935: Adelaide, Australia
Citizenship: Alien
Education: High school, 4 years

California Death Records

Last Name First Name Middle Birth Date
HARDINGE CONSTANCE G 06/20/1881
Mother Maiden Father Last Sex Birth Place
MARCHANT F
Death Place Death Date SSN
NAPA 10/10/1968 559-68-6048


Southern Asia Tidings,vol. 78, No. 10 October, 1983

BEGINNINGS OF SDA [Seventh Day Adventist] WORK IN ASSAM
MIRIAM HARDINGE

One day in the year 1908 a Seventh-day Adventist Colporteur
knocked at door number 49 Wellesley Street, in a residential area of Calcutta, India. She was shown into
the presence of the lady of the house, and presented her canvass. The lady showed little interest in the religious books the colporteur was displaying, and was preparing to
usher the unwanted visitor out when she was struck with an idea. "Now, if you were only selling a cookbook that would show me how to cook without meat, I would be interested," she said. "The market is a disgrace and I don't want to buy anything more from it. I would like to learn how to manage without the disease-laden meat that is all that is
obtainable here," she continued.

"Madam, I think I can help you with that," replied the book saleswoman, "Just wait for a few days and I will be back with a book of vegetarian recipes." True to her word the colporteur returned a few days later with a vegetarian cookbook. While the lady was scanning the recipes in rapture, the colporteur asked, "Do you know how to cook vegetarian food?"

"No!" she replied, and then asked, "Do you?" "Yes!" was the response. "Would you care for me to demonstrate how to prepare some vegetarian dishes?" she then asked politely.
"Why, yes," hesitantly replied the lady of the house, "but would that not be an imposition?" "It can be easily arranged," replied the colporteur. And so it happened that a few days later the local Adventist Bible Instructor who was the colporteur, again presented herself at the
Hardinge home.

Constance Hardinge took to her immediately, and she and the Indian cook were soon turning out surprisingly tasty dishes without the help of meat under the Bible Instructor's tutellage. Dr. Mervyn Hardinge still has this cook book and on the fly leaf is written "Constance Hardinge, 1908."

As for the Bible Instructor, she was far more interested in giving the Hardinge family spiritual food than in improving their menus, important though it was. With wisdom and heavenly tact she unfolded the truths of the third angel's message, until first Constance Hardinge, and then her husband and their two children, Phyllis and Ivan, accepted
the Lord and were eventually baptized, and became early members of the Seventh-day Adventist church in Calcutta.

Several years passed by, and one day in 1915 Mr. Hardinge received word that the survey department of the government of India, for whom he worked, was about to transfer him
to a more responsible position. "I don't know where it will be," he told his wife.

"Oh, I hope it is in the northwest somewhere," said Mrs. Hardinge, "You know there is a good Seventh- day Adventist school, Vincent Hill, in Mussouri. How wonderful it
would be if we were sent somewhere near, so that we could send Phyllis and Ivan to it. "Yes, wouldn't it!" acquiesced Mr. Hardinge, "and it won't be many more years before Leslie and Mervyn will be readv for school. Let's pray
that the government will send us near Mussouri."

So daily their prayers ascended for the move to be in the westerly direction of Mussouri, but always they ended with the words, "Thy will be done." But it was not God's will. When the orders came, Mr. Hardinge was invited to be the officer-in-charge of the Assam Survey and Traverse Party
with the responsibility of making revenue maps of the province of Assam, located eastward, an area that
had never been completely surveyed. The family would live in Shillong, the capital of Assam.

Assam! it was as far from Mussouri where they longed to go as it could be! Their disappointment was great. How could this be God's will? they were tempted to ask. But it must be! So instead of attending a Seventh-day Adventist school the Hardinge children were obliged to look for their
education to the Catholic schools found in Shillong.
Was this God's will?

Back in Calcutta Mr. Hardinge had made inquiries about the church in Shillong. They had so much enjoyed the fellowship in the Calcutta church and looked forward to being united
with the Adventist family in their new station. "There is no church there," he was told. "Nor is there an Adventist in the whole of Assam," the mission added with regret.
"No church?" "No, and no believers there at all?
yet! You will be isolated members," he was informed. So the Hardinges moved to Shillong in 1915, and did the best they
could to witness for Christ in the circumstances. They subscribed to The Review and Herald, The Youth's Instructor, and Our little Friend and bought Advenrist and other good books by Ellen White as they came out. In Shillong they made every Sabbath a special day for their family. On fine days they would seek out a beautiful spot beneath some trees, and have Sabbath School and take turns reading from papers and books, and they would hike in the beautiful hills around Shillong, especially beyond the Polo grounds.

On rare occasions, every three or four years, a pastor from the mission office in Calcutta would make the long trip to look up these isolated members and encourage them. Pastors Wilson, Wellman, Wyman and Raymond were given great welcomes when they took the trouble to visit them. The Gilliards from Australia, and their family stayed in
Shillong for a year, fostering the interests.

The concern which the Hardinges felt went beyond their own family to their neighbours. Invitations were given first to the friends of the children Phyllis and Ivan, and then to
their parents, to join the family group on Friday evening for hymn singing, and later for Sabbath Bible studies.
Personal Bible studies followed, and in due course one of the visiting pastors was called upon to conduct a baptism. In 1928 the first baptism was carried out by Pastor Keller. It consisted of an 84 year old man, Mr. Matthews, and Leslie and Mervyn Hardinge in a stream called the Umkhrah. Then Mr. Doram was baptized and began to sell Adventist
books. Soon there was a little company in the Hardinge living room at Shillong on Bancroft Road.

But even that was not enough for the missionary-minded Hardinges. Often Mr. Hardinge would lift up his eyes to the Khasi Hills among which they lived. They were populated by
simple, untaught people, many of whom were bound in the chains of heathen worship and animistic customs. They needed the Gospel.

Who was to take it to them? He seemed to hear a Voice saying, "You, Mr. Hardinge." "But I don't know the language," was his excuse. But God does not receive our excuses when they try to get us out of serving Him.
Painstakingly he wrote a tract in English. In simple words it told the story of the Gospel embedded in the doctrines of the Adventist message, in words which the Holy Spirit made appealing and beautiful. As Mr. Hardinge travelled up and down Assam, he became known as the sahib who did not smoke or drink, did not eat meat and kept the Sabbath as his
holy day.

An employee in Mr. Hardinge's office was familiar with the Khasi language, so he paid him to make a translation of the tract he had written into Khasi. To make sure that every-
thing was correct and clear Mr. Hardinge had someone else who knew Khasi translate and read it back to him in Bengali! At last satisfied that the tract said what he intended, Mr. Hardinge had it printed at hisown cost. And as he went into the hill country on his survey trips he took
along copies and distributed them far and wide.

God had promised that His Word will not return unto Him void, and so it was that one by one as a result of this little Khasi tract, people came to learn more of the message contained in it. The Gospel light was spreading!
There were young people among those who made inquiries and
listened to the teaching of the Word, and the Hardinges thought to themselves, "There should be a school to train these young people."

More years went by. All but one of Surat the Hardinge children left to seek higher education in England. Retirement time was coming around. The Hardinges felt that they would need to sell their home and leave India. But
because times were changing in India, it was getting more and more difficult for Europeans to sell their property at a fair price. There were no bids for the Hardinge home for
some time. They prayed about it, of course. Then an idea struck! They changed the mode of their praying!"Lord," they prayed, "if Thou wilt send a buyer for our house, we will
give a portion towards the establishment of a training school for the mountain young people."

It was certainly no coincidence that in a very short while someone bought the house for a fair price and the Hardinges kept their promise and turned in part of the proceeds to the
mission towards a fund to establish what was to become the Jowai Training School?later the Assam Training School.

In 1933 the Hardinges retired and left Assam never to
return. Had God disregarded their prayer request when they asked to be sent to the Mussouri area? Far from it. It was
his purpose for the Hardinges to let their light shine in that dark area of India? light that has spread into many of Assam's hills and valleys and brought the peace of God to many a heart.

The health message that the Adventist church had to offer, attracted Mrs. Hardinge and led the whole family into
the church. Therefore, it is not surprising that one of their sons, Dr. Mervyn G. Hardinge, is the Director of Health and Temperance of the General Conference. Dr. Leslie G. Hardinge, one of the other sons visited India last year. He is connected with the Theology Department of
the Philippine Union College. Dr. Mervyn Hardinge will be visiting Southern Asia Divison to acquaint with the
Health and Temperance work in this Division. This will be his first visit since he left this country as a boy.

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Died:
Social Security Death Index
Name: Constance Hardinge
SSN: 559-68-60**
SSN Issue State: California
Birth Date: June 20, 1881
Death Date: October, 1968
Last Residence: Angwin, Napa County, California

Constance married Eustace Gilbert HARDINGE 25 Sep 1900, Mandalay,MC, Burma . Eustace (son of John Josiah Coles Hardinge and Caroline Susan Frankliln) was born 06 May 1873, Rangoon, Pegu, Burma; died 22 Aug 1961, Loma LInda, San Bernadino Co. CA; was buried , Montecito Memorial Park, Loma Linda, San Bernadino Co. CA. [Group Sheet]

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Source: Phyllis Joyce obituaries, British Advent Messenger, 8 May 1970, 15 and Review and Herald, 6 August 1970; Robert Joyce obituaries, British Advent Messenger, 20 June 1969, 15 and Review and Herald, 5 June 1969; Union College yearbook, The Golden Cords, 1949-1955.

http://www.iamaonline.com/Bio/Phyllis_Joyce.htm

Phyllis Constance Hardinge Joyce

1901 - 1970

Phyllis Joyce, a piano teacher, taught privately and at two Adventist colleges during her career. She was both loved and respected as music teacher.

Joyce was born in Calcutta, India, of British colonial parents, Eustace and Constance Hardinge. She spent her childhood years in India and then attended school at Stanborough College in Watford, England. She completed a teacher's degree (L.R.A.M.) at the Royal Academy of Music in London and then returned to teach at Stanborough.

Robert Sidney Joyce, an Irishman who had been born in Belfast, met her while a student at SC. They became engaged and married in 1927. During the next seventeen years, he experienced considerable success as an evangelist and then became president of the South England Conference in 1935 and the North England Conference in 1939.

In 1947, the Joyces accepted an invitation to serve at the Boulder, Colorado, Seventh-day Adventist church in the Central Union in the U.S. Two years later, he became the pastor of the Union College church in Lincoln, Nebraska, and she began teaching piano as an instructor at the college, rising to the rank of assistant professor in her seven years there.

During their stay in Lincoln, he became president of the Nebraska Conference. They then returned to the Colorado Conference where he served as president, and then settled in the Lake Union, where he served as president of the Indiana Conference. A year following his death in 1969, she died as a result of an automobile accident in Loma Linda, California, at age 68

Phyllis married Robert Sidney Joyce. Robert was born , Belfast, Northern Ireland; died 10 Apr 1969, Indiana. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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London Gazette, 5 Apr 1938

Royal Army Medical Corps, General List
Ivan Gilbert Hardinge to be LT, 6 Apr 1938.

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Leslie Hardinge was born in Calcutta, India, and was educated in England and America. He received his undergraduate degree from La Sierra University, Riverside, California, and then went on to earn three advanced degrees at the Adventist Theological Seminary in Washington D.C. and finally his Ph.D. degree from the University of London in 1964. His thesis was published in London for the Church Historical Society under the title, The Celtic Church in Britain. It is one of the most significant studies on Celtic Christianity available today.

During a hiatus from teaching from 1973 to 1977 he came to southern California to pastor the Glendale City church and then his focus returned to education when he became president of Adventist University of the Philippines (formerly Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Far East). At AUP he planned and built a library for the seminary and dedicated his personal library of almost 1,000 books to it. Hardinge authored several other books including Shadows of His Sacrifice and His Name is Wonderful.

Probably best known for producing audio tapes for the weekly Sabbath School lesson, a favorite of Sabbath School class teachers in many countries for some 28 years, Hardinge's teachings were distributed by The Spoken Word. An authority on the Isarelite Sancturary, he often said that if people could understand what happened in the sancturary, they would understand the relationship between God and man. Mr Hardinge, was married to Mary, and had one daughter Judy, three grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.

Leslie married Mary (Molly) Ellen Miriam Petavel. Mary was born 1908, Switzerland; died 03 Mar 1993, Santa Barbara Co. CA. [Group Sheet]

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1940 United States Federal Census about Mervyn Hardinge
Name: Mervyn Hardinge
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1915
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: India
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Street: Pennsylvania
House Number: 1431 1/2
Rent, $25 monthly
Inferred Residence in 1935: England
Residence in 1935: England
Citizenship: Alien
Education: college, 4 years
No occupation
Household Members:
Mervyn Hardinge 25
Margaret Hardinge 22
Education: college, 4 years, born in CA, occupation: laboratory technician, hospital

OBITUARY

http://news.adventist.org/archive/articles/2010/09/24/in-memory-hardinge-founded-loma-lindas-school-of-public-health

In Memory: Hardinge founded Loma Linda's School of Public Health

Before embarking on a doctorate in vegetarian nutrition in the 1940s, Harvard University required Dr. Mervyn Hardinge to work in a hospital kitchen to learn different cuts of meat. The lifelong herbivore needed more knowledge to appraise the diets of nonvegetarian research subjects, his professors said.

Hardinge, who died Monday at age 96, became a pioneer in the field, providing evidence of the benefits of a vegetarian diet. The medical doctor and professor, who held doctoral degrees from both Harvard and Stanford universities, later founded the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University. In 1980, then Seventh-day Adventist Church president Neal Wilson asked Hardinge to come out of retirement and serve as the denomination's Health Ministries director, a position he held until 1985.

Born in 1914 to the son of a British civil servant in Calcutta, India, Hardinge faced opposition during his research at a time when a vegetarian diet was rare. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1999 reported that during his dissertation defense he was asked, "Does a vegetarian make an appropriate investigator for this type of study?"

He replied, "Would a nonvegetarian be any less prejudiced?"

Not all his hurdles were at Harvard. At Loma Linda, where Hardinge taught anatomy, a dean urged him to change his research subject, saying, "If you find the diets of vegetarians are deficient, it will embarrass us."

Hardinge reportedly replied, "If the diets are deficient, we should be the first to find out, not others."

His research later confirmed adequate amounts of protein in a vegetarian diet and that animal-fat intake is linked to serum cholesterol concentrations. Data in one paper were used for many years by researchers evaluating fatty acid content of diets. He wrote more than 60 peer-review journal articles.

Hardinge graduated from Pacific Union College in California in 1939 before heading to the College of Medical Evangelists, what is now Loma Linda University. He took a teaching position after earning a medical degree and serving a surgery residency.

Later, the school wanted him to teach public health. However, after securing a doctorate in public health from Harvard, Loma Linda officials changed their mind, saying they needed a pharmacologist. The only other Adventist pharmacologist wasn't interested in teaching. Within months he began courses at Stanford, earning a doctorate in pharmacology in 1956.

Hardinge then became chair of the Loma Linda School of Medicine's Department of Pharmocology, securing the university's first grant from the National Institutes of Public Health, which now collaborates with the school on studying Adventists, one of the longest-living people groups.

Hardinge was asked to establish Loma Linda's School of Public Health, which launched in 1967. He served as its dean until 1976.

Known as great teacher, something he did for 48 years, he also created a course on medical ministry and evangelism.

"I've had people tell me that he was a master teacher ... but I never fully appreciated his gift [of teaching] until I took anatomy from him for my doctorate," said his son, Fred Hardinge, who this summer was appointed an associate Health Ministries director for the Adventist world church.

In 1997, the elder Hardinge was named Loma Linda's University Alumnus of the Year.

His wife, Margaret, preceded him in death in 2008. He is survived by two children, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Mervyn married Margaret O. Feldkamp 31 Aug 1939, Glendale, CA. Margaret was born 22 Apr 1917; died 26 Nov 2008, Brewster, Okanogan Co. WA. [Group Sheet]

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buried Palmdale, CA

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1940 United States Federal Census
Name: A G Hardinge
Age: 15
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1925
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: India
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: Mission, San Bernardino, California
Street: Central
House Number: 360
Inferred Residence in 1935: Adelaide, Australia
Residence in 1935: Adelaide, Australia
Citizenship: Alien
Education: High school, one year

California Death Records

Last Name First Name Middle Birth Date
HARDINGE ALLAN GILBERT 03/01/1925
Mother Maiden Father Last Sex Birth Place
WILSON M REST (OTHER)
Death Place Residence Death Date SSN
LOS ANGELES 01/31/1992 547-22-4833


Died:
Social Security Death Index

Name: Allan G Hardinge
SSN: 547-22-48**
SSN Issue State:
Birth Date: March 1, 1925
Death Date: January 31, 1992
Last Residence: Palmdale, Los Angeles County, California

Alan married Betty Louise SORENSEN 16 Jul 1943, Yuma, AZ. Betty (daughter of Harold Victor SORENSEN and Dorothea Lorraine TILDEN) was born 22 May 1925, Los Angeles Co. CA; died 17 Mar 1994, Tampa. FL. [Group Sheet]

Jeanne married Dr. Merlin Ekvall. [Group Sheet]

Lynda married Alvin Gene COOK, Sr. [Group Sheet]

Roy married Carole Anna VOGEL [Group Sheet]

Jill married Kirk William KESSLER [Group Sheet]