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Wedding Wednesday – Hacker/Hunt 1902

I love this photograph taken on the 7th October 1902 showing Alfred Benjamin Hacker and his new wife Elizabeth Hunt.

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They got married at St Peter ad Vincula, the parish church of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire. For much of his life he was a master baker in the area, later joining the GWR as a plasterer in Swindon. They had 10 children, one of which was my maternal grandmother.

Hacker, Benjamin (1805-1890)

1805 born in Broad Hinton and christened in St Peter ad Vincula, Broad Hinton

1831 married Elizabeth Church at St Peter ad Vincula, Broad Hinton

1841 Census, age 36, occupation Tailor, Broad Hinton

1851 Census, age 46, occupation Tailor-Master, Broad Hinton

1855 Post Office Directory of Wiltshire records his occupation: baker and shopkeeper in Broad Hinton

1859 Post Office Directory of Wiltshire records his occupation: shopkeeper in Broad Hinton

1861 Census, age 56, occupation: Master tailor and grocer, Broad Hinton

1867 Kelly’s Directory of Wiltshire records his occupation as shopkeeper, Broad Hinton

1871 Census, age 66, baker and grocer, Marlborough Road, Broad Hinton
1875 Post Office Directory of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight, Wiltshire & Dorsetshire / ed. by E. R. Kelly. Occupation listed as shopkeeper, Broad Hinton

1881 Census age 76 Baker and Grocer (Master Employing Son),living The Street, Broad Hinton, Wiltshire

1890 year of death