Rachel Hardman

This is another photo of Rachel Hardman, assumed to be taken around 1916 when Frank Weldon was about ten years old. She was born in 1861 so she would have been 55 years old at the time.

The woman looks older than what we would believe to be 55 years old today, but these were different, harder, times and Frank was the youngest of her 15 children, 11 of which survived.

Rachel would die around six years later in 1922, probably heartbroken about the loss of one of her eldest children, Richard, who was killed in the Battle of Cambrai, France in November, 1917

The chair is similar, but not an exact match to the one shown in the young Frank Weldon picture.