Esther A. {Hardy}

Her name may be Hester. In "Orwell Remembered" she is listed as the widow of Edward Cummings, but there is no obvious match for him in the 1860 census. There is, however, a Hester A. Cummins, age 21, in Bolyston in 1860, an apparently unmarried servant. Interestingly, she is living in the household of an Almina Williams. Almina/Elmina is the name of Edgar Hardie's third wife. It is not the same Almina, however, just an odd coincidence.