Cornelius Hardy
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Cornelius William John Hardy, or Hardey, (born 1831 or 1833,Template:Efn date of death unknown) was a convict transported to colonial Western Australia, later to become one of the colony's ex-convict school teachers.
In 1856, he was working as a clerk in Script error: No such module "Unsubst". when he and two other clerks were caught stealing money from letters. On 9 March 1856, Hardy was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. He arrived in Western Australia on board Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". in January 1858.[1] After receiving his ticket of leave, he was employed as a tutor by another convict, Frederick Morrell, before being appointed government schoolteacher at Northam in 1865. Attendance at the school dwindled and the school was eventually closed. Hardy then found other work in Northam, and was later elected to the committee of the Northam Mechanics' Institute.
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