In April 1881, George Eastment, aged 18, was a baker boarding with Abraham Partridge.

Life in Hardington

George was born in Hardington in 1863. His father, Edward, was a farm labourer, and his mother, Elizabeth, was a glover.

In April 1871, George lived with his parents in a house on the High Street. Although he was a baker in 1881, he did not continue in that occupation.

Life in South Wales

By April 1891, George and his brother, Nathaniel, had moved to Cardiff, where they worked as railway labourers and boarded together at 28 Flora Street.

In 1892, George married Eliza Jones at Pontypridd, twelve miles north of Cardiff. She was the daughter of Thomas Jones, a builder’s haulier.

They settled in the town and George worked as a coal hewer.

In March 1901, they lived at 18 Tower Street and in April 1911 and June 1921, at 21 Queen Street.

By April 1911, they had six children living; a seventh child had died.

George died in about 1926, aged 62; Eliza died in 1931, aged 56.