Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Hardwick was christened on 1 July 1771, in Bodenham, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Hardwick, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Hoyle, was 24. She married John Hope on 28 December 1795, in Herefordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 15 daughters.
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- Elizabeth Hardwick, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Elizabeth Hardwick, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Elizabeth Hope in entry for John Hope, "England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Derbyshire): habitational name from Hardwick Hall in Ault Hucknall (Derbyshire) or any of numerous other places called with Old English heorde-wīc ‘herd farm’ (from heord ‘herd’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’), such as Hardwick in Yorkshire, Warwickshire, and Cambridgeshire, and Hardwicke in Gloucestershire and Shropshire.
Americanized form of German Hartwig .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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