When Elizabeth Hardwick was born in 1771, in England, 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. She died in 1842, at the age of 71.
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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 .
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