When Annie Hazel Hardy was born on 26 August 1903, in Newfoundland, Canada, her father, William Hardy III, was 35 and her mother, Hattie M Maxfield, was 24. She married John Everett Graham on 3 November 1926, in Sea View, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada. She lived in Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1911. She died in April 1983, in Newfoundland, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Green's Shore, Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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English, French, and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold, courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard 2.
Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.
Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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