When Lydia Harding was born in 1795, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Israel Harding, was 39 and her mother, Lydia Reed, was 33. She married Henry S Millard on 3 May 1816, in Exeter Township, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Freedom Township, LaSalle, Illinois, United States in 1850. She died in 1856, in LaSalle, Illinois, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Harding, LaSalle, Illinois, United States.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Harding (Old English Hearding, literally ‘the hard one’ a derivative of Old English heard ‘hard, harsh, strong, firm, brave’). The surname was first taken to Ireland in the 15th century, and more families of the name settled there 200 years later in Tipperary and surrounding counties.
North German and Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic compound personal names beginning with hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, or a habitational name from a farm named Harding, of the same etymology.
History: Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865–1923), the 29th president of the US, was born on a farm in OH, of English and Scottish stock on his father's side. Early American bearers of this very common name include Joseph Harding who died at Plymouth in 1633. His great-great grandson Seth was a naval officer during the American Revolution.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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