When Emma Jane Hart was born on 22 February 1851, in United States, her father, Gustavus Hart, was 31 and her mother, Mary Jane Parker, was 18. She died on 19 September 1852, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
English and North German: nickname from Middle English hert (Old English heorot), Middle Low German hërte, harte ‘hart, stag’, perhaps for a quick-footed or timorous individual.
German: variant of Hardt 1 and 2. It is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name or nickname from German and Yiddish hart ‘hard’.
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