When Mary Hardy was born on 2 February 1692, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, George Hardy, was 30 and her mother, Mary Fogg, was 29. She married Joseph Lowell on 6 December 1707, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 4 November 1747, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 55.
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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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