Brief Life History of Marie
When Marie Hardy was born on 22 March 1910, in Elm Grove, Franklin Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Georgious Hardy, was 30 and her mother, Maria Truhan, was 23. She married Stephen John Trop Jr. on 22 June 1935, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in United States in 1949 and Sharon, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 2001. She died on 16 September 2006, in Farrell, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Hermitage, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Marie Trop, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Marie Hardy - Government record: Social Security record: birth-name: Marie Hardy
- Marie Trop, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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Name Meaning
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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