When Thomas Henry Hardy was born in 1818, in Long Melford, Suffolk, England, his father, Thomas Hardy, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Gridley, was 28. He married Eliza Candler Hines in 1853, in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom for about 30 years. He died on 14 January 1873, in Long Melford, Suffolk, England, at the age of 55, and was buried in Long Melford, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.
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The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
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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