Brief Life History of Amos
When Amos Hardy was born on 30 December 1715, in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Hardy, was 41 and his mother, Mary Burbank, was 40. He died on 30 December 1717, in his hometown, at the age of 2, and was buried in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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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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