When Prudence Chard was born in 1708, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Caleb Chard, was 48 and her mother, Eleanor Waters, was 32. She married Abial Carpenter in 1725, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died in February 1753, in Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 45.
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English (southwestern): habitational name from Chard or South Chard in Somerset, recorded in Domesday Book as Cerdren, possibly from Old English ceart ‘rough heathland’ + ærn ‘building, dwelling’. In some instances the surname may have arisen simply as a topographic name from ceart.
In some cases possibly also French: from a shortened form of the personal name Richardon, a pet form of Richard , or a habitational name from Chard in Creuse.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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