Brief Life History of Clara
When Clara Hardy was born on 5 March 1892, in Winterset, Madison, Iowa, United States, her father, Orin Everett Hardy, was 33 and her mother, Louella Black, was 29. She lived in United States in 1949 and Edina, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1950. She died in May 1982, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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- Clara M Hardy, "United States 1950 Census"
- Clara Mae Hardy, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Clara Mae Hardy, "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002"
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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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