When Alma Hardy was born on 30 October 1852, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Hardy, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Ann Preston, was 21. He married Kate Ann Collins on 5 September 1878, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 24 February 1940, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesHISTORY OF ALMA HARDY I was born October 30, 1852, in Leicester, England, a son of Thomas and Sarah Preston Buswell Hardy. My father was converted to Mormonism when he was about twenty years o …
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