When Zebulon Hilliard was born on 9 April 1740, in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Timothy Hilliard, was 26 and his mother, Mary Norris Hilliard, was 28. He married Ruth Shaw on 2 September 1797, in Chichester, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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English (southeastern England and Midlands):
variant of Hillier , with excrescent -d. Compare Hillard , Heller , and Hellard .
of Norman origin, from the Middle English female personal name Hildiard, Holdiard, Anglo-Norman French forms of ancient Germanic Hildigard, Hildiardis, from hild ‘battle’ + gard ‘protective enclosure, yard’. Either this or the name above was brought to Ireland from Yorkshire in the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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