When Charles William Hardy was born on 8 July 1842, in Glen Mills, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Josiah Guile Hardy, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Clark Parker, was 27. He married Marinda Andrus on 31 March 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Seneca, Ontario, New York, United States in 1855 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. In 1870, his occupation is listed as county surveyor in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died on 6 June 1914, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, 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 NamesCharles William Hardy was born July 28, 1842 in Groveland, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Josiah G. Hardy and Sarah Clark Parker. At the age of ten, he immigrated to Utah with his par …
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