Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Hardy was born on 20 January 1834, in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Hardie, was 27 and her mother, Jean Janett Jeanett Wilson, was 23. She married William Vaun Fotheringham on 9 April 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Beaver Election Precinct, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 4 January 1922, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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- Elizabeth Hardie, "Scotland Census, 1841"
- Elizabeth Wilson Hardie, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Elizabeth Hardy, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1857 · Police (Scotland) Act 1857
The Police Act 1857 was an Act put into place by Parliament to establish a mandatory police force in every county of Scotland.
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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ELIZABETH HARDY FOTHERINGHAM Elizabeth Hardy was born on January 20, in either 1834 or 1837, at Airt, Sterlingshire, Scotland to Robert Hardy and Jeanette Wilson. (Her christening entry was nev …
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