Elizabeth Hardy

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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Family Time Line

William Vaun Fotheringham
1826–1913
Elizabeth Hardy
1834–1922
Marriage: 9 April 1856
William Fotheringham Junior
1857–1907
John Hardy Fotheringham
1858–1941
Robert Brown Hardy Fotheringham
1859–1914
James Hardy Fotheringham
1861–1861
Elizabeth Hardy Fotheringham
1865–1959
Charlotte Fotheringham
1867–1867
Thomas Hardy Fotheringham
1868–1944
Franklin Hardy Fotheringham
1870–1947
Andrew Wardrobe Fotheringham
1872–1917
Annie Fotheringham
1874–
Goodrich Fotheringham
1876–1941
Charles Fotheringham
1878–1882

Sources (33)

  • Elizabeth Hardie, "Scotland Census, 1841"
  • Elizabeth Wilson Hardie, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Elizabeth Hardy, "United States Western States Marriage Index"

World Events (8)

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

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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