When Willis Ralph Hardy was born on 13 October 1907, in Missouri, United States, his father, Ernest Edward Hardy, was 35 and his mother, Martha Ellen Oliver, was 29. He married Dorothy June Albright on 10 August 1934, in Hannibal, Marion, Missouri, United States. He lived in Mason Township, Marion, Missouri, United States in 1940 and St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1950. He died on 30 July 1992, in Hannibal, Marion, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Mason Township, Marion, Missouri, 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.
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