Brief Life History of Sarah Ann
When Sarah Ann Hardy was born on 21 March 1816, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Enos S. Hardy, was 44 and her mother, Mary Polly Lund, was 37. She married Thomas Damon on 12 April 1872, in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 4 April 1879, in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Sarah Ann Hardy, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Sarah A. Hardy, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Sarah Ann Hardy Damon, "Find A Grave Index"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
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1820 · Making States Equal
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1833 · First Public Library Founded in Petersborough
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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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