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Title: Hardy
Post by: ernestine on Saturday 11 August 07 19:36 BST (UK)

I know all my Hardy family back to 1708 come from the same few villages of Sandiacre, Long Eaton and Sawley. Does anyone out there know where the Hardy family orginated from. Could this be a scots name or is it definitely a Derbyshire name/ English name.

Thanks

Title: Re: Hardy
Post by: nanny jan on Saturday 11 August 07 20:32 BST (UK)

There are many Hardy families in Dorset; I've been helping to transcribe parish registers and the name keeps occuring.


NannyJan

Title: Re: Hardy
Post by: toni* on Saturday 11 August 07 20:36 BST (UK)

Hardy Surname Origin
(Origin French) Bold, free, noble.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import; Arthur, William, M.A.; New York, NY: Sheldon, Blake, Bleeker & CO., 1857.

Title: Re: Hardy
Post by: shirl100 on Saturday 18 August 07 14:42 BST (UK)

Hi

www.houseofnames.com says that name comes from the old french and old english word "hardi" which means brave. According to their website it looks like it may have originated in Lanarkshire and the first  to use it were a Strathclyde - Briton family from the Scottish / English Borderlands.

Shirl