Author Topic: Hardy  (Read 1417 times)

Offline ernestine

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 42
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Hardy
« 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
Hardy (Derbyshire)
Bacon (Derbyshire/ Essex)
Harrison (Derbyshire/ Staffordshire)
Davies (Derbyshire/ Shropshire/ Staffordshire)
Buxton (Derbyshire)
Clayden (Essex)
Hardwick (Derbyshire - Nightingale connection?)
Nunn (Essex)
Shuttleworth (Derbyshire)
Woodhead (Derbyshire)
Wall (Derbyshire)

Offline nanny jan

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,079
  • Russian John
    • View Profile
Re: Hardy
« Reply #1 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
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



All census look-ups are crown copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline toni*

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 13,549
    • View Profile
Re: Hardy
« Reply #2 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.
Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear/e- Monkleigh Gazey-Warwicks

UK Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchive

Offline shirl100

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,588
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Hardy
« Reply #3 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
North,Noble,Harrison,Seller - North Riding Yorks parishes
Brown,Brooks,Watson - Belper/Duffield Derbys
Hole - Ashover Derbys
Webb, Flavell, Mason - Staffs (mainly Sedgley)
Bevan,Beamond - Chirbury Shropshire
Longridge - Northumberland/Durham
Freeman - Hampshire, Oxfordshire,Sussex
Smith - Derbyshire and Yorkshire
Whitehead - Yorkshire
Morris - St Pancras Yorkshire etc