Hardy Family History
- Hardy Name Meaning
- English, Scottish, and French: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold’, ‘courageous’ (of Germanic origin; compare Hard 1). 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’. Scottish: variant spelling of Hardie 2.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,046,457 Historical Documents with Hardy on Ancestry
- 1,166,825 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 748,250 Census and Voter Lists
- 106,630 Military Records
- 66,701 Immigration Records
- 1,958,051 Member Trees
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Number of Hardy families
 1,735 - 3,468  579 - 1,734 |
 1 - 578  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hardy families
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105 - 208 36 - 104 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hardy census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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