Brief Life History of John
When Sir John Hardwick of Derbyshire was born in 1495, in Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Hardwick II, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Pinchbeck, was 25. He married ELIZABETH Milk Hardwick Leake Leiche in 1514, in Hardwick, Derbyshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 24 January 1527, in his hometown, at the age of 32, and was buried in Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, England.
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- John Hardwick, "Find A Grave Index"
- Boyd (2004). The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants
- Richardson (2005). Magna Carta Ancestry (Pinchbeck, Hardwick, and Cavendish families)
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Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Derbyshire): habitational name from Hardwick Hall in Ault Hucknall (Derbyshire) or any of numerous other places called with Old English heorde-wīc ‘herd farm’ (from heord ‘herd’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’), such as Hardwick in Yorkshire, Warwickshire, and Cambridgeshire, and Hardwicke in Gloucestershire and Shropshire.
Americanized form of German Hartwig .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Origins Elizabeth Hardwick was the daughter of John Hardwick of Derbyshire by his wife Elizabeth Leeke, daughter of Thomas Leeke and Margaret Fox.[4] Her exact birthdate is unknown, occurring in the p …
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