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Subject: [NCBERTIE] First names: Hardy
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:35:22 EDT

Dear Paul,

I wonder if anyone on the mailing list knows if the Bertie County Hardy
family still exists. Two of the children of my ancestors, William (Wiley) Bishop
and Mary Louise Horne, married into the Hardy family.

Louisa C. Bishop (1833 - 1862) married Joseph H. Hardy (1824-1897). They had
no children. Her sister, Lucy E. Bishop, (1839-1919) married him later when
he was a widower. Joseph and Lucy appeared in the 1880 Census:

Hardy, Joseph H., W, 56, farmer
Hardy, Lucy E., W, 39, wife, keep house
Hardy, Edward B., W, 1, son
Hardy, Pearl, W, 8, daughter
Hardy, Joseph H., W, 4, son

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/bertie/census/1880/roxobel.txt

The Bishops, Hardys, and Powells share a cemetery on the property of what was
once my father's home, Oakland, on State Route 308. (The Bishop-Hardy-Powell
Family Cemetery. Research contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Alec
Gunnells <>. Recorded: March 2000. Location: 3/4 miles from
Roxobel on the highway leading from Roxobel to Kelford and opposite the
Roxobel-Kelford School. The school is no longer there).

Information from the Bertie County web site: "THE HARDY PLANTATION." Records
tell us the Hardy family came to Bertie County about 1690. General Douglas
MacArthur is a descendant of this family through his mother, Mary Pinckney
Hardy. Hardy was a Sea Captain who established a trading post at Colerain for the
barter of turpentine tar, pitch, staves, barrels, and other commodities for
the exchange of West Indies products. This successful business had much to do
with the starting of the present town of Colerain where it now stands one mile
from the river. Lewis T. Smallwood, who acquired the Ella E. Hardy tract,
sold it in 1900 to Lewis Lipsitz. Mrs. Frank White purchased the tract from Mr.
Lipsitz in 1910. The heirs of Mr. Frank White now own the plantation and a
daughter, Mrs. Perry, lives in the old home. Two beach resorts, Perry and
Whites Beaches, are located in this estate.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbertie/homes.htm#hardy

Virginia

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Subj:[NCBERTIE] First names: Littleton, Hardy, Cader/Kader
Date:10/2/03 9:50:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: (Paul Johnson)
To:


Dear Bertie researchers,

...Hardy strikes me as a case of a family getting "daughtered out" and the
name surviving as a first name. Hardy Cobb is a ggg grandfather of mine but I'm
familiar with several other Hardys. The Hardy family was prominent in early
Bertie history but seems to have shrunk or vanished altogether...

Paul


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