Harder Family History
Harder Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a hardener of metals or a baker,
from an agent derivative of Middle English harde(n); this verb
is known to have been used with reference to metals and to heating
dough.North German, Frisian, and Danish: from a
personal name, Harder, Herder.South
German: topographic name or habitational name from any of the places
named with Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Harder
Name Distribution of Harder Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harder families
 27 - 51  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harder families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Harder census records
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Harder Family Origin
Harder Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Harder families immigrated
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Harder Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Harder census records
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Military Service by Harder
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