Hart Family History
Hart Name Meaning
English and North German: from a personal name or nickname
meaning ‘stag’, Middle English hert, Middle Low German
hërte, harte.German: variant spelling
of Hardt 1 and 2.Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name or a
nickname from German and Yiddish hart ‘hard’.Irish:
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAirt ‘descendant of
Art’, a byname meaning ‘bear’, ‘hero’. The English name became
established in Ireland in the 17th century.French: from an Old
French word meaning ‘rope’, hence possibly a metonymic occupational
name for a rope maker or a hangman.Dutch: nickname from
Middle Dutch hart, hert ‘hard’, ‘strong’, ‘ruthless’,
‘unruly’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hart
Name Distribution of Hart Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hart families
 2,583 - 5,164  862 - 2,582 |
 1 - 861  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hart families
|
580 - 1,157 194 - 579 |
1 - 193 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hart census records
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Hart Family Origin
Hart Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hart Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hart Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hart census records
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Military Service by Hart
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