The Hardy, Hardey or Hardee family, as they variously spelt the name, were among the landed gentry of England in the early eleventh century, and are descended from the Norman Knight De Hardie. There have been Naval Officers of the name without number, but the name is rarely found in the Army list of England. There are several portraits of this distinguished family in the Greenwich Naval Art Gallery...
*Source: Colonial Families of the Southern States of America, by Stella Pickett Hardy, Second Edition with additions and revisions by the author. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1974, Originally published New York, 1911, pp.261
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