Researching Thomas Harding
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 21675 people with the Harding surname? In that year Harding was ranked number 158 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Thomas means "a twin" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Thomas Harding on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Thomas Harding and the Harding Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Harding Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Harding family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 27587 people with the Harding surname in the UK? Harding is now ranked number 180 for popularity in the UK. |
Harding Genealogy Databases
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Harding Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 48612 people with the Harding surname in the USA? Harding is ranked number 141 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Harding Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Thomas Harding. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Thomas Harding
Thomas Walter Harding
Colonel Thomas Walter Harding (1843–1927) was an industrialist and civic figure in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He was born in Lille, France, where his Leeds-based father had a factory, and was educated at Leeds Grammar School. He built extensions to Tower Works in Holbeck in 1899 and the 1920s and, when City Square was remodelled, proposed and financed the sculptures including the Black Prince .
He used the title "Colonel" after the Leeds Artillery Volunteers gave him the title of Honorary Colonel when he retired after 33 years service in 1893.
He was Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1898–99, and was created a Freeman of the City of Leeds in 1903. He moved from his home in Abbey House (originally the Kirkstall Abbey gatehouse) to Hartsholme Hall in Lincolnshire (1902) and Madingley Hall in Cambridgeshire (1906), which he restored. He was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in March 1901, and Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in April 1901.
Harding was also a writer. He published The Abbot of Kirkstall in 1926, a novel about the Black Prince, John of Gaunt, and John Wycliffe.
Source: Thomas Walter Harding, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaThomas Harding (sailor)
Thomas Harding (born 1837, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for attempting to save an officer from drowning.
Harding was born in 1837 in Middletown, Connecticut. He served during the Civil War as a captain of the forecastle on the . On June 9, 1864, the blockade runner Pevensey was chased down, run aground near Beaufort, North Carolina, and suffered a boiler explosion. Harding and others took a small boat from Dacotah to Pevensey and loaded it with some of the blockade runner's cargo of arms and uniforms. While returning to Dacotah through heavy surf, the small boat began to take on water and sank. Harding tried to help an officer who could not swim, Acting Master's Mate Jarvis G. Farrar, but was unsuccessful and Farrar drowned. For this attempt, Harding was awarded the Medal of Honor six months later on December 31, 1864.
Harding's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
Served as captain of the forecastle on board the U.S.S. Dacotah on the occasion of the destruction of the blockade runner Pevensey, near Beauford, N.C., 9 June 1864. "Learning that one of the officers in the boat, which was in danger of being, and subsequently was, swamped, could not swim, Harding remarked to him: 'If we are swamped, sir, I shall carry you to the beach or I will never go there myself.' He did not succeed in carrying out his promise, but made desperate efforts to do so, while others thought only of themselves. Such conduct is worthy of appreciation and admiration--a sailor risking his own life to save that of an officer."Source: Thomas Harding (sailor), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Harding
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
Haradon Hardan Hardeman Harden Hardenbergh Hardenbrook Hardiman Hardin Hardine Hardinge Hardinger Hardingham Hardington Hardman Hardmeier Hardnick Hardunka Hardwin Hardyman Harraden Harradence Harradine Harreden Harten Hartenberger Hartenbower Hartenstein Harthun Hartin Harting Hartinger Hartington Hartman Hartmann Hartmett Hartmeyer Hartmuss Hartneck Hartnell Hartner Hartness Hartnett Hartney Hartnig Hartnup Hartom Harton Hartong Hartung Hawarden Heardman Herdman Heridon Hertenstein Hewerdine Horten Hortmanns Horton Howerton Hrdina Hrodman Hrothmann Huerdini Hurdman Hurdon Hurton
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