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BIOGRAPHY: Posted by: Jim Burwell
Date: August 20, 1999 at 16:58:03
d Gerald Leland Dutcher:
"The name GARD (or Garde or Guard as it is variously spelled) is of French origin. There is a province of Gard in Southern France, and also a river by that name. At the time of religious troubles in France in the 15th and 16th centuries, many of the Gard family left France. They were Huguenots and went to Germany, Holland, England, Scotland and Ireland. The name was originally spelled duGard, the 'du' being dropped later. Garde was simply a variation on the spelling. Standard works on heraldry reveal arms for the Gard family of Kent, England, and the Garde family of Ireland. These arms have similarities to the duGard family of France."
BIOGRAPHY: Where are my people from?
Posted by: Richard Bennett Gard
Date: August 30, 2001 at 13:26:47
ant Christian) who were chased out of France.s family) left France in the 1600s, went to Holland, then to the UK, then back to Holland and on to New Amsterdam (later renamed New York) in America.t shows the first one here in the US as being either Isaac Gard or Gershom Gard, I can't remember which.n Illinois and Ohio.y Reserve (or NG) Lieutenent Gard in 1988 who was doing his 2 week drill there. He told me he was from Ohio and we had similar family stories of where we came from. Strange as it sounds, he was the spitting image of my grandfather (Edmund Sehon Gard) when my grandfather was his age.
BIOGRAPHY: Posted by: Mary Gard
Date: October 15, 2000 at 15:08:32
0) with relatives from Mass, Florida, Cal, and various other states and Canadian provinces. This was our first and we had an extensive family tree on display. We plan another in 3 years, and you would be welcome.e Gards in PEI are descended from he and his wife, Margaret Shaw from Ireland. We dohave a lot of relatives in Mass. so we may be connected.
BIOGRAPHY: Where are my people from?
Posted by: Ronald Clive Gard
Date: August 27, 2001 at 18:28:07
d in the south of France. Some years ago I met a Manfred Gard from Germany who also agreed with this theory. The story handed down in our family is that 3 brothers were banished from Brittany 300 to 400 hundred years ago when Europe was rife with plague, famine and Religeous persecution. One went to London, one to the Isle of Wight and one to Cornwall [my descendants].If your research can confirm the French theory, please let me know.s Sydney Australia
BIOGRAPHY: Posted by: Lon Beaupre
Date: April 23, 2001 at 12:40:38
as the family of Roger Garde from Devon, settled in York Me, then one down to Boston, then Ct, then out to Illinois., then some to Mass, most settling around Attleboro in the 1920s.
