>Any idea where the surname 'Dardis' comes from? It comes up when a Josehine >O'Hara marries Dardis in New York in the 1930's. The DARDITZ of Johnstown, county Westmeath pedigree in "Irish Pedigrees", by O'Hart: Says it was also spelled as DARDES and DARDIS. They were among the modern nobility of county Meath. (See same in my webpages) A J. Dardis, 2nd Lieut. was dismissed from Corcoran's Irish Legion in 1863. TRAYNOR'S Web Page. (Irish stuff) http://www.angelfire.com/my/tray