When John Stanley III was born on 29 December 1784, in South Shaftsbury, Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States, his father, John Standley Jr., was 34 and his mother, Mary Fuller, was 32. He married Grace Fuller on 6 December 1805, in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 5 January 1863, in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Stanley Cemetery, Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.
English: possibly also a variant of Stoneley, a habitational name from Stoneley Green in Burland (Cheshire), Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), or Stonely in Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other languages, for example Polish Stanislawski , Greek Anastasiou , and Serbian Stojadinov (patronymic from the personal name Stojadin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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