Brief Life History of Kennan
When Kennan Stanley was born about 1823, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Major Stanley, was 38 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Hardy, was 35. He had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Sarah Barrenton Barrentine. He lived in Holmes, Florida, United States in 1850. He died in United States.
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Sources (3)
- Kinnen Stanley, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Kinnon Stanly - Government record: birth-name: Kinnon Stanly
- [Bernard?---very difficult to read] Stanley, father of Henry Stanley, "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939"
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World Events (8)
1824
Tallahassee was named the state capital in 1824 by Floridas first territorial governor, William P. DuVal.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1861
Florida has had 6 Constitutions since it became a state. The first Constitution was drafted in Saint Joseph, now known as Port St. Joe. Presently Florida is governed by the Constitution of 1968.
Name Meaning
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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