When Abraham Lakey Stanley was born on 26 August 1857, in Iowa, United States, his father, John Ellis Stanley, was 30 and his mother, Rebecca Lakey, was 22. He married Matilda Ranstead Yockey on 5 August 1877, in Bethany Township, Harrison, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Thayer, Neosho, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Centerville Township, Neosho, Kansas, United States in 1910. He died on 3 June 1910, in Urbana, Neosho, Kansas, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Urbana, Neosho, Kansas, 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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