When John Philip Stockslager was born in January 1763, in York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Albertus Stockschlaeger, was 30 and his mother, Nancy, was 34. He married Barbara Laudenslager about 1789. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Funkstown, Washington, Maryland, United States in 1860. He died on 9 May 1863, at the age of 100, and was buried in Funkstown Cemetery, Funkstown, Washington, Maryland, United States.
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Americanized form of German Stockschläger, probably an occupational name for a lumberman, from Middle High German stoc ‘tree’ + an agent derivative of slān, slagen ‘to hit, beat, or cut’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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