When Louisa Stoneman was born on 2 April 1848, in Chagford, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Stoneman, was 26 and her mother, Maria Symons, was 25. She married Thomas Mills on 4 June 1870, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Normanton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom for about 38 years. She died on 15 July 1940, in England, United Kingdom, at the age of 92.
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English: perhaps an occupational name for someone who was the servant (Middle English man) of a person surnamed Stone . Alternatively, the name may have been an alias of Stone , used for someone who lived by a prominent stone or rock or at a minor place so named (Middle English ston + man).
English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name for someone who worked with stone or who sold precious stones; a jeweler.
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Ston(e)man (Old English Stān(e)mann), a pet form of Old English personal names beginning with Stān- (from the word ‘stone’, ‘rock’) + the Old English hypocoristic suffix -mann.
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