When James Sterling was born on 24 February 1674, in Haverhill, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Stirling, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Sawtelle, was 35. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1674. He died on 6 March 1675, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 1.
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Scottish: variant of Stirling .
English: from the Middle English personal name Starling, Sterling (Old English Stærling), itself from the bird-name, whose use as a nickname may also be another source of the surname. Compare Stare 2.
German: from Middle High German sterlinc, the name of a coin, hence probably a nickname for someone who paid that amount in rent.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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