Brief Life History of Ambrose
When Ambrose Stelle was born in 1687, in Monmouth, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, Poncet Stelle De Laurier, was 37 and his mother, Eugenie Le Gereaux, was 27. He married Rebecca Forman about 1717, in New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 19 September 1724, in Beaufort, North Carolina, British Colonial America, at the age of 37.
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- Charleston. Wills 1758–1763
- Middlesex. Wills 1682–1900
- Monmouth. Deeds 1697–1745
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1711 · The Tuscarora War
The British, Dutch, and German settlers fought with the Tuscarora Native Americans, from September 22, 1711- February 11, 1715, in North Carolina.
1718
North Carolina is the location of Cape Hatteras, sometimes called the Graveyard of the Atlantic- many shipwrecks have occurred nearby.
Name Meaning
North German: variant of Stell .
North German: habitational name from any of several places so named, all in northern Germany, or a topographic name from Stell 1 + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Stele, itself probably an altered form Strle (see Sterle ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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