Raymond Canada Stockton

Brief Life History of Raymond Canada

When Raymond Canada Stockton was born on 31 July 1874, in Knightstown, Wayne Township, Henry, Indiana, United States, his father, James H Stockton, was 27 and his mother, Catharine Cornell Ballinger, was 24. He married Ethel Adele Heath on 12 June 1901, in Marion, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Wenatchee, Chelan, Washington, United States for about 10 years and Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States in 1930. He died on 14 March 1938, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Cypress View Mausoleum And Crematory, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Raymond Canada Stockton
1874–1938
Mabel Lois Morse
1877–1956
Marriage: 6 May 1911
Nina Louise Stockton
1912–
Esther Lucille Stockton
1913–1987

Sources (25)

  • Raymond Stockton in household of Frank H Strahm, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Raymond Stockton - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Raymond Stockton
  • Raymond Stockton, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1888

Historical Boundaries 1888: Kittitas, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Kittitas, Washington, United States 1899: Chelan, Washington, United States

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places called Stockton (Cheshire, Herefordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Yorkshire), Stockton Heath (Cheshire), Stockton on Tees (Durham), Stockton on Teme (Worcestershire), Stockton on the Forest (North Yorkshire), Great Staughton (Huntingdonshire), Little Staughton (Bedfordshire), or Stoughton (Leicestershire, Surrey, Sussex). The placenames derive from Old English stoc ‘place, secondary settlement’ or stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Stoughton .

History: A family of this name were established in America by an English Quaker, Richard Stockton, in 1656. He bought large tracts of land around Princeton, NJ, and founded an estate on which his great-grandson, Richard Stockton (1730–81), a leading colonial lawyer and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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