When Rebecca Stilley was born on 23 January 1736, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, her father, Jonathan Stille, was 27 and her mother, Magdalena Vandever, was 17. She died on 5 October 1736, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States.
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English (Cumberland) and Scottish: perhaps a variant of Tillie (see Tilley ) with a prosthetic S-, though the evidence for this is very slight. In some cases the name may also be a variant of Steely .
Altered form of German Stille (see Still ), written thus to preserve the second syllable of the German pronunciation.
Swiss German: habitational name from a place called Stilli in Aargau.
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