When Blasius Stocker was born in 1811, in Hugstetten, Freiburg, Baden, Germany, his father, Jackob Stocker, was 28 and his mother, Maria Anna Winterhalter, was 25. He married Magdalena Fischer on 5 June 1838, in Hugstetten, Freiburg, Baden, Germany. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 15 July 1884, in his hometown, at the age of 73, and was buried in Buchheim, Freiburg, Baden, Germany.
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German and Swiss German (also Stöcker): topographic name for someone living by a tree stump (see Stock 3) or an occupational name for a tree cutter, from Middle High German stocken ‘to clear land’.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker); Dutch: occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Dutch stocker ‘jailer’.
English: occupational name from Middle English stokker ‘one who sells stockfish’ (fish dried in the air without salt). This was the usual source of the name in medieval London, where a bylaw of 1419 stated that no stokker should board a ship to buy fish (presumably in order to forestall the market).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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