Brief Life History of Israel
When Israel Stockwell was born in 1694, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William Stockwell, was 45 and his mother, Sarah Lambert, was 33. He died in 1725, at the age of 31.
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Parents and Siblings
1650–1727 Male
1661–1738 Female
Siblings (11)
1685–1778 Male
1686–1778 Male
1688–1770 Female
1692–1750 Male
1694–1725 Male
+6 More Children
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from any of various places called Stockwell, including Stockwell in Lambeth (Surrey) and Stockwell in Cowley (Gloucestershire), from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
perhaps sometimes in northern England a variant of Stockill, a habitational name from Stockeld in Spofforth (Worth Yorkshire) and perhaps also Stockheld Grange in Barwick in Elmet (Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + helde ‘slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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