When Israel Stockwell was born in 1694, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Stockwell, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Lambert, was 33. He died in 1725, at the age of 31.
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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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