Brief Life History of Thomas Jefferson
When Thomas Jefferson Stockton was born from about 1801 to 1810, his father, Thomas Stockton Sr., was 56 and his mother, Prudence Goudelock, was 61. He married Celia Reedy on 3 August 1830, in Morgan, Alabama, United States.
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- Thomas J Stockton, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Thomas J Stockton, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Thomas J Stockton, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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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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