When Rutgerus Lambertus Stom was born on 8 April 1840, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, his father, Norbertus Stom, was 32 and his mother, Antonetta Hermina Catharina Baltus, was 27. He married Christina Elisabeth Tresstorff on 5 February 1868, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 6 April 1895, in his hometown, at the age of 54.
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"After approximately four years of construction, the ""Mozes en Aäronkerk"", or Moses and Aaron Church, was consecrated."
Birth of Vincent van Gogh.
The Dutch abolished slavery in Suriname. The Dutch were among the last Europeans to abolish slavery.
Germanized or Americanized form of Sorbian and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Stoj, Polish and Rusyn (from Poland) Stój: from a short form of a Slavic personal name, such as Stojmir, based on the element (imperative) stoj ‘stand, stay’. Compare 2 below.
Rusyn: from Stoy, a short form of a personal name such as Stoymir (see 1 above).
English (Essex): variant of Stowey, a habitational name from Over or Nether Stowey, Stowey in Cutcombe, or Stowey near Bishop Sutton (all Somerset), named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + weg ‘way, path, road’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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