When Margaret A Stockton was born in June 1840, in Lawrence, Alabama, United States, her father, Thomas Lockhart Stockton, was 34 and her mother, Caroline Matilda Henderson, was 28. She married Dyas P. Higgins on 14 July 1863, in Alabama, United States. She died on 20 February 1923, in Lawrence, Alabama, United States, at the age of 82.
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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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