When Mary Ann Stoker was born in 1838, in Brewood, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Stoker, was 40 and her mother, Rebekah Robinson, was 40.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English: habitational name for someone who lived at a place called Stoke; see Stoke .
English: in northeastern England, a variant of Stokoe .
English: in southern England, especially in Sussex and Surrey, a variant of Stocker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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