Mary Stanger

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Stanger was born on 21 March 1757, in Whorlton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Stanger, was 29 and her mother, Mary Spencer, was 26. She married Robert Oaks on 5 September 1789, in Whitby, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 23 November 1819, in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 62, and was buried in Leigh, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

Robert Oaks
1753–
Mary Stanger
1757–1819
Marriage: 5 September 1789
Mary Oaks
1793–
Jane Oaks
1795–
Robert Oaks
1796–
Jane Oaks
1798–
Thomas Oaks
1799–

Sources (15)

  • Mary Stanger, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
  • Mary in entry for Jane Oaks, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
  • Mary in entry for Robert Oaks, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"

World Events (3)

1801 · The Act of Union

The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

Name Meaning

Scottish and English: habitational name from Stanger in Birsay (Orkney) or Stanger in Embleton (Cumberland), both named with Old Norse stangir, plural form of stǫng ‘pole’.

English: topographic name from Middle English stan ‘stone’ (Old English stān) + gor(e) ‘gore, triangular piece of land’ (Old English gāra), for someone who lived at or near a place so named.

English: in North Yorkshire a variant of Stangoe, a habitational name from Stanghow (North Yorkshire), from Old Norse stǫng ‘pole, stave’ + haugr ‘hill, mound’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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