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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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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