Brief Life History of George
When George Stangar was born on 17 January 1762, in Whorlton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Stanger, was 34 and his mother, Mary Spencer, was 31. He married Mary Walker on 23 November 1784, in Osmotherley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- George Stangar, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- George Stangay, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
- George Stangar in entry for Mary Walker, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
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1770 · Boston Tea Party
Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
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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