When Alice Stanger was born on 12 April 1712, in England, United Kingdom, her father, Rev William Stanger, was 44 and her mother, Elizabeth Staughton, was 37.
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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.
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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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