When Ada Esther Stockton was born on 18 February 1897, in Summit Township, Cloud, Kansas, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Stockton, was 51 and her mother, Laura Alice Canfield, was 41. She married Charles Eugene Hudson on 27 December 1918, in Salina, Saline, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Concordia, Cloud, Kansas, United States in 1915 and Garnett, Anderson, Kansas, United States in 1920. She died on 14 June 1993, in Tyler, Smith, Texas, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Texas, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Stockton (Cheshire, Herefordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Yorkshire), Stockton Heath (Cheshire), Stockton on Tees (Durham), Stockton on Teme (Worcestershire), Stockton on the Forest (North Yorkshire), Great Staughton (Huntingdonshire), Little Staughton (Bedfordshire), or Stoughton (Leicestershire, Surrey, Sussex). The placenames derive from Old English stoc ‘place, secondary settlement’ or stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Stoughton .
History: A family of this name were established in America by an English Quaker, Richard Stockton, in 1656. He bought large tracts of land around Princeton, NJ, and founded an estate on which his great-grandson, Richard Stockton (1730–81), a leading colonial lawyer and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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