Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Stocker was born on 29 January 1822, in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Stocker, was 41 and her mother, Rebecca, was 43. She married George Dunham on 13 November 1843, in St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Brynmawr, Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1871. She died in 1903, in Crickhowell, Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 81.
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- Rebecca Stocker in household of Josh Stocker, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Rebecca Stocker in the Westminster, London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1919
- Rebecca Stocker in the Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1831 · Old London Bridge Opens
"The popular childhood rhyme ""London Bridge is Falling Down"" refers to the infamous overpass above the Thames River. By the 19th century the bridge had started to fall apart."
1850 · Coal Fields in South Wales Developed
Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
Name Meaning
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker): topographic name for someone living by a tree stump (see Stock 3) or an occupational name for a tree cutter, from Middle High German stocken ‘to clear land’.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker); Dutch: occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Dutch stocker ‘jailer’.
English: occupational name from Middle English stokker ‘one who sells stockfish’ (fish dried in the air without salt). This was the usual source of the name in medieval London, where a bylaw of 1419 stated that no stokker should board a ship to buy fish (presumably in order to forestall the market).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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