Thora Lillian Stanley

Brief Life History of Thora Lillian

When Thora Lillian Stanley was born on 2 May 1902, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Edward George C Stanley, was 51 and her mother, Frances Mary Stokes, was 32. She lived in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. She died on 26 May 1989, in Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward George C Stanley
1851–
Frances Mary Stokes
1869–1955
Clarence A Stanley
1890–1906
Bertha Frances Stanley
1892–1958
James Edward Stanley
1894–1982
Thora Lillian Stanley
1902–1989
Mary Louise Stanley
1904–1993

Sources (12)

  • Thora L Stanley, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Thora Lillian Stanley, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
  • Thora L Stanley, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.

English: possibly also a variant of Stoneley, a habitational name from Stoneley Green in Burland (Cheshire), Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), or Stonely in Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other languages, for example Polish Stanislawski , Greek Anastasiou , and Serbian Stojadinov (patronymic from the personal name Stojadin).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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