When Annie Stoll was born on 10 September 1911, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles Disley Stoll, was 22 and her mother, Lilian Isabella Lockwood, was 22. She died in 1988, in her hometown, at the age of 77.
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Gerhard, Klaus, Nikolaus, Alois, Kurt, Otto, Ulrich, Alfons, Bernd, Dieter, Dietrich.
German: from Middle High German, Middle Low German stolle ‘prop, support, frame’ or ‘tunnel in a mine’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter or miner; or a nickname for a clumsy or coarse person.
Jewish (from Belarus): metonymic occupational name for a smith, from Yiddish dialect stol, shtol ‘steel’.
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