When George Egbert Stebbins was born in 1863, in Racine, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Charles Carrol Stebbins, was 27 and his mother, Louisa Hoyt, was 18. He married Valeria Pearll on 28 June 1905, in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States. He lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1905 and Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States in 1910.
English (Middlesex and Essex): habitational name from Stebbing (Essex). The placename means ‘the people of a man called Stybba’ or ‘the people of the tree stumps’, from an Old English personal name Stybba or Old English stybb ‘tree stump’ + the groupname suffix -ingas.
History: Edward Stebbins was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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