When Mary Stone was born in 1790, in Canada, her father, Joshua Stone, was 35 and her mother, Chloe Morehouse, was 21. She married Oliver C Graham on 4 February 1817, in New Brunswick, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died before 1860.
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English: from Middle English ston(e) ‘stone, rock’ (Old English stān). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on stony ground, by a notable outcrop of rock, or by a stone boundary-marker or monument, or habitational, from a place called Stone, such as those in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire.
Irish (Kilkenny): adopted for Irish Ó Clochartaigh (see Clougherty ) and/or Ó Clochasaigh (see Clohessy ), and possibly several other names containing or thought to contain the element cloch ‘stone’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various surnames in other languages, meaning ‘stone’, including Jewish Stein , Norwegian Steine, French Lapierre .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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