When Johann Heinrich Stocker was born on 1 March 1846, in Dussnang, Thurgau, Switzerland, his father, Hans Conrad Stocker, was 25 and his mother, Anna Barbara Wuermli, was 23. He married Mary Anna Bieri on 15 July 1880, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 13 August 1918, in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Paris Cemetery, Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Thomas Humpherys BIRTH 20 Apr 1812 DEATH 20 Nov 1853 (aged 41) Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA BURIAL Paris Cemetery Paris, Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA MEMORIAL ID 73623967
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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).
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