When Sarah Wilkinson Stock was born on 8 July 1854, in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa, her father, John Stock, was 33 and her mother, Jane Adams, was 31. She married Alma Mattison Peck on 23 October 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Fish Haven, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1880 and Vineyard, Utah, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 21 August 1922, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States.
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English: from Middle English stok(ke), stock(e) ‘tree trunk, tree stump’ (Old English stocc). In some cases the reference may be to a primitive footbridge over a stream consisting of a felled tree trunk. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by a tree stump or footbridge, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Stock Green and Stock Wood in Inkberrow (Worcestershire) or Stokke in Great Bedwyn (Wiltshire). Compare Stocker .
English: variant of Stoke .
German and Dutch: from Middle German stoc ‘tree, tree stump’, hence a topographic name equivalent to 1 above, but sometimes also a nickname for an impolite or obstinate person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesFrom a talk given by DyAnn Houston (shared on Ancestry.com by Joy Peck on 25Feb2008) James Alvin Peck, my grand uncle, was born February 4, 1908, to my great-grandfather, Alma Peck Sr. and his second …
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