When Suiel Corning Stone was born on 7 May 1774, in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Daniel Stone, was 30 and his mother, Martha Lawrence, was 21. He died on 4 December 1774, at the age of 0, and was buried in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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 .
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