When Ida Lawanda Stone was born on 17 March 1852, in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Stone Jr, was 25 and her mother, Charlotte B. Harrington, was 21. She married William Shettlewood Clapp on 14 December 1866, in Millbury, Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Westborough, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1900. She died in 1920, at the age of 68, and was buried in Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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