When Joane Steele was born about 1615, in Surrey, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Steele Sr., was 28 and her mother, Joane Neal, was 33. She had at least 6 sons and 1 daughter with John Berry II. She died in her hometown.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’, perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or for a foundry worker.
English: variant of Stile .
Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from Scots steel ‘steep bank, spur of a ridge’.
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