When Mary Madge Stone was born in February 1894, in St. Mary's, Maryland, United States, her father, William Alfred Stone, was 36 and her mother, Mary Martha Thompson, was 25. She lived in Leonardtown, St. Mary's, Maryland, United States for about 20 years and District 8, St. Mary's, Maryland, United States in 1930.
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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