When Ernest E. Sterry was born about 1881, in Shimpling, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Sterry, was 47 and his mother, Emily Sage, was 43. He had at least 2 sons with Mary Kate Atkinson.
English: possibly a nickname from the Middle English adjective stere ‘hardy, strong’ and a range of related senses, with a further suffix -i; or perhaps from an adjective formed from stire ‘stire’, a word for two well-regarded types of cider apple once grown in the Welsh Marches.
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