STONE Family Members
Page last updated 16 August 2022.
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STONE:
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STONE:
- 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.
- History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Thomas Scott was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker). Gregory Stone (1590-1672) came to North America in 1635, and is buried in the old burial ground at Cambridge MA. Thomas Stone (1743-87), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born into a prosperous family at Poynton Manor, MD. He was a descendant of William Stone (born c. 1603), who had emigrated to VA from Northamptonshire in England around 1628 and who later became governor of MD.
STONE family pages done are:
- STONE, Infant Daughter (d. 1923)
- STONE, Infant (d. 1925)
- STONE, Infant (d. unknown)
d. = infant's/child's year of death