Stone Family History
Stone Name Meaning
English: from Old English stan ‘stone’, in any of
several uses. It is most commonly a topographic name, for someone who
lived either on stony ground or by a notable outcrop of rock or a
stone boundary-marker or monument, but it is also found as a metonymic
occupational name for someone who worked in stone, a mason or
stonecutter. There are various places in southern and western England
named with this word, for example in Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire,
Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, and the
surname may also be a habitational name from any of these.Translation of various surnames in other languages, including
Jewish Stein, Norwegian Steine, and compound names
formed with this word.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Stone
Name Distribution of Stone Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Stone families
 1,031 - 2,060  344 - 1,030 |
 1 - 343  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Stone families
|
2,208 - 4,413 737 - 2,207 |
1 - 736 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Stone families
|
32 - 61 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Stone Family Origin
Stone Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Stone
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Stone Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Stone census records
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