Early Origins of the Stickny family
The surname Stickny was first found in
Lincolnshire at Stickney which is today a linear village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district. The village dates back to the
Domesday Book where it was listed as Stichenai and literally meant "long strip of land between streams."
[1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) Hence, conjecturally, the surname is descended from the
tenant of the village and lands of Stickney, held by Ivor Tailbois, a Norman
Baron, who was recorded in the
Domesday Book census of 1086.
Early History of the Stickny family
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Early Notables of the Stickny family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Stickny family to the New World and Oceana
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands. They also settled in Philadelphia. Most were descended of Wiliam Stickney of Rowley, Massachusetts..