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Archives Restored
We’ve managed to recover our archives You will find links to the archives under the LIBRARY navigation button at the top of the page.
CSO Archive is the original Coranto web site dating back from 2002 to September 2009
Wiki Archive dates from September 2009 to March 2017
CSO Web Site Updates

We’re really at it now. We have switched to WordPress and will gradually move old content over to the new system. On the Navigation bar you’ll find a link to the old Wiki web site. If you get a 404 error while navigating the old site change the ‘www’ in the url address to ‘old’ and you should find the page you wanted.
Mary Sterling Bakke
Mary Sterling Bakke was born in Sioux City, Iowa on 3 March 1904, the daughter of Howard Hoyt Sterling and May Lura Ralya. She is the 7th great-grand-daughter of William Sterling of Haverhill, Mass and Old Lyme and his first wife Elizabeth Sawtell by their son Richard. The line of descent in the direct Sterling line is … William > Richard > William > William > William > Nathaniel > William > Fred Miller > Howard Hoyt > Mary.
Mary Sterling married E. Wight Bakke a Yale University economics professor who held the Sterling Professor chair in Economics at Yale (appointed 1940)
Mary taught at Quinnipiac College from 1929 to 1953. She was dean of woman there from 1948 to 1953. Mary was a prolific writer both in her own right and as co-author with her husband E. Wight Bakke. She was a founding member of the New Haven Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
I had the great privilege of meeting Mary Sterling Bakke at her home Sterling Heights. Mary graciously showed me around the old homestead built by John Sterling in 1740. John was the grandson of William Sterling of Haverhill Mass & Old Lyme. At that time I did not know my relationship to Mary, I have since learned she was my 5th cousin 3 times removed, our common ancestor being William Sterling, father of James Sterling of Cornwall, CT. Mary took me down the hill to visit the Sterling Family Cemetary. She showed me the speciall tombstone covers she had made to protect Willilam of Haverhill & Old Lyme’s stone from the ravages of winter.
Mary Sterling Bakke died 31 Jan 1987 at the Connecticut Hospice at Branford, CT. She was buried at Grove Street Cemetary, New Haven CT. Her husband, Edward Wight Bakke died Nov. 23, 1971 at New Haven, CT
Rick Sterling
Montpelier, ID 07/08/2015
Flora MacDonald Memorial - March 5

Latest DNA Research Results

DNA results recently have confirmed that our “Family Group A” Haplogroup I-M253 represents the Cadder and Keir descendants. At this time we can not share all that we know due to privacy concerns. Rick Sterling