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Fore Street, Kentisbeare cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Derek Harper - geograph.org.uk/p/2793712 |
The earliest Stone ancestors I can document a link to in Devon are Thomas Stone (b. 1766) who married Dolly Carpenter (bap. 15 Jul 1764), daughter of Edward Carpenter and Mary Winter, at St Mary's, Kentisbeare, Devon, on 5 Sep 1787. These were a pair of my 4th great-grandparents.
There are records for nine children, all baptised in Kentisbeare:
- Sally Stone bap. 20 Apr 1788
- John Stone, b. 6 Jan 1790, bap. 22 Jan 1792
- Henry Stone bap. 22 Jan 1792
- Hugh Stone bap. 25 Jul 1793 (buried 19 Nov 1802)
- William Stone bap. 26 Apr 1795 (buried 4 Apr 1796)
- Mary Stone bap. 2 Apr 1797 (buried 11 Apr 1813)
- William Stone bap. 3 Nov 1799
- Hugh Stone bap. 15 Feb 1803 (buried 13 Jan 1804)
- Elizabeth Stone bap. 7 Sep 1806
Dorothy Stone died, aged 49, and was buried at Kentisbeare on 9 May 1813.
Thomas Stone remarried, also in Kentisbeare, on 17 Apr 1814 to Mary Hill (probably born around 1773-6). Witnesses to this marriage were Thomas Farnell and Elizabeth Hill. Thomas and Mary had three more children.
- Robert Stone bap. 16 Oct 1814
- John Stone bap. 10 Mar 1816
- Thomas Stone bap. 13 Sep 1818
Thomas Stone Sr died in 1838, aged 72 (from exhaustion, I shouldn't be surprised), and was buried in Kentisbeare on 26 Jan 1838.
In 1841, Mary Stone (65) was living in "Kentisbeer Village" with her sons Robert (30), John (26) and Thomas (23). And Mary Stone (78), Widow, Pauper, was still living in the village in 1851, but disappears after that.
In 1799, the year my 3rd great-grandfather, William Stone, was born in the village, Betty Limpany was executed in Exeter for burning down the house of her master, William Leech of Kentisbeare. According to Trewman's Exeter Flying Post of April 11th 1799, "She acknowledged her guilt, was very penitent, and behaved in a manner becoming her unhappy situation."