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North Devon : Grassy Field & Cattle near Rackenford cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Lewis Clarke - geograph.org.uk/p/3997996 |
Saturday, 17 July 2021
Ernest John Hill and Irene Venetta Stone
Friday, 7 May 2021
James Adcock and Mary Hill
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Former Church of St Michael the Greater, Stamford, Lincolnshire cc-by-sa/2.0 - © David Robinson - geograph.org.uk/p/6208532 |
James Adcock, son of Joseph Adcock and Sarah Cook, married Mary Hill, daughter of William Hill, on 5 Jun 1838 at All Saints Church, Pytchley, Northamptonshire. James' profession was listed on the marriage certificate as Carpenter and Joiner and he was already living in Stamford at the time of the marriage. Witnesses were Edward Bryan and Louisa Cox.
James and Mary had five children, all born in in Stamford, Lincolnshire and baptised at the [former] church of St Michaels, Stamford.
- John Adcock born 1839, bap. 14 Apr 1839
- William Hill Adcock born 1840, bap. 11 Dec 1840
- Joseph Hill Adcock born 1842, bap. 20 Feb 1842
- Mary Elizabeth Adcock born 1844, bap. 6 Jun 1847
- James Adcock born 1845, bap. 27 Feb 1847 (died 1847)
Friday, 19 February 2021
Thomas Stone and Dolly Carpenter
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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 my 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 baptised on 20 Apr 1788
- John Stone, born 6 Jan 1790, baptised 22 Jan 1792
- Henry Stone baptised 22 Jan 1792
- Hugh Stone baptised 25 Jul 1793 (buried 19 Nov 1802)
- William Stone baptised 26 Apr 1795 (buried 4 Apr 1796)
- Mary Stone baptised 2 Apr 1797 (buried 11 Apr 1813)
- William Stone baptised 3 Nov 1799
- Hugh Stone baptised 15 Feb 1803 (buried 13 Jan 1804)
- Elizabeth Stone baptised 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 baptised 16 Oct 1814
- John Stone baptised 10 Mar 1816
- Thomas Stone baptised 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."
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