Florence May Stone, the seventh child of
Frederick James Stone and Loveday Jane Land, married
Sidney William Hitchcock, in Tiverton, in 1920. Without buying a copy of the marriage certificate - not economically attractive for any but direct ancestors - I have no more details currently on date or venue.
Interesting though that I'd found this marriage and felt it had to be right, but had no other record to confirm it, until reading that Mrs F Hitchcock, an aunt, was
one of the family mourners at her nephew's funeral in 1932. That newspaper report also told us that she lived in
Bishops Lydeard, otherwise, I'd never have known, because this couple seem to have evaded the 1939 Register.
Sidney William Hitchcock (b. 1899), was the son of Walter Simon Hitchcock and his wife Ann Stone. Is this yet another circular branch on the family tree?
Walter Simon Hitchcock and Annie Stone had married in 1880 and had lived at Red Ball in 1881 and 1891. "W. S. Hitchcock, labourer,
Redball" is listed under the Cottagers - a term,
the meaning of which, has changed
enormously in the intervening 127 years - in
GREGORY'S DIRECTORY OF 1894. Back then, it had nothing to do with homosexual practices in public toilets, or following Fulham Football Club. A Cottager was a person who lived in a cottage, one of the levels of
serfdom in feudal societies. In 1901, Walter Hitchcock (40) then a Traction engine driver, from
Culmstock, Devon, still lived at Red Ball Cottages, 1,
Nicholashayne in Culmstock. Wife Ann (38) was from
Burlescombe.
Walter Simon Hitchcock (b. 1858) was the son of William Hitchcock (b. 1827), Shoemaker, and his wife Susana. And this William Hitchcock was the son of William Hitchcock (b. 1798) Shoemaker, and his wife Sarah.
Ann Stone (b. 1862) was the daughter of William Stone (b. 1813) and Ann Croyden who had married on 15 Dec 1840, in Burlescombe. William Stone, Husbandman, was the son of Samuel Stone, Quarryman and his wife Grace. Ann Croyden, Seamstress, was the daughter of John Croyden, a Sawyer. But, if there's any link between Ann Stone and the rest, it's in earlier generations.
Sidney William Hitchcock died, in Taunton district, in 1952, aged 53.
Florence M Hitchcock died in 1967. She will have been 73.
