My presumed 6xgreat grandfather John Stoney married twice and had eleven children between 1737-1762. All but one were girls, and only half of these survived infancy. They were:
With first wife Alice Stainforth:
1. Elizabeth, daughter of John Stoney of
Hartlinton Moorside, Yeoman, born 10 February 1737 and baptised 20 February,
Burnsall
2. Eleanor, daughter of John Stoney of
Hartlinton Moorside, Yeoman, was publicly baptised 23 January 1738, Burnsall
(Elin, daughter of John Stoney, of Grassington, buried 29 Dec 1740)
3. Margaret, (possibly, 20 Nov 1740, Linton in
Craven, daughter of John Stoney of Gris., Yeoman), daughter of John
Stoney of Grassington, Yeoman, buried 2 January 1741
4. Jonathan, son of John Stoney of Kettlewell, Yeoman, baptised 6 February 1743, Kettlewell
With
second wife Ann Pawson:
5. Elin, daughter of John Stoney of
Kettlewell, Yeoman, baptised 31 October 1750 (buried 6 November 1751, daughter
of John Stoney, Yeoman), Kettlewell
6. Dorothea, daughter of John Stoney,
Yeoman, baptised 29 January 1752, Kettlewell
7. Ann, born around 1754, named in her father’s and
half-brother’s wills, baptism not found
8. Mary, daughter of John Stoney of
Kettlewell, Yeoman, baptised 27 March 1756, Kettlewell
9. Rachel, daughter of John Stoney and Ann,
5 December 1757 (buried 30 January 1759, daughter of John Stoney, Yeoman),
Kettlewell
10.
Alice, daughter of John Stoney and Ann,
baptised 17 April 1760, Kettlewell
11.
Hannah, daughter of John Stoney, baptised
14 February 1762, Kettlewell
1. Elizabeth Stoney (1737-1809)
After her baptism at Burnsall in 1737, nothing is heard of
Elizabeth, the first child of John Stoney, until her marriage at
Kettlewell, aged 22, to Joseph Lindsay on 12 May 1759. FindMyPast has an
image of the register which records the banns as well as the marriage. Both are
of ‘this parish’ (Kettlewell) and Joseph is a Blacksmith.
I have found baptisms for five of their children between
1761-1771. It seems that Elizabeth used many of the names of her siblings and
parents for her children: Jonathan (1761-1761); William (1765-?); John
(1767-?); Alice (1769-1770) and Ellen (1771-?). The will of an Elizabeth
Lindsay of Kettlewell was proved in 1809 (copy available from The Borthwick
Institute); she would have been about 72 years old if she died that year, although
I have not found a burial record for her. Her husband died in September 1799.
2 & 3: Elin/Eleanor and Margaret Stoney
Both of John Stoney’s next two children died in
infancy.
4. Jonathan Stoney (1743-1808)
Jonathan’s story – what little we know of this Yeoman of
Kettlewell – has already been told. He was the last of John Stoney's children with his first wife, Alice Stainforth, who died three years after Jonathan's birth.
5. Elin Stoney (1750-1751)
Elin was the first child of John Stoney and his
second wife Ann Pawson. Sadly, like her older half-sister, she died in
infancy.
6. Dorothy Stoney (1752-1811)
Dorothea Stoney was baptised at Kettlewell in January 1752. She
is the first-named daughter in her father’s will of 1771, when she was
bequeathed a guinea, like her sisters. She would have been about 19 years old
at his death, and was his oldest unmarried daughter. Ten years later, aged 29,
she married the splendidly named Robinson Grandidge on 26 July 1781 at
Kildwick, about 18 miles from Kettlewell. From his baptism record, he appears
to have been illegitimate – perhaps his father’s surname was Robinson? He and
Dorothy/Dorothea baptised at least four children between 1784 and 1796 – there
may have been others, as the surname is open to much variation in spelling.
Robinson Grandidge is recorded as paying land tax at Farnhill, just across the
canal from Kildwick, where the couple married. He was a Yeoman farmer like his
father-in-law. His wife died in 1811, buried on 29 September that year, ‘wife
of Robinson Grandidge, Yeoman’, when she would have been about 59 years old.
Robinson continues to be recorded as paying taxes at Farnhill until 1823,
although he actually died in July 1822, being buried at Kildwick on 21 July. Their
youngest son, also Robinson Grandidge, was born in 1796 and passed on the
Stoney name to his own son, Jonathan Stoney Gandidge, who was born in 1836.
7. Ann Stoney (1754-1828)
Ann Stoney was 17 when her father died, leaving her a guinea
in his will. She was about fifty years old when her half-brother Jonathan Stoney made his will in 1804, writing “all my real estate whatsoever situate at
Kettlewell aforesaid or elsewhere and also all my household goods and
ffurniture plate linen ready money money owing to me upon or without security
or securities and all other my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever I
give devise and bequeathe to my sister Ann Stoney and her assigns during the
term of her natural life and from and immediately after her decease I give
devise and bequeath the same unto my Nephew William Stoney [of Leeds in the
County of York Grocer]”. It seems that she did not marry, despite not receiving
much under their father’s will. Perhaps she had lived with Jonathan, acting as
housekeeper, as he also remained unmarried, or he maintained her during her
lifetime. She died intestate on 6 April 1828, her married sister Hannah Myers
being granted administration of her estate, which is said not to exceed £20 in
value. It is not clear whether Jonathan Stoney’s estate – which he willed to
pass to his nephew William Stoney, Grocer of Leeds after her death – was
actually transferred to him, as by then he had been imprisoned on a Hulk on the
Thames for four years, been pardoned and had started a family in London, being
regularly in debt before and after.
8. Mary Stoney (1756-1799)
My 5xgreat grandmother Mary Stoney was also
unmarried, aged 15, when she was left a guinea in her father’s will. She did
not marry, but had an illegitimate son, William Moorhouse Stoney, the
‘nephew, Grocer of Leeds’ mentioned in her half-brother’s will in 1804 some
five years after her death.
9. Rachel Stoney (1757-1759)
The fifth daughter of John Stoney and his second wife
Ann Pawson died aged just two years old.
10. Alice Stoney (1760-?)
We know that Alice Stoney was baptised in Kettlewell on 17
April 1760, and that she was still alive – aged about 11 – when she is left a
guinea in her father’s will. I have not found any obvious death or burial
records for an Alice Stoney after that. There is a marriage record for 20
October 1784 for an Alice Stoney and Richard Duckett at Arncliffe – about five
miles from Kettlewell – at FindMyPast. She was about 24 years old. This
Alice is said to be from Arncliffe Parish, her husband is from nearby Long Preston.
This couple baptised a son, William, at Long Preston in 1788, but little else
is known about their lives. I have not been able to find any obvious death or
burial records for them, although their son moved to Nottinghamshire and
Leicester, and was a Cabinet Maker.
11. Hannah Stoney (1762-1833)
John Stoney’s youngest daughter was baptised at
Kettlewell on 14 February 1762; she would have been about nine years old when
her father died, naming her in his will and leaving her a guinea, like her
other unmarried sisters. She was only 16 when her mother Ann Pawson died
in 1778. It seems that Hannah, like her older sister Alice, moved to Arncliffe
at some point in the 1780s, as she was also married from there on 10 March
1788, aged 24. Her husband was John Metcalfe, and one of the witnesses was her
older sister’s husband, Robinson Grandidge. Whereas sister Alice married
Richard Ducket by license, Hannah and John married by banns. Her husband died
some time before 1813, and she remarried on 17 June 1813 at Arncliffe. Her
husband this time was Henry Myers. When her spinster sister Ann Stoney died in
1828, Hannah Myers, widow of Long Preston, is granted administration of her
small estate. She appears to have died in February 1833 and was buried – aged
70 – in Kettlewell, her parish of birth. Administration of her estate was
granted to a Robert Metcalfe. He may have been her son from her first marriage,
or another relative of her first husband.
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