12.1 4xgreat grandparents John Hill & Mary Kemp: Births, marriage, deaths

In the 1851 census, three generations of John Hills – my 2x, 3x and 4x great-grandparents – are living next door to each other in the West Sussex village of Elsted:

4xgreat grandfather John Hill b1780 and wife Mary
3xgreat grandfather John Hill b1804 and wife Mary Upfield
2xgreat grandfather John Hill b1836, who later married Fanny Taylor (1859) and Elizabeth Sarah Windebank (1869).

 John Hill senior is shown as ‘infirm, formerly Ag.Lab’, aged 70. Both he and his wife Mary (74) are from Elsted, Sussex. Ten years earlier, the families are living a few houses apart, still in Elsted Village. John Hill senior is shown as 60 years old (b1781), while wife Mary is 50 (b1791) and son James is 34. The men’s ages are consistent, advancing ten years between the censuses as expected. Mary, however, ages 24 years!

 Given that their son John Hill was baptised in 1804, I looked for a marriage in Elsted around 1800-1803. A copy of the parish register shows that bachelor John Hill married spinster Mary Kamp in Elsted on 16^th February 1801. The marriage record at FamilySearch (extract below) is a bit of a mess: the groom’s name is almost illegible on the signature line, crossed out and then obscured by his ‘mark’; while the bride’s name is shown as Elizabeth on the signature – even though it is clearly Mary Kamp in the banns section above. The witnesses are Thos. Mills and a barely legible ‘Hill’ or ‘Mill’.

The bride’s surname is written as Kamp, but it seems more likely that this should be Kemp. On the 1841 census, a James Kemp is living next door to the Hill family. He is about the same age as the couple’s son, James Hill. A Jemima Kemp and family is living next door to their son John Hill junior a few houses away.

 The parish registers suggest they only had three children: Mary (b1801), John (1804) and James (1806). Mary married William Knowles in 1823 in Elsted, but moved to Hampshire with her new husband. Son James, a shepherd, married Mary Parr in Elsted a year after the 1841 census. They are with his parents on census night in 1851.

His parents had already died by the 1861 census, when James Hill and wife Mary are recorded still living in Elsted, James a Shepherd. I found a burial record at FamilySearch for John Hill, aged 73 years (b1780) in St Paul’s church, Elsted, on 10^th July 1853 (extract below):

I have not been able to find a formal death index entry for the Midhurst district, nor any other John Hill entry of the right age range anywhere else in the country.

Mary Hill (Kemp) died on 1^st May 1860 in Elsted, aged 84 years (b1776). On her death certificate, she is described as the widow of John Hill, a Shepherd, and the cause of death is given as Decay of Nature, not certified – in other words, she died of old age. The informant was another Mary Hill, present at the death (one of her daughters-in-law, wife of James or John). 

It seems that her age on the 1851 census was correct, and that she was 3-4 years older than her husband.

There is a baptism at FamilySearch in nearby Trotton for Mary Kemp, daughter of Richard Kemp, Labourer, on 26^th January 1777 (extract below), which I believe is her. Research in the parish registers suggests that her parents were Richard Kemp and Elizabeth, formerly Cawood, and that her brother James Kemp’s widow Jemima was living near them in the 1851 census. 

John Hill was baptised in Elsted on 4^th May 1780. The fairly illegible copy of the parish register at FamilySearch shows he was the son of Nicholas and Mary Hill:

So the line of John Hills of Elsted stops at 5xgreat grandfather Nicholas Hill. 

For the sources mentioned in bold, see blogpost: MyRoots: Lesly's family history: Sources and resources: A quick view

Mary Hill (Kemp) b1777: Death certificate 1860

Midhurst, Harting, in the County of Sussex
First May 1860, Elsted
Mary Hill
Female
84 years
Widow of John Hill, a Shepherd
Cause: Decay of nature not certified
Informant: The mark of Mary Hill, present at the Death, Elsted

 

11.8 William Moorhouse Stoney b1776: Signatures?

The possible timeline of my 4xgreat grandfather’s journey from Kettlewell, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, via a Grocery business in Leeds, to bankruptcy, debtors’ prison and conviction for fraud in London and the start of a commercial traveller/credit drapery dynasty makes interesting although not altogether fully-evidenced reading. As an addition, I’ve shown here his signature as it appears on various documents over time, which may reinforce (or reject) what evidence there is for that journey being of one man, rather than two or more conflated individuals.

Name	Record	Date	Signature
William Stoney	Marriage bond (Mary Eyre), Leeds	1 Nov 1800	.
William Stoney	Parish marriage record (Mary Eyre, Leeds)	31 May 1801	May be written by clerk for Bishop’s Transcript
William Moorhouse Stoney	Parish marriage record (Mary Ann Rowney)	26 Dec 1825	.

 There are similarities particularly between the earliest signature in 1800, and the last, in 1825. But also differences. So who knows?

William Moorhouse Stoney b1850: Death certificate 1905

 

Southwark St George the Martyr West in the County of London
27th February 1905, 251 Southwark Bridge Road
William Moorhouse Stoney
Male
77 Years
Draper (Master)
Cause: Senile decay certified by LM Stoker LRCSJ
Informant: W.M.Stoney, Son, Present at the death, 245 Southwark Bridge Road

11.7 A dynasty of William Moorhouse Stoneys: Credit Drapers and money lenders

My 3x great grandmother Catherine Alice Stoney had only one full sibling as far as I know: William Moorhouse Stoney, born 9^th January 1828, baptised 27^th April 1828 at St Mary Newington. He is shown as the son of William Moorhouse Stoney and his wife Mary Ann.

William Moorhouse Stoney II b1828

He appears aged 13 with his parents, 12-year old sister and (it turns out) his maternal grandmother Alice Pearce on the 1841 census, at Sion Place, Newington. Eight years later he married spinster Elizabeth Bridget Kennedy at St Giles Camberwell, naming his father as William Moorhouse Stoney, a Commercial Traveller like himself.

By the time the 1851 census was taken, he appears to have stopped work as a Commercial Traveller – perhaps for a more settled family life – and is working as a Draper, aged 23, with his Irish wife Elizabeth, an upholstress. They have two children, William Henry (aged 1) - later known by his father’s names, William Moorhouse - and Mary Ann (3). Elizabeth’s mother and sister, both from Ireland, are with them on census night.

He is listed at 12 Southwark Bridge Road as a linen draper in the London City Directory at Ancestry and is still living there a year later. In the 1861 census, he is described as a Draper (Woollen), aged 32, with wife Elizabeth and six children aged 2-13 years old. In the 1871 census, they are still at Southwark Bridge Road, this time at no.251, where William is still working as a Draper. They have four children still at home, William Moorhouse Stoney junior (21) and Archibald (15) working as Draper’s Assistants, presumably for their father. They also have a servant in the house, 26 year old Isabella Parker. By the 1881 census they are at the same address, and William is specifically a Credit Draper. Daughter Eliza, 29, is a barmaid, and sons Archibald and George are both assisting in their father’s business.

Their daughter Eliza Stoney died later that year, on 8th September 1881, at 251 Southwark Bridge Road. The probate records show that administration of her estate was granted to her father ‘William Moorhouse Stoney, Draper of 251 Southwark Bridge Road, the Father’. Her estate amounted to £211 (worth about £24k in today’s money … quite a sum for an unmarried barmaid).

In the 1891 census, William is shown as 63, a Credit Draper and Money Lender, with wife Elizabeth, son Walter (17, a Draper’s Assistant) and daughter Grace M, 15. William’s wife Elizabeth died on 10^th August 1892 of a strangulated umbilical hernia, aged 67, wife of William Moorhouse Stoney, Draper, at 251 Southwark Bridge Road. William is still at that address in the 1901 census, described as a Credit Draper and Money Lender, an ‘employer at home’. Son Walter, now 27, is in the same profession, but additionally is a ‘traveller’. Daughter Grace is still at home with them, but has no given occupation.

What were credit drapers?

Sometimes also called ‘Scotch Drapers’, tallymen or collectors, Credit Drapers sold goods, usually clothing or cloth, on credit. They may have started selling door-to-door then, when they had made enough money, could set up in business selling from their own shop, and employing travellers to continue to doorstep sales, and collectors to collect the monies owed by instalments.

William Moorhouse Stoney (the second, b1828), died at 251 Southwark Bridge Road on 27 February 1905 aged 77 years, of senile decay.

His death certificate shows his occupation as Draper (Master), and the informant was his son, William Moorhouse Stoney (the third), of 245 Southwark Bridge Road. 

William Moorhouse Stoney II left a considerable legacy: he died intestate, but administration of his estate was granted to his son William, amounting to £945 7/2 (after taxes). Taking inflation into account, this would be the equivalent of £117,865 in 2021. 

Money lending was clearly a lucrative occupation and it is strange that he didn’t make a will; perhaps, like many people, he was suspicious of doing so or, given the cause of death, by the time he needed to, he was no longer of ‘sound mind’.

251 Southwark Bridge Road was – with much of the surrounding area – part of the property portfolio of the Bridge House Estates (London City Bridge Estates), a trust that built several London bridges, including Tower Bridge and Blackfriars, and which took on Southwark Bridge from its original private ownership. The area was developed in 2017 as ‘Two fifty one’, a 41-storey mixed-use building; nothing remains of the old buildings in the street where the Stoney family ran their draper’s business and made their homes in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. Unfortunately, I haven’t found any old images of this part of Southwark Bridge Road, but Ancestry has land tax records showing the families of William Moorhouse Stoney (II and III) at 245 and 251 Southwark Bridge Road from the early 1890s to 1907. The example below is from 1895, showing several houses occupied by William Stoney (but with no house number in this case, it’s not clear if this is William Stoney II or III).

William Moorhouse Stoney III b1850

The Stoney credit draper dynasty continued with William’s son, William Moorhouse Stoney III, b.1850. He married at St John’s Walworth on 30^th May 1883, described as a Draper’s Traveller – presumably selling and/or collecting monies for his father’s wares. His bride was Eliza Vasselin, and both give their address as The Palatinate.

British History Online notes that: “Adjacent to Gurney Street are two six-storey blocks called The Palatinate, erected in 1875, and designed "to provide convenient and healthy dwellings at moderate rents" to enable those "of a grade higher in the social scale" than the working class to live near their work … At the time they were put up they were a progressive experiment in housing, and the shops on the ground floor facing New Kent Road were an unusual feature.”

The London Picture Archive has an image of the rear of these blocks from the 1960s. Part of the site was destroyed in the Blitz, while the rest have since been demolished.

William Moorhouse Stoney III’s wife ‘Eliza Vasselin’ was actually Elisabeth Desirée Vasselin, born in St Saviour, Jersey, in 1850. Her parents were Jean-Baptiste Vasselin (shown as John, deceased, on the marriage record) and Julie (formerly Vibert). She must have moved to London in the previous ten years, as she is still shown with her family in St Helier in the 1871 census.

The couple had four children. The first-born was William Moorhouse Stoney (IV), born in 1886. As far as I can tell, none of the other three survived infancy. Eliza died on 25^th April 1892, shortly after giving birth to their daughter Annie, her death certificate showing the cause as ‘pneumonia 7 days, parturition four days’. She was 42 years old. Annie’s death was registered around the same time. Husband William Moorhouse Stoney is described as a Draper’s Collector on her death certificate.

William Moorhouse Stoney III married for a second time in 1903 to Florence Nancy Hand at St John Walworth. Their marriage certificate describes him as aged 53, a Traveller, father William Moorhouse Stoney, Draper. Florence is 34, a domestic servant, daughter of John Dominic Hand, Portrait painter. They appear to have been living as man and wife for several years before their marriage. In the 1901 census, they are living at 245 Southwark Bridge Road and Florence is listed as ‘wife’ of William Stoney, ‘Traveller’, aged 51. They have four children, including William and Eliza’s son William (Moorhouse Stoney IV), a Telegraph Messenger aged 14, and John D. (7), Claude (4) and Florence (1). John’s birth was registered in 1893, a year after Eliza’s death. The GRO shows his full name as John Dominic Hand Stoney, mother’s maiden name Gothorp. As Florence Hand’s father was John Dominic Hand, it seems likely that she was John’s mother. I’m not sure where the maiden name Gothorp comes from!

The 1911 census finds them at 99 Church Street, Walworth, where William Moorhouse Stoney III is described as a Credit Draper. He claims that he and wife Florence have been married for 19 years – ie 1892 – whereas they actually only married eight years before the census was taken. William Moorhouse Stoney IV is still living at home, but has finally broken the Credit Draper dynasty – he is working as a bus conductor!  Their son Claude, though, aged 14, is working as a warehouse boy at a Drapers, so possibly still keeping the business in the family.

John Dominic Hand Stoney, born 30^th June 1893, was an Assistant Waiter in a Hotel in 1911. Three years later he signs a declaration as a Steward of his intention of becoming a naturalised US Citizen in New York. In 1916, he signs up in London to serve in WWI, giving William Moorhouse Stoney as his next of kin (father), subsequently crossed out with the addition of his new wife Daisy Trepte, who he married in July that year. His occupation by then is Electrician. He also fought in WWII as a Merchant Seaman, receiving a medal for service. He appears on the SS Queen Mary as a Steward in December 1943 travelling between Scotland and New York. He died in Ipswich, Suffolk, in January 1980.

His father, William Moorhouse Stoney III, died on 13^th March 1937, aged 87, at New End Hospital, Middlesex. Probate was granted to his daughter Florence Grace Rossiter, wife of John Carl Rossiter, ‘one of the parties entitled to share in the estate’.

William Moorhouse Stoney IV b1886

Having worked as a Telegraph Messenger (1901 census) and Bus Conductor (1911 census), William Moorhouse Stoney IV served in WW1 and married widow Margaret O’Hare in Liverpool on 21^st July 1918, when he is described as a Soldier. His father, William Moorhouse Stoney III, is described as a Post Office Official, so the credit drapery business seems finally to have ended sometime between 1911 and the War. By the outbreak of WWII, he and Margaret are living in Islington, where his occupation is described as ‘TMC Clerk Ministry of Labour’. He died aged 72 in 1958. The couple had two daughters, so William Moorhouse Stoney IV was the last named direct descendent of William Moorhouse Stoney I, born around 1776, my 4xgreat-grandfather.

For the sources mentioned in bold, see blogpost: MyRoots: Lesly's family history: Sources and resources: A quick view

The Will of Jonathan Stoney, Yeoman of Kettlewell, proved 1808

The Will of Jonathan Stoney, Yeoman of Kettlewell [and half-brother of Mary Stoney, possibly the mother of William Moorhouse Stoney] transcribed by Lesly Huxley, from a copy ordered from The Borthwick Institute, University of York

Exeon of the will of Jonathan Stoney late of Kettlewell yeoman decd was granted to William Stoney his nephew and sole executor before Haddon. 4th Janry 1808 Under 100L

In the name of God Amen I Jonathan Stoney of Kettlewell in the County of York Yeoman being of sound mind and memory DO make this my last will and testament in manner following (that is to say) 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] and his heirs executors and administrators forever (subject nevertheless to the payment of all my just debts funeral expenses and the charges of proving and registering this my will and I make and appoint him [the said William Stoney] my said Nephew sole executor of this my will hereby revoking and making void all former and other wills by me heretofore made I publish and declare this to be and contain my last will and testament this twenty sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ffour. 

Signed and sealed by the said Jonathan Stoney the above mentioned testator and by him published and declared to be and contain his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses the interlineation above appearing to have been first made. 

Jonathan Stoney Frances Birkbeck of Leyburn Spinster Mary Ann Wood of Leeds Spinster Jos Wood of Leeds attorney at Law 

I do hereby certify that on the second day of January in the year of our Lord 1808 William Stoney of Leeds in the County of York and the nephew and sole executor named in this the last will and testament of Jonathan Stoney late of Kettlewell in the County and Diocese of York aforesaid yeoman deceased was sworn well and truly to execute and perform of the same and that the whole of the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased within the diocese of York do not amount in value to the sum of one hundred pounds. 

Under 100L Exchequer Witness my hand Peter Haddon Surrogate 10s stamp passed seal 4 Janry 1808 under 100L

11.6 4xgreat grandfather William Moorhouse Stoney: A timeline from Leeds to London?

 My 3x great-grandmother names her father as William Moorhouse Stoney, Gentleman, on her marriage certificate of 1849. When William Moorhouse Stoney married Mary Ann Rowney (nee Pearce) in 1825, he was a widower, and research indicates that he had been convicted of fraud and held on a Prison Hulk for four years. He was also at least twice in debtors’ prison, and may have been convicted of fraud for a second time in 1836.

His given age (year of birth) variously ranges across records from 1765 to 1778. The only indication of his birth place is on his prison record of 1819 (Kettlewell, Yorkshire) and the 1851 census (Shipton/Skipton, Yorkshire). He may have been born illegitimately to Mary Stoney, whose son William Stoney was baptised in Kettlewell on 31^st December 1776 (date of birth not given), and who may be the same William Stoney apprenticed to a Grocer in Leeds in 1793, and named in Mary Stoney’s half-brother’s will proved in 1808. His first marriage may have been in 1800/1801 to Mary Eyre, when he was a Grocer in Leeds.

There are so many potential records that the table below tries to set out what I have found, which might help highlight anomalies and sift the data from what might be evidence, or surmise.  Is this one man, two men, or several?? And which records can be attributed to my 4xgreat-grandfather William Moorhouse Stoney?

Name	Record date	Age/DoB	Place	Occupation	Record	Source
William Stoney	31 Dec 1776	31 Dec 1776	Kettlewell	Natural son of Mary Stoney	Baptism	FindMyPast
William Stoney	1793	-	Leeds	Apprenticed to Josh Smith, Grocer of Leeds	Apprenticeship	Britain, Country Apprentices 1710-1808 at FindMyPast
William Stoney See signature	21 Nov 1800	23 (1777)	Leeds	Grocer of Leeds	Marriage Bond – Mary Eyre	Ancestry
William Stoney See signature	31 May 1801	-	Leeds	-	Marriage record – Mary Eyre (NB records say 1800/1801/1808)	Ancestry
William Stoney	Dec 1803	-	Leeds	With John Smith, Grocer Co-partners in Trade, Dealers and Chapmen, Declared bankrupts	London Gazette – Notice to creditors of bankrupts	London Gazette at FindMyPast
William Stoney	4 Jan 1808	-	Kettlewell	Nephew William Stoney [of Leeds in the County of York Grocer]	Proof of Will of Jonathan Stoney, Yeoman of Kettlewell possibly William’s uncle, his mother’s half-brother. Appeared personally.	Borthwick Institute.
William Stoney	4 Nov 1814 [and 1815]	-	Marshalsea Prison London	-	Marshalsea Commitment and Discharge books	Ancestry
William Stoney	Feb 1819	-	Surrey County Assizes (Lent)	Tried for fraud. No prosecution	England & Wales Criminal Registers.	Ancestry
William Stoney	8 Oct 1819	-	Mansion House	Case heard for fraud, prisoner remanded. ‘Had been here before’	Account of hearing in The Morning Chronicle, Fraud against John Campbell, published 8/10/19.	BNA at FindMyPast
William Moorhouse Stoney	27 Oct 1819	-	The Old Bailey	Tried and convicted of fraud, Sentenced to 7 years transportation	Proceedings of the Old Bailey of 27th October 1819. Trial of William Moorhouse Stoney for fraud against John Campbell.	The Proceedings of The Old Bailey Online
Wm. Moorhouse Stoney	27 Oct 1819	1778 (aged 41)	London – Newgate Prison. Born at Kettlewell, Yorkshire	Grocer. 5’11 ½”, Dark complexion, dark hair, hazel eyes, stoutish made.	Newgate Prisoners for Trial. Obtaining by false pretences from Mr Campbell with intent to defraud him. 15th December 1819 – to Retribution Hulk Sheerness	Newgate Prison Calendars from HO77 at Ancestry.
William Moorhouse Stoney	Oct 1819	1778 (aged 41)	London -Newgate Prison	Under sentence of transportation for 7 years (Hulks)	Prisoners on Orders. London.	Newgate Prison Calendar from HO77. FindMyPast (also at Ancestry)
Wm. Moorhouse Stoney	3 Nov 1819	1778 (age 41)	London – Newgate Prison.	Grocer. Committed by the Lord Mayor for Obtaining by false pretences from Mr Campbell £5 with intent to cheat him. Sentence 7 years transportation.	Newgate Calendar of prisoners for trial.	Newgate Prison Calendar from HO77. At FindMyPast (also at Ancestry)
Wm. Moorhouse Stoney	15 Dec 1819	1778 (age 41)	Retribution Hulk at Sheerness	Grocer.	Newgate Calendar of Prisoners for Trial (see 27/10/19 above – same record).	Newgate Prison Calendars from HO77 at Ancestry.
William Stoney	4th Sept 1823	-	Retribution Hulk at Sheerness	-		Correspondence and Warrants from HO13 at FindMyPast
Wm. M. Stoney	6th Sept 1823	1778 (age 41 at conviction 1819)	Retribution Hulk	no.3536 on first page	UK, Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849: King’s pardon granted.	At Ancestry
William Moorhouse Stoney See signature	26th Dec 1825	-	St Giles Camberwell	Widower	Parish marriage register entry - to widow Mary Ann Rowney after banns. Witnesses Amy Pearce, William Pearce	London England Marriages & Banns – At Ancestry
William Moorhouse Stoney	27th April 1828	-	Sion Place, East Street – St Mary Newington	Coal Merchant	Parish baptism entry for William Moorhouse Stoney, son of William Moorhouse and Mary Ann Stoney b. 9/1/28	London England Births & Baptisms at Ancestry
Catherine Alice Stoney	? 1829	-	St Mary Newington?	-	Baptism record not found. 1841-1861 census = birth 1829
William Moorhouse Stoney (sued as William Stoney)	10th April 1829	-	Formerly of Zion Place, Walworth	General Commission Agent and Dealer in Coals in co-partnership with William Loader	London Gazette Notice of petitions of prisoners in the Court for Relief of Prisoners for Debt	London Gazette
William Stoney	1831	-	Sion Place	-	Newington Rate Payers 1831.	Southwark Rate Books at FindMyPast
William Stoney	5th Jan 1836	1767 (aged 69)	Surrey Assizes	Sentenced to six months in prison for fraud	Criminal Registers for indictable offences Surrey 1836	Criminal Registers at Ancestry
Wllm Stoney	30th Jun 1841	1771 (age 70)	Sion Place, St Mary Newington. Not born in county	Agent	1841 Census: with Mary Stoney (dressmaker, 50), William Stoney (13),Cath Stoney (12), Alice Pearce (Independent, 75)	1841 census at Ancestry and others.
William Moorhouse Stoney	17th May 1843	-	Horsemonger Lane Gaol. Late of No.6 Sion Place, East Street, Walworth	Commission and General Agent	London Gazette notice of  orders made on the possession of estates and effects on the people listed in the court for relief of insolvent debtors (17th May) on their own petitions.	London Gazette published 19th May 1843.
William Moorhouse Stoney (sued as W.M. Stoney)	10th July 1843	-	Late of No.6 Sion Place, East Street, Walworth	General Dealer, and Commission, Discount, and General Agent, twice a Prisoner for Debt in the county Gaol for Surrey, Horsemonger  lane, my wife a Dress Maker	London Gazette notice of 16th June 1843 of order for prisoners listed for insolvency to present themselves at Court, Portugal Street, Lincolns Inn	London Gazette published 16th June 1843.
William Moorhouse Stoney	21st April 1849	-	St Giles Camberwell	Commercial Traveller	Marriage of son William Moorhouse Stoney, Commercial Traveller, to Elizabeth Bridget Kennedy, of Grove Rd, Camberwell	London England Marriages at Ancestry and certificate from GRO
William Moorhouse Stoney	19th Nov 1849	-	St John the Evangelist, Lambeth	Gentleman	Marriage of daughter Catherine Alice Stoney to Aaron Wales, Saddler. Both of Waterloo Road, Lambeth	London England Marriages at Ancestry (and certificate from GRO)
William M Stoney	30th Mar 1851	1763-1768? (Age 83-88?)	1 Cottage Row, Newington. Born Shipton [Skipton?], Yorkshire	Retired Grocer	1851 census: with wife Mary Ann (57) Dressmaker, Emma A Stoney, ‘daughter’, (30), Hat Trimmer [actually his step-daughter]	1851 census at Ancestry and others
William Moorhouse Stoney	17th Jan 1857	1768 (age 89)	1 Cottage Row, Locks Fields, Walworth	Commercial Traveller	Death certificate: cause – apoplexy, certified. Informant Elizabeth Stoney, 11 Swan Street. [daughter-in-law]	Death certificate from GRO.
William Moorhouse Stoney	25th Jan 1857	1768 (age 89 years)	Cottage Place, Walworth	-	Burial record from London City and Tower Hamlets Cemetery	Cemetery Register at Ancestry

The only records that link William Moorhouse Stoney to daughter Catherine Alice Stoney are her marriage record of 1849, and her appearance with him, mother Mary Ann and brother William Stoney in the 1841 census. There are other links (marriage witnesses, death informants and addresses that indicate this is the ‘right’ family for Catherine Alice Stoney. But I am still not sure if all the records prior to the marriage of William Moorhouse Stoney and widow Mary Ann Rowney are for the same man, nor whether the marriage to Mary Eyre was his first marriage – and if so, what happened to Mary and any children of the marriage?

For the sources mentioned in bold, see blogpost: MyRoots: Lesly's family history: Sources and resources: A quick view