The Stedman Cousins is the sole owner of the information collected on this Web site.

We only gather information we need to serve you better and will not, without your consent, sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement except in cases where in good faith we believe that the law requires us to do so, it is necessary to protect The Stedman Cousins rights and/or property, or if circumstances necessitate acting to protect the personal safety of staff or of the public.

Duplication is not permitted without prior written consent.

All information on this Web site is copyright by The Stedman Cousins.

The Main Line of Descent from John de Bancke

________|________________________________________________

|                                  Elizabeth   Thomas    Wyllam    Francis

John of the Banke      1554        1557        1559         1561

(c.1545-1605) m. Joane (c. 1550-1619)

__________|_________________________________________________________________________

Jane       Margaret      |                                                                   Margery 1573     John     Mary

1565      1568      Thomas = i Ann Owens ii Alice Jenks                                    1575     1577

                        (1572-1648)   (1583-1639)     (1571-1644)

________________________|______________________________________________

Johan (dau)           |                      Samuell         Francis         Sarah         Richard

1607      John = Mary Downes   1609            1612           1614           ? - 1652

 (b.c.1600-1674 } (c.1615-1682)

______________|_______________________________________________________________

John Margery Adam Elizabeth Mary Anne Margaret Sarah Caleb = Anne Blucke Edward Richard Isabell

c1633 1635   c.1636   c.1636   1639   1642     1644     1642  (1663-1732) (1663-1732)

__________________________________________________________|__

Anne  Mary  John William  Frances Thomas     |     Richard Adam Mary

1692  1693   1694   1696     1697       1699    Caleb 1704    1706    1708

                                                                    (1700-1789) = Phoebe Page (1700-1760)

___________________________________________________|_______________________

Elizabeth Caleb       Page = Sarah Smallman Edward Anne Margt Elizabeth Benjamin Mary Richard Duppa

(from   ( 1737-1789) (1732-1804) (1732-1816)

1st marr.

_____________________________|___________________________________________________________

Page Smallman, John     Caleb           Edward        Elizabeth     Sarah Mary Richard       Ann     James

(1757-1826)   (1759-1852)(1761-1823) (1763-1821)(1766-1782) 1768 1771 (1773-1825) 1775 (1777-1851)

=Elizabeth      =Ann Jones =?          = 1.Martha                                                                          = Ann

Tudor (1771-   (c.1770                          - Jones (-1795)                                                                  (1788-?)

1827)                 1857)                             2.Elizabeth

                                                                 Meredith (-1843)

(A)               (B)  (C)         (D)         (E)    (F) (G)  (H)      (I)   (J)

Names written in italics represent known siblings of spouses.

More information about each generation is available in the Members Only section here: The Bank House Family Line

A Licence To Reproduce Public Sector Information has been obtained from the UK Office of Public Sector Information.

This Licence includes the right to copy BMD Certificates as long as the copies are made available within the organisation.  Certificates will therefore be made available in a Members Only section of this Web Site.

Material published under this Licence must identify the source of the material and feature the following copyright statement:

Reproduced under the terms of the Click-Use Licence.

Licence Details

Licence type:  PSI Licence

Licence number:  2009000511

Start date:  4/03/2009

End date:  3/03/2014

The terms and conditions of the Licence are available in the attached PDF.

• Facilitate and encourage exchange between members to research the history and genealogy, ancient and modern, of the Stedman family, with the intent of building friendships between members and a growing pool of knowledge about the Stedman family.
• Foster kinship, establish friendships, and rekindle relationships.
• Promote the family and organise Family Gatherings.

Page Smallman Stedman b. 1757

Page, the eldest child of Page and Sarah married Elizabeth Tudor in Brampton Bryan church on 8 March 1791. They farmed at Bedstone and lived at the Manor Hall Farm in Bedstone. There were eight children from this marriage:

________________________|______________________________________

William     Elizabeth     Sarah        Page       Ann    Caleb    Mary    Richard

                  Tudor    Smallman     Smallman

b.1791       b.1793     b.1794        b.1797    b.1799  b.1801  b.1807  b.1809

    (a)             (b)            (c)              (d)          (e)        (f)         (g)         (h)

(a) William as eldest son, inherited his father's farm in Bedstone after his father's death in 1826. William moved back to Bucknell by the time of the 1871 census, and was still farming, though by this time he was in his late 70s. William never married. His cousin Sarah Tudor was his housekeeper. William died 15 July 1875 and is buried in St Mary's churchyard.

(b) Elizabeth Tudor married Edward Bright on 26 May 1818. One son is known to have been born - Richard b. 1820.

(c) Sarah Smallman married Thomas Bright on 20 April 1818. From their marriage there were four children:

______________________|______________________

Ann b.1828   Mary b.1830    William b.1832    Thomas b.1836

(d) Page Smallman was 48 when he died on 14 February 1846 in Bedstone.

(e) Ann married Samuel Baldwin on 17 May 1820 at Bedstone. There were three children from this marriage,

____________________|_____________________

Eliza b. 1821          Samuel b.1823           Anne b.1830

Ann is buried with her husband Samuel at Chapel Lawn, a hamlet near Bucknell.

(f) Caleb married his first cousin Jane (b.1807), daughter of his uncle John Stedman (b. 1759) and his wife Ann Jones. Caleb and Jane farmed 300 acres of land at Stow Farm. There were eight children from this marriage:

__________________________|___________________________________

Annie E   Caleb    William    Charlotte    Page    Richard    John     James

                                                                John                   William   B

b.c 1830  b.c1832  b.1834        b.?        b.1839   b.1843   b.c 1846   b.1848

(i)              (ii)           (iii)           (iv)         (v)        (vi)         (vii)        (viii)

(ii) Caleb married Mary Ann Tudor in 1861. Caleb was a Farm Bailiff on his father's farm in 1851. Their children were:

:__________________________|____________________________________

Henry   Caleb Austin   Laura Ann   Charlotte Flora   William Page   Emily Tudor

b.1856    b.1858            b.1861           b.1865               b.1867            b.1869

(iii) William married Elizabeth Prosser in 1857.

(v) Page John married Charlotte in 1881.

(vi) Richard was blind. It is not sure if this was from birth.

(vii) John William born in Stowe and died 17 May 1895 in Kensington, London. John William married Emily Mower on 11 April 1873 in Shoreditch, Middlesex. She was born abt 1843 in Dalston, Middlesex and died between 1881-1891.

(viii) James B married Pamela. He worked as a baker in Bucknell. There were five children from this marriage:

_______________________|_______________________

Ann        William        Susan        Samuel         John

b.c 1873   b. c 1875    b. 1877     b. c 1879     b. c 1885

James died at the age of 60 on 11 October 1903 and is buried with his parents in St Mary's churchyard, Bucknell.

Return to The Main Line of Descent from John de Bancke

• Membership shall be open to all those of Stedman descent, their partners, and to all those wishing to promote the objectives of the Group.
• All members shall pay an annual membership fee or subscription.  The elected Committee shall set the annual membership fee, which shall be approved either at the Group's Gathering or by vote, conducted in the most efficient and encompassing manner.  This fee shall be set so that income and expenditure are in balance.
• Membership shall cover members of a household.  All communication will be sent to the person nominated as the contact point.  The contact point will cast the vote for their membership when voting is called for.

John Stedman b. 1759

The second son of Page and Sarah, John farmed in Bucknell and lived at the Old Farm. Prior to his marriage, John had a liaison with Elizabeth Probert, resulting in the birth of John Stedman Probert b. 1789. John Stedman Probert lived and worked in Bucknell and the surrounding area.

John Stedman Probert married twice. With his first wife Mary, they had four children

________________|______________________

Edward     Elizabeth      John      George

b.1821       b.1824        b.1826    b.1829

(a)                (b)              (c)            (d)

(a) Edward was a farmer at Lower Woodhouse Farm, Farrington, near Knighton. He married Ann Rollings (1832-1900) and they had eight children:

1. John b. c 1861 (married twice: i. Mary b. 1866 and ii. Mary Anne

2. Mary Anne b. 1862 d. 1867

3. Elizabeth b. 1864

4. Sarah b. 1866

5. Catherine b. 1868

6. Jessie b. 1871

7. Edward b. 1872

8. Charlotte b. 1874

In 1793 John Stedman married Ann Jones from Brecon by Banns at St Mary's Church, Bucknell. Ann's uncle, the Rev. William Watkins, the vicar of St Mary's, officiated. There were ten children born to John and Ann, nine of whom survived infancy:

_______________________________|______________________________________

Ann      Mary      William      Elizabeth      John      Jane      Richard      Caroline      Charlotte

              Ann                                           Smallman             Smallman

b.1793 b.1795      b.1797       b.1799       b.1803   b.1807     b.1805       b.1811        b.1813

(i)            (ii)           (iii)            (iv)              (v)        (vi)         (vii)            (viii)             (ix)

(i) Ann married John Lello from Clunbury, in 1814. There were three sons born to them:

                      _____________|____________

                     John       Thomas      Edward Bailey

                   b.1814        b. 1816        b. 1821

                       *                  **             ***

*** Edward Bailey emigrated to Australia after marrying Margaret Wolley and they settled in Wirrabara, South Australia and had six children:

+ Annie b. 1868 who married William Slow;

+ William b. 1870

+ Emma Flora b. 1874

+ John b. 1861 who married Betsy Ann Christie

+ Mary Ann b. 1862 who married William Owen Lewis;

+Sarah Jane b. 1864

Ann Lello (nee Stedman) died in 1881 and her husband John Lello died in 1845.

(ii) Mary Ann married James Edwards in 1814 in Bucknell. They had at least one son, James born 1815.

(iii) William married Charlotte Hull in February 1853 and there were three children from this marriage:

               _________________|__________________

                John William      Richard      Charlotte Beatrice

                 b. 1854               1858-1859      b. 1861

By 1871 John Stedman (b. 1759) had died and William had taken over the Old Farm at Bucknell with 400 acres of land. William died in 1874.

(iv) Elizabeth Stedman married William Wall from Eardisley Herefordshire on 24 February 1825. William was a farmer of 85 acres. They had five children:

_____________________|__________________________

Mary    Alfred       John     Elizabeth (Betsy)      Charlotte

b.1826   b.c 1834   b.1836     b.1838                  b.1841

(v) John Smallman Stedman b. 17 January 1803 and christened 6 July 1806,

married Maria Valentine in Ludlow on 8 December 1829, and made their

first home in Church Stretton. They then moved to Heartsease, just a few

miles from Bucknell on the Knighton Road, where John farmed. There

were five children from this marriage.

o Maria b. 1842 d 12 Mar 1846

o Mary b 1843 who married Herbert Bird in Knighton in 1874 and had 5 childlren.

o John Smallman b 1845 who married Elizabeth Jane Wall in Whitechapel Middlesex in 1872.

o Charles Menlove b. 1840 d 1909, who married his first cousin Laura Caroline Stedman in 1877. They had seven children. Most of the sons emigrated to America when farming slumped in the late 19^th century.

o Ann Valentine b 1846 who lived with her sister Mary and probably didn't marry.

John Smallman (1803) died at Heartsease on 2 July 1864 aged 61. His

wife Maria died in 1874 aged 71.

(vi) Jane Stedman married her first cousin Caleb (son of her uncle Page Smallman) and there were eight children from this marriage (Click A to see the reords of these children)

(vii) Richard Smallman married Mary Burlton (sibling of Peter Burlton who married Richard's sister Caroline) on 4 December 1832. They lived and farmed with their five children at Bucknell Hall. Mary died in 1842. Their five children were :

          _____________________|________________________

Luisa Ann      Richard       John Henry       Edward       William

b.1833             b.c1836         b.1839            b.1841           b.?

= Luisa Ann married Richard Edwards Middleton in 1858.

= Richard died 27 April 1868

= John Henry emigrated to South Africa with his half brother Herbert in about

1871.

Richard Smallman's married his second wife, Mary Ann Williams (b.1817)

on 10 October 1843, and had a further six children:

______________________|______________________

Peter        Caleb        Ann      Laura       Walter        Herbert

William    Smallman  Maria   Caroline   Watkins

b. 1845     b.1847     b.1849    b.1853     b.1855       b.1857

+ Caleb sadly drowned on his way back from an evening at the Sitwell Arms

in Bucknell, in a pond in the field at the rear of Bucknell Hall in October

1912, age 65.

+ Ann Maria married George Garsed.

+ Laura Caroline married her cousin Charles Menlove Stedman, son of her

uncle John Smallman Stedman [see (v) above].

+ Herbert emigrated to South Africa with his half brother John Henry in

about 1871. He returned and married Anna Louisa Jones (b.1866 Stokesay)

on 2 July 1890 and the couple returned to South Africa. There were three

daughters from this marriage:

      _____________|____________

       Muriel     Laura      Ellen (Nell)

- Muriel b. 1900, married Francis Hulley.

(viii) Caroline married Peter Burlton on 3 July 1838, and lived at Lower Lyde Court, Pipe and Lyde area of north Herefordshire. Peter was a farmer of 306 acres. There were two children from their marriage:

Peter b.1844 Henry Peter Stedman b.1850

Peter (junior) died at the age of 2 months. Peter Burlton senior died in 1865 and Caroline remarried Henry Dashwood, a merchant, and moved to Alverstoke in Hampshire, where she died in 1889. Her son Henry Peter Stedman Burlton married twice. There were no children from his first marriage to Elizabeth Lapthorn, but from his second marriage to Laurel Jane Williams there were nine children:

__________________________|___________________________________

Henry   Beatrice   Maude   Margery   Charles   Robert   George   Laurel   Lily

Peter                      Rose     Caroline    Leonard   Rennie   Fred'k    Violet  Isobel

b.1882   b.1884      b.1885   b.1887      b.1888    b.1893   b.1895   b.1896  b.1898

(ix) Charlotte married Thomas Sheriff, a farmer, at St Mary's Bucknell in 1843.

Thomas, son of Thomas and Jane Longmore, farmed at Lower Buckton Farm

in Buckton, a tiny hamlet within the parish of Bucknell. Thomas' parents

were farming at nearby Coxall.

There were seven children born to Thomas and Charlotte:

_________________________|____________________________

Charlotte    Caroline    Alice  Thomas   Henry   Jane    William

Ann             Ellen        Emma  Stedman William Louisa  John

b.1844        b.1843      b.1853  b.1846    b.1856  b.1851  b.1855

By 1862 four of the children had died together with their father. Charlotte

Ann married Henry James from Presteigne, in 1867 at St Bartholomew's

Church, Areley Kings, Stourport. They made their home in Presteigne, and

Charlotte senior settled there with her one remaining son Henry. Charlotte

(nee Stedman) died in Presteigne on 24 May 1902.

Return to The Main Line of Descent from John de Bancke

Stedman Cousins
101 Pheasant Rise
Bar Hill
Cambridge, CB23 8SB
England

Caleb Stedman  b.1761

Caleb, the third son of Page and Sarah was a Mercer.  He married the daughter of the Rev. Reynolds and lived and worked in London.  He died in 1823 at the age of 62 years. 

No further information to date.

Return to The Main Line of Descent from John de Bancke

Edward Stedman

Edward, the fourth son of Page and Sarah farmed in the nearby Radnor Forest, just over the border in Radnorshire (now part of Powys in Wales). The family lived at Cwmygerwyn which lies in a dingle between Fforest Fach, Storling Bank and Llethr Du. in the parish of Cascob.

Edward's first marriage was to Martha Jones by licence in Ludlow on 30 September 1785. From this marriage there were five children:

_____________________|______________________________

Maria          Mary        Edward         Sarah         John         Richard

b.1786         b.1788       b.1790          b.1792      b.1793      b.1795

(i)                  (ii)                (iii)              (iv)            (v)           (vi)

(i) Maria married John Matthews

(ii) Mary married John Williams

(iii) Edward married twice. With his first wife Ann there were four children

a. Elizabeth b. c 1818 married Thomas Bufton of Brampton Bryan and there was known to be at least one daughter from the marriage, Ann b. 1857.

b. Ann b 1823

c. Edward b. 1825 was a draper. He retired by the age of 46 and died on 31 December 1889 aged 64, and was buried at Bucknell.

d. Hariette married William Luggar and they had a daughter, Emily born about 1857.

Edward's second wife was Jane.

(iv) Sarah married James Davies

(v) John married Mary Boston on 9 Feb 1829. Mary came from Cascob. From their marriage there were nine children:

________________________|____________________________________________

Edward      John      William      Valentine      Thomas      James      Ann      Jane      Margaret

b.1830      b.1835     b.1840        b.1841         b.1842         b.1844    b.1845  b.1850   b.1856

(vi) Richard, known as Richard of Knighton. Richard married twice. His first marriage, to Jane Jones of Knucklas Mill took place at Heyop on 22 December 1813, "with parents' consent". There were four children from the first marriage:

________________|_____________________

Ann          Richard          Edward          James

b.1814       b.1816           b.1818           b.1820

Heyop   Knucklas                                Llangunllo

                 Mill

~ Richard (jnr) married Mary Haynes on 7 October 1844 in

Knighton. From their marriage there were six children:

_____________________|___________________________

Emma      Elizabeth      Jane      Sarah Ann      Mary      Alice

b.1849       b.1851        b.1853    b.1856          b.1859    b.1861

~Edward married Charlotte Price and died in 1855, buried at Knighton

~James, a carpenter, married Elizabeth.

Richard then married Jane Owens from Llandinam, Montgomery on 24

August 1829 in Llangunllo, from whom there were four more children:

______________________|_____________________

William             Samuel             Peter              John

b.1830               b.1832             b.1834           b.1836

+ William born in Beguildy, married Elizabeth.

+ Samuel was a wheelwright and carpenter. He married

Charlotte and died in 1919 in Knighton.

+ Peter was a sawyer and married Phoebe, died 1912 in

Stowe

+ John was a hurdle maker.

Edward senior's second marriage was to Elizabeth Meredith, daughter of David Meredith. From this marriage there were nine children:

_______________________________|____________________________________

Elizabeth      Anne      Margaret      Emma      Page      Caleb      Richard     William      Sarah

Anne

b. 1802         b.1804     b.1805         b.1809      b.1811  b.1813    b.1815      b.1816       b.1819

Edward died on 17 November 1824 and is buried at St Mary's church in Bucknell.

Return to The Main Line of Descent from John de Bancke

Work in Progress

Return to The Main Line of Descent from John de Bancke

Work in Progress

Return to The Main Line of Descent from John de Bancke

Work in Progress

Return to The Main Line of Descent from John de Bancke