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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 19th 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.
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