Blog Posts for Stephens/Stevens Family

Blog Posts for Stephens/Stevens Family: I created this Blog Post to provide links to all Blog Posts related to the Stephens/Stevens Family. The Gray-Piper Family Tree Trunk - The Stevens Family is connected to the Piper Family. TRUNK: Robert Lynn Gray m: Lucile Marie Piper -our Grandparents

BRANCH: Hugh Austin Piper m: Eliza Lucretia DeLong -our Great-Grandparents

BRANCH: Gibson Wallace DeLong m: Mary Francis Hendry -our 2nd Great-Grandparents

BRANCH: David Brown Hendry m: Marie Antoinette Stevens -our 3rd Great-Grandparents

BRANCH: Selah Murray Stevens m: Elizabeth aka Eliza Helm, 4th Great-Grandparents

BRANCH: Woodhull Helm m1st: Elizabeth aka Eliza McDowell, 5th Great-Grandparents

10/2/2016: I updated this Blog after receiving Family Records from Joan Baker… 1st - Descendants of Airard Fitz Stephens, b. 1036. - Stephens. - connects the Stevens and Helme Family by marriage of Thaly Sevens to Woodhull Helm https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/descendants-of-airard-fitz-stephens.html… Stephens/Stevens Family Lineage: (father to son)

2nd - Descendants of Henry Stephens. B. 1497 https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/descendants-of-henry-stephens-lypiatt.html - Lypiatt, Eastington, Chavenage. Note: the numbers used here don’t match the numbers I used in my 1st Blog Post - Descendants of Airard Fitz Stephens, b. 1036; these numbers are the basis for the “complete” Family Lineage of Airard Fitz Stephens are from: http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/t/e/William-Lackey--Stephens/GENE20-0001.html  William-Lackey-Stephens Genealogy Report: Descendants of Stephens. -”click” links at the top and the bottom of the page to navigate… This website uses and lists many Resource books; some of which were written long ago (before the internet) and errors have been discovered over the years… regardless of this fact, the old books are great: they provide biographical sketches; pass on family “stories” and provide historical events... however, the format can be confusing…

3rd - Descendants of John De la Bere b. 1298. - De La Bere. - https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/descendants-of-john-de-la-bere-b-1298.html  Thomas Baghott-De la Bere b. 1728 d. 1821; "the inheritor" of the De la Bere Family Southam Estate and the Stephens Family Lypiatt Estate as the last surviving descendant of both families. He sold the Lypiatt Estate; he lived at Southam Estate until his death in 1821. The Stephens Family connects with the De la Bere Family of Southam when: John De la Bere b. 1640 m: Anne Stephens b. 1630, daughter of John Stephens b. 1585 of Lypiatt… De la Bere Family

4th - Descendants of Richard Neale. - Neale. of Dean… https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-neale-family-of-dean.html … John I Neale m: Anna Cromwell… John II Neale m: Hester Stephens… The Neale Family of Dean intermarried with the Stephens Family of Lypiatt. The Neale Connection to the [Family] House of Cromwell. Historical - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Common Wealth. The Neales were originally of Staffordshire, they emigrated first to the county of Buckingham and then to Bedfordshire, seating themselves at Dean… Kynard De la Bere b. 1666, of Southam, in Gloucestershire, Esq. of a venerable family, who came into England with William I [the Conqueror]... Henry Neale b. 1651, m: Anna-Maria, sole daughter and heiress of John Hanbury, of Feckenham, in the county of Worcester, -as such, he became Esq. of Feckenham… John Neale of Dean and Memorial at All Hallows Church - All Saints Church, Dunwick, Suffolk, England.

5th - Blog Post (Historical Misc): The House of Cromwell. - Cromwell. - (doesn’t include the Neale Lineage) http://historicalandmisc.blogspot.com/2016/06/neale-and-cromwell-connection.html … Lineage of John I Neale b. 1612 m: Anna Cromwell b. 1618… (Cousin of Oliver Cromwell) Hinchingbrooke House -after the Reformation it passed into the hands of the Cromwell family… (doesn’t include the Neale Lineage) Sir Henry Williams, of Welsh descent, the eldest son and heir of Sir Richard Williams, was highly esteemed by Queen Elizabeth I…  he married Joan Warren, daughter of Sir Ralph Warren, twice Lord Mayor of London; she died at Hinchingbrooke, and was buried at All Saints’ church, 1584…

6th - Stephens Family Estates: Lypiatt, Eastington, Chavenage. -http://gray-adamsfamily.blogspot.com/2016/05/de-beres-and-stephensstevens-connection.html … Lypiatt Estate; Eastington, Alkerton, and Chavenage. added Fretherne Estate... Eastington Churches… St Michael… a book describes the many monuments at the church… St. Laurence Church aka Stroud…   The value of this “Connected Family Saga” is that it is a good representation of what happened after William the Conqueror became King of England and what evolved from the land he granted to his supporters… this is an interactive, “life lived” example… -descendants of 15. Henry Stephens b. 1497, Generations 16. Edward b. 1523 and 17. Thomas b. 1558... Edward began the building of the "Shared Estates" of the “Next Generation” when he purchased Chavenage Estate in 1564. Richard purchased the Estates of Eastington in [1569] and Alkerton in [1570]. The brothers purchased the Mill on Eastington Estate in 1575, as part of a group of trustees. Richard died in 1577 without heir; he left his property to his brother, Edward… The “Next Generation” -Sons of 16. Edward b. 1523: Richard b. 1554; James Isaac b. 1556; Thomas b. 1558; Anthony b. 1560… 1801, Henry's widow Anne died and the Estate passed to Henry's cousin, Henry Willis b. 1775, who took the name and arms of Stephens… 1804 or 1805, Fretherne Estate was sold... 1806 Henry[Willis] Stephens sold the Eastington Estate to Henry Hicks, a clothier… 1814 Henry[Willis] Stephens became a Dominican friar and renounced the estate in favor of a nephew (Henry Richmond Shute, he sister Harriot's son. Lypiatt, In 1610 the house was bought by Thomas Stephens b. 1558, whose descendants lived there for nearly 200 years… The house was sold in 1802 by Thomas Baghott-de la Bere b. 1728, nephew of the last Stephens owner [John d. 1778] , to the local clothier and banker, Paul Walthen… Chavenage: 1564: purchased by Edward Stephens [b. 1523]... 1801, Henry Willis, cousin of Henry Stephens 1814, Henry Willis-Stephens became a Dominican friar and renounced the estate in favor of a nephew (Henry Richmond Shute, his sister Harriot’s son) - 1823, Henry R. Shute died; the estate passed to his sister, Alice Elizabeth, she m: 1826, Maurice Fitzgerald Townsend, he (by royal licence) took the surname and arms of Stephens 1868, Chavenage had become highly mortgaged and the mortgagee R.S. Holford leased it to the Chaplin family 1891, Mr. Holford gave it as inheritance to his son, George Williams Lowsley-Williams when he “became of age” -Chavenage remains in the Lowsley-Williams family to present [2013]. Reminders: Elizabeth Stone had a sister Sarah, who married Edward Mainwarring… "Merchants and Revolution in the Seventeenth Century" - "Independent militants" who had the lay and clerical leadership of the Puritan movement in New England… Matthew Craddock would become Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Vassall in Massachusetts, Robert Thomson and William Pennoyer in New Haven Connecticut...

7th - De la Bere Family Estates: Kinnersley, Southam. - https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-de-la-bere-faminly-and-southam-house.html -Kinnersley, Southam. and, Weobley Castle… Kinnersley, St James Church… Contains De La Bere Family Lineage Chart… Battle of Crecy in 1346 -Richard Delabere b. 1321 and the Black Prince [son of Edward III] -made Prince of Wales in 1343, age 13.

8th  - Blog Post (Gray-Piper): Succession of the Estates of the Stephens and De La Bere Families. https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/succession-of-estates-of-stephens-and.html  -  Obituary of Thomas Baghott-De la Bere. He was the son of William Baghott b. 1700 and Hester Stephens b. 1705. William inherited he De la Bere Family Estate of Southam in 1735.Thomas inherited Southam in 1764. Inherited Lypiatt in 1778 and sold it in 1802. The succession of the De la Bere Family, Southam Estate: The succession of the Stephens Family, Lypiatt Estate:

9th  - Blog Post (Gray-Piper): Henry Hannes Willis b. 1775, inherited Chavenage. https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/henry-hannes-willis-b-1775-inherited.html inherited Chavenage in 1801. Sold Fretherne in 1804. Sold Eastington in 1806 to Henry Hicks. Became a Dominican friar in 1814 and renounced the estate in favor of Henry Richmond Shute [b. 1800], his sister Harriot’s son. Willis Family Lineage: Stephens Family: Stephens m: Packer, Hannes, Willis… Packer Family Lineage: Shellingford Manor. Robert Packer b. 1614 m: Temperance Stephens b. 1630; his political career matches that of his father-in-law, Edward Stephens b. 1583. Confusion and Conflicting information regarding Edward Stephens b. 1583 and his wife, Anne Crewe, and their children: Many family trees only list John Stevens, immigrant to Guilford, CT -his birth date varies as does his death location; some list England, some list Guilford, CT. When other children are listed (birth dates vary, death locations vary), they are: Thomas (m: Catherine Combs); Edward (nothing known about him); Anne (m: Parker or Packer). Conclusion (Jody Gray): all the confusion is probably why the only child listed in most family trees is John Stephens. And, I think the variation of information for John Stevens is due to another John Stephens [b. 1585], son of Edward Stephens and Joan Fowler, who was the inheritor of Lypiatt in 1613 when his father died; the most obvious identifier for him is that he married four times; he was a Member of Parliament and held many public offices; he died in Gloucestershire, England and was buried at the Church in Stroud; where the other heirs to Lypiatt and many of the Stephens family are buried. The elopement of John Willis and Temperance [Hannes]: 5/21/1723, Temperance [Hannes]... About Rev Henry Willis: 1763-Jan 8, Masters’ Mate of His Majesty’s Ship.  Letter requesting payment: one half Prize Money due to me for the Bon Intention a Dutch sloop with Negroes etc and also the same part that will arrive from the Sally Schooner… Wives of Rev. Henry Willis… About a 3rd wife of Rev Henry Willis (evidently, a widow “Mrs. [Charles] Murray”)... upon the subject of the Shefford living… About Richard Lubbock Willis, b. 1770: (disinherited for excess spending of his father’s money)... immigrant to Augusta, Georgia… [his son] About Henry Thomas Willis Lubbock, b. 7/24/1792, Augusta, GA… doctor, then, ship-owner, then, Hotel owner in Savannah, Georgia…

10th  - Blog Post (Gray-Piper): Stephens/Stevens Connections https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/stephensstevens-connections.html … “finding the parents of Selah Murray Stevens”... Leads: Ancestors and descendants of Selah Murray Stevens and Eliza Helm Author: Parsons, N. Vincent (Nahum)... Selah Murray Stevens married Eliza Helm; her father, Woodhull Helm’s family connects with the Woodhull Family of the Plymouth Colonies, immigrated from Northamptonshire, England…     John Stephens/Stevens [b. 1603] is the 1st of his family to immigrate to America in 1639… Thaly Ann becomes the 2nd wife of Woodhull Helm; father of Eliza Helm by his 1st wife; their daughter, Eliza married Selah Murray Stevens -they are our 4th Great-Grandparents; and so the Stevens family connects with the Helm Family… Blog Posts for Helme I. Blog Post (Gray-Piper): Descendants of Thomas Helme b. Ca. 1665 https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/05/descendants-of-thomas-helme-b-ca-1665.html Posted 5/22/2016 II. Blog Post (Gray-Piper): Thaly Ann Stevens married Woodhull Helm https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/05/thaly-ann-stevens-married-woodhull-helm.html Posted 5/26/2016 III. Blog Post (Gray-Piper): Warwick and Matchett Family-http://historicalandmisc.blogspot.com/2016/05/warwick-and-matchett-family.html Posted 5/27/2015 ** Canada Connection - both families immigrated to Canada before they immigrated to St. Paul, MN ** Frederick H. Warwick m: Eliza H. Helm; daughter of George M Helm (brother of Eliza Helm m: Selah M. Murray) IV. Blog Post (Gray-Piper): SAR Application, Henry J Matchett b. 1891-http://historicalandmisc.blogspot.com/2016/05/sar-application-henry-j-matchett-b-1891.html Posted 5/24/2016 V. Blog Post (Historical Misc): Selah Murray Stevens Project - Helm http://historicalandmisc.blogspot.com/2016/05/selah-murray-stevens-project.html Helm Branch, tracing their movement after arrival in America. MA or NY, Brookhaven, Suffolk, Orange Co to Byron, Ogle, Illinois… Woodhull: from Schoharie, NY to Illinois; his son, Phineas, Montour, Tama Co, Iowa (where Eliza L. Hendry m: Gibson W DeLong. Eliza Helm m: Selah M Stevens; both died in Stamford, Delaware, NY; she d. 1852, he d. 1878… This is an “on-going” project…

11th  - Blog Post (Gray-Piper): Stephens Family, Politics and Religion… https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/stephens-family-politics-and-religion.html The English Civil War - The Commonwealth, 1649-53  - INTRODUCTION - SOME OF THE NORMAN STEPHENS FAMILY IN ENGLAND - Stephens Family, before the Civil War - Stephens Family affected by the events of the English Civil War and Pride’s Purge - Parliamentary history of the county of county of Gloucestershire - Other membesr of the Stephens Family involved in and affected by the English Civil War - 1st Stephens to immigrate to America: sons of Anthony Stephens b. 1560: 1st son of Anthony, Thomas b. 1585, arrived in Virginia Colony in 1622 - 2nd son of Anthony; Richard b. 1600; arrived in Jamestown, VA. in 1623 on the ship “George” he had four servants with him. Richard was a paynter-stayner in the first London Company’s Charter of Virginia; a Burgess and a member of the governor’s council. At the time of his death he owned over 2000 acres of land in the colony. - Nicholas Stephens b. 1620, came to America in 1660 under an assumed name because of the persecutions in England. He was in Taunton, MA. in 1660, then he and his brother went to Jamestown Colony. [Church Registers] Stevens, Steuvens. - The English overseas possessions were involved during the period of the English Civil War and the Restoration. -

12th  - Blog Post (Gray-Piper): Stevens Surname: Fitz-Stephens, Stephens, Stevens… https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/05/blog-post-gray-piper-piper-branch.html Nicholas Stephens b. 1620, came to America in 1660 under an assumed name because of the persecutions in England. He was in Taunton, MA. in 1660, then he and his brother went to Jamestown Colony. [Church Registers] Stevens, Steuvens. Stephenes, Stepheyns, Stephyn, Stevyns, Steveens, Steevens, Steevans, Stevins and Schyvyns.

13th  - Blog Post (Gray-Piper): Selah Murray Stevens b. 1799…https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/05/selah-murray-stevens-b-1799-connecticut.html removed most of the information I had place her for the Selah Murray Stevens Project - "finding the parents of"... What's left: Birth and Death information...

Blog Post: On-Going Research, Stevens Family Connections

https://gray-piperfamily.blogspot.com/2016/07/on-going-research-stevens-family_2.html
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