' QF STONE LIVING SOME TIME IN P H ARD LEI H THE ARI S OF G , E SSEX. F A M I L Y O F S T O N E LIV I NG SOME T I ME I N T HE ARI H OF AR P S L IG H E E . D E , SS X B Y T HE SS C N A O IATI O . B O STON PRESS OF DAVID CLAPP 8: SON. 1 9 0 7 . 1 5 9 62 8 4 TO THE M E M BERS OF THE STONE FAMI LY ASSOCIATION. I N th e followin g pages a r e presented a series of extracts from the Court B ov illes Pi o o tts i n dl n Rolls of the M anors of and Ar eigh , Essex Cou ty , V A m . n . England , co piled by Rev Regi ald H Grubbe , the icar of rdleigh ; a m n list of entries of the na e of S to e on the Parish Registers of Ardleigh , ml W w l Wil Little Bro ey and yvenhoe , in Essex ; and a copy of the il of ' m m z . e m d . 9 1 53 3 . lia S tone of M uch Bro ley , . Great Bro ley , date Dec , m n n o n a n M r . Grubbe has also kindly furnished so e i teresti g notes estate c n w wa s alled Barro s in the Parish of Ardleigh , hich once in the posses m m m m n the sion of the S tone Fa ily , and so e e oranda relati g to S tones of ' W n C x . m olchester , Esse Co The Little Bro ley, yve hoe and Colchester i tems are included because those places are all in the immediate vicinity of m wa s Great Bromley and Ardleigh . All this aterial gathered by M iss W n n n a t Agnes . Li col , our Correspondi g Secret ry , during a recen visit to England . For the information of those not. famil iar w ith the Engli s h ancestry of ' th e wh o W w mb Stones of this country first settled in aterto n and Ca ridge , ’ s m W wn M as , it should be stated that Si on Stone of aterto and Gregory m n m w in m Stone of Ca bridge , the origi al E igrants , ere born M uch Bro ley . no w m n Great Bro ley , Essex Count y , E gland , and their ancestry has been 1 traced beyond reasonable doubt to Symond Stone of M uch B ro mle v who 1 died in 1 51 0 . Sy mond S to ne 01 M uch Bromley o wned a property called ” W - w i hi s alles , situated in Ardleigh, h ch he bequeathed to second son , 2 A m a d o i ni n or Wal ter Stone . rdleigh and Great B ro leigh are j parishes and t n heir churches are o ly three miles apart . There can be no doub t that the Stones mentioned i n the Court Rolls of Ardleigh are of the same family m w m h m fro hich Si on and Gregory t e E igrants descended . w W' l m m i The ill of il ia Stone of M uch Bro ley here given is nteresting , a s nfi m x Wm i n a m co r ing to a certain e ten t the theory of . E . Stone , his p ” “ n m n n phlet on the English A cestry of Si o and Gregory Sto e , that they 1 ( Simon and Gregory) were descended from Sy mo nd Sto ne throu g h the 2 1 e D S mond m i n w ldest son , avid y S tone , of M uch Bro ley, his ill “ a 1 2 1 506 1 0 1 5 1 0 m : d ted M ay , , and probated Feb . , , na es fou r sons David , ” to w m “ m m w n i n m ho he left y tene ent called Gode y s , M uch Bro ley ; W ” w m m m l W M alter , to ho he left y tene en t in Ardleigh ca led alles y h l 2 W' 2 I W l i e . l m w m m y , ( . M iles) ; and i lia , ho su ppose to be the illia m W' 2 S tone of M uch Bro ley of this will . As alter S tone inherited an e d w state in Ar leigh , his sons , if he had any , ould naturally be residents of Mih l ’ n m . l o t Ardleigh rather than of Great Bro ley Of y , the third son , th e s m x w lightest further ention has yet been found , either in the Esse ills “ ‘ ’ Th e l n o f s c n i s s u s m o n n f u B r m y Da d i e de e t pp o e d to b e Sy d St o e o M ch o le . vi “ ‘ S o n o f u c B r o m S m o n d S n o f u ch B o m D a d S o ne o f uc t e M h ley , y to e M r ley , vi t M h 5 " B o m e S m n a nd G o r S o n m r a n s . r l y , i o reg y t e the E ig t m or in the Parish Registers that have thus far been exa ined , and it is quite 2 lV m s i m . i lli a probable that he d ed un arried S tone . the younge t son , as ’ h w who wa s m l l i llia m . we learn from t is ill , had only one son , also na ed m m s m It seems fa ir therefore to assu e that Sy ond Stone of M uch Bro ley , * wh o is known to be the father o f David S tone wh o wa s th e father of Si 5 5 1 ’ n m wa s so n S mond m o n and Gregory Sto e , the E igrants , the of y Stone s son . eldest , David a r e . The grateful thanks of the Association due to Rev Re5ginald H th e . m G rubbe , Vicar of Ardleigh , to Rev Arthur E Graha , the Rector of m . m Great Bro ley , and to Rev Alfred D Cope , the Rector of Little Bro ley for their courtesy and kind ness in fu rnishing information from the records i n thei r possession . N B Y THE P OND I N G A Y OTE CORR E S S E C RET R . Since our Presiden t in his foreword above has credited m e with gath m m w m ering the aterial for this pa phlet , I ish , besides e phasizing our t m - m wh o v hanks to each of the clergy en above na ed , ha e all interested m m m m the selves ost cordiall y in us and our researches , as all e bers of the n wh o h m w l — w Associatio ave visited our old ho e il testify besides this , I ish to place th e especial credit for the u ni q u e material of the M anor Rolls in a m w . w this p phlet here it belongs , viz , to the his torical research as ell as A m g the thoughtful kindness of the Vicar of rdleigh . Being on a pilgri a e m 1 903 l i . h to Great Bro le y in , I called at Ard e gh on M r Grubbe in searc ' ’ “ of A rdleigh Parish Records and Walter Stone s te nemen t called ITa lles 1 50 6. w a s n n e in the Ardleigh of M r Grubbe then i dexi g the old r cords , a nd readily promised to send me a ll the S tone entries he could find . ( The w w m m S to es ere incl uded at y request , beca use the na es looked so very much alike in the old w riting . ) No t only did M r . Grubbe prom ptly se nd th e n m w m Vital Records ( refusi g reco p ense) , but hen ore than a year later , in copying th e M anor Rolls ( a work du e to his interest in preservi ng local ” wh h e m a m n records) , en there ca e cross several entions of early Sto es , “ he remembered our i nterest a nd se n t me the careful Notes abou t the ” n m family of S ton e here pri nted . In later correspo dence ca e the notes ’ ” a bout Barro ns and on M r . l . E . S tone s English Ancestry . t n w l 1 90 6 m e e a s n . I again in E gland , in Ju y , , M r Grubbe took to the m u a nd . wh o e s pposed site of Barrons to see Rev M r Cope , gave the m Little Bromley data .