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Stevens - Stephens Genealogy and Family History Author: Clarence Perry Stevens Call Number: CS71.S844 This book contains the history and genealogy of the Stevens-Stephensfamily of North Carolina. Bibliographic Information: Stevens, Clarence Perry. Stevens-StephensGenealogy and Family History. Privately Published. 1968. Thomas Stephens, 1558-1613, of Lypiatt Park, a lawyer who practiced inLondon, -m- Elizabeth Stone. He was appointed by King James I as AttorneyGeneral for Prince Charles (later Charles I) and acquired extensiveestates. There is a conflict of authority here as Dan V. Stephens saysthat Thos. -m- Elizabeth, dau. of John Suirir of London. Thos. et ux. areburied in Stroud Church Gloucestershire. One son was an M. P. in 1645named John, whose Stevens Genealoge. Some Descendants OF THE Fitz Stepben Famile IN ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND. BY C. ELLIS STEVENS, LL.D., D.C.L. F.S.A. (EDINBURGH) KNIGHT COMNANDER OF THE ORDER OF CHRIST OF PORTUGAL. NEW YORK PRIVATELY PRINTED 1904 THOMAS STEPHENS, Esq., of Lypiatt Park, and the manor of Little Sodbury,co. Gloucester, third son of Edward Stephens, first lord of the manor ofEastington, of this family, as before mentioned,1 was a Barrister at Lawof the Middle Temple, London. He became an official of the Court of KingJames I, being appointed Attorney General to Prince Henry and PrinceCharles, successively Princes of Wales, the latter ascending the throneas King Charles I. He acquired extensive estates in Gloucestershire nearthe other family manors, and became the head of a new branch of thehouse, which has now succeeded to the family honors as the malerepresentatives of the ancient line. He married Elizabeth, daughter andcoheiress of John Stone, Esq., of London, and dying April 26, 1613, wasburied in Stroud Church, Gloucestershire.2 In transactions of the Bristoland Gloucester Archological Society, is an interesting description ofhis mural memorial;3 "It is architecturally a Jacobean frame monument,with a figure in attitude of prayer--of alabaster, mostly painted over,and nearly life size. He wears tight slashed doublet, buttoned up thechest, gallic hose, stuffed and slashed, bows beside the knees,stockings. Over all a furred, loose mantle with large loose sleeves. Theunder sleeves of doublet tight slashed, and terminating in ruffs. On thehead a close fitting cap (legal coif). He kneels on an embroidered andtasseled cushion, praying at a cushioned desk. There is a single paneledround arch forming a niche between two disengaged classic columns paintedblack, and having composite capitals rising from a deep plinth, and inturn supporting an elaborate cornice bearing in centre a crested andmantled shield between two rectangular pillars, each topped with a goldenball. At foot of shield, right and left diminutive figures, a cupid and abearded male perhaps intended to represent Time. The arms on the shieldare quarterly Stephens and Lugg (the arms of his father and mother), withthe Stephens crest of a demi eagle displayed surmounting the helmet of anesquire. On the central voussoir of the arch below, the arms of Stephensare shown impaling Stone (his wife's arms), azure a fess argent, betweenthree lions (probably heraldic tigers) statant quardant or.1 In spandrelsof the arch each of these coats occurs separately. The inscription is inLatin. The coloring and gilding of the monument are well preserved. Thelocation is on the last wall of the south transept of the church". TheAttorney General's will, which was dated March 8, 1612, a codicil beingadded in April, was proved by his wife November 24, 1613. He had issue; I. SIR EDWARD, a minor in 1590, his heir, of whom presently. II. John, of the Middle Temple, London, Barrister at Law. Was a studentat Lincoln College, Oxford. He became Recorder of Bristol and was Member of Parliament forTewkesbury, 1645, for Gloucestershire, 1659, and for Bristol, 1660.1 Hemarried, first, Elizabeth, daughter of (???) Ram, of Essexshire, who died childless; secondly, Grace, daughter of John Brown,of Frampton, co. Dorset; thirdly, Anne, daughter and coheir of JohnMoulson, of Hargrave, co. Chester; and fourthly, Hester, daughter andcoheir of (???) Barnes, of Alborough Hatch, in Barking, co. Essex. Hisfirst child was by his second wife, his other children by his third wife.He died August 4, 1679, and was buried at Stroud Church, having hadissue; 1. Grace, who married George Tipping, Esq., of Draycot, co. Oxford. 2. Thomas, Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire, 1695-8,2 who marriedAnne, daughter of Thomas Child, Esq., of Northwick, co. Worcester, anddied 1708, having had issue; (a) Thomas, of Bisley Manor, co. Gloucester,Member of Parliament for Gloucester, 1713-20, who married Anne, daughterof John Neale, Esq., of Deane, co. Bedford, a near relative of the LordProtector Oliver Cromwell, and had besides a son Thomas, Town Clerk ofBristol, who died 1745, and daughters Anne, who died childless, Hester,who married William Baghott de la Bere, Esq., of Southam House, co.Gloucester;1and an eldest son John, of Lypiatt, who married Elizabeth,daughter and heir of Henry Phill, of London, and died 1778. This John hadissue Farington, who was buried at Stroud at the age of twenty, and John,who died childless, with whom the male line in this branch of the familybecame extinet. He had also daughters Elizabeth and Hester, both of whomdied in infancy. (b) Edward, who died in infancy. (c) Nathaniel, who died at two years of age. (d) Ann Mary, who married Sir Edward Fust, Bart., of Hill, co.Gloucester, and died March 3, 1689-90. (e) Grace, who died in infancy. (f) Catherine, who died at the age of twelve. 3. John, second son of John Stephens above mentioned, died in infancy. 4. John, also died in infancy. 5. Edward, of the Middle Temple, London, Barrister, died unmarried,August, 1674. 6. Anne, who married John de la Bere, Esq., of Southam House, co.Gloucester. III. Anne, or Elizabeth,1 daughter of Attorney General Thomas Stevens,married Samuel Codrington, Esq., of Dodrington, among whose descendants was Sir Isaac Heard, Knt.,Garter King of Arms. IV. Mary, married Thomas Shelley, Esq., of Patham, co. Berks. V. Nathaniel, of Horton and Cherington, co. Gloucester, who marriedElizabeth, daughter and heiress of Robert Tyringham, Esq., of WestonFarell, co. Northampton, and Barkby, co. Leicester, and dying 1643,2 hadissue. 1. Edward, of Horton, Cherington, and Alderley, co. Gloucester, and ofthe Middle Temple, London, Barrister at Law, baptized July 25, 1633, whomarried Mary, daughter of John Raynesford, Esq., of Staverton, co.Northampton and Wolfhamcote, co. Warwick, elder brother of Sir RichardRaynesford, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, whohad issue; (a) Rev. Edward, of Alderley, co. Gloucester, born about 1654, of theMiddle Temple, London, Barrister at Law, who eventually was ordained apriest of the Church of England.1 He was an author of note in his time,writing on political and theological subjects, and publishing many booksand pamphlets, mostly of a controversial character. His learned work"Liturgy of the Ancients", issued in 1696, was republished in 1848. Hemarried Mary, daughter of the celebrated Sir Matthew Hale, Knt., LordChief Baron of the Exechequer, 1660, and Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench,1671. Sir Matthew Hale, whose Gloucestershire residence was near that ofthe Stephens family, was counsel for Archbishop Laud at his trial. Hisposition, universally recognized to-day as that of one of the greatestjurists of Anglo-Saxon law, needs no mention. With Sir Edward Stephens hewas one of the two members of Parliament for Gloucestershire, (Knights ofthe Shire) at the restoration of King Charles II, and he was intimatelyassociated with the Stephens family in the events of that critical periodof English history. His grandchildren who were Stephens on the fathers'side, were: (a) John, born July, 1682, who died without male heirs; Elizabeth, whomarried Garrett Estcourt, Esq., of Cambridgeshire; Rachel, who marriedthe Rev. Robert John Bull, son of the celebrated Bishop Bull; and Hester,who married John Somers, Esq. (b) John, born 1652, a merchant in the West Indies, who died childless. (c) Thomas, who married Mary Adderley, and had issue; Edward, who diedunmarried, and daughters Ann, Susan and Mary. (d) Nathaniel, who died unmarried. (e) Richard, who died unmarried. (f) Robert, who married Elizabeth Uvedale, and had a son Edward who diedunmarried. (g) Rachel, who died unmarried. (h) Catherine, who died unmarried. (i) Anne, who died unmarried. (j) Mary, who married Robert Uvedale, LL. D., of Ensfield. ----William Lackey Stephens;http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/e/William-Lackey--Stephens/index.html
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