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Thanks again AnnCardiff. My plan this afternoon is to organise all this lovely research (although the shed needs painting) and combine it with my own. I had managed to trace my own surname back to 1600 but this bit of my family had just come to a halt. I am very grateful. My partner is now very jealous as his grandfather has proved even more elusive than a Stonier to find but perhaps I could do a "shout out" for him sometime. Thanks again to you and all the others who have helped me this weekend. ;-)

another Bourne/Stonier marriage



Name: Henry Stonier
Birth Date: 1872
Birthplace: Of Wheelock
Age: 25
Spouse's Name: Mary Elizabeth Bourne
Spouse's Birth Date: 1868
Spouse's Birthplace: Of Wheelock
Spouse's Age: 29
Event Date: 1897
Event Place: Parish Church, Wheelock, Chester, England
Father's Name: Thomas Stonier
Spouse's Father's Name: John Bourne

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M86618-7 , System Origin: England-VR , GS Film number: 1656758 , Reference ID: 2:3GWLWT5

Name: Bertha E Bourne
Age (Original): 5
Gender: Female
Birth Year: 1876
Birthplace: Wheelock, Cheshire, England
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Scholar
Address: Wheelock Brook Ter
Event Place: Wheelock, Cheshire, England
Record Type: Household
Affiliate Publication Number: RG11
Piece/Folio: 3537 / 57
Page Number: 8

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
John Bourne Head M 37 Droitwich, Worcestershire, England
Emma Bourne Wife F 34 Wheelock, Cheshire, England
Thomas Bourne Son M 15 Wheelock, Cheshire, England
Mary Bourne Daughter F 13 Wheelock, Cheshire, England
John Jnr Bourne Son M 11 Wheelock, Cheshire, England
Harriet Bourne Daughter F 8 Wheelock, Cheshire, England
Bertha E Bourne Daughter F 5 Wheelock, Cheshire, England
W H Bourne Daughter F 2 Wheelock, Cheshire, England
George Bourne Son M 0 Wheelock, Cheshire, England

GS Film number: 1341847

we haven't got better things to do!! we all wait for someone to post a thread like this so we can do some digging - so thank you :-D <3

Thanks Yvonne but the Hickson link I think is the right one because of the Betchton link.
Thanks Chris I now have a whole new sapling from my tree thanks to you.
I'd better start going through this and making some notes!
My brother was given the name Stonier as his middle name and I'm looking forward to telling him where it came from and adding a few Hicksons to the story too.

1841 (Find My Past)
John Hickson Male 45 1796 Cheshire, England (Ag. Lab)
Ann Hickson Female 40 1801 Cheshire, England
Lucy Hickson Female 15 1826 Cheshire, England
Eliza Hickson Female 15 1826 Cheshire, England
George Hickson Male 9 1832 Cheshire, England
John Hickson Male 5 1836 Cheshire, England
Ann Hickson Female 1 1840 Cheshire, England
Street Hassall Green
Parish or township Sandbach
Town Betchton
County Cheshire
Registration district Congleton
Archive reference HO107
Piece number 118
Book number 3
Folio number 7
Page number 9


1851
John Hixon Head Married Male 63 1788 Ag Lab Cheshire, England
Ann Hixon Wife Married Female 53 1798 Dressmaker Cheshire, England
John Hixon Son - Male 15 1836 - Cheshire, England
Ann Hixon Daughter - Female 11 1840 Scholar Cheshire, England
Parish Betchton
County Cheshire
Registration district Congleton
Archive reference HO107
Piece number 2168
Folio 154
Page 15


1861
John Hickson Head Married Male 72 1789 Agricultural Labourer Cheshire, England
Ann Hickson Wife Married Female 63 1798 Dressmaker Cheshire, England
Ann Hickson Daughter Unmarried Female 21 1840 - Cheshire, England
Parish Betchton
County Cheshire
Ecclesiastical district Christchurch Wheelock
Registration district Congleton
Enumeration district 7
Piece number 2613
Folio number 144
Page number 28

Chris :)

•John Hickson (1789-1887) married Ann Steele 1818 in Sandbach. They lived in Hassall and later Betchton

http://www.hicksons.org/ByCounty/cheshirenames3.html

(from google search)

this could be the marriage for thomas and eliza but his name is spelt diffirent

Elizabeth Hand
England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index
Name: Elizabeth Hand
Event Type: Marriage
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1848
Registration District: Macclesfield
County: Cheshire
Event Place: Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
Volume: 19
Page: 137
Line Number: 10

Elizabeth Hand probably married one of the following people
Name: Maria Burn
Name: Joseph Ledtion
Name: Mary Ann Phelps
Name: Thomas Stonehewer

OOOOH you all answer quicker than I can type.
Thanks again.
Jacqueline you are lovely, I now know so much thanks to you, I wondered if the Holbrooks Mill Stanyers could be related to my Stoniers and you have proved it.
AnnCardiff, thanks for all your hard work finding such useful facts. I used to live in Crewe and actually know the street that Alfred lived on!
Yvonee thanks for the baptism information, everything is suddenly falling into place.
Chris thanks for the Hickson information too, that was a complete hole for me.
Thanks again, I'm sure you all have better things to do than help me, I'm so grateful.

Diocese of Chester parish registers of baptisms c1538-1910 Transcription (Find My Past)

First name(s) Eliza
Last name Hickson
Baptism year 1825
Baptism date 03 Jul 1825
Place Sandbach
County Cheshire
Father's first name(s) John (Labourer)
Father's last name Hickson
Mother's first name(s) Ann
Mother's last name Hickson
(Abode, Betchton)

(if her)

First name(s) THOMAS
Last name STONYER
Gender Male
Baptism year 1825
Baptism date 19 Jun 1825
Place ASTBURY
Father's first name(s) Joseph (Miller)
Father's last name Stonyer
Mother's first name(s) Mary
(Abode, Odd Rode)

Chris :)

Thanks Chris I have trawled through Google without success over the last few weeks. I have had more progress thanks to everyone here. It's great. All I want to find at the moment is information about Thomas Stonier (1826) and his family pre 1871. Anything earlier than that is a bonus.
AnnCardiff, thank you for the surname information, I didn't know that at all.

Name: Alfred Stonier
Birth Date: 1878
Birthplace: Of 66 Walthau 6 Crewe
Age: 30
Spouse's Name: Bertha Ellen Bourne
Spouse's Birth Date: 1877
Spouse's Birthplace: Of Wheelock
Spouse's Age: 31
Event Date: 1908
Event Place: Parish Church, Wheelock, Chester, England
Father's Name: Thomas Stonier
Spouse's Father's Name: John Bourne

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M86618-7 , System Origin: England-VR , GS Film number: 1656758 , Reference ID: 2:3GWM189

Thomas Stonier
England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records
Name: Thomas Stonier
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 03 Jul 1853
Event Place: Great Budworth, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Barnton, Cheshire, England
Gender: Male
Father's Name: Thomas Stonier
Mother's Name: Eliza Stonier
Page: 17



Thomas Stonier
England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-2007
Name: Thomas Stonier
Event Type: Death
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1944
Registration District: Crewe
County: Cheshire
Event Place: Crewe, Cheshire, England
Age (available after 1866): 91
Birth Year (Estimated): 1853
Volume: 8A
Page: 340
Line Number: 83

Did you see 1851 and 1841.........and the marriage?

What kind and helpful people you all are. Thank you so much.
Thanks AnnCardiff, you have verified information for me and provided some extra places to look. I can't find a link with Stonehewers but it makes sense.
Thanks Yvonne, that gives me much more precise information.
Sorry, Jacqueline, I don't know Eliza's maiden name. Until about ten minutes ago this family appeared in 1871 completely ready made but thank you so much for finding them in 1861. That's a big leap forward and shows that spelling in the census could be dodgy!
Thanks so much everyone.

Do you need anything other than the 3 censuses and the marriage?

1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Holbrooks Mill, Sandbach, Congleton, Cheshire, England


First name(s) Last name Gender Age Birth year Birth place
Joseph Stanyer Male 35 1806 - Transcription
Mary Stanyer Female 30 1811 Cheshire, England Transcription
Thomas Stanyer Male 15 1826 Cheshire, England Transcription
Joseph Stanyer Male 10 1831 Cheshire, England Transcription
Henry Stanyer Male 9 1832 Cheshire, England Transcription
James Stanyer Male 3 1838 Cheshire, England Transcription
Eliza Stanyer Female 13 1828 Cheshire, England Transcription
Ann Stanyer Female 12 1829 Cheshire, England Transcription
Maria Stanyer Female 7 1834 Cheshire, England Transcription
Mary Stanyer Female 5 1836 Cheshire, England Transcription
Hannah Stanyer Female 20 1821 Cheshire, England Transcription
Sarah Fox Female 15 1826 Cheshire, England Transcription

Cheshire Census Records - 1851 - Census Archives: UK ...


www.census-archives.com/england/Cheshire.htm

Cheshire Parish & Probate Records. Cheshire, ... from the 1500s to the 1800s. ... Odd Rode ; Offerton ; Old Withington ;

Marriages Jun 1848 (>99%)

BAILEY Henry Congleton 19 106 Scan available - click to view
BAILEY Mary Congleton 19 106 Scan available - click to view
BICKERTON Sarah Congleton 19 106 Scan available - click to view
FOXLEY Mary Congleton 19 106 Scan available - click to view
Gibson William Congleton 19 106 Scan available - click to view
HICKSON Eliza Congleton 19 106 Scan available - click to view
Smallwood Samuel Congleton 19 106 Scan available - click to view
Stanyer Thomas Congleton 19

Last name: Stonier


This interesting surname is a variant of Stanier, which is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is occupational for a stonecutter, one who cut and dressed stone. The name is derived from the Middle English (1200 -1500) 'stanyer', from the Old English pre 7th Century 'stan', stone, and a reduced form of 'hewer', an agent derivative of 'hew(en)', to cut, chop, from the Old English 'heawan', assimilated to the agent suffix -(i)er. The name development since 1279 (see below) includes the following: Richard Stener (1379, Yorkshire), John Stonehewer (1605, Cheshire) and Nathaniell Stanyar (1689, Cheshire). The surname was more commonly known as Stonhewer in the mid to late 16th Century; the modern surname can be found as Stanier, Stanyer, Stonier and Stonhewer, and is found mainly in Staffordshire. Among the sample recordings in Staffordshire are the marriage of George Stonier and Ellen Wall on January 27th 1679 at Dilhorne, and the christening of Francis, son of Thomas and Anne Stonier, on September 10th 1737 at Wolstanton. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Thomas Stonhewar, which was dated 1279, The Hundred Rolls of Oxfordshire, during the reign of King Edward 1, The Hammer of the Scots', 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Stonier#ixzz3XgbKSr30

1851 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Roughwood, Betchton, Congleton, Cheshire, England

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Thomas Stanger Head Married Male 25 1826 Miller Journeyman Cheshire, England Transcription
Eliza Stanger Wife Married Female 25 1826 Dressmaker Cheshire, England Transcription
Leah Stanger Son - Male 2 1849 - Cheshire, England Transcription
Emma Stanger Daughter - Female 0 1851 - Cheshire, England