Paternal Family Tree: Stonhouse
On or after 22nd April 1633, the date of the licence, [his father] George Stonhouse 1st and 3rd Baronet [aged 29] and [his mother] Margaret Lovelace [aged 18] were married.
In 1639 John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet was born to George Stonhouse 1st and 3rd Baronet [aged 35] and Margaret Lovelace [aged 24].
Before 1659 Richard Spencer [aged 54] and [his future wife] Martha Briggs were married.
On or after 10th October 1668 John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet [aged 29] and Martha Briggs were married. The license was dated 10th October 1668.
Around 1672 [his son] John Stonhouse 3rd Baronet was born to John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet [aged 33] and [his wife] Martha Briggs. He married (1) before 28th August 1697 Mary Mellish and had issue (2) in or before 1705 Penelope Dashwood, daughter of Robert Dashwood 1st Baronet and Penelope Chamberlayne Lady Dashwood, and had issue.
On 31st March 1675 [his father] George Stonhouse 1st and 3rd Baronet [aged 71] died. His son [his brother] George [aged 37] succeeded 4th Baronet Stonhouse of Radley. His son John [aged 36] succeeded 2nd Baronet Stonhouse of Radley.
John Evelyn's Diary. 27th November 1679. I went to see Sir John Stonehouse [aged 40], with whom I was treating a marriage between my son [aged 59] and his daughter-in-law [aged 20] [Note. Means step-daughter. Martha Spencer was the daughter of Martha Briggs who re-married John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet after her first husband Richard Spencer died in 1668].
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th December 1679. I went to meet Sir John Stonehouse [aged 40], and give him a particular of the settlement on my son [aged 59], who now made his addresses to the young [his step-daughter] lady [aged 20] his daughter-in-law [Note. Step-daughter], daughter of [his wife] Lady Stonehouse.
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st February 1680. Shrove-Tuesday. My son [aged 25] was married to [his step-daughter] Mrs. Martha Spencer [aged 21], daughter to my [his wife] Lady Stonehouse by a former gentleman, at St. Andrew's [Map], Holborn, by our Vicar, borrowing the church of Dr. Stillingfleet [aged 44], Dean of St. Paul's, the present incumbent. We afterward dined at a house in Holborn; and, after the solemnity and dancing was done, they were bedded at Sir John Stonehouse's [aged 41] lodgings in Bow Street, Convent Garden.
On 24th February 1680 John The Younger Evelyn [aged 25] and [his step-daughter] Martha Spencer [aged 21] were married. He the son of John Evelyn [aged 59] and Mary Browne [aged 45].
Around 1693 [his mother] Margaret Lovelace [aged 78] died.
Before 28th August 1697 [his son] John Stonhouse 3rd Baronet [aged 25] and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Mellish were married.
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In 1700 John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet [aged 61] died. His son John [aged 28] succeeded 3rd Baronet Stonhouse of Radley.
Grandfather: William Stonhouse 1st Baronet
Grandfather: Richard Lovelace 1st Baron Lovelace
mother: Margaret Lovelace
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Dodworth of London
Grandmother: Margaret Dodworth Baroness Lovelace
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Cartwright