Free & Hannah Stone
From Lacey Green History
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Free Stone born 1844 was the son of Thomas & Caroline Stone
Hannah 'Fanny' Avery born in Highwood Bottom in 1852 was the daughter of Henry & Elizabeth Avery
Free and Hannah married in 1886 at Battersea, Surrey.
Free and Hannah had 3 children as follows :-
George Stone born 1889 in Loosley Row
William Stone born 1890 in Loosley Row
Frank Stone born 1892 in Little Kingshill.
Hannah Fanny Stone died in 1892
in the 1871 census Free Stone 27, Sarah 26, Boaz 4. Free Stone farm labourer for his father Thomas at Widmer Farm Cottage, Lacey Green.
in the 1881 census Free stone 36, Sarah 36, Walter 9, Lucy 3 Ada 1. Free Stone, farmer & timber dealer at Widmer Farm Cottage
In the 1891 census Free & Hannah Fanny are at Little Kingshill Farm with Walter, Ada, George, and William
by the 1901 census Free 56, widower, is living at Hawbushes Fam, Widmer End, with Lucy 22, Ada 20, George 13. William 12, & Frank 9.
Ada died a spinster at Hawbushes Cottage in 1960. The others all married and stayed in that locality.