The rich side
The Stone Family
Our Stone line is documented with unusual depth. It runs from the 16th-century Stones of Clayhanger, Devon — Richard Stone (b. ~1575) is the certain anchor — through the family seat at Chipstable, Somerset, to the 1818 emigration to Albion, Illinois, and on to descendants in New Zealand and Australia. What follows gathers the narrative, the geography, the research, and the charts.
The Stone Family
The full narrative — from John Stone alias Hele of Clayhanger to the emigrations to Illinois, Australia, and New Zealand — with charts and reports.
Geography & Origins
The English roots: Clayhanger, Chipstable, Ashbrittle, Wiveliscombe and the border country of Devon and Somerset, mapped from 1611.
Research Notes
The genealogy detective work — the Bishop Stone Conundrum, Richard Stone's two wives, the two Captain Stones, and more.
Family Trees on Ancestry
The three Stone ancestral lines, the surnames that anchor them, and corrections to trees published on Ancestry.com.
John Charles Stone (1867–1940)
The mathematics textbook author of Bone Gap, Illinois and Greensboro, Vermont.
J. Sydney Stone (1901–1980)
Lawyer, Avon Products board member, of Sea Island and Greensboro.
Documents archive — the scanned wills, indentures, and records — is being migrated in a later pass and will appear here as a browsable collection.