A mother and daughter, both named Emma Maria, are commemorated on this stone.
Emma Maria Manley (nee Hall) was the eldest daughter of William and Sarah Hall. She was born in 1808 and baptised at Stoneleigh on 31 December. She married Benjamin Manley in Kenilworth on 9 April 1832, going on to have three children: William, who died as a baby, George Hall born in 1834 and Emma Maria born in 1840.
Benjamin, a saddler, perhaps travelled widely in his profession, as Emma is recorded in the 1841 and 1851 censuses living with her mother Sarah at the Stoneleigh "beer shop".
Emma Maria was buried on 25 February 1855, but her
daughter Emma Maria had died as a child. Baptised at Stoneleigh on 19 April 1840, she was buried there on 29 February 1848, having died four days before. The imposing stone for mother and daughter may have been erected by Emma's son George Hall Manley, who had six children of his own and who went on to run a prosperous grocery and provisions business in Birmingham and London.
Emma's two sisters Jane and Martha married Stoneleigh men. Martha married Robert Keartland who was well known as the proprietor of the "beer shop" on Birmingham Road - presumably having taken over after her mother Sarah's death in 1855 - and Jane married Thomas Tipson (see grave
A.13).
