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B10.3

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Grave photoFive people are named on the Robbins stone. First named is Francis Robbins, who was born in Lillington in 1788 and who came to Stoneleigh some time before 1851 to farm at Stoneleigh Grange. He married Elizabeth Whitmore the daughter of William and Elizabeth Bodington of Kenilworth (baptised as Elizabeth Whitmore) and she is interred at Stoneleigh, along with two of their sons William and Richard. Richard's wife Mabel is the fifth person interred there. Francis died on 26 May 1863 and was buried on 30 May. Documents record him as "miller" as well as "farmer". Elizabeth died on 4 July 1870 and was buried on 7 July. Francis and Elizabeth had had other children who are not buried at Stoneleigh. Their eldest son Francis was also a farmer, and lived in Kenilworth, dying there in 1905 at the age of 85. Two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, were born in 1818 and 1821 respectively. William, born in Lillington in 1831, continued as farmer and miller at Stoneleigh Grange after his father's death and did not marry. He died on 12 July 1879 and was buried on 15 July. The second son, Richard, born in 1828 in Lillington, was first a miller and farmer in Baginton and then lived finally at The Hollies, New Street, Kenilworth, where he died on 16 June 1887 and was buried on 19 June. He married Mabel Farmer, the daughter of Thomas Richard Farmer of Manor Farm, on 19 September 1850 at Stoneleigh Church. (see Section D). They had one daughter, Mabel, who was born in 1861.

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