Richard Garlick was from the third generation of the family to live in Stoneleigh. His father, Richard Garlick Senior, became the first tenant of the newly-erected New House Farm (sometimes called the Stone House), Stareton, when his father George died in 1716. This was the prototype house which Francis Smith of Warwick designed for the Leigh family before building the West Wing at Stoneleigh Abbey.
Richard Garlick Junior was the third of the four children of Richard Senior and his wife Elizabeth. He was born in 1723 and baptised at Stoneleigh on 9 December that year. As his older brother George (
D 1.3 ) went on to farm in Hunningham, it fell to Richard to continue at New House after their father died.
Richard married
Hannah Boddington (D 1.2) on 16 April 1752 at Stoneleigh, and they went on to have four children. Hannah had been born in Ashow, where she was baptised, the daughter of William and Mary Boddington, on 11 June 1729. Richard died in 1764, two years after his brother George, and was buried at Stoneleigh on 20 May that year. For the following thirteen years Hannah managed the farm herself.
Their eldest son Richard succeeded to the farm, and their grandson George after him. It remained with the family until George's death in 1862, when he willed it to his great-nephew, Thomas Leonard Umbers.
