Richard Farmer and his wife Elizabeth nee Blick and their son Richard Farmer and his wife Margaret nee Hadley
This stone commemorates a husband and wife, together with one of their sons and his wife.
First,
Richard Farmer (senior): he was born in 1721 and was baptised on 7 July at Stoneleigh, the son of Richard Farmer and his wife Elizabeth nee Randoll, who are commemorated with a stone in the aisle of the church. He had an older sister, Mabell.
He married
Elizabeth Blick, the daughter of Richard and Maria Blick, at Corley, on 17 December 1749. Elizabeth was one of five children, and was born in Harbury, being baptised there on 18 September 1720.
Richard and Elizabeth had six children before her untimely death on 27 May 1758, when she was just 38. She was buried on 30 May, the same day her youngest daughter Mabell was baptised, leaving six childen under the age of eight.
Following in his father's profession as a farmer, Richard's name appears frequently in Stoneleigh documents, one example being that he was Overseer of the Poor. He died on 14 March 1800 and was buried on 18 March.
Their son
Richard Farmer (junior) was born in March 1754 and was baptised at Stoneleigh on 21 March. He was the third child of the six, and the first son. [The second son,
Thomas Farmer, is buried at
D 16.1]
In 1782 he applied for, and was granted, a licence to marry
Margaret Hadley; their son
Richard Farmer Hadley (later known as Richard Hadley Farmer) was born later that year. He did not marry Margaret for another six years, on 16 April 1788, a few months after her father had died. They had four more children.
Richard died in the year following his father's death: he died on 7 October 1801, and was buried on 11 October. Following the deaths of her husband and her father-in-law, Margaret continued to run the farm until her son Thomas Richard Farmer, then only 9 years old, (
D 16.3) was able to take over.
Margaret Hadley was the daughter of Thomas Hadley, a baker, and his wife Sarah nee Harry. One of five children, she was baptised on 25 January 1758 at Sheldon. She outlived her husband and all but one of her children, dying on 26 January 1837 and being buried at Stoneleigh on 31 January.
Richard and Margaret's children
Richard Hadley, Sarah, and Thomas Richard Farmer, are buried alongside at
D 16.3.
Their daughter
Mabel, and their daughter-in-law
Mary nee Weston are buried at
D 16.4.
Their daughter
Mary, who married
John Summers, is buried at
D 14.2.
