Richard and Mary Garlick nee Garlick and six of their children
Richard Garlick was from the fourth generation of the family to live in Stoneleigh. His grandfather, Richard Garlick Senior, became the first tenant of the newly-erected New House Farm (sometimes called the Stone House) in 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 was the son of Richard Junior and his wife Hannah nee Boddington (
D 1.1 and 2). He was probably born early in 1757 as his baptism in Stoneleigh was on 1 February that year. He had a sister, Elizabeth and a brother, Thomas.
On 21 June 1781 Richard married his cousin,
Mary Garlick, in Hunningham, and they went on to have nine children. Their daughters
Mary and
Martha died in infancy and were buried with their maternal grand-parents,
George and Mary Garlick (
D 1.3).
Richard and his family lived, as his grandfather and father had before him, at New House Farm. His large table-tomb records not only his death but those of several members of his family. He died on 26 December 1842, the burial register of 30 December recording him as aged 88, but the tomb recording him as 86.
Mary Garlick, Richard's wife, was born in Hunningham on 1 April 1761 and baptised there on 9 April. Her parents were George Garlick and Mary nee Grimes (
D 1.3). She had one brother, George. Mary died before her husband, on 29 March 1839, and was buried on 4 April.
Six of their children are buried here also.
Ann, born in 1789 and baptised in Stoneleigh on 9 March, died in 1827 and was buried on 5 November.
Richard, born in 1785 and baptised at Stoneleigh on 14 June, died on 7 March 1836 and was buried on 11 March.
Letitia, born in 1797 and baptised in Stoneleigh on 25 January (the same day as her older sister Sarah), died in 1843 and was buried on 31 January.
Elizabeth, born in 1787 and baptised in Stoneleigh on 29 March, died on 15 July 1845 and was buried on 20 July. Her age was given as 60 in the register, but as 58 on the tomb.
Sarah, who was baptised with her sister Letitia on 25 January 1797, was stated to be a year old at the time. Her death is inscribed on the tomb as 28 October 1849 and she was buried on 31 October.
George, the only son, was born in 1788 and baptised in Stoneleigh on 14 May. He succeeded his father as the farmer at New House Farm, but did not marry. At his death on 30 December 1862 (he was buried on 6 January 1863), 147 years of the family's continuous occupation of the farm came to an end. However, he willed everything to his great-nephew, Thomas Leonard Umbers, the grandson of his sister Hannah. Hannah, the oldest sibling, had been the only one to marry - she married Thomas Umbers of Weston Hall, Wappenbury, in 1805 - and it was thus fitting that there remained some link between farm and family.
