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HENRY STEPHENS, Esq., of Eastington, co. Gloucester, married Ann,daughter of the Rev. Richard Huntley, Rector of Boxwell, co. Gloucester.He died at Chavenage, St. Paul's Day, January 25, 1795, being the lastmale representative of the elder line of this family; and was buried inEastington Church, where is a mural monument erected to his memory by hiswidow. He left his landed possessions, after his widow's death, to thedescendants of his aunt Elizabeth Packer, daughter of Richard Stephensand Ann Cholmley. This Elizabeth Stephens had married her cousin JohnPacker, Esq., of Shellingford Manor, co. Berks, whose mother was aStephens. And their daughter, Anne, married Sir Edward Hames, ofWestminster. The sole issue of this marriage was Temperance, a ward inChancery. She eloped with John Willis, Esq., of Redingfield Hall, Eye,co. Suffolk. Their only surviving son Henry was first entered as anofficer in the Royal Navy, but afterwards took Holy Orders, and becameRector of Little Sodbury, and Vicar of Wapley, co. Gloucester, the manorof which, Ralph Fitz Stephen had given to the Church at the death of KingHenry II. He married Jane, daughter of Richard Lubbock, Esq., of NorthWalsham, co. Norfolk. They had a numerous family, and their son, HenryHames Willis, inherited Chavenage on the death of the widow of HenryStephens in 1801. In accordance with the provisions of his cousin's will,the heir through this female line was obliged to drop his own name, andadopt by royal license, the name and arms of Stephens only. He became amonk, and died at the Monastery of La Treppe, Normandy, 1822, making thechildren of his sister Mrs. Richmond Shute, his heirs. The manor thuswent first to his nephew Henry Richmond Shute, who died unmarried thefollowing year, and then to his niece, Alice Elizabeth Shute, who marriedthe Rev. Maurice Fitz Gerald Townsend, J. P., and D. L., of CastleTownsend, co. Cork, Ireland, and Vicar of Thornbury, co. Gloucester. TheRev. Mr. Townsend took by royal license, December 30, 1826, the name andarms of Stephens, in place of his own. He had a son Henry John, and twodaughters. Chavenage, however, passed into the hands of William Holford,of Weston Bert, and was sold by him in 1891, to Captain Lowsley Williams,the present Squire. Eastington House had been destroyed by fire longbefore.1 So ended the connection of the elder Stephens line with the oldestates in Gloucestershire. Line II became that of the malerepresentatives of the family, in eldest succession. ----William Lackey Stephens;http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/e/William-Lackey--Stephens/index.html
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