File P 1/33 - Stoney family papers

Original bundle of papers relating George Stoney (1743-1786) and Ann Terry (b. 1742, fl.1801), the parents of Mary Margaret Stoney (b. 1769), their only child, the wife of Sir Charles Morgan (1760-1846). Stoney and Terry were married by licence at St Martin-in-the-fields, Middlesex, in 1760, and although Stoney made oath that they were both aged upwards of twenty one years, they were both minors. The papers include copies of baptismal and marriage entries and wills, and were collected to prevent any dispute that her parent's marriage might have any effect on the legality of Mary's marriage. There are also references to George Stoney's illegitimate daughter Emma Price, who was in the care of Thomas Cowen in 1786.