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| − | The Sterns of Coalbrookdale originated as the German family of Stein who were servants of the House of Hanover when that great house took the throne of England in 1714. The family was given land in the County of Shropshire, between the town of Madeley and the village of Little Wenlock, where they established themselves as magnates in the developing coal industry. Originally granted the title of baronet in 1714, the family sought to elevate itself by becoming modest investors in the East India Company in the 1730s and again by active membership within the company beginning in the 1760s. It was about this time that the Baronet of Stein changed the family name from Stein to Stern in the interest of appearing more English. It became tradition within the Stern family for auxiliary sons to join the company and seek their fortunes abroad, mostly in India. Stern men of note fought extensively in both the Anglo-Mysore Wars and Anglo-Maratha Wars of India on the side of the East India Company. This included Henry Stern's father Jarod Wilfred Stern and his brother Curtis Weldon Stern who both fought in the Second Anglo-Maratha War and upon their return significantly enriched the family with diamonds, gold and other metals from the Golconda region of the Deccan Plateau. Henry's father returned to India during the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1818) and participated in the Battle of Mahidpur (21st December, 1817) in which he lost his life. Henry's uncle, Curtis Weldon Stern was called to London to receive ''honors'' bestowed by George, Prince of Wales during the Regency of 1811, wherein he was raised to full baron in his deceased brother's place.
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| − | '''Manfred Cord Stein''' -- (1668 - 1729) -- The patriarch of that branch of the Stein family that followed George Louis, the Elector of the House of Hanover to England when he succeeded his second cousin Anne of Stuart upon her death on the 1st of August, 1714. At that time, the leadership of the Haus of Stein were knights of Lower Saxony in the service of the greater House of Hanover and for faithfully following the Hanovers to England, Manfred was raised to the position of Baronet in 1715. In 1714 he was forty-six years of age and had already produced four sons and five daughters, seven surviving childhood, with his wife Margarete Sabrina Stein. Mannfred would live another fifteen years and died at the age of sixty-one in 1729, while his wife Margarete-Sabrina who was born in 1684 and would survive her husband by fifty-four years, died in 1784 at the exalted age of ninety-nine.
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| − | '''Margarete Sabrina Stein''' -- (1684 - 1784) --
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| − | === Manfred & Magarete's Children ===
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| − | '''Lene Hieronymus Stein''' -- (1701 - 1751) -- Female -- Cause of Death: Suicide -- Spinster & no descendants.
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| − | '''Wenzel Benno Stein''' -- (1702 - 1777) -- Male -- Cause of Death: Respiratory Disease -- Married: '''Sarah Evy McDougall''' (1712 - 1789) COD: Cancer -- Six children
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| − | '''Gero Ruprecht Stein''' -- (1704 - 1778) -- Male -- Cause of Death: Heart Disease -- Married: '''Philis Harleigh Jewel''' (1716 - 1795) COD: Senility -- One child
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| − | '''Natalia Käthe Stein''' -- (1706 - 1798) -- Female -- Cause of Death: Unknown Illness -- Spinster & no descendants.
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| − | '''Benedikt Eberhard Stein''' -- (1707 - 1791) -- Male -- Cause of Death: Unknown Illness -- Unmarried & no legitimate children
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| − | '''Corina Fritzi Stein''' -- (1709 - 1789) -- Female -- Cause of Death: Unknown Illness -- Spinster & no descendants.
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| − | '''Else Ilsa Stein''' -- (1711 - 1788) -- Female -- Cause of Death: Heart Disease -- Married: '''Percival Raymund Marley''' (1710 - 1774) COD: Respiratory Disease -- Four children
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| − | === Wenzel Stein & Sarah McDougall's Children ===
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| − | '''Gotthard Aden Stern''' -- (1725 - 1815) -- Male -- COD: Cancer -- Married: '''Rosamond Mary Jane Harrell''' (1735 - 1787) COD: Riding Accident -- Six Children
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| − | '''Garnet Carina Stern''' -- (1727 - 1813) -- Female -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Married: '''Dudley Owen Wyndham''' (1725 - 1811) COD: Heart Disease -- Ten Children
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| − | '''Merrick Waldo Stern''' -- (1729 - 1804) -- Male -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Married: '''Jaynie Lucia Bannister''' (1736 - 1808) COD: Respiratory Disease -- Three Children
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| − | '''Fae Jonquil Stern''' -- (1731 - 1809) -- Female -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Spinster -- No Children
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| − | '''Alexus Carey Stern''' -- (1733 - 1804) -- Female -- COD: Heart Disease -- Married: '''Dunstan Roland Walther''' (1735 - 1811) COD: Heart Disease -- No Children
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| − | '''Urban Driskoll Stern''' -- (1735 - 1817) -- Male -- COD: Cancer -- Married: '''Rebecca Christie Whittemore''' (1745 - 1823) COD: Heart Disease -- Seven Children
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| − | === Gero Stein & Philis Jewel's Children ===
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| − | '''Jonah Purdie Stern''' -- (1722 - 1779) -- Male -- COD: Battle Injuries (American Revolutionary War) -- Bachelor -- No Children
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| − | === Percival Marley & Else Stein's Children ===
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| − | '''Roger Delmar Marley''' -- (1728 - 1813) -- Male -- COD: Heart Disease -- Bachelor -- No Children
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| − | '''Melba Hunter Marley''' -- (1729 - 1806) -- Female -- COD: Cancer -- Married: '''Ezra Newton Cooke''' (1724 - 1804) COD: Diabetes -- Twelve Children
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| − | '''Jeanne Genette Marley''' -- (1731 - 1815) -- Female -- COD: Cancer -- Married: '''Eben Kit Taft''' (1723 - 1775) COD: Diabetes -- Ten Children
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| − | '''Felicity Docia Marley''' -- (1734 - 1819) -- Female -- COD: Heart Disease -- Spinster -- No Children
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| − | === Urban Stern & Rebecca Whittemore's Children ===
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| − | '''Jarod Wilfred Stern''' -- (1765 - 1818) -- Male -- COD: Killed in Battle -- Married: ''' Lorinda Azaria Wortham''' (1775 - 1848) COD: Stroke -- Four Children
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| − | '''Curtis Weldon Stern''' -- (1766 - 1833) -- Male -- COD: Lung Cancer -- Married: '''Simonette Silver Edgar''' (1780 - 1850) COD: Respiratory Disease -- No Children
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| − | '''Dyson Sylvanus Stern''' -- (1768 - 1850) -- Male -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Married: ''' Verna Cathleen Alvey''' (1783 - 1857) COD: Breast Cancer -- One Children (Todd Colin Stern)
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| − | '''Johnathon Kam Stern''' -- (1770 - 1855) -- Male -- COD: Diabetes -- Married: ''' Karlene Dorothy Alexander''' (1785 - 1875) COD: Cancer -- Two Children
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| − | === Jarod Stern & Lorinda Wortham's Children ===
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| − | '''Kenneth Raven Stern''' -- (1791 - 1870) -- Male -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Bachelor -- No Legitimate Children (distinguished career in the East India Company)
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| − | '''Erskine Monte Stern''' -- (1793 - 1882) -- Male -- COD: Lung Cancer -- Bachelor -- No Legitimate Heirs (distinguished career in the East India Company)
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| − | '''Thornton Noble Stern''' -- (1795 - 1860) -- Male -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Married: '''Luella Lauraine Arthurson''' (1802 - 1826) COD: Murder -- Seven Children
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| − | '''Henry Jarod Stern''' -- (1801 - 1861) -- Male -- COD: Heart Disease -- First Marriage: '''Alicia Abigayle Stafford''' (1806 - 1832) COD: Childbirth Complications -- Two Children<br>
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| − | :::::::::::::::::::::''Second Marriage:'' '''Gabriella Denise Hart''' (1815 - ) COD: Old Age -- Three Children<br>
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| − | === Henry Stern & Alicia Stafford / Gabriella Hart's Children ===
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| − | '''Hollis Scot Stern''' -- (1825 - 1857 Interred Ravenbrook Manor) -- Male -- COD: Killed in Action (Indian Rebellion of 1857 - East India Company) -- Married: '''Gabrielle Julia Kimball''' (1830 - ) COD: Illness -- Four Children
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| − | '''Richard Lucian Stern''' -- (1832 - ) -- Male -- COD: Illness -- Married: '''Name''' (Years) COD: Illness -- # of Children (East India Company 1849 - 1857 / British Army of India 1857 - 1861 / Retired / Politics)
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| − | '''Deitra Aura Stern''' -- (1836 - ) -- Female -- COD: Illness -- Spinster Artist -- No Children -- Looks after her mother: Gabriella Hart Stern
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| − | '''Peregrine Rylan Stern ''' -- (1837 - ) -- Male -- COD: Illness -- Married: '''Name''' (Years) COD: Illness -- # of Children (British Army 1854 - 1856 - Crimean War / Retired / Foreign Office)
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| − | '''Alethea Annis Stern Barton''' -- (1838 - ) -- Female -- COD: Illness -- Married: ''' Crawford Ralf Barton''' (1835 - ) COD: Illness -- Three Children (Imperial Civil Service - India)
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| − | == '''Coalbrook Manor''' - ''Family Seat'' ==
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| − | ''The manor is build on a rise that perches over the Coalbrookdale road, lying a few hundred feet south-west of the road itself, the house is screened from the road by a high hedge. An ancient arched stone gateway with wrought-iron gates and marked with the Stern coat of arms blocks access to those not invited.''
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| − | === Residents ===
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| − | ''Coalbrook Manor serves as the seat of the Stern Family and as such hosts a dozen or so resident family members and an odd number of relatives who for various reasons are in residence for the interim.''
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| − | * '''Kenneth Stern''' -- (1791 - ) -- The eldest, heir and patriarch of the Stern family, he had a long and distinguished career in the East India Company long before it fell into corruption and scandal. He is an old military bachelor with no heirs, although there are rumors of foreign bastards, and he has retired to Coalbrook Manor to ride out the last years of his life. He became heir to the family fortune after the death of the previous heir his younger brother Thornton Stern in 1860. He is called ''Raven'' by those close to him.
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| − | * '''Erskine Monte Stern''' -- (1793 - ) -- The second son, he also followed in his father's footsteps and entered the service of the noble East India Company. A stuffy old man who lives by a military discipline, he spends most of his time with his elder brother Kenneth hunting in the nearby woods, playing chess or working on his revision of the military histories of the British Empire. An odd man, he never seemed to have time for women, but maintains many correspondences with men from around the world. Like his elder brother, he has retired to the family seat to live out his last years and dotes upon the Stern family children.
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| − | * '''Todd Colin Stern''' -- () -- Son of Dyson Stern & Verna Alvey -- Resident in his mother's rooms over the five years since her death.
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| − | * '''Gabrielle Kimball Stern''' (1830 - ) -- The widow of her late husband Hollis Scot Stern who died in service to the East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. By friends and family she is called ''Julia'' and despite the death of her husband has become a fully adopted member of the Stern family. She and her four children have resided at Coalbrook Manor since the death of her husband in 1857.
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| − | ** '''Jonathon Mayson Stern''' (1850 - ) -- A precocious twelve-year old.
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| − | ** '''Alexa Sandie Stern''' (1852 - ) -- A pretty ten-year old girl and a bit of a tom-boy.
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| − | ** '''Cletis Laird Stern''' (1854 - ) -- An eight-year old boy with a bright and curious mind.
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| − | ** '''Wallace Aubrey Stern''' (1856 - ) -- A loving boy of just six years who never met his father.
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| − | ''Coalbrook Manor is was established as twenty-five room manor house in 1715, but over the last one-hundred and thirty-five years, it has grown into a rambling Neo-Gothic mansion of over one-hundred rooms. And as such it requires an extensive crew of servants to even keep it clean, let alone repaired, thus there are at least twenty-five servants working around the mansion and grounds.''
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| − | * '''Alger Hollands''' -- Head Butler
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| − | * ''' Douglas Colbert''' -- Stable Master
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| − | ** ''' Simon Irvine ''' -- Lead Groom
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| − | *** '''Amery Smedley''' -- Coachman
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| − | * ''' Lenora Wray''' -- First Maid
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| − | * ''' Bonnie Ready''' -- The Cook
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| − | * '''Vaughn Adkins''' -- Kennel Master
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| − | ** ''' Elodie Adkins''' -- The Kennel Master's daughter
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| | == '''History of Henry Stern''' == | | == '''History of Henry Stern''' == |
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