Henry Stern Timeline
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House of Stern
The Sterns of Telford 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 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.
Linage
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.
Margarete Sabrina Stein -- (1684 - 1784) --
Manfred & Magarete's Children
Lene Hieronymus Stein -- (1701 - 1751) -- Female -- Cause of Death: Suicide -- Spinster & no descendants.
Wenzel Benno Stein -- (1702 - 1777) -- Male -- Cause of Death: Respiratory Disease -- Married: Sarah Evy McDougall (1712 - 1789) COD: Cancer -- Six children
Gero Ruprecht Stein -- (1704 - 1778) -- Male -- Cause of Death: Heart Disease -- Married: Philis Harleigh Jewel (1716 - 1795) COD: Senility -- One child
Natalia Käthe Stein -- (1706 - 1798) -- Female -- Cause of Death: Unknown Illness -- Spinster & no descendants.
Benedikt Eberhard Stein -- (1707 - 1791) -- Male -- Cause of Death: Unknown Illness -- Unmarried & no legitimate children
Corina Fritzi Stein -- (1709 - 1789) -- Female -- Cause of Death: Unknown Illness -- Spinster & no descendants.
Else Ilsa Stein -- (1711 - 1788) -- Female -- Cause of Death: Heart Disease -- Married: Percival Raymund Marley (1710 - 1774) COD: Respiratory Disease -- Four children
Wenzel Stein & Sarah McDougall's Children
Gotthard Aden Stern -- (1725 - 1815) -- Male -- COD: Cancer -- Married: Rosamond Mary Jane Harrell (1735 - 1787) COD: Riding Accident -- Six Children
Garnet Carina Stern -- (1727 - 1813) -- Female -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Married: Dudley Owen Wyndham (1725 - 1811) COD: Heart Disease -- Ten Children
Merrick Waldo Stern -- (1729 - 1804) -- Male -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Married: Jaynie Lucia Bannister (1736 - 1808) COD: Respiratory Disease -- Three Children
Fae Jonquil Stern -- (1731 - 1809) -- Female -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Spinster -- No Children
Alexus Carey Stern -- (1733 - 1804) -- Female -- COD: Heart Disease -- Married: Dunstan Roland Walther (1735 - 1811) COD: Heart Disease -- No Children
Urban Driskoll Stern -- (1735 - 1817) -- Male -- COD: Cancer -- Married: Rebecca Christie Whittemore (1745 - 1823) COD: Heart Disease -- Seven Children
Gero Stein & Philis Jewel's Children
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Percival Marley & Else Stein's Children
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History of Henry Stern
| Year | Events |
|---|---|
| 1801 | Henry is born to Oralee Cockburn Stern and Jarod Wilfred Stern (birthday: March 21st at 10pm) |
| 1806 | Henry takes up sculpture |
| 1813 | Henry sent off to boarding school |
| 1818 | Henry's father dies in his first year of attendance at the University of Cambridge |
| 1822 | Henry graduates from Cambridge with a degree in architecture |
| 1823 | Henry marries Alicia Abigayle Stafford |
| 1825 | Scot Hollis Stern born to Alicia Abigayle Stafford Stern and Henry Jarod Stern |
| 1826 | Henry joins the Royal Navy, granted an officer's commission and participates in the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) |
| 1827 | Lieutenant Commander Stern serves aboard the H.M.S. Genoa during the Battle of Navarino under Captain Walter Bathurst; Henry loses his eye to shrapnel |
| 1828 | Henry is promoted to full Commander under the Genoa's new Captain Richard Dickenson |
| 1830 | Henry is discharged with honors from the Royal Navy, but remains in Greece for another year |
| 1831 | Henry returns to London and family life |
| 1832 | Richard Lucian Stern born to Alicia Abigayle Stafford Stern and Henry Jarod Stern; Alicia Stern dies in childbirth |
| 1834 | Henry marries Gabriella Denise Hart |
| 1836 | Deitra Aura Stern born to Gabriella and Henry Stern |
| 1837 | Rylan Peregrine Stern born to Gabriella and Henry Stern |
| 1838 | Alethea Annis Stern born to Gabriella and Henry Stern |
| 1841 | Henry enters the House of Lord is service to the Empire |
| 1850 | Henry arranges for his nephew Forester Everard Stern to his seat in the House of Lords |
| 1851 | Henry quits England for continental Europe (primarily Greece) rather than suffer divorce. |
| 1860 | Henry returns to England for a exhibition of his art and receives the Embrace |
| 1861 | Henry officially dies |
| 1862 | Louis Carter comes into being. |
| 1871 | Henry discovers the Cerulean Star during a visit to the geological exhibit at Natural History Museum of London |
| 1872 | Henry acquires the Cerulean Star from Thuggee cultists who stole it from the Natural History Museum |
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| 1912 | Participates in the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic |
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