Henry Stern Timeline

Statistics for Henry Stern 1900

House of Stern

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.

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

Jonah Purdie Stern -- (1722 - 1779) -- Male -- COD: Battle Injuries (American Revolutionary War) -- Bachelor -- No Children

Percival Marley & Else Stein's Children

Roger Delmar Marley -- (1728 - 1813) -- Male -- COD: Heart Disease -- Bachelor -- No Children

Melba Hunter Marley -- (1729 - 1806) -- Female -- COD: Cancer -- Married: Ezra Newton Cooke (1724 - 1804) COD: Diabetes -- Twelve Children

Jeanne Genette Marley -- (1731 - 1815) -- Female -- COD: Cancer -- Married: Eben Kit Taft (1723 - 1775) COD: Diabetes -- Ten Children

Felicity Docia Marley -- (1734 - 1819) -- Female -- COD: Heart Disease -- Spinster -- No Children

Urban Stern & Rebecca Whittemore's Children

Jarod Wilfred Stern -- (1765 - 1818) -- Male -- COD: Killed in Battle -- Married: Lorinda Azaria Wortham (1775 - 1848) COD: Stroke -- Four Children

Curtis Weldon Stern -- (1766 - 1833) -- Male -- COD: Lung Cancer -- Married: Simonette Silver Edgar (1780 - 1850) COD: Respiratory Disease -- No Children

Dyson Sylvanus Stern -- (1768 - 1850) -- Male -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Married: Verna Cathleen Alvey (1783 - 1857) COD: Breast Cancer -- One Children

Johnathon Kam Stern -- (1770 - 1855) -- Male -- COD: Diabetes -- Married: Karlene Dorothy Alexander (1785 - 1875) COD: Cancer -- Two Children *

Jarod Stern & Lorinda Wortham's Children

Kenneth Raven Stern -- (1791 - 1870) -- Male -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Bachelor -- No Legitimate Children (distinguished career in the East India Company)

Erskine Monte Stern -- (1793 - 1882) -- Male -- COD: Lung Cancer -- Bachelor -- No Legitimate Heirs (distinguished career in the East India Company)

Thornton Noble Stern -- (1795 - 1860) -- Male -- COD: Unknown Illness -- Married: Luella Lauraine Arthurson (1802 - 1826) COD: Murder -- Seven Children *

Henry Jarod Stern -- (1801 - 1861) -- Male -- COD: Heart Disease -- First Marriage: Alicia Abigayle Stafford (1806 - 1832) COD: Childbirth Complications -- Two Children

Second Marriage: Gabriella Denise Hart (1815 - ) COD: Old Age -- Three Children

Henry Stern & Alicia Stafford / Gabriella Hart's Children

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

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)

Deitra Aura Stern -- (1836 - ) -- Female -- COD: Illness -- Spinster Artist -- No Children -- Looks after her mother: Gabriella Hart Stern

Peregrine Rylan Stern -- (1837 - ) -- Male -- COD: Illness -- Married: Name (Years) COD: Illness -- # of Children (British Army 1854 - 1856 - Crimean War / Retired / Foreign Office)

Alethea Annis Stern Barton -- (1838 - ) -- Female -- COD: Illness -- Married: Crawford Ralf Barton (1835 - ) COD: Illness -- Three Children (Imperial Civil Service - India)

Coalbrook Manor - Family Seat

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.

Residents

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.

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.

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.

Todd Colin Stern -- (1800 - ) -- Son of Dyson Stern & Verna Alvey -- Resident in his mother's rooms over the five years since her death.

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.
- Jonathon Mayson Stern (1850 - ) -- A precocious fifteen-year old.
- Alexa Sandie Stern (1852 - ) -- A pretty thirteen-year old girl and a bit of a tom-boy.
- Cletis Laird Stern (1854 - ) -- An eleven-year old boy with a bright and curious mind.
- Wallace Aubrey Stern (1856 - ) -- A loving boy of just nine years who never met his father.

Servants

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.

Alger Hollands -- Head Butler

Douglas Colbert -- Stable Master
- Simon Irvine -- Lead Groom
  - Amery Smedley -- Coachman

Lenora Wray -- First Maid
Bonnie Ready -- The Cook

Vaughn Adkins -- Kennel Master
- Elodie Adkins -- The Kennel Master's daughter

Elmer Beverley -- Gamekeeper

Ken Cocks -- Gatekeeper

History of Henry Stern

Henry's Timeline
Year	Events
1801	Henry is born to Lorinda Azaria Wortham 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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1910
1912	Participates in the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic
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