House of Stern

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.

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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) --

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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

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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

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Gero Stein & Philis Jewel's Children

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

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

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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 *

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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

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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

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

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 (London House)

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)

• • Aidan Jason Barton -- (1860) -- Male --
  • Grant Stern Barton -- (1861) -- Male --
  • Elma Layne Barton -- (1862) -- Female --

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