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392:"In memory of Elizabeth the wife of Richard Stevens, Esqr., who died March 14th 1760 aged 53. And of the said Richard Stevens Esqr. who died July 15th 1776 aged 74. Also of their sons and daughters whose names are above inscribed: Christiana Maria Stevens died February 5th 1755 aged 16; Hugh Stevens died March 31st 1755 aged 31; Richard Stevens died December 20th 1762 aged 29; Henry Stevens died August 10th 1764 aged 19"
123:, as is recorded on the ornate mural monument to Judith Stevens (died 1676) on the east wall of the south aisle of Great Torrington parish church. One of their sons, John Stevens (died 1674) predeceased his father, as is revealed by his grave-slab under his father's mural monument in Great Torrington Church. Henry appears to have had two sisters, both listed
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to the Great
Torrington Town Lands and Poors Charity. They are on public display in Great Torrington townhall. The Rolles of Stevenstone were the largest landowners on Devon. Henry Stevens's heir was his son Henry Stevens (1739–1802), who married Sarah Bridget Marwood (who married secondly John
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of Devon, and thus the family's pedigree is not officially recorded, and the family must be assumed not to have been counted amongst the gentry of Devon at that time, or to have settled in the county after that date. The earliest record of the
Stevens family in Devon is as follows:
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in
Norfolk, built by Robert Walpole in 1722, but on the failure of her marriage she moved abroad to Italy. Thus she required a trustworthy agent in Devon to manage her affairs, which included estates in Devon and Cornwall. The Rolle family controlled one of the seats in the
331:"To the memory of Mrs Elizabeth Clevland wife of John Clevland Esq., Member of Parliament for the Borough of Barnstaple (where he has been chosen six successive parliaments) and daughter of Richard Stevens of Winscott. She died 16 September 1792 aged 65 years"
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Susannah
Stevens (died 1694/5), who married firstly Alexander Rolle (died 1660) of Tawstock, a younger son of a junior line of the Rolles of Stevenstone. She married secondly in 1664, as his third wife, Sir John Chichester (1598–1669) of
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Winscott passed after the death of his son-in-law John
Cleveland to the descendants of Richard's elder brother, Henry Stevens (died 1748), of Cross, thus re-uniting the three Stevens estates of Vielstone, Cross and Winscott.
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115:, son and heir of William Stevens of Great Torrington. The earliest known seat of the Stevens family in Devon was Vielstone, in 2013 a farmhouse used as a care home, in the parish of
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In 1724 at
Frithelstock he married his cousin Elizabeth Stevens (1707–1768), only daughter and executrix of Hugh Stevens of Buckland Brewer, by whom he had children including:
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near Great
Torrington, who in 1642 inherited from his infant cousin Denys Rolle (1638–1642) the Stevenstone estates. The marriage was childless and his heir was his cousin Sir
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Drummond, Mary M., Biography of
Stevens, Richard, of Winscott, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, Namier, L. & Brooke, J. (eds.), 1964
178:, but who built the existing mansion of Cross between 1744 and 1748. He married Christiana Maria Rolle (1710–1780), a daughter of John Rolle (1679–1730), MP, of
347:(Child of Surat, East Indies and Dervill, Essex, Baronet, created 1684, extinct 1753), the arms of William Clevland's mother Elizabeth Child). Overall is an
211:), but who died without children leaving as heir his sister Christiana Stevens (1743–1828) who had married in 1779 Rev. Thomas Moore (1740–1802), vicar of
75:, Devon, (son of Henry Stevens (1617-post 1675) of Vielstone by his wife Judith Hancock (1650–1676), daughter of John Hancock lord of the manor of
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Elizabeth
Stevens (1727–1792), who married twice, firstly to Robert Awse of Horwood House in the parish of Frithelstock, and secondly in 1782 to
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about five miles south-west of Great
Torrington. He married Judith Stevens (died 1676), daughter of John Hancock lord of the manor of
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The mural monument to his daughter Elizabeth Stevens (1727–1792) survives in Peters Marland Church, inscribed as follows:
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Vielstone: as is recorded on the ornate mural monument to Judith Stevens (died 1676), daughter of John Hancock of
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A mural monument in St Peter's Church, Peters Marland, reset into the wall of 1865 nave, is inscribed as follows:
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Sir Lewis Namier (1964). "CLEVLAND, John (1734–1817), of Tapley, Devon". In L. Namier; J. Brooke (eds.).
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Mary Stevens (died 1669), buried at St Giles in the Wood, married in 1639 Henry Rolle (1605–1647), of
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Richard Stevens died on 15 July 1776 aged 74, as is stated on his monument in Peters Marland Church.
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He was the second son of Richard Stevens (c. 1670 – 1727) of Vielstone in the parish of
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in the Visitation of Devon as "daughter of William Stevens of Great Torrington":
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Below is a white marble relief sculpted escutcheon showing the following arms:
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Richard Stevens (1702–1776), MP, of Winscott, subject of the present article.
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Per chevron argent and gules, in chief two falcons rising proper belled or
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Stevens of Winscott mural monument in St Peter's Church, Peters Marland
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Per chevron azure and gules, in chief two falcons rising belled or
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Per chevron azure and gules, in chief two falcons rising belled or
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Richard Stevens (1733–1762), predeceased his father, aged 29
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Richard Stevens was returned on her interest as one of its
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Henry Stevens ()1745–1764), predeceased his father, aged 19
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He was the chief agent in charge of the estates centred on
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Mural monument to Elizabeth Stevens, Peters Marland Church
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Callington
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Vert, two bars engrailed between three leopard's faces or
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Hugh Stevens (1724–1755), predeceased his father, aged 31
190:(1708–1750). Portraits of Christiana and of her brothers
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Per Judith's mural monument in Great Torrington Church
79:.) His elder brother was Henry Stevens (1689–1748) of
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Christiana Maria Stevens (1739–1755), died aged 16.
95:No entry for the Stevens family exists in the 1620
396:The arms of Stevens shown on a cartouche are:
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202:and were given in the early 1900s by
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241:(1709–1781). Her first husband was
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83:and Smithacott in the parish of
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57:Member of Parliament
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