St Michael & All Angels, Berwick
In memory of Samuel Stace, Senior, late of this Parish, who wass Buried the 28th October, 1740, aged 70 od yrs.
Type: Stone grave marker (external).
Monument Condition: Unknown.
Inscription Condition: Unknown.
Last name: Stace.
First Name(s): Samuel.
Birth date: Not given.
Death date: 28 Oct 1740.
Age: 70.
Inscriptions on Tombstones in Berwick Churchyard 1860. By the Rev. Edward Boys Ellman, M.A. (Susses Archaeological Society Vol. 12
This Samuel Stace was the first of the family who settled in Berwick, the precise date being 1711. He could not write his name. He came as a tenant of the Fuller family, the farm remaining in the Stace family for a period of one hundred and forty years, when William Stace, the fourth in descent (and the son of William Stace) emigrated to America, where he died on January 1st, 1858. The family so multiplied, that twenty years since, there were seven families residing in the parish, of this name, and it is now to be met with in many parishes. There probably was some connection between the Staces of Wartling, and the Staces of this parish, as in each parish I find the peculiar Christian name of Sihon, a Sihon Stace being a rate payer in Wartling in 1707m and a Sihon Stace having died in Berwick in 1849 at the age of 77, leaving a grand-son of the same name, who has emigrated to New Zealand.
Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.
Batch: Unknown.