Stoney family genealogy, page 1 of 2: John Stoney (b. 1749) and descendants

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John Stoney b.c. 1749, d. Oct. 19, 1821, m. Elizabeth Caulfield. They came to South Carolina from Ireland in 1774. She died Nov. 8, 1820 aged 71. They lived about Beaufort, finally on Hilton Head Island. He died as a result of a hunting accident.

2. James b. Mar. 30, 1772 d. Feb. 10, 1827.

m. Elizabeth, daur. of Dr. George Moss or Morse. (The Beaufort & Bluffton Stoneys descend from them.)

Elizabeth Mary b. Sept. 27, 1784 d. before 1790.

3. John Stoney, b. July 18, 1780, d. Nov. 6, 1838

m. 1st, Harriet Eliza, dau. of Edgar Wells (April 4, 1801) She died June 9, 1803. Two sons Edgar and George predeceased their mother apparently.

m. 2nd Nov. 28, 1805 Elizabeth Porcher, daur. of Capt. Peter [Gaillard] of the Rocks, b. June 9, 1784, d. July 28, 1856.

3·1. Elizabeth Porcher Stoney — married Christopher Fitz Simons

3·2. John Safford Stoney died unm.

3·3. Peter Gaillard Stoney (1809–1884) m. 1830, Anna Maria, dau. Thomas Porcher of Ophir.

4. Edgar George Stoney ( 1865 ) m. 1838

5. Christopher Fitz Simons Stoney ( 1860 ) [unm.]

6. Samuel David Stoney (1822–189[?]) m. 1852, Harriet Porcher, dau. Peter Gaillard of Heydon Hill.

7. Eugenia Lydia Stoney married Murdoch P. Matheson

8. Theodore Stoney m. Rosa, dau. Otis Mills

9, 10, 11. infants William, Henry and James

AI Notes

First of two facing pages of a handwritten Stoney family genealogy in blue ink on lined paper, numbered ‘1’ (circled) at upper right. Traces descent from John Stoney, an Irish emigrant born c. 1749, through his second-marriage son John Stoney and Elizabeth Porcher and their eleven children. Continues on 462 with detail on the third generation. The sheets are part of the 1958 multi-page Stoney genealogy that Samuel Gaillard Stoney mailed to Amy on 30 June 1958 (cover note on 466).

The Stoney family had moved from near Kettlewell, Yorkshire, to Ireland c. 1692 (per Samuel Gaillard Stoney’s cover note on page 464) before John Stoney emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina in 1774 — placing the Stoneys’ arrival in the Lowcountry just as the Revolutionary crisis was breaking. The 3·1 entry — Elizabeth Porcher Stoney marrying Christopher FitzSimons (2nd) in 1824 — is the marriage that anchors the Stoney line into the compiler’s own descent.