Stoney genealogy notes by SGS — page 4 (Stoney) with cover note to Amy

Fourth sheet of the handwritten Stoney genealogy by SGS, numbered ‘4’ (encircled) at upper right with the header ‘Stoney.’ The upper half continues the third-generation outline begun on p463 with two new entries (3·6·1·3 and 3·6·1·4) for the children of Harriet Porcher Stoney m. Albert Simons and Louisa McCord Stoney m. William Sherbrooke Popham. Below a horizontal rule, a cover note opening ‘Dear Amy:’ offers etymological speculation about the surname Stoney — placing the family’s Irish origin in 1692 (a marginal underlined annotation ‘in 1692’ inserted between lines), tracing the family to near Kettlewell in Craven, West Riding of Yorkshire, noting that several Stoneys appear in the Dictionary of National Biography (in the Appendixes), and proposing a folk etymology ‘de Stoney-Lough = of the stone heap.’ The note continues onto a subsequent sheet (‘I don’t know of any…’). The surname etymology cited is broadly consistent with the modern philological account (Old English/Middle English stane + how, ‘stone mound’; the family appears at Kettlewell, Yorkshire from the 13th century — Baldwin de Stonow, rector under Edward I).

Editorial note: the outline numbering on this page continues the scheme from p463 (which has 3·1·1 for the FitzSimons descendants of Christopher 2nd + Elizabeth Porcher Stoney, and 3·6·1 for the children of Samuel Gaillard Stoney + Louisa Cheves Smythe). Entries 3·6·1·3 and 3·6·1·4 here therefore expand the third and fourth children of that couple — Harriet Porcher Stoney (m. Albert Simons, the Charleston preservationist architect) and Louisa McCord Stoney (m. William Sherbrooke Popham). The “Louisa Cheves Popham” who heads the next generation is named for her grandmother Louisa Cheves Smythe; she married William Gaston Raoul (1911–1997) of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, in April 1942 at Goose Creek Church near Charleston. The “1692” marginal annotation places the Stoney family’s removal from Yorkshire to Ireland in the immediate wake of the Williamite settlement — broadly consistent with other 17th-century Anglo-Irish Protestant migrations after the Battle of the Boyne (1690). The etymology SGS proposes (“de Stoney-Lough = of the stone heap”) is folk philology — the historical record places the surname at Kettlewell as de Stonow / Stonehow (“stone height/mound” — Old English stane + how) from the 13th century.