Benjamin Stocks

HEADSTONE - Benjamin & Sarah Stocks

This picture was taken in Armitage Bridge and sourced from Headstone.

• Individual Picture Notes
  • Headstone reads:
    IN MEMORY OF
    EMMA daughter of Benjamin & Sarah Stocks,
    of Berry Brow who died March 6th 1853
    Aged 17 Years
    ALSO OF THE ABOVE SARAH STOCKS
    Who died April 23rd 1875
    Aged 77 years.
    ALSO OF THE ABOVE
    Benjamin Stocks,
    who died June 17th 1875
    Aged 78 Years.

• Birth Notes
  • Aged 40 in 1841 at Berry Brow
    
    Name:    Benjamin Stocks
    Gender:    Male
    Birth Date:    7 Aug 1796
    Baptism Date:    4 Sep 1796
    Baptism Place:    High Street Chapel Methodist New Connexion,Huddersfield,York,England
    Father:    George Stocks
    Mother:    Mary
    FHL Film Number:    993685
    

• Death Notes
  • Still alive in 1874, when son Joseph visited for several months.
    
    Deaths Jun 1875   (>99%)
    Stocks  Benjamin  78  Huddersfield  9a 243
    
    According to the Job W Stocks biography, Benjamin and his wife were buried at their old home.
    
    Benjamin lived and was cared for by his brother Job before he died.  According to some family letters, they even shared the same bed.
    
    It seems Benjamin went into a neighbours house, and must have sat in a draft, for when he came home he was complaining of feeling chilly and cold, and later on that night he was seized with pain in his breast and gradualy grew worse up to his death on Friday morning, about 11 O'clock when he died.  (See letter from James and Alice Boothroyd).
    
    Name:    Benjamin Stocks
    Age:    78 (looks like 98 on burial record but is 78)
    Birth Year:    abt 1797
    Burial Date:    20 Jun 1875
    Burial Place:    Armitage Bridge, St Paul, Yorkshire, England
    Abode:    Berry Brow
    
    Headstone reads:
    IN MEMORY OF
    EMMA daughter of Benjamin & Sarah Stocks,
    of Berry Brow who died March 6th 1853
    Aged 17 Years
    ALSO OF THE ABOVE SARAH STOCKS
    Who died April 23rd 1875
    Aged 77 years.
    ALSO OF THE ABOVE
    Benjamin Stocks,
    who died June 17th 1875
    Aged 78 Years.

• General Notes
  • There's only one Benjamin Stocks in Almondbury, and another in Huddersfield who was married to Hannah Barber.  Benjamin seems to have stopped having his children baptised after George in 1825 (except for Ann in 1837, 7 years after she was born).  The birth of Joseph (his last child) in 1838 confirms the mother as CAMPINOT.
    
    Benjamin was a Cloth Dresser from Berry Brow until at least 1841 (when he was 40), and later perhaps a mechanic and worked in the factories of Yorkshire, never travelling to the US (c.f. Job W. Stocks biograpohy).
    
    In 1841, Benjamin Stocks (40) was at Berry Brow with sons George (16) and James (14).  Wife Sarah was not with him.
    
    In 1851, Benjamin and Sarah Stocks (54 & 53) were back together at 1543 Berry Brow with sons James (23) and Joseph (12). Amos Heely and Emanuel Jepson families were neighbours (with possible DNA connections).
    

Click here for details of Benjamin's family with Sarah (Sally) Campinot

¹ FamilySearch.org
² England Select Births & Christenings (1538-1975)
³ Biography - Job W Stocks
⁴ Biography - Joseph Stocks
⁵ 1841 UK Census
⁶ 1861 UK Census
Source/Citation Letters - Stocks Families

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