Genealogy & Family History
Stacye of Ballifield Hall
The Stacye's had various properties including those at Ballifield and Cinderhill
The family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox and had a private cemetery on their estate at Cinderhill.George Fox's first contacts in this area were the Staceys. Meetings were held both at Cinder Hill Green and Thomas Stacey's house in 1654. Just over a decade later in 1655, Cinder Hill Meeting was recorded as part of Pontefract Monthly Meeting. In 1669, it became part of Balby Monthly Meeting, covering Woodhouse and Hackenthorpe as well. The Stacey family was by this time the mainstay of the Meeting.
Ann Stacye, eldest daughter of Robert Stayce late of Ballifield, then of London, and ? Sweetapple married Thomas Aldam at Warmsworth, Doncaster. Children: Thomas, John, William, Mary,Elizabeth and Ann.
John, Richard and Malin Stacye
John Stacye, brother of Richard and Malin
John born about 1539 married in 1557, Anne (b 1545), daughter of Thomas Parker and Elizabeth (nee Holmes) of Whitley Hall, Ann was widow of Thomas Scargill. John died in 1593. Anne died in 1609. Children:
- Katherine married James Ardron of Treeton.
- Elizabeth married Nicholas Burrowes
- Anne married Richard Eyre
- Philippa married Richard Jarvis
- Thomas (1574-1632) married Ann Booth
Anne Booth, (b1579), daughter of John Booth married Thomas Stacye of Ballifield, on 18th May, 1597 at Handsworth; she brought considerable property to her husband.
Children of Thomas and Ann Stacye (Nee Booth):
- John 1598-1658. Married Mary Fulwood in 1618 at Handsworth(d1656); daughter of John Fulwood (Eastwood, Notts) and Mary Garland of Todwick.
- Elizabeth
- Helen
- Thomas
- Robert
- Mary
- Cuthbert
- Anne
- John?
Children of John (1598-1658) and Mary Stacye (1600-1683)(nee Fulwood):
- Thomas (1619-1687) of Ballifield m.1655 to Judith Clark (1634-1680)
- Mary
- John (1656-1712) Ballifield m.1690 Ballifield to Sarah Shaw,in 1662 Sheffield
- William
- Matthias
- Robert
- Helen Married John Fretwell (d1685), of Hucknall, Notts. Son Peter Fretwell
- Anne
- Mahlon (1638-1704) baptised at Handsworth. Married Rebecca Ely in 1668 at Clowne, Derbys.
Rebecca Ely was daughter of George Ely (d1656) and Sarah (1628-1668) both of Mansfield. (Another daughter of George and Sarah, Ruth Ely (1650-1672) married Lionel Revell)
Children of Mahlon and Rebecca Stacye:
- John born 1671 Dore House, buried 1671, Cinderhill.
- Elizabeth born 1673, Dore House.
- Sarah born 1675 Dore House. Married Joseph Kirkbride in 1702.
- Mary born 1677 Dore House. Married Reuben Pownall.
- Ruth (1680-1755) born Trenton, New Jersey.
- Rebecca (1682-1684) born Trenton, New Jersey
- Rebecca (1684-1754) born New Jersey
- Mahlon (1686-1742) born Trenton, New Jersey
Mahlon Stacye (1638-1704) emigrated to New Jersey, USA, in 1666 and founded Trenton, the capital city of New Jersey.
Extract ...The favorable accounts written home by the first settlers in West Jersey stimulated immigration and soon there was an accession to the population. The Shield, of Hull, Captain Towes, arrived November 10, 1678, the first English vessel that ascended as high up as Burlington. A fresh gale brought her up the river, and during the night she was blown in to shore where she made fast to a tree. It came on cold and the next morning the passengers walked ashore on the ice. As the Shield passed the place where Philadelphia stands, the passengers remarked what a fine place for a town. Among the passengers were Mahlon Stacy , his wife, seven daughters, several servants, his cousin Thomas Revel, and William Emley (Probably Mahlon Stacy's brother-in-law), with his wife, two children, and four servants. The passengers by the Shield, and other ships that followed the same year, settled at Burlington, Salem, and other points on the river. A few found their way into Bucks county. Among those who came with the West Jersey settlers in 1678 was Benjamin Duffield, the ancestor of the Pennsylvania family of that name. By the end of 1678 it is estimated that William Penn had been the means of sending some eight hundred settlers to this country, mostly Friends. ... Source
Richard Stacye, brother of John and Malin
Born about 1538
Malin Stacye, brother of John and Richard
Born about 1539
Malin Stacye was one of the 13 Governors of the Sheffield Free Grammar School .
Stacy of Misterton
Malin Stacy of Sheffield, cutler, was brother of John Stacy of Misterton, Nottingamhire yeoman, who was nephew and heir of John Stacy of Misterton, and June his wife.Mary was mother of John Stacy, the nephew, and his brother Thomas.
In 1891 Thomas Watson Cadman was at Ballifield Hall.
Ballifield Hall was eventually bought in 1950 by Sheffield Corporation and used as a home for the elderley.
The following 2 pedigrees are from FAMILY MINORUM GENTIUM
STACIE: MS.560
in which Hunter comments:In will of Alexander Nodder, mention of a Malin Stacye, father of Robert & Elizabeth.
Will of Malin Stacye of Ballifield, 8 May 1644, has many Stacies but not easily connected.
I conceive that the father of the 7 children who all lived to be married was a Thomas Stacie, as I find George Fox, at the beginning of his Ministry, visiting several times a Thomas Stacie of Ballifleld.
There are to be added to the Pedigree: John, son of Malin Stacie, who d. 11 Dec. 1671, & is buried in the ground at Cinder Hill, & Mary Stacie of Cinder Hill, who d. 23 Jan. 1683, & is bur. in the same place.
In the same ground are, or were, Memorials for Elizabeth, dau. of George Ely, late of Mansfield, who d. 27 Dec. 1672 ; and for Judith, late wife of George Harrison of Orgreave, who d. 3 June 1688 ; & these with the persons mentioned in the Pedigree were all for whom there were Memorials when I visited the place March 28, 1802, and here I am, Sep. 7, 1845, recording them, & using the materials then gathered. Mrs Rhodes in her will 1669 names also Thomas Stacie, who is uncle to Mahlon Lillie ; Ann, w. of William Harrison ; Margaret Wallier (Walker ?) of Darnal & Margaret Newbould, her dau. & h.; her friend & cozen William Laughton who wrote the will.
In the will of Mary Farnworth occurs also Thos, John, & Mary, children of Thos Aldam of Warmsworth, certain Kelhams , and Rebecca and Edy Ardron. Mahlon Stacye of Dore House, psh. of Handsworth, mar. Rebecca Ely (?) of Mansfield 2 July 1668.
The children of both John & Thomas Stacie are found in the wills of Anne Rhodes or Mary Farnworth.
One of the Maylon Stacyes was of Dore House in psh. of Hansworth & mar. Rebecca Ely of Mansfield 29 May 1668 at Godfrey Watkinson's house. It was doubtless the son of John.
STACYE: Ms.561
in which Hunter comments:See York Wills 2121, 2122. Beside Stacye of Ballifield & Stacye of Hansworth Woodhouse there were several obscure families of the name at Hansworth. The Ballifield people say they have been there from the Conquest. So the Aldams of their relations.
