Ipstones Families

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These pages cover the maternal line of Pam's father Jack EATON. Our starting point is the family of Joseph & Margaret Clowes of Ipstones from whom the line descends to Pam's third great grandfather William Clowes who left Ipstones to farm at Bucknall. Related individuals include Samuel Clowes MP, Alderman Harold Clowes and Alderman Mrs Doris Robinson. The extensive family tree of Harold Clowes displayed in the parish church of St.Leonard, Ipstones suggests that common ancestry can be traced to the baptism of Robert CLOWES in Ipstones, Staffs in 1625.

Joseph CLOWES (b.1680)

Little is yet known about Pams sixth great grandfather Joseph Clowes and his wife Margaret except that they had seven children baptized in Ipstones between 1710 and 1729.

John CLOWES (b.1723)

John Clowes was born the fifth child of Joseph & Margaret. He married Anne Hulme in 1748 in Ipstones where John worked as a carpenter. They had seven known children all of whom survived into adulthood and were named in John's will.

At least two of John's siblings died in infancy. Of those who survived, Sarah (b.1710) married Samuel Turner and Margaret (b.1726) married Simon JOHNSON. Nothing is known about the other siblings.

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Richard CLOWES (b.1758)

Not much is yet known about Richard who was born the fifth child of John & Anne. He married Ann Vigarstaff in Ipstones in 1781. They had eight children of whom at least seven survived.

Of Richard's siblings, little is known about Joseph (b.1749). Mary (b.1751) married William Allen. John (b.1754) married Mary Alcock and went on to have six children. Robert (b.1756) married Jane Blower. They had twelve children and were living at Foxt when they died. Samuel (b.1759) married Catherine Prince and had five children. George (b.1765) was parish clerk at Ipstones for 65 years prior to his death in 1850. He married Martha Hawkins and had seven children.

See the Stoke Families page for later generations.