▶Date of birth:  10 June 1804        Place of birth: South Molton, Devon

▶Father: William Raymond      Mother: Ann Maria Broadbelt

▶Spouse(s):  Marianne Belcher Evans    Date(s) of marriage:  5 July 1830     Place(s) of marriage: St Helier, Jersey

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: William Francis Raymond was for over fifth years the Rector of Stockton-on-Teme in Worcestershire; he lived his final years in Pittville. Raymond was born in South Molton, Devon, in 1804, the eldest son of William Raymond, Colonial Secretary of Montevideo, Uruguay, and his wife Anna Maria, daughter of Rigby Brodbelt, of Jamaica. Raymond matriculated at Peterhouse College, Cambridge in 1826, BA 1830, MA 1833. He was ordained Deacon (Bristol) in 1830, and Priest in 1831. In 1830, while at Peterhouse, he married Marianne Belcher, second daughter of Admiral Fitzherbert Evans, who was born in Bermuda; they had two daughters.

In 1830 Raymond was licensed Curate of Burleston, Dorset, where he remained until appointed Rector of Stockton-on-Teme, Worcestershire in 1834. He served as a Magistrate for Worcestershire from 1841 and as Rural Dean of Burford 1841-83. While still Rector of Stockton-on-Teme he also held the vicarage of Wilsford, Marlborough 1835-81. In addition, he served as the Master of St Nicholas Hospital, Salisbury, from 1849 as a Diocesan Inspector of Schools, and Prebendary of Wellington, Hereford 1857-89. In 1858 his daughter Ann married Slade Baker (later Baker-Penoyre); the couple lived in Pittville from 1876.

Raymond resigned from his office of Vicar of Stockon-on-Teme in 1883, moving to Hereford, where he lived at The Moor and Hardwick Court, Clifford, and then from 1886 and his death at 14 Pittville Parade (now 28 Evesham Road), Cheltenham. In 1886 he changed his name by deed poll to Raymond-Stallard-Penoyre, on succeeding to the estates of his cousin on his mother’s side Rigby Brodbelt Stallard-Penoyre, whom he succeeded.

He died in 1889 at 14 Pittville Parade, Cheltenham, at the age of eighty-four; his estate at death was valued at just under £31,000.

Cheltenham Chronicle 19 June 1886

NOTICE.

I the undersigned, WILLIAM FRANCIS RAYMOND, of The Moor, in the Parish of Clifford, in the County of Hereford, and of No. 14 Pittville Parade, Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, Clerk in Holy Orders, having under the Will of the late Anna Maria Brodbeet Napleton Stallard-Penoyre, bearing date the 12th day October, 1866, become tenant for life in possession of The Moor and other Estates in the said County Hereford, Do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that in pursuance of the direction contained in such Will, I shall from and after this date assume and take and use upon all occasions the surname of Stallard-Penoyre, in addition to that of Raymond, and that I desire to be henceforth addressed and styled by the name of WILLIAM FRANCIS RAYMOND STALLARD  PENOYRE accordingly.

And I HEREBY FURTHER GIVE NOTICE, that I have by a Deed Poll enrolled or intended to be forthwith enrolled in the Chancery Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice authenticated this my intention.

As witness hand this eighth day of June, 1886.

F. RAYMOND.

(Witness) WILLM. FOWLES, of Cheltenham, Gentleman.

Evesham Standard 6 April 1889

STOCKTON.

DEATH OF A FORMER RECTOR.—The Rev. William Francis Raymond-Penoyre, for many years rector of Stockton, died last week at Cheltenham, where he had resided for a considerable period. The deceased gentleman was appointed to the rectory of Stockton in 1834, and to a Prebendary’s stall in Hereford Cathedral in 1837. He was placed on the Commission of the Peace for Worcestershire in 1841, and was for several years Chairman of the Hundred House Court. At the monthly meeting of the magistrates last week it was resolved that a letter of condolence be sent to the children of the deceased gentleman.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  17 Imperial Square, Cheltenham       Moved from Pittville to: (deceased)

▶Date of death:  14 March 1889      Place of death: 14 Pittville Parade, Pittville, Cheltenham

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial:

▶Notes:        ID: 4010

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden/David Drinkwater