My
Stacey Kin
The most common spelling of my name in early times seems to be STACEY. By the time my grandfather, William Osborne Stacy was born, the "E" had been dropped. However, a school incident long ago caused some of my Stacy family line to start spelling their name STACEY. The story goes that when Oliver Hicks Stacy went to school, he had a teacher who told him he was not spelling his surname name correctly and insisted it be spelled Stacey. He and some of the other siblings began to spell it STACEY. And so, the STACEY variant name appears in this families 20th and 21st century roots. It is interesting to note that during a recent visit to England, some Stacey relatives found that the most frequent spelling of the STACY name in a London phone directory is STACEY. My family's genealogical study begins in 1640 with Thomas Stacy in Colchester, Essex, England. His direct descendants migrated to America during it's colonial beginnings. Click on the link to a Stacy index to read about my direct Ancestors, who fought and won fame in Bacon's Rebellion and The American Revolution and other wars. Please feel free to peruse the files that are an ongoing family endeavor and will be updated as frequently as new information is received. The findings, in part, are the direct result of genealogical studies made by the Children and Grand Children of William Osborn Stacy and Annie Bell Norville Stacy (PICTURED BELOW) to whom this work is lovingly DEDICATED.
William Osborne Stacy was a storekeeper in Rutherfordton and was a horse and wagon traveler who spent many nights on the roads of Western North Carolina where he sold pots, pans and other items. At that time the forest areas where he traveled by horse and wagon still contained populations of wolves and he is known to have built larger than normal fires to keep them away from his camp sites. Their children number eleven, as shown in the below photograph.
Sons & daughters of Mr. &
Mrs. W. O. Stacy, August 1983
FR: Carrie, Edna, Louise, Elizabeth, Linwood
BR: William, Edward, Cornelius, Raymond, Walter and Hicks.
Hicks Stacey's genealogical studies are the driving force that drove me to research much the information listed on this genealogical web site. Hicks, and his brothers and sisters are direct descendants of Benedict Stacy, b. 1725, MD, the grandson of Thomas Stacey, b. 1640 in England, and Benedict's (Bennet's) son, Aaron Stacy, b. 1760, St. Marys, Maryland.
(Oliver Hicks Stacey researched the Stacy generations from as early
as the 1930's. While his data is such that could fill a complete volume of
history, he did not write a book, but has been published widely in
some major genealogical publications, including 'My Stewart and Other Kin of
Iredell County, N. C.,' by Jeanette H. Kelly, 'The Heritage of
Rutherford County, North Carolina', by Old Tryon Historical Society and
'Through Four Generations', by Anne W. McAllister. Oliver Hicks Stacey
was well known among his genealogical peers.
Oliver
Hicks Stacey, 97, of Clearwater, died March 19, 2005, at Palm Gardens of
Clearwater.
Stacey Generations photograph from the mid 20th Century, 1956, shows 4 generations of Stacey's, left to right, Annie Bell Norville Stacy, Thomas Edward (Eddie) Stacey, Jr. holding his son, Randy Dean Stacey, and next to him is Thomas Edward (Ed) Stacey, Sr., the son of Annie Bell Norville Stacy
A 1980 Davis/Stacey five generation photograph. Thomas Edward (Eddie) Stacey and Randy Stacey are also pictured in the other generations photograph above this one. Pictured sitting, left to right, Rosa Taylor Holmes Davis, Cora Pauline Davis Stacey holding Nicolas Stacey. Standing left to right, Thomas Edward Stacey, Jr., and his son Randy Dean Stacey.