A very quiet and pretty village that seemed to be as it would have been in Sarah's time. The graveyard had many graves belonging to the Brown family many inscribed with poetic inscriptions.
When the married they went to live in Thurcaston where James had been born in 1801. They had thirteen children including our Great grandmother Priscilla who was born in 1845.
There were many Dexter graves in the church grounds.
James was a Farm Steward and Game Keeper at Thurcaston House. The grounds are now a housing estate.
The School at Thurcaston James Dexter's parents were William Dexter and Ann Porter, they had married on the 24th February 1786 at Dishley Leicestershire. James was their thirteenth and last child. Ann's parents were Edward Porter and Elinor Halley. William's parents were John Dexter and Dorothy Day, they had married in 30th April 1761 at Hathern Leicestershire. They had nine children and William was their second child.
Priscilla is on the 1861 census as a servant to a Samuel Page and his wife Marianne.
Samuel and Marianne Barton married in 1856 and they had five children between 1857 and 1865 when she died.
At the time they were living next to the railway station at Beeston Nottingham. The photograph shows the station with a house adjoining but we don't know if this is the house referred to.
On the twelfth of June 1866 at the Salem Chapel in York, Samuel married Priscilla she was twenty years old. I can't imagine her parents were thrilled, possibly Samuel wanted an unpaid housekeeper for his six children.
The Salem Chapel in York 
By 1871 they were living at 187 Arkwright Street in Nottingham where they had four children before moving down to Walworth London, where our grandfather Joseph Dexter Page was born in 1872. (In 1892 he married Mary Elizabeth Theobalds)
All that is left of Arkwright Street are a few three storey dilapidated houses and shops.
Samuel Page (Priscilla's husband) was born in 1835 in Nottingham to Samuel Page and Ann Flewitt, they had nine children all in or around Nottingham. They married at St Peters church.
Two of their children died in infancy and they were buried at Stanton on the Wolds.
St Peters Church Nottingham
Below are the churches where their children were christened
St Nicholas church 
St Mary's church
Below are the churches where their children were christened
St Nicholas church 
St Mary's church Samuel Page Senior was born in Stanton on the Wolds on the 22 August 1805. The church there is very small and apparently was built by the villagers from stones gathered from the surrounding fields.
The majority of the gravestones in the churchyard are Page family and are Grade I listed. They have all got very poetic inscriptions.
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This map from 1738 shows that the Page and Shepperson families seem to have most of the village fields.
Bunny church
