Bpt 4 May 1718 “s. of Robert Stuckey, Esqr & Mary his wife”124 Limestone quarry proprietor409 Unmarried. “He died possess’d of vast worldly property: which, after he had long possedd’d, without enjoying and without using; he was, at length, constrained to leave to others”124 Lengthy MI at Branscombe144 From Ronald Branscombe’s GUIDE TO THE CHURCH OF ST WINIFRED IN BRANSCOMBE: ‘Even after his death, Judge John Stuckey could raise the ire of individuals in the community. His large house at Weston, where he had died, was burned to the ground in the same year. It was said to have been destroyed by an illegitimate son, in his rage at discovering that he could not inherit the property, which had been willed to a distant relative in Somerset.’410