Mrs Charles Welman
 (1838-1917)
29 May 1863

Volume 10, page 254, sitting number 13,382 and 13,383.

Eugenia Mary Stoner was born on 6 October 1838 at Shiplake in Oxfordshire, the youngest daughter of the Honourable Charles Henry Stoner, of Holmwood, Oxfordshire. Her father was killed in a freak accident when she was still an infant. ‘As the Honourable Charles Stoner, brother of Lord Camoys, was watching the fall of a large beech tree in his park at Holmwood, Henley-on-Thames, from the saturated state of the ground it suddenly fell on, and so seriously injured him, that he survived but a few hours’ (Kilkenny Journal, 15 February 1840).

On 26 November 1862 at Torquay she married Charles Caesar Welman. Their marriage produced three sons and five daughters. 

Welman retired from the Army the following year with the rank of Lieutenant. By 1868 he was a Lieutenant in the West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.

The couple appear on the 1881 census living at the Priory, Prior Park, Somerset. Major Welman gave as his profession ‘JP for Somerset, Major West Somerset Yeomanry.’ Also present on the night of the census were three of their children and four servants.

In 1911 they were living with their unmarried daughter Una Mary Welman at 27 Holmesdale Road, Teddington. Major Welman died there, aged 73, on 3 February 1914, leaving effects valued at £445. 

Mrs Welman died, aged 78, on 27 April 1917 at 27 Holmesdale Road, Teddington. She left effects valued at £697. 

A mid-20th-century article on the Welman family in the Taunton Courier (12 November 1949) concludes: ‘Although Charles Noel Welman had so many sons, there are now only two Welmans living – Mr Paul Arundel Welman and his 14-year-old son.’