Court Roll
Manor or Ramsey 13th Oct 1820
Stafford Clark Farmer of Warboys
£100 paid by Henry Fellowes
William Flowers Steward
Messuage or Tenement situate near a certain place called the Green in Ramsey late of estate of William Clarke deceased heretofore estate of Ann the wife of William Toseland theretofore called Ann Staffurth spinster and is now in the occupation of William Hicks to which Stafford Clark was admitted at a Court 12th August 1819
All Houses, Outhouses, Edifices, Barns, Stables Buildings, Yards, Gardens, Orchards, Hedges, ditches, Re?, Trees, ways, Witters, Roads ...
The section of Document hints at a means where the Staffurth name comes into the family. The building appears to have been left to William Clarke by Ann Toseland née Staffurth. William’s father Philip died before William was baptised, (he was killed by a cart). Mary, Philip’s widow did not remarry and died in 1867, when William was only 16. Perhaps William and possibly also Mary were in some way looked after - perhaps Mary was taken in even forth the birth.
William seems to have named Staffurth after her family name, and there is not as I had at one time imagined a Staffurth in the direct ancestry of the Clarkes