Death
Stephen's second wife, Sarah née Wilberforce, died in 1816. Her Niece, Barbara Wilberforce, died in 1821, and in 1832 Stephen himself died. All three are buried at St Mary's churchyard, Stoke Newington, London, along with Stephen's first wife, his mother and father and two of his infant daughters. Three sons from Stephen's first marriage (m. Anna Stent at St Leonard, Shoreditch 1783) survived him, and achieved prominence in law, abolition and the civil service: Sir James Stephen (1789–1859), Henry John Stephen (1787–1864), and George Stephen (1794–1879). NOTE:- Sarah Wilberforce (c. 1757–1816) was the eldest sister of William Wilberforce (1759–1833), the Abolitionist of Slavery, and Barbara (1799–1821) was his daughter.
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