STEVENS/STEPHENS Hartpury + SURMAN (General)

by m p griffiths , Thursday, October 13, 2011, 18:06 (4786 days ago) @ unknown

Assume this is your family, 1841 - Census, Glos. Hartpury

Ann STEPHENS - age 55 - age lab. born in County (c1786)
Thomas STEPHENS - age 32 c 1809
William STEPHENS - age 20 **

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1851 Census, Hartpury

STEPHENS

William - 27 - all born Hartpury
Ann - 28
Eliza - 5 (Gloucestershire BDM - Eliza STEPHENS, mother's maiden name SURMAN - 1846)
Harriet - 2
Willie - 2 months
Charlotte SURMAN, Niece - 12

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many STEPHENS in Hartpury

1841 Census

STEPLER (transcribed as) means STEPHENS

Emanual - 30
Elizabeth - 30
Emma - 8
Eliza - 6
Charles - 3 months

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Gloucestershire Marriage Index: - at Gloucester St Mary De Lobe - 12 October 1831

Emanual STEPHENS of Barton Street, and Mary Elizabeth HIAM, of Barton St Mary

and William STEPHENS married Ann SURMAN - at St Mary De Lobe - 1844 (Gloucestershire BDM)

FOD records, have a baptism at Hartpury, 18 June 1820 - for Anne SURMAN - parents Aaron (Blacksmith) and Hannah

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if you look at Gloucestershire BDM

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/

and check for children of STEPHENS, mother's maiden name HIAM

this ties up with census information

Charles - 1841, Gloucester Redmarley Office
Female - 1844 - ditto
John - 1848 -ditto

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1851 Census, Hartpury

Ann STEPHENS (age 66) c1785 is at Brick House, workman, widow of a Labourer, born Glostershire

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another household

Emanual STEPHENS - a bricklayer age 40 and born Hartpury
Elizabeth - 41
Charles - 10
Mary Ann - 6
John - 3

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1861 Census, Hartpury

Daufoot? Lane

Ann STEPHENS - Head, age 75, born Hardwick Glos

(Burial on FOD records - at Hartpury, Ann STEPHENS age 95 - 4 November 1874)

so still alive in 1871, Hartpury Census

Catsbury Road

Ann STEPHENS - Widow - 85, Ag. Lab. born Hardwick, Glos

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? marriage would have been around c 1786 + 20 years = 1806

first child Thomas (named after Father - christened in Hartpury 1809)

Gloucestershire Marriage Index ????

Marriage at Quedegley, Glos. 4 May 1807 (moving upwards to Gloucester from Hardwicke)

Thomas STEPHENS & Ann DREW

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The male line seems to move about a bit (one being a Bricklayer and working in Gloucester) - may have come round the Severn!