Thomas Stevens (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, October 13, 2011, 14:09 (4794 days ago) @ unknown

Hi David, welcome to this wonderful resource & PR database.
Clearly your g-g-grandfather:

Record_ID: 165062
Entry_Number:
Year: 1809
Month: Jul
Day: 23
Parents_Surname: STEVENS
Child_Forenames: Thomas
Fathers_Forenames: Thomas
Mothers_Forenames: Ann
Mothers_Surname:
Residence:
Occupation:
Officiating_Minister: Wm Bushell Curate
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Son of
Notes:
Register_Reference: P165 IN 1/3
Page_Number: 35
Parish_Chapel: Hartpury
Soundex: S315

When searching the PRs it's worth using the Advanced Search facility, have you tried it ?.
eg I can search for all Baptism Records for all the Thomas & Ann Stevens on the database, giving 33 in total. Note they include name variations eg Anne and Hannah. Some of the earliest date from 1712 and are not too far away in Ledbury, but I suggest those most relevant to you are from Ashleworth/Hartpury as follows:

283211 1746 STEVENS Thomas, Thomas & Hannah, Ashleworth
283239 1749 STEVENS James, Thomas & Hannah, Ashleworth
165062 1809 STEVENS Thomas, Thomas & Ann, Hartpury (clearly "your" Thomas)
165102 1811 STEVENS Emanuel, Thomas & Ann, Hartpury (probable sibling?)
294014 1825 STEVENS Ann, Thomas & Ann, Wall Hills Division, Gamekeeper, Ledbury
272040 1857 STEVENS Ellen, Thomas & Ann, Hartpury, Labourer, Hartpury

If you repeat this search you can "open" particular PRs to gain more details.

Its also worth looking for STEPHENS, a common derivative, giving:
101268 1821 STEPHENS Frances Ann, Thomas & Ann, Town of Newent, Baker, Newent
101281 1821 STEPHENS Francis Ann, Thomas & Ann, [not stated], [not stated], Newent

Similarly using Advanced Search for possible Marriages, I suggest these may be relevant:

1010895 1605 STEVENS Thomas, BIRCKE Anne, Gloucester St John the
Baptist
48357 1675 STEVENS Thomas, PARKER Ann, Bromsberrow
72202 1760 STEVENS Thomas Castlemorton HILL, Anne Longdon Longdon
72209 1762 STEVENS Thomas Castlemorton HILL, Anne Longdon Longdon
105051 1776 STEVENS Thomas of this parish, COOKE Ann of the parish of St.
Michael in the city, Gloucester St Aldate

(Bromsberrow & less-so Longdon are a few miles North of Hartpury towards Ledbury). I think these are more likely;

24481 1745 STEPHENS Thomas, PROSSOR Hannah, Newent
70136 1753 STEPHENS Thomas Hasfield, TURNER Ann Hasfield, Hasfield
115823 1792 STEPHENS Thomas Gloucester, FREEMAN Anne Gloucester, Gloucester St Michael
113241 1794 STEPHENS Thomas St John the Baptist Parish, BARNWOOD Ann St John the Baptist
Parish, Gloucester St John the Baptist
110895 1797 STEPHENS Thomas of this Parish, WILKINS Ann of the same Parish, Gloucester St Nicholas

Again, this search can be repeated for possible Burial Records.

CLEARLY, nothing absolutely concrete here, these are just pointers for consideration, but hopefully will help in your research.

Good luck.

PS As per my email earlier, don't forget to search the rest of this great site apart from the PRs section. For example within the Documents section are the Bigland Transcripts including Hartpury, Ashleworth amongst many others. All worth viewing I suggest.

http://www.forest-of-dean.net/downloads/index.php?path=Bigland_Transcripts/