? Where you looking for a Thomas STEPHENS occupation Seaman - from the marriage certificate of Nelly Amelia ALLDRIDGE (age 28 and a Spinster) to Thomas STEPHENS (age 42, and a Widower) in 1902 - and assumed his father, was Thomas STEPHENS a (Seaman deceased) and not (Sawyer deceased) as stated on Thomas/Nelly's marriage certificate as per copy of this marriage on Public Members Tree. Or, do you have a copy of his previous marriage(s) which states different occupation of his father?

This marriage certificate is also on Ancestry

London, England, Marriage Banns, St Peter's Church Ealing - 30 August 1902

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Just to re-cap

Thomas STEPHENS married Livinia HURD - A/M/J Qtr 1878 - Bradford Y

and on the 1881 census - Thomas is aged 24, and born in Mitcheldean