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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lancashire => Topic started by: greenone on Friday 23 February 18 04:13 GMT (UK)
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Stephen is a relative of mine. His parents were Margaret(nee Stocks) Sharples, Father Ralph.
Father Ralph died in 1861 and Mother remarried John Kenyon. I can find no record of Stephen after 1861 Census.
Could anybody help please?
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Was he born re his parents marriage and reverted to his mother's maiden name of Stocks?? :-\
GRO Birth Index Stephen Stocks Ref 1852 June Qrter PRESTON Vol 08E Page 397 No Mothers Maiden Name - I can't see a Stephen Sharples
I notice one of his children is Ralph and Stephen's birthplace in 1891 is Preston
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:78M9-VN2
Kay
Added - a Stephen Stocks age 18 b Preston joined the Army in 1869 - Next of kin listed as Margaret Jane Hall married Register Office Alverstoke Hampshire 9 June 1877. In 1911 listed as a Army Pensioner https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW19-99P
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Here is the child Stephen Stocks birth in Athlone (from Kay’s link)
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1883/02747/2009194.pdf
Helena
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1882/02792/2024632.pdf
Isabella
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/cert_amends/cert_1884/1990342a.pdf
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Added - a Stephen Stocks age 18 b Preston joined the Army in 1869 - Next of kin listed as Margaret Jane Hall married Register Office Alverstoke Hampshire 9 June 1877. In 1911 listed as a Army Pensioner https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW19-99P
I can’t yet follow this bit ::)
He was born 1852
Enlisted 1869
Was he already with Margaret J Hall in 1869? She would only be about 12 yrs or is the n o k from a later or updated record?
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Sorry - The marriage post joining the army was from his service record on FindMyPast which is quite detailed
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I thought it must be something like that :)
Forgot to say, I think you have the right man there Kay.
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Thanks. I should have said that his parents Ralph and Margaret didn't marry to the second qtr in 1852 and Stephen was born in the first qtr 1852
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On his baptism at St John's Preston,
his name is given as
Stephen Stocks Sharples
mother Margaret
father Ralph
abode William Street
father a weaver
his younger sister Emma was baptised after the death of her father Ralph,16th July 1861
abode Oak Street Preston
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Thank you everybody for your help. A complicated person. He was baptised as Stocks Sharples but the birth was registered as Stocks. 1961 Census he is Sharples and then later he is Stocks.
Bye for now
Val
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1891 census
Lower Broughton Road Salford
Stephen Stocks aged 39,beer and wine retailer born Preston,
Margaret J aged 34,born Sunderland
Margaret,aged 12 born Hampshire
Samuel,aged 10 born Thorncliffe
Helena,aged 9 born Ireland
Stephen aged 8 born Ireland
Isabella,agd 6 born Ireland
Ralph aged 5 born Salford
Lydia aged 3 born Salford
William aged 1,born Broughton,
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1901
living in Broughton, Salford
Name Age
Stephen Stocks 49
Margaret I Stocks 44
Margaret I Stocks 22
Helena G Stocks 19
Stephen Stocks 18
Isabella M Stocks 16
Ralph Stocks 15
Lydia Stocks 13
William Stocks 11
Albert Victor Stocks 9
Frederick Stocks 7
Reggie Stocks 2
Reggie Stocks 1/12 (mistranscribed - should be Phyliss)
I assume you have his death and his wifes. There is a photo of a gravestone on an Ancestry tree with their deaths and the deaths of 2 of the children