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Title: Help with finding a burial or other information
Post by: Grothenwell on Thursday 17 December 20 10:13 GMT (UK)
Hello, This query is in connection with a subject I have posted in the lighter side board previously.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=752171.9

Can anyone help with details of the Stephens youth who downed In the Avon, near Bredon, alongside Thomas Wagstaff and Daniel Trap in May 1835?

Thank you
Title: Re: Help with finding a burial or other information
Post by: Christine53 on Thursday 17 December 20 16:43 GMT (UK)
Charles Stephens aged 23, found drowned, buried 25 May 1835 at Alderton , Gloucestershire.

Source _ Gloucestershire England, Church of England Burials 1813-1988, images available on Ancestry.

( Alderton is about 7 miles from Bredon. )
Title: Re: Help with finding a burial or other information
Post by: Grothenwell on Thursday 17 December 20 23:33 GMT (UK)
Thank you so much Christine.
Title: Re: Help with finding a burial or other information
Post by: Daisypetal on Friday 18 December 20 00:03 GMT (UK)

Hi,

Possibly Charles,

Baptism
05 Jan 1812
Alderton, Gloucestershire
Charles
son of  Thomas and Elizabeth STEPHENS


In 1841 there is a Thomas STEPHENS aged 50 living in Alderton who is a blacksmith.


Regards,
Daisy
Title: Re: Help with finding a burial or other information
Post by: Grothenwell on Friday 18 December 20 00:10 GMT (UK)
Thank you very much Daisy.

I wonder if you, or anyone else, would be kind enough to find out if there is a familial connection between Charles Stephens and Cornelius Stephens who is mentioned in my original post?
Title: Re: Help with finding a burial or other information
Post by: Grothenwell on Monday 28 December 20 17:27 GMT (UK)
I’ve found a Cornelius Stephens in an 1871 census who is recorded to have been born 1813 in Alderton. So perhaps a brother/cousin of the drowned Charles Stephens. The search goes on....

Edit found a baptism of a Cornelius Stephens in Alderton 7th March 1813 parents Micheal and Elizabeth Stephens. So likely cousins.