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Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Rosanna Mary Stevens
« on: Friday 20 January 12 18:05 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Emma,

Yes William was the youngest child of Thomas and Hannah,  he is on your list of siblings,  he was born at Eppleby in 1877.

Derek 

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Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Rosanna Mary Stevens
« on: Friday 20 January 12 17:39 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Emma,

To find the story of the two families I put Fonthill Gifford into the Google Search and then choose "Fonthill Gifford in the Mid Nineteenth Century" from the list of subjects.   I hope you find it.

I am convinced that Thomas and Hanna Stevens left Wiltshire to go to Forcett to find work in the limestone quarries.   William also worked in the quarries until he became a professional cricketer.   He died aged 29 having fallen off his bicycle reruning from a cricket match just over a mile from Richmond on the road to Forcett.

Last autumn I was in Durham,  my grandson is at the university, and I visited Forcett Church in the hope of finding a sign of my grandfather William Stevens.   I had an idea where to look from a photograph circa 1906,  there was no sign of William but I found a small headstone, rather eroded, of Lot Stevens, do you know of this?

I have several photographs of Maria Burt who married James Hockett and Willaim who married Alice Hockett, his cousin.

Derek

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Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Rosanna Mary Stevens
« on: Thursday 19 January 12 17:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Emma,

I have been interested in your trying to find out what happened to Rosanna Stevens.   I am the grandson of William Stevens born 10th May 1877 and who died on 1st August, 1906.   I wondered what your interest was is the Stevens family?   I have been looking at my family on my mother's side as she was a Stevens but I am afraid I haven't been able to find any more trace of Rosanna than you have.

Interestingly, I have found a story of two families who lived in Fonthill Gifford on the internet.  Thomas Burt and William Burt, William being the father of Hanna and my great grandmother Maria.   It is a fascinating story and well worth looking at if you haven't found it.   Derek

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