I'm interested in Steventons around the Dudley area (and Smiths - sigh - in the same area)
I have George STEVENTON (c. 1795/6 - 24/4/1869) m Ann SHAW (c. 1795/6-13/4/1868) on 24/5/1818 in Old Swinford. According to the 1841, 51 and 61 censuses, both were born in Dudley.
There was a family tradition down the Steventon-Smith line, still strongly asserted in the 1940s, that an ancestor was Lifesguardsman Shaw who fought at the Battle of Waterloo. Clearly the connection would be Ann Shaw, but what the connection is (if there is one) is unknown.
In the 1841 census (HO107; Dudley;Worcestershire; ED 34; Page: 10; ) George and Ann Steventon are living next door to a Joel Steventon and his family. Looking at the ages of George and Joel, I would guess they're brothers. Both called some of their children biblical (?) names (Noah, Gideon, Nimrod, Dorcas, Zillah) and others more "normal" names.
From the census returns I know that George and Ann Steventon had the following children:
- Ephraim (b. 1/4/1819, d. of typhus fever 5/1/1845 in Derby End, Dudley)
- Sarah (b. 10/3/1822 married Benjamin Johnson 1844 but not traced beyond that)
- Elizabeth (b. 11/12/1824, married Jesse Homer 2 Dec 1844 at Dudley)
- Beriah (b. 12/6/1828, and so far untraced beyond her baptism)
[li]Jemima (b. 5/3/1831 and so far untraced later than the 1841 census) - Dorcas (b. 22/1/1834, married George LONGSTAFF 8/6/1856 at Dudley & moved to Barrow-in-Furness mid 1880s, where she died 8/10/1889
- Nimrod (b.31/3/1836, d. 10/1/1858 in a lift shaft accident at the British Iron Company's Works in Rowley Regis
- Zillah, aka Priscilla, b. 25/11/1838 in Derby End, married Henry SMITH 9/6/1856 at Netherton Parish Church, like Dorcas & her family, Priscilla and her family moved to Barrow-in-Furness, but earlier - they were there by the 1871 census. They then moved to Blackpool between 1874 and 1876. She died 28 Apr 1893 (or 1892 if you believe her gravestone over the death certificate!).
Priscilla/Zillah (both her first name and her family name are slightly different every time it appears, until she marries Henry Smith - clearly clerks knew how to spell Smith) is my ancestor and link to George and Ann.
Priscilla's husband, Henry SMITH, was born in Derby End/Derby Hand, Netherton, Dudley c. 1837. He died in Blackpool, Lancs on 5th Jan 1903. At his marriage to Priscilla in 1856 and still at the time of the 1861 census he was a miner. After a period as a labourer, he became a fish and oyster dealer in Blackpool, a trade at least one of his descendants, Charlie SMITH, was still carrying out in RHO Hills department store in Blackpool in the 1950s.
On the 1841 and 1851 censuses Henry SMITH (1837-1903) is in Dudley. On the 1861 census he and his family are living in Bourn Brook, Rowley Regis. Between the birth of Emily in 1867 and the the birth of JJoseph in 1869, the family had moved up to Barrow-in-Furness. And then between the 1875 and 1876 the family moved to Blackpool, where a number of descendants still live.
Henry & Priscilla had 14 children:
+ Ann Maria (b. 20/4/1857 Rowley Regis, m. Joseph SMITH 12/7/1875 in Barrow)
+ Elizabeth (b. 12/10/1859, Old Hill, Staffs; d. unmarried 29/5/1874, Barrow)
+ Henry (b. 2/7/1862, Old Hill, Staffs; married Annie GALL, 12/3/1888 in Blackpool, 10 weeks before their 1st child was born! He died 14/12/1920 in Blackpool)
+ Jemima (b. 29/11/1864, Barrow in Furness, m. Thomas BILSBORROW or BILSBOROUGH from Preston 20/1/1885 in Blackpool, d. 23/2/1907)
+ Emily or Emmeline (b. 24/4/1867 in Dudley, m. Henry Thomas STEVENSON from Hulme, Manchester 16/11/1889. She died 27/4/1956 at Wesham hospital)
+ Joseph (b. 9/11/1869, d. 21/12/1870)
+ George Smith (b. 11/11/1871 in Dalton-in-Furness), m. Edith Louise PARK 16/8/1893 in Blackpool)
+ William Smith (b. 27/9/1873 in Barrow-in-Furness), m. Gertrude Mary MARTIN 8/12/1894 in Oldham, Lancs. He died 19/1/1948.)
+ Ephraim (born and died 8/5/1875)
+ Ann (b. 9/4/1876 in Blackpool, m. Mark BLACKBURN 17/9/1902 in Blackpool)
+ John (Jack) (b. 22/5/1878 in Blackpool, m. Florence Campbell 12/9/1898 in Blackpool; dided 27/1/1935)
+ Septimus (b. 14/8/1879 in Blackpool, d. 16/12/1958 in Blackpool, where he was a well known local "character")
+ Isaac (29/5/1881-9/2/1882)
+ Manasseh (11/7/1882-12/7/1882)
