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
