This is getting to be like a run-around game   ... and it is not even your family!! I hope you find something of interest in all this ... for your self too.
But that would be William in 1806 ... and his son William in 1820 (& his wife Alice in 1819) ..... but if you found any Stephensons in that time period ... it would be interesting to know. If you did find anything ... I would owe you big time.

Ken. You wouldn't owe me anything! I like to help when I can. Anyway, when I get further back with my ancestors I know that some of them went to America. Maybe you could then help me! But that is a long way off yet as I haven't even found out everything about my grandparents!

I will check the Hyde Park records, hopefully in a couple of days, and let you know.

Heather  

I also email back and forth with a lady that just lives about two streets from the old Cantley Church ... and she told me that she was at the Church and seen foot prints around the yard ... and believed someone had taken a photo to put on the Church site .... http://www.stwilfridscantley.co.uk ... and it is a good pic!

Ken. Yes the picture of the church in the snow is very good.

I didn't manage to do a return visit to the archives this week. I did have a booking for Friday, but realised a few days before that the date was the 6 February - my son's birthday! I hope to go again next week, providing the snow isn't too bad. Mind you, I don't think the snow in this country is as deep as your's in Canada!


Heather  

WELL .. we are having a much needed break ... 5 degrees C and sunny ... said to go to 7 - 10 degrees by Wed. For those who still think in F (like me) ... 10 is 50. I can hardly wait! Goodbye 70 percent of the snow ... hello FLOODING

I e-mailed the Doncaster St George Church .. now called Doncaster Minister .. and was told that they do not have Cemetery records ... they are at .. "Borough Archives Dept. in Balby"

Ken. Yes I know they are (see message 60). The Doncaster Archives are at Balby. I had hoped to go again last week, but I have been side-tracked with trying to trace my relatives WWI records. Don't worry though, when I go again, your family are on my 'to do' list. I have some books to return, so it won't be long before I do go.

How's the snow?

Heather  

AHH Yes W.W.1. I have sixteen letters that a Walter H Stephenson . of Strathroy area in Ontario Canada sent home to his family here in Ont ... all dated 1816 - 17 ... France , Belium. He wasn't killed ... and returned home and married ... but I am told he could not have children because of the war ... I have his enlisting papers ... which are on line for Canadians who joined up.

Another kind lady, who just lives around the corner from Cantley Church (Bessacarr) .. did some searching for me in the Church cemtery yard there ... and she found the brother (Henry) of my ancestor that came to Canada. The tomb stone reads 'MARY ANN the beloved wife of HENRY STEPHENSON of BRANTON who died Nov 18th 1871, aged 58 years ... HARRIET, daughter of the above, who died July 14th 1865, Aged 18 years ... ALSO THE ABOVE . HENRY STEPHENSON died Dec 22 1882 Aged 70 Years'
She was kind enough to sent a good photo to me by E-mail.

Ken. You are very lucky that your ancestors had gravestones. So far in my own research, none of my family had them.  I now find that if I walk through a graveyard, I cannot help but be drawn to some of them and have to read the inscription. Some can provide you with a lot of information.

Heather

Yes .. I agree .. that stone does solve one thing for me. For the longest time I could find my Henry Stephenson in the 1841 census, at Doncaster ... and from 1861 untill 1881 he is a farmer at Branton, Cantley Parish .. but I could not find him in 1851. Untill that is I got to use Ancestry .. which alowed me to search the names (but not specific to only one parish) and I found him at Hatfield ... Henry Stephenson / wife Mary Ann / son Thomas dau's Alice, Eleanor and Elizabeth ... but here was listed a dau Harriet .. which was a new one to me ... I figured she must have died young .... and the stone confirms it. PLUS, there is just something about seeing the names and dates on a stone!!

A kind lady on rootschat ... with access to the Cantley burial register .. found for me ' Henry Stephenson buried 26 Dec 1882 Branton age 70 / Mary Ann buried 22 Nov 1871 Branton age 58 / Herriet buried 16 July 1865 Branton age 18 / William Stephenson buried 27 June 1820 age 37 Doncaster.
The William listed here was one on my list, that I was trying to find at St Georges in Doncaster ... I believe he is Henry's father. So possibly Cantley is his last resting place ... not Doncaster.

I have made a good contact on RootsChat ... where a person with a lot of Doncaster records ... has found over 100 Stephenson - Stevenson burials in 3 separate Doncaster grave yards ... St George / Christ Church and Hyde Park. Now I just have to short it through ... they will not all be the same family of course ... and it covers a time period from 1500's untill 1900's. So thanks for the help I got on here ... and if I can plug another site ... thanks RootsChat