Born c1810 (Ao).
| 1825 | 24 Oct. He was apprenticed to J.D. Pountney, aged 15 years (Ao). |
| 1836-43 | Bedminster (PPR, RPR). |
| 1841 | Bishop Street, Bedminster (P). |
| 1841 | No occupation, 7 Clarence Place, Bedminster (30), living with his wife Mary ann (28), born in county, and children (41C). |
| 1845 | 21 Sep. Clarence Place, Bedminster (JBPR). |
| 1849 | 13 Aug. A potter of Clarence Place, Bedminster, on the death of his wife Mary Ann, aged 37 years, from cholera (Death Certificate – information from Ken Blackmore). |
| 1850 | 1 Mar. Noted as a potter when his son William was apprenticed to John Lucas, a confectioner (Ao). |
| 1851 | 16 Feb. A potter and widower, the son of Felix Stephens, a sawyer, he married Eliza Blackmore, a dressmaker, the daughter of John Blackmore, a farmer, at St Michael’s church. They were both living in Tankard’s Close (Marriage Certificate – information from Ken Blackmore). |
| 1851 | Earthenware printer, 17 Little Paradise, Bedminster (40), living with his wife Eliza (45), born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, and children William (15), Mary Ann (15), Sarah (9) and Henry (5), all born in Bedminster (51C). |
| 1852 | Pottery printer, Zion Terrace, Bedminster (P). |
| 1861 | 2 Apr. Noted as a potter when his son William (25) a confectioner of Little Paradise married Sarah Ann Cook George (JBPR). |
| 1861 | Journeyman potter, 17 Little Paradise, Bedminster (50), living with his wife Eliza (35), born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset and daughter Matilda (17) born in Bedminster (61C). |
| 1866 | 23 Dec. Noted as a potter when his son William (30) a widower and confectioner married Harriet Wolferston (JBPR). |
| 1869 | 4 Mar. Possibly the William Stephens who was recorded as working at the Bristol Pottery (Bristol Times and Mirror). |
| 1871 | 2 Waters Lane, Temple parish (60), living with his wife Eliza (44) and daughter Matilda (17), a book seller (71C). |
| 1881 | Late foreman earthenware manufactory, 1 Victoria Terrace [next door to the Albert Pottery], St Philip’s parish (70), living with his wife Eliza (54), born in Wiveliscombe, and daughter Matilda Elizabeth (27), born in Bristol (81C). |
| 1891 | Potter’s printer, Myrtle Villa, Allington Road, Bedminster (80), living with his wife Eliza (64) (91C). |
| 1897 | A potter’s printer of 63 Allington Road when he died, aged 86 years, of hemiplegia asthenia [paralysis caused by stroke or tumour] (Death Certificate – information from Ken Blackmore). |
| 1915 | 27 Mar. Noted as a foreman in pottery on the death of his wife Eliza, aged 88 years, of bronchial pneumonia (Death Certificate – information from Ken Blackmore). |
| Children: Wife Mary Ann: William (aged 2 wks), bapt 7 Feb 1836 (PPR); Mary Ann (aged 2 wks), bapt 23 Jul 1837 (PPR); John (aged 5 wks), bapt 19 May 1839 (PPR); Sarah Jane (aged 4 wks), bapt 29 Aug 1843 (PPR); Elizabeth, bapt 28 Feb 1843 (RPR); Henry, bapt 21 Sep 1845 (JBPR); With wife Eliza: Matilda Elizabeth, born 1854 (Ancestry website) |