Stephens

The earliest known Stephens at the present time, February 2009, is Robert Stephens who was born about 1776.

The family seems to originate from the Forest of Dean where he married Sarah Turner. They had at least eleven children, one of whom Jesse born in 1827, was to become my great great grandfather.

Many records of families born in the Forest of Dean are available on the internet at http://www.forest-of-dean.net/

Downton link [Long Sutton]

Jesse married Elizabeth Downton from Long Sutton in Somerset. They had at least five children one of whom, Jonah, married Rosanna Marfell.

Marfell

Jonah and Rosanna Stephens  were married at Hope Mansell Church, Hereford, and were the parents of Cornelius Marfell Stephens  b.1877., and seven other children.

They moved  to London in 1883, where Jonah became a London City Missioner in preference to a life spent in the Dean Forest mines. He had been down the mines since the age of 7 years. There are many researchers into the Marfell's family history and further details can be found on the Marfell website

Maunder

Ethel Daisy Maunder was the daughter of Ellen Partridge-Maunder and her cousin William Daniel Maunder.  Ellen was the widow of William Stone, and they had a daughter Ellen Stone, whom my mother called “Nellie”.

William Daniel died of Tuberculosis at the Unicorn Inn in Brighton during the summer of 1879 just a few months before  his daughter
was born.

[Connection with Thompson family of Suffolk]

Formerly the Rising Sun Inn the later home of Barbara Maunder and her husband Robert Snell,

Family Tree/Chart and details